I love the beauty in their film language, the sculpted shots, the tonality, the movement and the cuts. Not because their arrangement is right, or perfect. But because their shots and stories are matched. Most films, on camera, use too much convention and common language to be, at best, engaging.
For example, Spielberg and Zhang Yimou.
The Party in the second half of "Stealing Fragrance" is like a pine, rising and flirting with the wind in the abandoned land of Tuscany after autumn. The girl is quiet, although she dances with the old man and flirts with the young man, but her movements are unhurried, as if she already knows all the endings. The men holding the fire have been dancing, in the courtyard, in the inner court, and in the private room. The same is the first time the American boy and the Parisian girl in "The Dreamer", the pictures of their lower bodies, like playing cards, are spread out and leaked. The pace then picks up, and it's a game that's well-defined but goes grotesque. Finally, the girl took off cleanly, and the camera sank again. In comparison, Wong Kar-wai's shots are more abrupt and the tone more expressive. "Evil in the East" and "2046" are the worlds in Degas' paintings. I don't know which one is better, but for me, the first half of "Stealing Fragrance" is boring, while the injured part of Leslie Cheung is too jumpy.
Taylor really has a suffocating beauty, she has little to do with another kind of Greek beauty, tall, like a swan, but just right to add some sexiness. She needs a man to satisfy her as easily as everyone needs someone else to satisfy her. The difference is that Lucy in the movie can spend most of the time being willing to be "stolen", but she knows that as long as the person who "stole" her, he will miss the last base.
This is a love story, a little dream of youth written in the daughter's memory, understanding and repetition of her mother. Ultimately, virgins and virgins come together and are definitely less provocative than other groups: there's not much foreplay, and the two have no experience. But just like the combination of movie scenes and plots, this ending is appropriate. When sex is just sex, it is difficult to be love; but when it is a little green, it is possible to write love. I'm not talking about a fact of life, it's a fact of Lucy, a choice for the most beautiful girls.
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