· Beauty should not be idle ·

Rocio 2022-04-21 09:02:51

Catherine Deneuve.
This woman is old and powerful.
She was only 24 years old when she starred in "Beauty in the Daytime" by the surrealist master Lao Bo.
It's hard to imagine how a 24-year-old girl will start her life after coming into contact with such a terrible story.
"Beauty in the Daytime" is one of the movies that I regret after watching it.
The other two are "Sodom" and "Irrevocable". I remember that I hurriedly threw them into the trash can downstairs before I could finish the movie. Tossed in half. Later, when I talked to my colleagues, they were all unfortunate. They said that "Sodoma" is a classic. The color of the whole picture is as perfect as an oil painting. Yes, I admit it, but I still can't tolerate its existence, because the film is so perverted. Perverted to the point where I cannot objectively appreciate it from a calm point of view. As for "Irrevocable", too, I couldn't hold on to the most famous fifteenth minute, and I was already shaken by a headache. In the end, I decided that it's absolutely useless to not shoot well and not take the audience's feelings into consideration at all. Sincerely unlucky film, it must be thrown away.
As for "Beauty by Daylight", of course it is not on the same level as them.
It's very pleasing to the eye.
From the story to the protagonist; from the plot to the picture; from the beginning to the end... I know how to take care of the audience's feelings, and I understand the subtle psychology of the audience. I know what you want to see and what you want to see, and it will act for you. whatever; whatever part you are curious about, it will satisfy which part you are. However, when everything develops as you wish, even as the evil side of human nature wishes, you will suddenly see a result that you least want to see, that is, even if the protagonist should be punished, at least Shouldn't be punished so harshly.
Here, the director is God.
The audience's private desire to play petty jokes and watch jokes from the other side is really magnified here as fate or fate.
For example, our frame-up of others, or some imaginary moments when others suffer bad luck or even retribution, all become reality in the film.
At this time, you will say, no, this is not what I want, and I don't want her to be so unlucky, I just want to punish her a little.
Sorry. There is no small punishment, punishment is punishment, fifty steps and one hundred steps, the sin is the same. Don't you want her to have a good outcome? Well, everything is done according to your wishes.
This is the old cloth, it is surreal, and it is indeed surreal.
The film was shot in France half a century ago, but the story it shows and the bottom side of human nature that it unearths can make all women blush and hide their faces - for fear of letting others put themselves and themselves and their faces behind. The woman in the film is two in one.
Because although there is only one heroine in the film, the old cloth depicts a group portrait. For all women, even his own mother, sister, wife, not women. He was using his eyes to analyze and magnify some of the things that women seem to have in common, but to be honest, the dose is a bit too much, and the energy is a bit too strong.
Everything about women is related to vanity.
Are women really like Severina in the film, eager to abandon their lady status and become a firework girl?
Not right in my opinion.
At least ordinary women are not. Ordinary women should be happy, and they don't care about other things.
There is also a scholarly woman, she will know more about feelings, as for the others, it is impossible to form a concept.
Really able to and "Beauty by Daylight". It is probably only the group of people who are either rich or rich and have nothing to do. This is an era of heavy clothes, so the rich and noble can get the respect of others, so much respect will make people tired, so they begin to derive interest in "lowness", and they are willing to be humble and be enslaved and trampled on the ground. alive. Of course, this is just a kind of game. If she is really despicable forever, she will not be able to stand it.
There have always been some unheard of wealthy games in the upper class, such as wife swap clubs, which are just idle and busy to pass the time.
Speaking of this, I still have to say that Lao Bu is amazing, but as a woman, I really don't want to see a movie like "Beauty in the Daytime" produced, which is really contradictory.
Catherine Deneuve's role in this film is really none other than you.
French actresses have this ability, and they can often show a variety of tastes without expression.
Her combination of nobility and obscenity, and her "regarding the body as something outside the body" can really be said to have reached a state of perfection.
The only thing that impresses me in the film is the old playboy Hassan, who is despised by the "pure" Severina, but I have a good impression of him, because he has a bottom line, and I never dislike a man who has A bad person with a bottom line is very afraid of any good person without a bottom line.
I heard that a good movie review should not only arouse people’s desire to watch it, but also reserve the plot in a measured manner. Criticism destroys the overall perception and perception of a film. That is to say, when anyone encounters a film, it is better to get married like a young girl, rather than the second marriage after being analyzed by film critics.
In fact, there are a lot of details in this movie that I haven't quite figured out yet.
For example, the little girl who often appears when Severina is struggling, does it imply that her childhood life directly led to what she is doing now?
Of course, most people think that the little girl is just the underage daughter of Mrs. Alfonso, the prostitute... Fortunately, all this is no longer important. Sometimes when we drink soup, we may not know every seasoning.

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Belle de Jour quotes

  • Madame Anais: What's that? Credit card. Geisha Club. No-no. This is no good here. Cash only.

  • Duke: [Fantasy sequence] What's your name?

    Séverine Serizy: Belle de jour.

    Duke: Charming. I once had a cat named Dark Beauty. Do you come here often?

    Séverine Serizy: Everyday in my thoughts.