"Beauty in the Day" on the weekend.
With the frequent derailment incidents in the major celebrity circles in recent years, it is impossible to turn a blind eye to this. There are also many works on this subject in the literary and art circles, most of which are more than Reality looks too good.
From the realist masterpiece "Madame Bovary" in the 19th century to the popular domestic TV series "Day Yan" in the past two years, there are at least a hundred such works. Although there are many popular ones, there are also profound meanings Many, instead of watching those star derailment incidents, it is better to sit down and talk about movies together.
Among these "derailed" works, the famous "Beauty in the Day" is very worth watching, and it has inspired many works of later generations.
Luis Buñuel, the director of "Beauty in the Day", is well-known in world film history for his short film "An Andrew Dog", which attacks the ruthless bourgeoisie and the hypocritical church through surrealism. It continued until later in Buñuel's "Beauty in the Day", but "Beauty in the Day" is more complete and richer in meaning.
The film stars the famous French actress Catherine Deneuve.
She does not have the beauty of Isabelle Adjani, nor the fame of Sophie Marceau, and her not-so-small face gives her a glamorous temperament that is accessible and unapproachable. In 1965, she was invited by Polish director Roman Polanski to star in the psychological thriller "Cold In Cold Blood", and since then she has become synonymous with a woman with a rich heart.
The plot of the film is not complicated. It tells the story of a middle-class beauty Severina and her husband Pierre living a prosperous and comfortable ordinary life, drinking tea, traveling, and playing tennis to pass the boring day.
But Severina and her husband can't really bond, and in her subconscious, the desire to pursue excitement gradually rises. One day, at a gathering of the rich circle, Sevrina heard about an underground brothel. After several hesitations, she finally plucked up the courage to go to the brothel and become a "Beauty of the Day", leaving from 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm every day. , walks easily between sluts and ladies.
But Daytime Beauty's life is shattered by a man named Marcel, who falls in love with Daytime Beauty and finds out her real name. The desire for monopoly causes a jealous Marcel to shoot Severina's husband Pierre three times, causing Pierre to be paralyzed and blind for life.
The first rhyme of the film is critical. "Beauty in the Day" is a bourgeois beauty who cannot find the meaning of existence in a rich and boring life, and is depraved by emptiness. There is a passage in the film that seems to be "Beauty in the Day" reminiscent of her childhood. When the godfather feeds her the sacrament, she closes her lips and sternly rejects the godfather. She does not believe in the hypocritical bourgeois morality, but is alienated by the bourgeois society as a tool of desire, leading to a tragic fate of either destroying others or self-destructing.
But if we don't rush into moral evaluation of the story, it doesn't seem so simple.
If such a story is interpreted in a general way, it would be the destruction of a young woman who stumbled, which seems too ordinary. The most amazing thing about this movie is its handling of dreams and reality, which is more complex than the hit "Inception" a few years ago. This is the second meaning of the film.
The beginning of the film is like a dream. At the beginning of the film, in the bell of the carriage, Sevrina is pulled into a wood by her husband. The husband orders the coachman to whip Severina and tells the coachman: "She is yours."
After that, when the camera turned, husband Pierre and his wife Severina were talking about their next travel plans on two single beds in a standard room. The previous plot of the woods was completely like a dream.
At the end of the film, after her husband Pierre was blind and paralyzed, he was sitting in a wheelchair with tears in his eyes, and his wife Severina embroidered on the sofa opposite in remorse. At this time, a close-up view of the front was facing Severina, who suddenly showed a smile. ,
The husband took off his sunglasses and stood up from the wheelchair. The two embraced affectionately. The bell of the carriage rang again outside the window. The carriage at the beginning of the movie was approaching, and there was no one in the back seat. This ending is really unpredictable. Is the recovery of the husband at the end a fantasy of Sevrina, or is it all Sevrina's fantasy? We don't know.
What is certain is that the bells of the carriage that often appear in the film are a clearer hint of a dream. In Freud's words, the dream is the realization of the ideal, so when the bell rings, it is when the "day beauty"'s inner longing arises. Sometimes pure desire prevails, and she can do happy things in her dreams, so that her self-repressed self in reality can be released. And sometimes, she was punished by her husband in a dream or regretted what happened to her husband. This is a noble sense of morality regaining its position and guiding her to make moral thoughts and behaviors. The film thus shows the division of people's spiritual world. Just as people in psychoanalysis wander between primitive desire and civilized morality, the id and superego of people are always in a fierce struggle.
However, the film does not clearly tell the audience which part is a dream and which part is reality. The boundary between reality and nothingness has become ambiguous. Perhaps even the director himself did not expect it. This kind of unbounded dream and reality is like Chinese classical Zhuang Zhou dreams of a butterfly in philosophy, what is a butterfly? Why Zhuang Zhou? Is the life in front of you a reality or a big dream?
In addition, the film's profound discussion of marriage is also thought-provoking. At first, the relationship between Sevrina and her husband was as plain as water. They slept in separate beds like a bunch of friends, and there was almost no atmosphere of love. But after Severina went to a brothel to be a "Beauty of the Day", the dull life was shaken, and it seemed that the relationship between her and her husband had miraculously become more harmonious and passionate. It's a shame that the mystery of marriage has been solved in this way. Marriage is like a besieged city. If you can't escape the besieged city, how will you solve the predicament and crisis of marriage?
None of these films have given answers, and there is no way to give answers... The
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