When my friend was choosing the film list of the London Film Festival, I saw this cast without even watching the trailer. The combination of Tilda Swinton & Ralph Finnes is like caviar with vodka. It is exquisite and strong. Can be full of fragrance. In addition, Dakota Johnson, who was fresh and charming, and Matthias Schoenaerts, who came out on the silver screen at the beginning of this year, and Matthias Schoenaerts, who came out because of being away from the hustle and bustle of the world, watched a report and commented as "to-die-for cast", so I watched the film. The original intention was just for the cast.
However, when the film progressed to a quarter, it was discovered that the caviar and vodka were turned into Erguotou with stinky tofu. Uncle Fei changed the image of the cold male god on the screen and played the insane music producer Harry Hawkes. He can accompany him. The "Emotional Rescue" with a rolling stone danced with his stomach upright on the drums. You could see the swimming pool immediately stripped and dived and silly. The words spoken in 10 minutes may be more than the entire British patient said. The goddess is set to be the neurotic and popular rock female singer Marianne Lane who can't make a sound after undergoing an operation. She is naked and crooked with her meaty boyfriend Paul all day long, leaving love from the pool to the beach to the roof to her room. A mark of love, but this has not shaken her status as a fashion icon. Every set of clothes is chic enough to make people take it off. One of the most impressive shots is that she wore a black simple tailored halter top with white Standing in front of a pink wall with high-waisted wide-leg trousers wearing sunglasses, as if cut directly from a Vogue, it was too beautiful.
The two subversive performances seem to cover the other two young bodies who are constantly dressing and undressing. Dakota's Harry's daughter Penelope is constantly trying to get close to Paul. The four protagonists are amidst the laughter and jealousy of each other. The audience is still on the Italian island. When it didn’t slow down, the M&P match was gradually replaced by M&H. With the dispute between the two and the replay of the past, the film was pushed to a small climax, Marianne’s originally peaceful vacation life was stirred up by layers of ripples in one day, and The old love was briefly rekindled and then extinguished. The lovers suspected of having sex with their old love's daughter. The murder happened when the four of them were in a psychological drama and each had a ghost. Harry was killed by Paul and sat on the bottom of the pool by mistake. The overhead shot was stretched and extended to the house. , The swimming pool and what happened under the swimming pool are clearly presented, returning to the original intention of making the film and creating his own story for David Hockney's paintings.
TS was asked in an interview what she thought of her character being set to not speak, she replied: "All the characters in the film are fighting the fact that none of us can communicate with each other, with words or anything else. It's a really tricky business, communication." The four protagonists cannot communicate with each other regardless of whether they can speak or not, as if being put on the four channels separately.
If arranged according to the number of talks in the movie, it could be Harry, Paul, Penelope, Marianne.
The definition of "communication" in linguistics is "transportation of messages". The purpose of communication is to convey information. The way to achieve this purpose is not limited to verbal communication, because too much language appears pale and weak, Hesse I once said: "Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud", so from another perspective, sorting by the degree of communication can become Marianne, Harry, Paul, Penelope.
How you deal with others, how you deny its individuality and you use the other for your own purposes
Paul
H is undoubtedly the big talk in the film. The most important thing Paul said to him should be "Can you shut up?", the rest Most of the time you either watch M smiling, or watch M&H frown when you are together, or just sit by the pool and read a book. Remember to whisper to M after he gave M a perfect BJ: "Please promise me do not talk today.” Talking didn’t seem to be that important or even disgusting in his eyes, so much so that I didn’t notice that M could not talk until Harry showed up at the airport, because whether it was M&P's sex together, or Kissing on the off-road vehicle, only music and movements really do not need to be embellished with words, but this Mr. Gao Leng changed his normal at dinner after spending an afternoon with his little daughter, and began to talk endlessly (this incident also Quite interesting because the film has not clearly given the answer whether there is any tricky between P&P), perhaps such an abnormal behavior can be one of the clues to explore the P&P relationship.
Penelope
The role of the little girl is very subtle. The way she dispels loneliness is not through words but through body language (Fifty shades of gray can not go away = =). She seems to always stand in a place that attracts attention, first When I met the mountain top restaurant for dinner and waited for a seat, she looked down proudly at the diners below. After the diners happily recognized that M was starting to commotion, she stroked her hair and smiled with satisfaction. When her father was found in the corpse pool, she said a word Not to mention, sitting quietly and indifferently on the roof overlooking everyone, this is an adolescent girl who is the lack of self respect, self awareness young women have, manipulative She is taciturn and looks around like an outsider, youth is her greatest capital , The main way of communicating with people is also with eyes and body movements. At the beginning, I suddenly told M that she was only 22 years old, proud and confident.
Marianne
, M is the only character who communicates with everyone. The pleasure, the sense of being needed and the sense of security that communication brings are the starting points of all beautiful emotions, but the establishment of intimacy is much easier than maintaining. But the more time I want to communicate, the more it takes a lot of effort to build trust in communication, but it will instantly dissolve as the problems that arise in communication at any time. Because in essence, the more you communicate, the greater the difference you will find. She is a transit point for all contradictions. The character setting that cannot speak makes everyone's contradictions unknowingly die and sink to the bottom like a frog boiled in warm water. Uncle
Harry
Fei said in an interview with Q&A at the end of the premiere:
"Harry products people he pushes people he provokes Paul provokes Marianne, but underneath is a sort of a rather sad lost person who is looking for a human connection and which is the only connection he thinks he's ever had is Marianne. So underneath it is a man scrambling for some real human contact"
M for H is his connection with the outside world, or even a connection with human nature. As a former music producer, he regards interpersonal relationships and individuals as being in production, so in the afternoon of M When he refused H, his spiritual support had collapsed. Even if the body did not die that night, the spirit was also dead. It is difficult for M to deny that she had no love for H because of the heartbreaking shown when she saw H dying in the pool. An emotion higher than love. The tacit understanding between her and H is beyond the reach of P. Most of the time they just silently watch, from kissing each other, cutting hair, to talking about the first album produced by using trash cans as drums. . When fighting in the pool, H said that what he couldn't bear was P's Tolerance towards him, and he didn't even regard his existence as a threat. It was more like a part of M, which could not be ignored but could not be eliminated. Just like two people pieced together to form a complete counterpart, M wants to leave him, and H is like death. With H’s death, it can be said that part of Marian’s heart also collapsed. No matter how powerful and independent women are, they are emotional animals. After learning that her boyfriend had killed someone, her first thought was to protect him and put the crime on the refugees. Policeman Moe returned to the car after asking for an autograph and laughed and told P "he's a fan", but when P sighed and started to laugh, her expression suddenly became serious again, and the film stopped abruptly.
Only love can sparkle something, but can also destroy something at the same time.
There may be an emotional switch between people, which can burst into flames in an instant, or vice versa.
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Extended Reading
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Harry Hawkes: [on Marianne] She's the woman of the century. And I'm talking about her soul now.
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Paul De Smedt: You're obscene.
Harry Hawkes: We're all obscene. Everyone's obscene. That's the whole fucking point. We see it and we love each other anyway.