Polanski's usual restraint and steadiness seem so protracted in this film that I have no patience for it. The slow three hours took me three days and nights to toss and turn. If the director wants to portray a tragic woman who has paid a painful price for her loyalty and persistence, the most comfortable way for the audience should be to make Tess worthy of sympathy first. It's a pity that Tess looks pitiful, but she is actually dull and dull, which makes people feel like chewing wax. The result is that no matter how pitiful Tess is tortured by the times, she can only get the audience's cold face. This girl who puts the shackles of the world on her face is frowning all day long, and the girl who only uses refusal to fight against the world is even sad when her lust is aroused, and when she is in the same frame as Angel, she is also embarrassedly alienated. So much so that I keep thinking that living like this is long overdue, but the lines are very powerful in this regard, and they always come back a little. For example, when Tess was so despondent that even the audience felt that this scene should be here, Tess said to herself:
"If I had the courage, I would have killed myself."
While working at the threshing floor, Alec came to look for Tess who was working and said:
"When a person is obsessed to the extreme, he is stupid."
However, Polanski's lens has a sense of oil painting, and the scenery and villages of the English countryside are beautifully photographed. My favorite scene is the threshing floor scene, where Tess is working on the threshing machine right after Alec comes to her and wants her to go. It's surprising how Alec's love and submission for Tess can be presented this way from start to finish. The threshing machine, from stuffing the rice into the machine's entrance, to the gushing rice, is a blatant sex act.
The other is that Tess found that Angel didn't see the letter she wrote and thought Tess's brain was confused. Using the sunlight to cover Tess's shocked face and make a transition, it's very concise.
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