One dizzy, one ecstasy

Amelie 2021-10-18 19:51:09

这是一个成功的阴谋,这是一个失败的阴谋;这是一段深刻的爱情,这是一场肤浅的迷惑;这是绝望的严冬,这是希望的春天——如果狄更斯先生能从坟墓里跳出来观看这几近百年之后的电影,也许他会如此感叹。



一场迷惑一场梦。

希胖这次的迷惑是及其成功的。我不得不承认,女主恍如隔世的迷离与神经质从一开始便把所有人拽入了这场晕眩之中(直到她再次以朱迪的身份出现)。她的第一次死,不用说深陷其中的男主的痛心,连作为隔岸观火的我都惊愕不已。看到她尸体确确实实摔在了屋顶,连空气仿佛都戛然而止。真的就这么自杀了?!

这便是为什么说这是一个成功的阴谋。这是影像内外的成功,也是超出成功的成功。

影像外,从这里把电影分为两部分,上半段结束时,希胖成功地忽悠了观众。

故事中,只能说策划者只猜中了结果,却没猜中过程。阴谋成功过程是有点阴差阳错的。策划者本来只试打算让男主相信玛德琳精神恍惚或者更邪乎地以为复仇上身,然后以她自杀的结果完成杀妻计划罢了。结果正是这个假玛德琳扮演出的恍惚感,传递了一种无法推卸的迷惑感,加之中邪猜想的荒谬神秘性质,便出演了一场华丽的迷魂记。

恍人耳目的把戏顷刻间被加入了爱情的迷药,华丽而悲忾。

但迷魂记无疑是双面的。它借以爱情加大了成功的筹码,同时也放大了失败的前兆。

女主本来就是阴谋的一颗棋子。她的隔世恍惚原来也是预先的假装。在未知真相之前,所有人都被她狠狠地迷惑了一把。

好在我们比男主提前一步知道真相,由此也可以体会到最后男主知道真相之后的感受。这场人为的迷魂记,一旦当假玛德琳打回原形之后,被灌了迷魂汤的人也终于能在绝望的严冬盼来希望的春天了。

Madeleine, he does love Madeleine. Before Judy appeared, I would believe that he would love Madeleine forever. He could love to death, because a woman like Madeleine appeared in his life, and he was destined to live soon.



But the suspense film is ultimately not a romance film.

Madeleine is not Madeleine. Madeleine is Judy. We can say that Madeleine is fake, or that Judy is fake. At least to this point, I was awake from the ecstasy, even if Judy was dressed up as Madelyn again, her temperament would never come back. That was originally fake.

I also tried to think about how to help the heroine continue to fall in love with the hero in a true identity. The only possibility was that when the male protagonist met her for the second time, she voluntarily admitted that she was the Madeleine, and then took the opportunity to complain, tell the male protagonist the truth, and tell him that she was also a victim. Then they faced the same enemy and jointly exposed the conspiracy. In the end, justice defeated evil. Lovers get married.

Let's not talk about the clichés of this idea. As far as love is concerned, if it ended like this, I would not believe that he would still love her so much.

Perhaps this can also explain why in our lives, we are still the same person, but we can never say love anymore.

This Ecstasy also failed.

In this way, the heroine has only a dead end. To be worthy of this gorgeous but helpless Ecstasy.

Xi Pang's suspenseful ruthlessness is also a wise move. There is no blunt happy ending, and no sadness to make people sad. He directed our emotions.

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Vertigo quotes

  • Midge: [to Scottie] For a man who has nothing to do, you're certainly a busy little bee.

  • Midge: It's wonderful how they've got it all taped now, John. They've got music for dipsomaniacs, and music for melancholiacs, and music for nymphomaniacs. I wonder what would happen if somebody got their files mixed up?