The film begins with the appearance of the blue ocean. We hear the monologue of the protagonist Hester Collyer, which is her suicide note to her lover. Many film introductions say that the film was incoherent, lonely and empty, and so on. I don't want to comment on the right or wrong of their relationship, but I think what the director has been trying to express is the story of a British woman trying to ignore the worldly vision to pursue love. There are three paragraphs in the film where Hester Collyer and her husband William Collyer discuss the relationship between hester and her lover. , the first time was when william just found out that she was cheating, the second time was when william learned that she committed suicide, the third time was when william came to give her a birthday present, the three times we met, and william treated hester as a past person It is said that there is only passion and sexual desire between you, which probably means that your love is only out of instinct, it is indulgence, not love, and you will not have good results. But every time Hester firmly said, no, you are not qualified to define us, we have love in addition to sex, I can die for him. I think the director's attitude is obviously not to create a slut image, what he wants to create is a woman who persistently pursues true love, a woman who is brave and not afraid of worldly vision.
Relatively speaking, the male image in the film is relatively weak. Although hester's husband is a lawyer, his status as a monk is good, but from the scene of hester, william and william's mother, we can see that william's position in the family is splinted, and the relationship between mother and wife is not Well, he couldn't reconcile either. He seemed incompetent and embarrassed in the family. Then he learned that his wife was cheating, and he didn't get angry. Of course, this aspect also showed his cultivation, but more showed his brilliance. Failure, the first is impotence, we know in the film's narration that he does not share the bed with his wife (of course, this may also be related to his religion, maybe his religion requires abstinence), followed by cowardice in character , the wife cheated, no matter what the reason is, it is infidelity to the marriage, and there are good reasons to condemn it, but his focus is only on not getting a divorce, he only asks his wife not to divorce him (this will affect his status and fame), he is okay with cheating. The third is the betrayal of a friend. In the following narrative, we know that the reason why hester knows Freddie Page is because freddie is william's friend, so he is equivalent to being robbed of his wife by his friend. All this shows that william is a loser, and his cowardice is also doomed to him. To the adoration and love of the wife.
Let's talk about another major male figure in the film, hester's lover and retired pilot Freddie Page. In the first half of the film, we all see freddie through hester's reminiscence images. In these images, he and hester's husband In stark contrast, he is so handsome, dashing, and charming. However, when the protagonist's recollection is over and we see freddie himself appearing in the apartment in the film, he is different from what we imagined, he looks talkative, tired and not gentle (because the next scene is when he discovers a woman The suicide note in the protagonist's pocket, and then he lost control of his emotions), although later in the plot, hester said that since the end of the war in 1940, freddie has changed, he has become very despised by himself, and his entire character has changed. To explain the change in freddie's character, I would rather believe it is because the heroine loves freddie too much, so in the first half of the plot we see the world in the heroine's eyes, freddie in her eyes and their love in her eyes, but in reality On freddie itself has always been what it is now, irritable and childish. Especially in the later scenes: the hostess begged him in the bar and he would not forgive him, shouted at the museum, etc., all of which confirmed our guess. He was not as perfect as the hostess thought, and he was also a failure. At the very least, he is a cowardly and irresponsible man.
So in this way, the film is more of a feminist film than a love triangle, even though the heroine doesn't end up getting the freddie she wants, but she doesn't succumb (no choice william, She didn't go home), she didn't choose to die again like the beginning, she chose to cry alone, facing the world, the last shot is her standing in front of the window, looking at everything that happened downstairs with serenity, The final picture freezes on the ruins next door, the picture gradually turns blue, and then ends, the ruins should symbolize her lost love, and the final blue ocean, a metaphor for her love failure, but in the devil and the deep Between the blue seas, she still chose the deep blue sea, choosing finally her own heart and finally her own love.
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