I have read a lot of analysis and comments on the scene of the concert hall at the beginning and end of the movie. I read it a few times and plan to talk about some other personal understandings about the details.
There are serious spoilers in this article. Those who haven't read it should be careful...
PS. This semester I followed the teacher to study film analysis, so I wrote this film review with deep feelings. The teacher has a saying that is very good. There has never been an over-interpretation of the statement. If you can analyze it reasonably, you can justify it and it is OK.
Yes, after all, each one has its own eyes.
What I want to analyze first is the changes in the heroine's costumes. There are many details in the film that promote changes in the plot and atmosphere. This can also be seen in the heroine paulie. First of all, not long after the beginning of the film, the camera slowly zoomed in to the kitchen. Paulie was alone in taking care of the housework. At this time, she was wearing a pure white vest and shorts, which represents her image to the audience as an uncolored white. Paper, she seems to have no distractions, like an ordinary housewife. However, the style of painting quickly changed. When the hostess heard the news about the government committee and her husband on the radio, the atmosphere of the film began to change, and the hostess also became nervous and serious. Then there was a power outage, and the room was completely dark. When the candles were lit, the hostess had already put on a white vest and a long red dress. The red dress here implies that she is ready to face everything bravely, and the red color also implies dangerous people. (The danger for Paulie) is coming.
After her husband Gerardo arrived home, the two were about to go to bed after a lot of rain. Paulie was wearing a dark blue nightgown, which symbolized that everything finally returned to calm after a false alarm, and her heart was finally at ease, but there was a hint of melancholy. (Because she was meditating on my beautiful boy before hehehehe)
Soon after she fell asleep, the important person appeared. The doctor Miranda sent the tires. Paulie in the room started to act while the two men were chatting. She drove away from the doctor’s car. It’s very interesting. When the hostess is driving outdoors, she wears a dark blue jacket (turns into a black jacket when she returns to the house, and I will continue to talk about it later), a long red dress, and black symbolizes the solemnity and solemnity of her trip. The meaning of death and a heavy heart of revenge, the red dress here symbolizes that Paulie is ready to fight a bloody battle for herself, and the red revolution means that she wants to uphold justice and subvert the determination of evil, and the white vest The inner lining, we can understand it as Paulie's deep desire and yearning for a pure, clean and innocent body.
The clothing changes are roughly finished. Next, I want to talk about the interaction and personality differences between Paulie and Gerardo. At first, when the husband arrived home, the line to ask his wife to open the door was to add "it's okay" before "it's me", and later Only after seeing what happened to the heroine did I know why the husband said it's okay more.
If friends who have seen the movie are impressed, Gerardo emphasized twice in the film that the room is too boring. The first time he talked with his wife at the dinner table, he said that the room was too boring, so he went to open the window, and a cool breeze finally came in. The second time, the husband was talking to the doctor. The husband said that the room was too boring, so he went to open the door for ventilation. But wife Paulie’s approach is the opposite. When she is eating dinner at home alone, she chooses to eat in a small room similar to a storage room with a very small space. There are no windows in the room and the door is closed. It can be guessed that, compared to his wife Paulie, her husband Gerardo is a person who is willing to communicate with the outside world and listen to the outside world, and has a more open and tolerant attitude. In contrast, his wife Paulie is more self-centered, more closed and conservative.
Then after the doctor Miranda and her husband Gerardo fell asleep, Paulie outside the window watched the doctor who was sleeping on the sofa. In that shot, the female host’s face was lightened from the left and the right was dark. This shows the female host’s inner psychology at the time. The activity is very complicated, with a contradictory psychological conflict.
It is not difficult to find that the house and the terrace are two very interesting places. During the trial, the conversation between husband and wife often switched between the house and the terrace. Inside the house, it is a closed space isolated from the outside world. Paulie's coat is black under the influence of light. She brandishes a pistol and controls the trial process. She is like a dictator, a totalitarian, and represents the law. Her husband was called around under her power, and doctors have no human rights at all. Out of the room to the terrace, the world was wide open, the sky was high and the sky was pale, and Paulie’s coat was dark blue. At this time, she was a victim. Her thoughts were clear and reasonable and she told her tragic experience. She was crying, and she accused the doctor. Heinous crimes...I feel that the director is really clever.
Then there is a painting hanging on the TV in the living room. It is a portrait of a human head, but the eyes are blocked by a black mass. This echoes Paulie's tragic experience-she was blindfolded and abused. This shows that Paulie must have intentionally hung the painting at home all year round, reminding herself to avenge herself someday in the future, her revenge is not a whim, this trial is a long-planned action.
Finally, I will mention two scenes. One is the reef beating against the waves. Both the beginning and the end of the film appear, echoing each other before and after. I checked a lot of information without explanation. I probably explained this connotation myself. The waves hit the reefs, and the traces of the previous wave were washed by the latter, one after another, cyclically, like the many chaos and right and wrong of life in the world, under the things of this second. It disappears in a second, nothing can stay for long, there are many so-called truths that are difficult to explore, and there are many things that are difficult to determine whether they are right or wrong.
The other is the lighthouse, which has appeared many times in the film. The lighthouse mostly represents light and hope. The lighthouse in the film is either in the dark or in the fog, shining with a faint light, and it is also telling us that even if hope is Light is uncertain, and don't give up the pursuit of hope and light. This sentence applies to Paulie and Miranda. Finally, when the couple pushed the doctor to the edge of the cliff, the lighthouse was in the background. The lighthouse could also be used to guide the soul. After listening to the doctor’s statement on the edge of the cliff, Paulie seemed to be relieved and left, perhaps just to show Her soul was liberated, and she had belonging.
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