From a certain angle, Spanish movies always feel mixed with a humid and cold romantic atmosphere, from Bunuel to Carlos Saura, even if the thriller is filmed, it is still the same. [Julia’s eyes] Go even more thoroughly in two directions. On one side is the bloody perverted killer, and on the other side is the lingering carelessness of giving birth to love. In fact, this kind of right and left balance is both rigid and soft. It is the winning trick to whet the appetite of the audience.
For "Eye of Julia", it is far from enough to whet the audience's appetite. Today, when thrillers have become more and more unwelcome, it would be very difficult to engage in low-level tricks of schizophrenia and dual personality. Up. As a genre film with very obvious characteristics, thriller movies still need delicate and profound humanistic care and personality depth. Ignoring these, perhaps just like Julia who was blindfolded in the film, the road ahead will get harder and harder.
Speaking of eyes, nature is the core of this film. And the "fake eyes" want to replace the real eyes, it is the whole content of the film. Sara, Julia and Isaac, as well as the girl from the neighbor's house, have all fallen victim to a lonely love. When the police finally gathered around, Angel shouted "Don't look at me". Yes, he is a person living in the dark, and he can't even stand other people's attention to him. He was more willing to act as the eyes of others — first Sara, then Julia — so that when their glasses were hopefully restored, Angel desperately wanted to destroy them. Can't act as the eyes of others, this obscure marginal person will be useless.
Angel's love is self-interested. He has to prove his existence and repeatedly confirm his own meaning through this fanatical reckless love and by becoming the eyes of others. This is a tragic character, and he is also destined to come to the curtain call with a tragic gesture.
The other side of tragedy is tenderness. In other words, love originally contains two sides of cruelty and warmth. The film only shows two flowers, each showing one of them. Angel represents cruel possession, and Isaac represents selfless giving. They all tried to be the eyes of their beloved woman, and they all did it, but the process was very different. This contrast is undoubtedly tragic, but it has a full effect. Yes, we need this kind of thing too much. There are people in this world who love you madly, but they want to blind your eyes in exchange for being with you forever, and there are people in this world who have betrayed and deceived you, but at the last moment they use their own eyes to continue you world. Angel and Isaac are two sides that a man cannot have at the same time, and a woman cannot possess them at the same time.
But in any case, the memories, praise, hatred, jealousy, killing and revenge between these men and women, everything, in the final analysis, is also because of love.
Originally published in "Yangcheng Evening News", November 16, 2012, A27
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