This is a weird and mysterious story, full of fun to explore.
On the long-distance bus, a blond woman with bright eyes and firm eyes looked indifferently ahead. She carried an old-fashioned camera and wore a strange cape coat with a sky blue dress underneath.
The car stopped on an empty country road. She got out of the car. The car blows away dust. Then, the lonely woman walked into the jungle by the roadside. The camera is slow, and she is on a tree-lined road in the country, with thick trees and lush foliage. Her steps were also slow, her lips were tightly closed, and the hair on her cloak fluttered in the wind.
Weird cloak.
The fallen leaves piled up on the path, making a noise when stepped on it. At the door of a large manor, the naked old gardener opened the door for her. The vines climbed all over the wall, the grass was green, and the sun was scattered from the leaves, and the picture was bright. But unprovoked unspeakable tension.
This tension persists throughout the film. Very interesting.
The woman is Diane Abbas. The female photographer went to the "Natural Body Village" in the forest to photograph people who were naked in nature. Sitting in front of the naked manager, she was told that people here could be photographed, but they had to take off their clothes and be naked opposite to all the people here.
She said, let me think about it.
This is where the story begins.
On a sultry night in Manhattan in 1958, her husband's photography shop co-hosted a fashion show in partnership with her father's fur company. Diane introduced photography to clients by the way, but when someone asked her about her position, she had a hard time answering. Embarrassment, grievance, hopelessness for the empty life, she was suppressed and breathless. She ran out onto the patio and unbuttoned her coat to take a deep breath in front of her neighbor's window.
On this night, a strange neighbor moved into Diane's apartment. He was covered in a coat and a scarf, and the only contact with the outside world was the eyes behind the exaggerated and weird mask. She was struck by a strange passion the moment she saw him.
After this mysterious neighbor settles down, a series of mysterious things happen around her. This is a planned, premeditated, interesting process of seducing and being seduced. She stepped up the strange stairs, passed through those strange corridors, and finally stepped into his mysterious home, and from then on, she stepped into a strange fairyland that she had longed for in her lifetime.
Nicole Kidman, who plays Diane Abbas, is my favorite actress. Her beauty is an indescribable sense of indifference and vigilance. She is always vigilant, and she has the temperament of marginal characters.
The film uses a lot of gorgeous color blocks, sea blue, bright red, bright orange, blue and white, lime yellow and a lot of complicated classical patterns, the tones are extraordinarily enchanting and gorgeous. Mysterious protagonists walk through these images with eerie music. Unable to let go of the tension filled it.
The shell is peeled off layer by layer. Mixed joys and sorrows.
He was an outlier himself, and his whole body was covered in thick hair. It's an incurable disease. These hairs grow wildly, making him different from ordinary people and also his way of making a living - he uses these hairs to make hair covers for all kinds of people. He has a talent for this, like an artist, taking his time, working and living in his mysterious and quiet fairyland-like apartment. He is an alternative, deformed, underground, you can't get close to him easily, you will fall in love with him when you get close to him.
This is a big challenge for actor Robert Downey Jr., who plays Leno, because his facial features are deeply covered with hair, and he can only express the inner world of the mysterious man with his eyes. There is infinite affection and irreparable sadness in those eyes. Disappointing.
At the same time, he is full of interest, determination, safety, and gentleness.
He guides her to open up the abnormal complex in her childhood, helps her find the little boy in her childhood, and lets her see herself. Taking her into the world of his underground crowd, she sees giants, dwarfs, armless people, mentally retarded people, heterosexuals. Perhaps because Diane herself is a woman with a pure heart, with eyes that ignore the world, it is a coincidence that she has the opportunity to walk into these corners of society and discover the equal soul under the deformed skin.
There is still a compromise.
When he was seriously ill, he asked her to shave his hair for him, but he still longed to be a normal person and to have normal male and female love. In an empty room like a blue lotus blooming, they were naked, their smooth bodies white and fragile. Making love is also sad.
She said, "You can never get out of your own skin and into someone else's body and taste their pain."
He was going to die.
They went to the beach together, he smiled happily, and disappeared into the boundless waves. Health, what kind of skin you can't choose, this skin determines your destiny. Death is also to be faced, but at least one can choose to die with dignity.
And Diane couldn't save the marriage in the end—and she didn't want to. Returning from the beach, she stood for a few minutes at the door of her house while her husband listened to her, waiting for her to make a choice. She did not choose to return to her husband after all, but turned upstairs and went back to Leno's room to which she was attached.
Those works, just a record of an experience, shocked her husband. Her photography stance is far from the traditional route. When the living conditions of those "marginal people" and "underground people" were excavated, he knew that she had already surpassed himself, and his achievements could no longer be surpassed.
The second half of the film tends towards a sweet and greasy atmosphere. Knowing that he was going to die, Leno carefully knitted a cloak out of his own hair. At the seaside, he donned this cape for Diane. The lingering camaraderie of ordinary people undercuts the beauty of the entire film. Very regrettable.
Some love can make people reborn, and some love can make people die. Diane could never have been a commercial photographer's wife, assistant, and housekeeper without encountering Leno. Leno was just her chance to discover and see herself, and to be reborn in this discovery. The film just mixes the historical facts and fictional plots of Diane's shooting of horrific people, and depicts Diane's transformation from assistant, wife, mother to independent artist as an "Alice in Wonderland"-style growth process.
How Diane faced the shooting requirements put forward by the celestial body village, you need to see it yourself.
The movie's reception was a bit unsatisfactory. It has the meaning of mundane and tutorial.
Still, it's still an interesting movie.
After searching for a long time on the Internet, there are very few introductions about Diane Abbas. The few figures are as follows:
Married to photographer Ellen Abbas at the age of 18, and then started photography by himself, and his reputation far surpassed his husband. divorced. She likes to photograph abnormal characters, such as dwarfs, conjoined bodies, deformities... In 1971, she cut her wrists to commit suicide, at the age of 48.
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