When I first came into contact with European "art films" ten years ago, I followed the "must-see list" and followed the charts, and watched the "Modern Love Trilogy", completely ignorant. Ten years later, I can accept "Adventures" and "Night". "Eclipse" is still a bit cloudy, but I can feel it better. The empty mirror at the end is really awesome, and every shot can be cut out as a photographic work . With my own appreciation level and writing ability, it is not enough to write a film review on these works. Here I simply record a little feeling of the second viewing, just for myself.
"Adventures" has a relatively complete plot, focusing on a relationship, and blocking the hero and heroine is the girlfriend whose life and death are unknown. After letting them approach and then push away, it still has a hint of romance drama.
And "Night" has the feeling of Fellini's stream of consciousness, almost no longer driven by stories, and the object of attention seems to have risen to a more metaphysical concept such as "marriage and sex". Couples who are in marital crisis seem to be trying hard to make amends.
What confuses me about "Eclipse" is that I can't catch the focus a bit, which may be limited by my life experience and knowledge reserves. What the director is trying to discuss seems to have transcended the relationship between men and women, and has reached a more grand and profound theme similar to "life". It seems that what Monica Vitti is trying to escape from is not a certain man, a certain relationship, but everything.
Throughout the trilogy, the hero and heroine oscillate back and forth between attraction and resistance, infatuation and flight, lost in confusion and pain, especially in Monica Vitti's beautiful, bewildered, overwhelmed on the face. "Modern Love" trilogy, I don't know if it is understood that there is no love in modern times, or whether modern love is like this. One of the director's brilliant points is that in such an obscure film, he invited Monica Vitti, Jeanne Moreau, Mastroianni and Alain Delon and other handsome men and beautiful women. Greatly improved the watchability of the movie.
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