[Beauty by Daylight] Luis Bunuel (1967)
Freudian structure, which divides the film indistinctly according to dream and reality. In reality, the heroine is a beautiful, elegant, stylish and quiet bourgeois woman who enjoys a prosperous material life and elegant interpersonal relationships. In the dream, the heroine is a prostitute who is flogged and humiliated by her husband for the liberation of her mind and body. Reality and dreams are difficult to define, which directly leads to the uncertainty of the heroine's experience. The opening and closing scenes are the same scenes shot at different cameras, accompanied by the same bells, walking by the same noble carriages on the same green boulevards in France. Such echoes are like loops and never before. start.
Deconstructed surrealism is often necessary to become a classic, and it is often the originator of obscure films. Fortunately, the indistinguishability of dreams and reality does not affect the interpretation of the film's ideas. Bourgeois splendid emptiness and indulgent fantasies have been shown again and again in [American Beauty] [Happy Widow] [Bourgeois Discreet Charm] and the like. As for the surrealist technique, from the early old films to the new works in recent years, it has always been charming. It helped [an Andalusian dog] [eight and a half] to bring the mysterious panic to the unattainable extreme, and it also became [Love Baby] [2046] A simple reason for [M] and his likes to play cool games.
Symbolism, and I think it's also an accompanying appendage of surrealism, almost every character in the film represents a social being. The ripped socks of the client and the delicate jade legs of the beauties clearly contrast the differences in class, and the image of the saintess with blond hair fluttering and dancing in a white dress is thrown all over with mud, which is a stark contrast. . . To be honest, it seems that there is such a contradiction in our psyche, sometimes we imagine self-deprecatingly, sometimes we rebelliously express it.
If you really don't like the way of thinking, you can at least appreciate the face of the French beauty Catherine Deneuve and the fashion taste of France, but if you just want to watch porn, you can avoid it. Show you a beautiful back.
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