It seems to me that many film directors' debut works have a stubborn taste and style of wanting to jump out of the traditional film narration style, and director Julia Leigh seems to be unable to get out of this vicious circle. Of course, after I watched the whole movie seriously, there are still some places that made me applaud. The film gives me a lot of encouragement, whether it is in the cold tone or the performance of the film theme, and it is very realistic.
Regarding the starring role, I met Emily for the first time, and I also saw it from "Pretty Girls Agents". This time the starring role was completely naked. Although there is no passion scene, I have to say that Emily is dressed in the play. When the underwear checked the body of Clara, the female owner of the "brothel", it really gave me a very amazing feeling, really jumping out of the impression of the little loli of "Pretty Girls". There is also that I think this role really seems to be set for her, although it is rumored that she was not asked to play it at the beginning, but I have to say that the director finally found the right person, ha ha. The whole movie is in a cool tone, and there is basically no strong soundtrack. This is very sophisticated about the actor's ability to control the movie, including language, facial expressions, body, and emotional expression. Although "Sleeping Beauty" and "Pretty Girls", Emily’s acting style is somewhat similar, but different. This time Emily plays the role of a student "prostitute". On the one hand, she needs to be innocent with social oppression, difficult life, and the girl’s own optimism and casualness. Innately weak, as well as the dual-faced character of being a "prostitute" and ordinary people, Emily's performance has a feeling that is not very natural but should be so. All I can say is that "Sleeping Beauty" may have beautified me, and it also beautified Emily.
It is not uncommon in the film industry to describe the degeneration of the aristocratic class, especially the aristocratic males, and the judgment of human nature. This "Sleeping Beauty" clearly stated that the "prostitute" played by the heroine is a sleeping beauty, not a passion. Beauty, I won’t briefly describe why the heroine is engaged in this industry and some part-time jobs at the same time, but I will briefly summarize: the heroine is a girl whose life is under pressure, her little boyfriend is sick, her mother is drinking, and she wants to live by herself. She is forced to work as a waiter in a restaurant, work in the office, go to the laboratory to do live experiments, etc. The oppression of life has also created her tendency to degenerate: drug abuse, promiscuity, and in some clubs soliciting guests to engage in skin and meat business. "My vagina is not a temple", the heroine's words were very thunderous, but she also told the brothel owner Clara that she didn't care about this special "brothel" special rule: no penetration. What makes a girl feel this way, we can imagine.
The guests of this special brothel are basically accomplished old men. They have wealth, but they are already a group of old people who are close to the end of their lives. They have lost their youthful dreams, their youthful vitality, and even their sexual ability. Maybe they are everywhere during the day, but at night they can only reflect on themselves, judge themselves, regret themselves, and yearn for everything that can give them vitality. They are pitiful, but at the same time they are hypocritical. They can only be alone at night. One person wantonly playing with the body of a girl who took medicine and fell asleep, trying to absorb youth and vitality from the girl, or being in love, or venting, or cursing, or dying, it is just a shadowy epitome of a noble old man who has come to a dying year.
The lowness of life can make people sleep and die without knowing what the other person has done to him all night; at the same time, the "nobleness" of a noble man's life can play with the body of a sleeping girl, and even find a girl to sleep on him. By his side, he was walking towards the end of his life, naked, as if to confirm his despicable pursuit of life and the irony of his destiny. In the end, the heroine saw from the secret shots what the old man did to herself that night: The old man just died by her side, just premeditated.
The difference between aristocracy and grassroots is just the basis of the movie. It is more about the harshness of life and the disgust of society, even if the heroine finally wakes up to find the old man dead next to her in panic and shouting, even if the girl does not consciously look for it when she sleeps naked at home The metaphor of wearing a pair of underwear and sleeping again can bring her life. She is like a mouse in the movie, introverted, helpless, frightened and screaming desperately, but what has changed is that she is still the little one. A mouse instead of becoming a cat. The rules of life will only continue to continue, leaving only the memories of Sleeping Beauty.
"My vagina is not a temple", it is about the present and the future. However, I still hope that the theme of my understanding is wrong, "women are like flowers like dreams." I stubbornly believe that girls really should know how to respect themselves, no matter how fragile life is, dreams should be stronger.
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