After watching the Italian film "I Am Love", I remembered the first two sentences in Lawrence's poem "Falling Leaves":
There is a physical connection, like leaves belong to branches,
and a mechanical connection, thrown on the ground like fallen leaves.
Read carefully, what will you think of? I think of wanderers wandering in a foreign land, of surrender to marriage, of unpainted white paper, of designed life, of ignorance and happiness, and of the sad funeral of fallen leaves that have turned into fertile soil... .Think of a lot, and what I think at this moment seems to be all about the poetry of the movie "I Am Love".
This is an Italian color feature film, starring Tilda Swinton, the 2008 Oscar winner for Best Supporting Actress, acting as a wealthy wife who is far from Russia and settled in Italy with her rich husband and wife. The story starts from the Syracuse of Milan in the silver world, with magnificent vision and elegant figure, embarking on the speeding train over the years, panicking in the criss-cross trajectory, and finally arrives at the vernacular world where spring blossoms. There is also the unbearable spiritual purgatory, and the pain and joy of going forward courageously. This is the legendary story of the rich lady in the movie "I Am Love".
Although she has witnessed the transformation of the family business dynasty, experienced the nightmare of sacrificing the life of her young son, and resolutely abandoning the social family that has guarded countless springs and autumns, the luck and misfortune after the story, although there is no way to understand, but she will take the spectator's curiosity Heart, continue to perform in a corner where there is no spotlight and no audience. For people who have everything but no emotional care, it seems to be a way of "returning to the basics" of the mind and body. Perhaps it has nothing to do with money and wealth, but another hard-to-read sutra.
In short, no matter where in life, light and shadow or heaven and earth, you can't escape from this gentle town, and you can't live without it. Since ancient times, there has been a saying "full of warmth and lust." Although the trapped beast is on the survival line of hot and cold famine, it will be a polar story relative to the equator. If you want to understand the movie "I Am Love", that kind of life is unnecessary to talk about here.
Speaking of looking for monks in the secluded temple and seeing off the guests in the long pavilion, if you want to paint a red apricot outside the wall in a more attractive way, it is compared with the ruinous yellow mud back, and the rich gold locks are used as a lining, and it is more colorful and delicious. The effect of it. The fascinating and distracted enthusiasm, the secret courtyard is deep everywhere, it has always been a gorgeous stage for gestating candles, tears, peppers, and flames.
Of course, if a play only uses this as the theme of the story, it is not the movie "I Am Love". Its "beautiful" flower of desire adorns the dry spring of emotion, which is just a natural entry into real life. Spread out the huge social and cultural background, tolerate the cultural conflicts hidden in homesickness, interpret the spiritual outlook of women and a small number of disadvantaged groups, and calculate the distance between love and marriage to reach happiness. This is the secret of success in this film that has not fallen into erotic desire. .
Some failed marriages are not the graves of love from the beginning. Like the enviable life of the hostess Emma in the story, it can continue as the history has proven. In many cases, it is the accumulation of desire and dissatisfaction to an explosive boiling point, and then a disaster with a butterfly effect. Even if both parties are relieved, the memories behind them are still messy disaster scenes.
Emma certainly has enough reasons to initiate this "disaster". In the reconstruction of what we call "menopause," Emma unfortunately encountered more troubles. The patriarch of the family has passed away, and the husband and son have become heirs to the family wealth. However, the husband and son have different business concepts, and the relationship between father and son needs to be improved. At the same time, there are problems between her and her husband. Her husband is keen on career, snobbish, indifferent, and authoritarian. She is just the senior housekeeper of the family. Emma, who has little emotional communication with her husband, is quietly changing. Also playing a catalytic role are Emma's children. Two sons, one is favored and the other is out of favor. The favored son has a girlfriend. He has to uphold the grandfather’s will and is contrary to his father. The favored son is inextricably linked with Emma, not only because he brought back one The poor boy who changed Emma's life trajectory from then on was also due to his final death ending. In a conservative and face-needing big family, Emma also has a gay daughter and so on. The troubles of children's growth made her face fate and courage squarely. Emma stands at the crossroads of her own confusion, and shoulders the important task of continuing to run the big family healthy. However, after all, people use emotion to determine the direction of life, especially in a worry-free environment, so we see a family revolution that cannot define winners or losers.
At this time, it's time to talk about Emma's affair with that little chef. A very fashionable and real situation. Is it right or wrong to have feelings with your son’s good friends, love old and young, and betray your family? But through the heart-warming delicacy, through the loneliness of empathy. With the rationale foreshadowing and the director's aesthetic shots, the two-person play has become the most beautiful and delicious selling point of the show. Yes, the hostess and the little chef are fully committed and dedication. In the restrained passion of food temptation, in the colorful colors of sunshine and grass, in the love hut with bird song playing, along with Emma's heart returning to Russia with the nostalgia and light conversation, "color" is like a delicacy indispensable Like the lack of condiments, it clears away the filthy dirt and presents the beauty of literature and art.
The combination of the front and the back is complete. Emma wants to find herself and freedom. Behind this passion for fighting, there is a "betrayal" that fuels the flames. I want to understand these as betrayal, and I will try to find an annotated reason. It can be said that the culprit behind the tragedy in the drama "I Am Love" is the "betrayal" emotion that humans cannot bear. The endless pursuit of money is a betrayal of emotions. The narcissistic worship of the laws of the self-spiritual world is an obstacle to the recognition of another spiritual world, and it will naturally betray the unknown but existing truth and life. In short, the main characters in this play all have the character of "betrayal". The family elder betrayed his son, and he divided half of the inheritance rights to his grandson. Others, Emma's husband, Emma, sons, daughters, little chefs, they are for fame and fortune, for secular fetters, for self-esteem, for true emotional appeals, and for the right to enjoy equal love. They all walk in blamelessly. On the road, one side is hovering at the crossroads of betrayal or obedience.
The ending is a realistic style that allows the drama to belong to life. In fact, the whole drama has always been a vivid combination of realism and romance. Immorally speaking, the women in this family seem to have been liberated independently from the world of men, including the undocumented daughter-in-law. I wonder if Emma, who is running towards "freedom", will continue to use the title "Emma" instead of the Russian name? In short, to embrace the life of choice without hesitation requires the courage to fear the future and the unnecessary past. I hope hair cutting is not just an empty ceremony. In the world outside the house, no matter whether there is a little chef who can share recipes is waiting, the choice of life will surely sway in the storm and light wind. This is life.
I don't know why, after so much wordy, I always feel that I haven't finished what I have to say. This is indeed a film that is both beautiful and has a lot of room for imagination. I can see from the picture that all misfortunes and fortunes, in trivial conjectures, as projected in the chaotic and turbulent foam, in the civilized world of film sculpture, the tangible and shadowy theoretical basis is strongly denied. Food and desire can always be matched, nature and freedom can also go together, a very practical combination. In fact, thanks to the film’s photography, the pictures are so beautiful that people linger.
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