The whole film is divided into three parts, each part has a sentence as the title.
1. "love is the simple the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole"
"This desire and pursuit of becoming a whole is called love"
Plato, the symposium
Plato, The Symposium
Life is irrational and meaningless
The first part is that the heroine explained the first-level interpretation of love in the whole film in the form of a summary and self-report, and provided supporting viewpoint materials for the subsequent excesses. The narrative explains the basic situation of the three characters.
2, “in love, one always starts by deceiving oneself…and ends by deceiving others. This is what the world called romance.”
"In love, people always start with self-deception...and end with deception. This is what the world calls romance."
Oscar wilde
oscar wilde
This part is the whole process from the beginning to the climax of the plot. Roughly divided into: 1. Ellie and the male protagonist met, and the cooperation process (the process of the female protagonist and the female 2 falling in love) 2. The female 2 accepted the male protagonist's heart, the female protagonist began to integrate into the group, the female 2 knew the female protagonist 3, the male protagonist kissed the female protagonist and I was bumped into by the second female lead, and the conflict 4 unfolded. The truth was revealed, the growth of the male and female lead's understanding of love, and the turning point of the female lead and the second female lead's emotional line.
The heroine is a logical fact, rational, pragmatic, and does not believe in God. She is more mature than her peers, has literary connotations, is independent and diligent, and is good at thinking and does not depend on the public. I want to talk about the film language expression of these characteristics of the heroine. From the beginning, the heroine's...too many gave up
As the second female lead who is very compatible with the heroine's soul, it is natural to have many similarities with the female lead. For example, both of them are fond of literature and have similar levels, so they can understand and appreciate each other, and understand that they are important for the female lead to fall in love with the second female lead. The reason is that the heroine is overly closed to herself, (this is from the difficulty of integrating into the environment and refusing to apply for a better university out of the town and choosing the university in the town with full scholarships and even the director. The heroine likes layered dressing styles. (both typical scenarios) can be seen). In addition, her precocious maturity compared to her peers made it difficult for her to find someone who could fully understand her. In this state, the appearance of the second female is naturally very attractive to her. And the second girl likes the heroine in addition to the soul fit, but the difference between the heroine and her inspires her life.
The second girl's family is not good, and the whole family hopes that she will keep the status quo and then marry a local rich man in a logical way. From the material point of view, the second woman accepts this state, and she also accepts the requirement of blending into the environment and even converging with the environment. But deep down in his heart, he hates this kind of compromise. Like the heroine, he is eager to release his personality to be himself, but she has never had the courage to abandon the stability in front of her, just as the heroine has never had the courage to come out of her closed circle. Later, the female protagonist walked into the crowd with the help of the male protagonist, and the second female lead bravely accepted the male protagonist's love under the inspiration of the female protagonist.
(Every song novel movie has a best part: Bravely make a choice, after the second female protagonist came back from the forest, the second female kisses the male protagonist) At the end of the scene in the bath in the forest, it was shot from an aerial perspective, and the second female floated in the On the water, the heroine was originally wearing two autumn clothes and turned into one, and the other one was worn on the second girl who was not wearing a top. This is a metaphor for the complementary characteristics between the two girls. The heroine needs to get out of the self-independent isolation and integrate properly. environment, while the second female needs to properly create an independent space for herself to isolate the outside world and no longer lose herself in order to integrate into the environment.
3. "hell is other people"
"Others are Hell"
Sartre
Sutter
Finally, in the climax of the church plot, the heroine would rather expose the lie and encourage the heroine to bravely choose the life she really wants (rejecting the marriage proposal of the rich man). In turn, the heroine's love for the second woman gave her to her. Courage to confess in disguise. In this scene, the heroine also said the main line of the film: "Love is not about finding the perfect other half, love is trying to get close, and then failing, love is willing to destroy your own good painting, just to change You have the opportunity to have great works.” Here is a metaphor for the painting problem mentioned by the two women in their correspondence in letters. The plot plays a role in uncovering the truth and escalating contradictions. To be brave to try bravely choose)
If the film here ends with two people happily together, there will be no such after watching. Because, in this way, the whole film has become a simple dog-blood love story of brave derailment and closet in pursuit of the perfect other half. The ending scene of the male and female protagonists and the second girl at the end of the film can be said to be the key to the connotation of the whole film and the connotation of the whole film, and the sense of luxury instantly rises. On a 10-point scale, 5.5 directly refers to the existence of 6.8. It is also the focus of my analysis of this article, the last part of the video.
"love is messy and horrible and selfish and bold"
Ellie Chu
After passing through those who had experienced before, the female protagonist, who was only wearing a thin or even slightly tight top, pushed her bicycle by the roadside and waited for the second female lead to come out from the door like a restaurant. Then the two of them stood on each side of the road. The dialogue, action, movement and mirror movement of the two were simply too comfortable. Their rich information and just the right emotion and theme expression were really excellent. The female protagonist took off the layers of suits to find the second female, which means that she has decided to bravely cheat and ask the other party's attitude. But the second woman clearly refused. She admits that she has feelings for the heroine, maybe if they can get to know each other in a normal way or she can be sure that she is les, she also thought that maybe they could have a play. But now she is absolutely sure that she is straight. The female protagonist mocked the female second's incomparable certainty at this time (and bravely tried this logic), and was about to leave. The female second chased after the female protagonist on the other side of the road and said eagerly, "Maybe I will be very sure in a few years" here Indicates that the second woman believes that the proof of time is more convincing. At this time, the conversation between the two has been demarcated from the beginning. The serious atmosphere of the two women has changed into a relaxed and relaxed state, and the second female’s determination to be straight has also changed from an extremely firm attitude to a hesitant and vague attitude that will take some time to prove. Then, the two looked at each other, and the second woman said with a gentle smile, "The pagans wish you to find your faith in Iowa." This sentence is also a summary of the above dialogue. Although it is impossible, we will smile and bless each other. Then the female protagonist also smiled and pushed the cart forward and the camera shot from the back of the second woman to the front of the female protagonist and moved clockwise to the front of the second female. At this time, when the female protagonist was drawing, we could only hear the sound of her cart reaching the back of the camera. Move away from the second girl who watched her leave, and then match the same bgm melody. The camera cuts to the counterclockwise and moves to the front of the heroine. We see that the heroine's gentle smile is suddenly serious, and she throws down the bicycle and turns to run towards the second girl Go, here the camera quickly cuts back to the second girl, and you can only see the expression of the second girl, but in the gentle background music followed by the noise of the bicycle falling to the ground, giving a sudden sense of turning, followed by the sound of the female protagonist running, and then suddenly a kiss The second woman then said "see you in a few years" (here expressing her positive yearning for this relationship). The second female was surprised and then turned around with a smile and left in the opposite direction.
This scene started from a conflict-filled dialogue to wishing well to kissing to the two walking away from each other. It has been deepening the theme of "pursuing perfect love and trying bravely" that the film wants to express in the progressive change. At the same time, such positive blank space in the plot also lengthens the artistic conception and leaves an aftertaste for the audience. This scene has both realistic and romantic meanings, which not only gives people the realistic sadness of "everything beautiful is ruined eventually", but also expresses the romantic feelings of the protagonist still pursuing beauty.
Next, we should talk about the male protagonist. In fact, it can be seen in the poster that the film focuses on depicting the male and female protagonists. Although the second female protagonist occupies a large proportion of the screen, her face is sideways and severely defocused (you can't even see her clearly). what does it look like). The most successful portrayal of the male protagonist is his friendship with the female protagonist and the courage to try new formulas (pursuit of beauty) with mutual help. But I'm too lazy to type, just say that this last train chase scene is really seconds, the heroine learns to liberate herself from the hero to accept different things (the heroine also burst into tears, and then found the people in the carriages around They all looked out the window and didn't notice her tears,).
For the rest, just skip straight to the cons.
First of all, the design of the female second leading the female protagonist to his secret base has incomplete character motives. For the second female lead, the female protagonist at that time was at best a pagan who played the piano in her father's church, and there was no reason to directly invite others to her secret base. Of course, the dialogue here is normal. The strange thing is the dialogue scene. It should not be a bath in a pond in the forest. Here I can only understand that the director did it in order to increase the ambiguous plot between the two and strengthen the dramatic conflict. The second point is even more deadly, that is, the male protagonist suddenly fell in love with the female protagonist. Before, it could not be said that there was no foreshadowing, but it was not well laid. In fact, there were only a few key scenes missing. Unfortunately, there is no one. The setting of the increasingly increasing friendship of the heroine, suddenly this unreasonable transferor cannot substitute, and the narrative is stuck. In addition, the change of the male protagonist's attitude towards other people's views and attitudes that are different from his own is too simplistic (that is, after listening to the words of the female protagonist's father), which directly leads to the scene in the church, where the male protagonist's "manifesto" seems very mentally retarded. It is clumsy and clumsy in the setting of the sunshine boy, like a child who has made mistakes. After being taught by the parents for two sentences, he shouts that I am wrong and I am wrong. Generally speaking, it is no problem to put this mentally retarded feeling in the front, but That scene is to show the growth of the characters, and the result is that the effect is still mentally retarded. At the same time, the "seriousness" of the declaration lines is very different from the actual feelings conveyed to the audience by the language of the film, which destroys the authenticity of the film. The third problem is also in the scene in the church, the heroine's declaration. There is no problem with this design, but it still lacks foreshadowing. To do this kind of thing with the setting of the heroine must show a change or an accumulation of emotions. Before the announcement of the play, there was no close-up shot of the heroine, only two large panoramas showing the heroine's position on the second floor playing the piano. When a rich man proposes marriage, the second woman and the close-up of the environment are suddenly the heroine's runaway. Before that, the heroine didn't have any "breakthrough" plot. Although the runaway here is also logically narrated, there is nothing wrong with it, but it loses its color in the thickness of the characters. a bit. Like the second point, adding one or two close-ups showing the process of the heroine's emotional changes will solve the problem.
Overall, what I like most about this film is the presentation of the progressive connotation, the portrayal of the growth of the heroine, and the mutual achievements between the heroine and the hero and between the heroine and the second woman. In addition, although it is a same-sex theme, the center of the film does not focus on the more common themes of same-sex love or homosexual self-identification, but explores the various meanings of love with an inclusive attitude. In this way, the mood of this film is much higher than that of other gay-themed films. However, due to the plot setting of a closed love triangle, homosexuality is a necessary element in this film, which in turn deepens the theme of tolerance, and is also different from some movies that are homosexual but change to the opposite sex without affecting the expression of the theme at all.
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