Last year, Bitch once recommended a masterpiece "Perfect Stranger" that maxed out the circle of friends .
This highly distracting work tells about a torn battle triggered by mobile phones, and uses it to explore the trust and betrayal in marriage.
The director and screenwriter used the "naked tearing force" and "textbook-like mutual harm" between the characters to make the audience shudder after watching it.
Some netizens even define such movies as:
Love horror movie.
Today, Bitch will recommend a movie of the same type that has just released resources; the protagonist is also seven people, and the story also begins with a meal; a "large-scale tearing live show" has kicked off.
The cast of the movie is very strong, and each of them can be regarded as the actor and actress.
Just watching this gang of old British dramas smash each other, it is very exciting.
Golden Globes actress Christine Scott Thomas ("British Patient", "Four Weddings and One Funeral", etc.)
The famous British actor Timothy Spoel , who once won the Cannes actor for his biopic "Mr. Turner".
Swiss national treasure actor Bruno Ganz , remember his "Roaring Emperor" Hitler in "Destruction of the Empire"?
Nolan Queen Actor Shilian Murphy ("Dunkirk", "Inception")
The story is only a short 71 minutes , but director Sally Porter spared no effort to create plot conflicts in a limited enclosed space. All kinds of unexpected plot reversals make the whole movie look not at all boring.
Reception The Party
Inside a house in London.
The hostess Janet (Christine Scott Thomas) is an opposition politician.
Janet had just been promoted to Minister of Health, so she called her friends and planned to organize a celebration reception.
Janet, who was preparing dinner food in the kitchen, kept ringing on her cell phone and seemed to be contacting a very close friend.
But Janet's husband Bill was a little unhappy.
He curled up in the chair, his expression was a bit sluggish, and he kept chanting words.
In the evening, guests came one after another.
The first is Janet’s long-time friend Apple and her husband Gofried , arguing about trivial matters as soon as they walked in.
Her husband Godfried ( played by Bruno Gantz) is a spiritualist, and he often carries various religious preaching on his lips.
But his wife, Apple, is disgusted with these remarks, and the two are experiencing a marital crisis.
Then came Janet's friend Martha and her gay Ginny .
Martha is a well-known scholar who has taught at the university for many years.
She and her target Ginny had just succeeded in artificial insemination and became pregnant with triplets.
The two are in a happy and sweet moment, and want to sprinkle a wave of dog food from time to time.
The last to arrive is the financial talent Tom , and her wife Marianne is Janet's subordinate.
But he arrived at Janet's house alone with a nervous look and locked himself in the bathroom as soon as he entered the house.
He actually brought a pistol to the door, and in order to relieve his tension, he took some medicine in the bathroom.
The seven people have their own things in mind, and they all share the current situation of life with each other.
The reception seemed to proceed smoothly in a peaceful atmosphere, but in fact the dark tide was raging.
The reason was that the husband Bill, who had been muffled and kept silent at the reception, suddenly said that he had something to announce.
As a result, conflicts at the reception began to appear——
Bill claims that he has an advanced stage of cancer, and time is running out.
As his wife, Janet expressed her sadness and offered to resign to take care of Bill.
After all, no career is more important than the one you love.
Friends were immersed in great sadness, and several people began to discuss Bill's condition.
But all of Janet's friends are great dramatists, and everyone is a little off-topic, pushing the topic away in minutes.
First, I asked why Bill hadn't told everyone, and then talked about why Bill chose to see a doctor in a private hospital instead of receiving a diagnosis from a regular specialist hospital.
Spiritualists even denounce Western medicine as pseudoscience, and only religion can save the world.
So everyone began to express their opinions on the country's medical system, and even did not forget to urge Janet to set an example and improve the medical conditions of the people after she was promoted to Minister of Health.
As for the patient’s family member, Janet quietly turned off the phone that kept ringing, and sent a WeChat message to the other party::
Bill is sick, let's break up!
Whether it's a long-time friend or closest wife, no one seems to really care about Bill's illness.
Among those present, the only person who was angry was the financier Tom, who seemed to have a lot of unspeakable concealment.
Subsequently, Bill exposed another big news comparable to "See you on Monday":
Bill said that his relationship with his wife Janet had come to an end.
He is going to pursue true love now--
His true love is Janet's subordinate Marianne, the wife of financier Tom.
So Tom was angrily about to lose control from the beginning of the reception, and of course he couldn't forgive this derailment.
Janet was instantly possessed by the shadow queen, completely forgetting the fact that she was also cheating, and immediately slapped Bill's face and questioned her husband:
I love you so much, you betrayed our marriage.
The atmosphere of the reception began to become tense, and the gathering between friends instantly escalated into a large-scale tearing scene.
More and more fierce materials have been dug out--
The infidelity between married women and married women began two years ago.
In fact, Janet's friend Martha has always been an insider, and has taken the initiative to provide her husband with an affronting apartment.
The reason is fresh and refined:
It is better for your husband to cheat in someone else's house than in your own house!
Janet broke down, I treat you as sisters, but you treat me that way.
Bill hit his wife Janet with a knowing blow:
She (Martha) is my friend first!
Martha and I share what we have together in college, whether it’s love or material things...
Knowing that my true love actually has a leg with a man! Ginny also broke out in an instant, claiming to leave Martha.
The suspicion and contradiction between this pair of homosexuals escalated this torment.
All of a sudden, the plot took a turn for the worse, pushing the seven people in the room into an absurd farce with no way out...
"Cocktail Party" is a middle-class tragedy wrapped in a comedy coat.
The whole story of the movie takes place in a small room of the protagonist. All the stories and clues of the characters are explained by the actors' lines and performances . It feels like an indoor stage play .
The entire movie is composed of black and white tones, but each scene shows the director's careful design and scheduling.
In this confined space, a test of human nature was launched, and everyone felt despair, betrayal, and hatred.
In particular, the reversal at the end of the film not only echoes the beginning, but also makes the audience feel more thoughtful.
There was a knock on the door, and Janet strode to the door, opening the door and shouting:
You say you love me.
Then facing the camera, raised the pistol in his hand.
This subjective shot is undoubtedly the crowning touch of the film, as Marianne, who is an important story promotion, never appeared.
However, it is not difficult for the audience to think that Janet and Marianne (Tom's wife, Bill's derailed subject) also have a lover relationship, and the director has torn away the disguise behind each role.
The whole story begins with Marianne's phone call and ends with Marianne's knock on the door.
Extramarital affairs, deception, betrayal, conflicts occur like serial murders, and everyone is intertwined with each other.
Although it also involves the betrayal and suspicion of love, it is different from the analysis of human nature in "The Perfect Stranger";
This "Cocktail Party" is full of British self-deprecating and black humor, as well as the creator's reflection on various solidified concepts in contemporary society.
The title of the film, The Party, can be said to be a pun——
On the surface, it refers to this cocktail party, but judging from the political metaphor of the content of the film, it is actually intended to satirize the British political parties.
Whether it is politics, religion, or same-sex love and feminism, the director has a skeptical attitude, allowing the audience to feel the pungent irony and criticism outside the story after laughing.
From beginning to end, the movie seems to be satirizing the hypocrisy and marketability of the middle class.
The protagonists have different identities, including politicians, intellectuals, feminists, religiousists, financiers, etc. They show off their knowledge, show off their power, and their opinions and complaints on social issues are interesting.
But when this group of polite "upper people" tears their faces, every hypocritical person will eventually fall into his own moral abyss.
Just like the old saying:
Love cannot stand the test, especially human nature.
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