Those hopes and despairs in life that have nowhere to go --- "Tess" review

Roxane 2022-01-16 08:02:17

The film Polanski shot in 1979 is based on Hardy's novel "Tess" (1891). Polanski is a talented director, and of course his own story is even more bizarre and attractive. Please enjoy this part of gossip by yourself, and you will be amazed.

Closer to home, the movie can be summed up with one word "beauty". Beauty is used to set off the hope and despair in life that have nowhere to go. The film is always surrounded by a poetic and fatalistic beauty, and the beauty of destruction is used to reach the climax of tragedy. Although the heroine was finally taken away by the police, the gallows must be waiting for her, but it was early morning, a round of sun gradually rose, the warm and soft light flooded the earth, and the most beautiful contour light appeared on everyone. . . So I think this film is definitely not realistic. There is no doubt that it belongs to romanticism, the beautiful heroine, the unbelievable tragic fate, those fragile love that lingers between hope and despair, all this cruel romance is to let the original poster The bridge section of crying and crying.

I haven't read the original novel, I don't know how it is. Anyway, if the storyline of the film is interpreted in a popular way, it is just a cliché. The beautiful and kind Tess was tempted by the playboy to give birth to an illegitimate child, and the child died soon after. Tess later met a man she loved very much, but her husband could not accept her past on the wedding night and ran away from home. Tess lived poorly and arduously. She had no choice but to accept the favor of Playboy and became his mistress again to prevent the family from living on the streets; but at this time her husband figured out (what a jerk!), she came to find her, somehow she unexpectedly Killed the Playboy, and finally managed to escape for a few days, but was found and taken away by the police. . . I always think that the plot does not represent anything, only the details can explain the problem. If this theme is filmed by Qiong Yao, it will be inevitable to cry out and die; and under Polanski's lens, it shows a forbearing and fragile beauty, which makes people experience the hope of nowhere to go. With despair, sadness and no regrets. . .

Is the 20-year-old Nata Natasha Kinsky beautiful? Both the blogger and the director must think she is super beautiful, so beautiful that you can't take your eyes off. Her makeup is exquisite and the beauty is breathtaking, just like the strawberry that the playboy cousin A (Cantonese: contemptuous fake) put on her mouth shortly after the movie started, tender and exuding. A kind of sexy, fragile and erratic beauty; she always speaks like a gossamer, her eyes are always innocent and clear, and her stubbornness always looks funny and affectionate. With such a heroine on the stand, the film is half of the success...Anyway, the various medium shots or close-ups in the film make Jinsky beautifully shot. The set must be all kinds of lighting. Shooting at various angles and focal lengths is endless. It is said that the movie was seriously overrun and overtime, and in the end it had to be condensed from a few hours to what it is now.

Some viewers may say that my cousin treated Tess well. Anyway, it seems in the movie that she insisted on saving her family so that they would not starve to death on the street. She also placed Tess in a chic villa by the sea, dressed in expensive clothes. Pajamas... Tess said a few minutes ago: "Too late!...he treated me well..." The audience didn't understand why they turned and killed him? There may be detailed explanations in the original novel, but the blogger hasn't read it... The problem is here. Tess is not a very nervous person. She is sensitive and susceptible. The so-called help from her cousin is a terrible mental insult. She is treated as a plaything. He has never regarded her as an equal communication. "People". He tempted her, he made fun of her, he gave alms from aloft, and he didn't really care why she was depressed. So I think my cousin has hidden spiritual persecution against Tess, and Tess somehow killed him and made this persecution explicit. The cousin represents a desperate life, a life of humiliation, making Tess's heart as dead water, so once her husband appeared, the spark quickly burned Tess's brain, she killed her cousin frantically, with a kind of Uncertain hopes to follow her husband to the world...

The scenery of the movie is magnificent and soft. The English countryside is really quiet and fresh. The English courtyard is also neat and exquisite. You can also see the rural workshops of the British Industrial Revolution, such as dairy farms and harvesting yards. , There are details, there is a sense of reality. It's all quite interesting.

The scene that impressed the host the most was the scene at Stonehenge at the end of the film. Stonehenge might have been a prehistoric altar, giving people a mysterious and cold feeling. The calm Tess was lying on the boulder, metaphorically saying that she was a victim of an era, rising outside the altar with a sharp and cold feeling. A round of the sun, a metaphor for hope, the director used warm tones and light to end the scene, letting the audience's hearts ravaged by a desperate life walk out of the cinema in the dawn of hope... I believe that the director is making a romantic film drop.

Okay, that's it, the blogger's sloppy after-view that only reads it once is too sentimental, I can't bear to read it again!

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Tess quotes

  • John Durbeyfield: I'm the head of noblest branch of the family and I got my pride to lean on.

    [passes out]

  • Alec d'Urberville: Tell me, do you like strawberries?

    Tess: Yes, when they're in season.

    Alec d'Urberville: Here they already are.