The curtain of the theater stage was opened, and the film began immediately. The opening method of the play in the play and the subsequent play in the play performance of the characters reached agreement. Pantomime, drama, silent, sound, baptiste (abbreviated as B) is an elegant mime actor, frederick (abbreviated as F) is a romantic drama actor, when he performed mime with Baptiste, he returned to the backstage and constantly emphasized to give himself Add a few lines, he is not the material for performing pantomime, but he is a great theater actor. So far, the huge gap between the two art forms of pantomime and drama has been clearly outlined. Silence and sound can not help but remind people of silent films and sound films. A large number of silent film actors have lost their jobs with the appearance and popularity of sound films. This has been tragic in "Sunset Boulevard". It is also difficult for today's actors to act in silent films to achieve the original effect. There are large sections of stage performances in the film, and the boundaries between above and below the stage gradually become blurred and ambiguous with the passage of time and emotional changes. This kind of dream-like expression is undoubtedly extremely rich at the time. Creative, but also brings inspiration to future film creation, such as John Kasowitz's "Premier Night".
This is a very retro movie full of accents. Whether it's the 19th century where the film's story is located, the stage-like performance of the characters, and the classic structure of love popular drama, the combination of all elements gave birth to the master of this French poetic realism film. The heroine garance (abbreviated as G) is a mysterious and coquettish woman. The way she meets B is also very interesting. B played a motionless "weird" on the street stage, but his wandering eyes saw a theft among the onlookers. The thief was P who pursued G, but the victim mistakenly regarded G as a thief. He accused her of stealing. On the other hand, B restored what happened in a pantomime on the stage and proved G's innocence. This romantic and rather realistic way of meeting set the tone of the film. B, P, F, and the rich playboy E who fell in love with G who played the goddess on the stage while watching a performance in the theater and went to the dressing room to confess. Four men pursue a woman at the same time, while women acquire different life resources from the four men. She loves B, but she does not refuse to sleep with F. She can also turn to E for help when she is caught in the quagmire of the murder case made by P, and follow M to India. The first half of the film focuses on the character and the relationship between the characters. The most interesting place is that B was talking with a blind begging man on the side of the road. Then the two went to the tavern to have fun. As a result, another man took the gold in his hand to find the blind man to distinguish the true from the false, and the blind man instantly became the one with first-class vision. Appraiser, on acting skills, master in the folk... Then G and P came to the tavern, B immediately approached G, who was thinking about it, and invited her to dance together. And P’s companion pushed B, who was addicted to love, out of the tavern, and then B returned to the tavern gracefully with a pantomime, kicked the person pushing him to the ground, and then left with G. To the tavern.
The second half of the film spans the time to many years later. B married and had children, and G returned to Paris from India. She couldn't forget B, so she came to the theater to watch B's performance. Knowing that G had returned to Paris and watched his performance, B, who had stabilized his life, reawakened his obsession with love. This seems to be the ending of a lover's final marriage, but for B's wife and children, this is the heaviest blow in life. After his wife ran into B and G together at home, his wife’s desperate questioning was moving, but B finally left his wife and ran to the crowded street to look for G who had left. The curtain falls on the theater stage, and B, who is at a loss in the crowd, is the final picture of the film. This is an ending without a traditional ending, but it has created a poetic effect because of this. Lovers are not necessarily able to stay together, but those who stay together are often hurt by lovers.
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