Like a movie made by Madonna.
In the beginning, Madonna was just a pop culture icon for me, a cross-century pop diva. I didn't know anything about Madonna until I saw her express her views on feminism.
When I first read her remarks about feminism, I thought this was a woman who was fully awakened, but born in a world that still has strong prejudice against women.
After watching this film, I think whether men or women, as long as they live their lives unreservedly in pursuit of their own desires, although they have done nothing wrong, they have no reason to believe that their lives will end well.
The whole film is full of melancholy, perhaps related to Wallis and Madonna's doubts about the world. They wonder why they release their nature, stay true to their desires, and get what they want by their ability, talent, and hard work, but are judged by the world; why women are often the passive side in a relationship. Although Wallis and Madonna insisted on this belief all their lives, Wallis was forced to fall into a permanent prison, and Madonna fell into the increasingly fierce controversy in the world against herself as she aged.
I first heard the soundtrack of this film. The melancholy grand and warm temperament has always made me wonder what kind of love story this film tells. But the movie is completely different from what I expected. The film isn't about showing Wallis and Edward's love story, or the affair of a 28-year-old woman. They are all vessels, containers used to express the director's personal will. This film is an extension of Madonna's personality, an inquiry into her own first half of life and the self-worth of women in this era.
When Madonna was young, she was the brightest star in the world. No one could have imagined what this star would look like when it fell.
But in the 21st century, Madonna looked at herself in decline, at Wallis a century ago, and worried that she, too, would have a similar future.
As aging looms, Madonna may be getting closer to this bad ending.
But this bad ending is not a sadness for women alone, but a sadness for everyone.
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