Scattered impressions about "Eight Beautiful Pictures"

Eddie 2022-04-19 09:02:58

I watched "Beautiful Pictures", a story about a fake murder leading to a real suicide,
8 women, 8 colors, 8 styles,
the most impressive part is the deceased's sister Catherine undressing, no, the one who took off her coat Festival (in the film, it was specially stated that the woman had engaged in a very imaginative work, which laid the groundwork for this later scene):
When she first appeared on the stage, Yiren was dressed in black, only embellished with a plain turban on her head
. The mansion where the crime happened, twisted his waist and took off his jacket while singing a cappella.
At this time, the Sajia suddenly found that the pure black coat had a red lining. When he
took off the coat, there was still a pure black coat inside,
but he could already see a red coat. The skirt, that kind of warm red,
was amazed that this woman was so boldly matched,
only to see the coat faded and her whole body was bright red.

That feeling, in a trance, remembered watching Wang Xifeng's appearance in "Dream of Red Mansions", and when I didn't see the description of Sister Feng's dress after hearing her voice, I also felt like this kind of feeling,
as if the optic nerve I never knew was activated

in an instant. At this time, the mystery that Pierrette exuded at the beginning was also instantly transformed into a very offensive and dangerous publicity.
The ingeniousness of this scene, Sajia believes that this is almost the best use of color in the whole film. In the section of the book,
without too many words and gestures, just the simplest two colors, it explains everything about her directly to the heart

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Extended Reading
  • Gayle 2022-03-26 09:01:13

    The Blizzard Mountain Villa murders, theatrical scenes and curtain changes, Jacques Demy-style colors and singing and dancing, and French young, middle-aged and young actresses performing on the same stage are all formal elements. Multiple forms are nested layer by layer, character relationships are intricate, same-sex and bi-sex infidelity is complete, and under the carnival-like dazzling flower work, there is no effective core or true feelings. A work of style, but by no means a masterpiece.

  • Vita 2022-03-28 09:01:12

    The eight women at the end use their selfishness to drive a man to death, a blatant indictment of a gay director. There are different women in different eras, and women of different ages have different demands. They are all good at hiding themselves and will never tell the truth unless they are forced to. However, once they decide to reveal their own secrets, they will involuntarily expose the privacy of another person, and finally the harm to a man is the accumulation of power.

8 Women quotes

  • [first lines]

    [in French, using English subtitles]

    Suzon: I'm going in, Mom.

  • Gaby: [6 of the women reenter the house after their investigation outside to find Gaby and Pierrette engaged in what appears to an act of woman-to-woman love] . Wait, it's not what you think.

    Augustine: We don't need to think, we can see.