"Another Heaven" "Encounter" and "Mianzi", just recently Two LES movies I watched, ha ha. Two weeks before
"Another Paradise"
, I randomly picked up Zhang Fang on the disc rack. I didn’t know if I bought it for a long time, and I didn’t know it. It turned out to be a Hungarian lesbian movie "Another Paradise" (in English). The name is ANOTHER WAY)-I'm sorry to make such a classification. If you follow the words on the cover of the disc, it should be said that it is a subject involving gender and politics. The story took place in 1958. After the Najib incident in 1956, it involved the process of "liberal cooperation" in Kadar. The film was shot in 1982. The Najib incident has not yet been vindicated. Although Kadar is still in power, voices of opposition have emerged one after another. It can be said to be a film that uses "lesbian" to express politics. In such an authoritarian and repressive environment, a T Eva who had just been released from prison (which involved conceptual divisions, which was really annoying) found a job as a journalist and encountered her female colleague Livia, who of course has a husband Yes, and she's still a military wife. The ending of the story is that Livia was injured by her husband. Eva tried to cross the border to escape Hungary and was shot dead in front of the barbed wire. This is also the beginning of the movie. Advancing to the other side of the middle boundary, flapping its wings one by one-the beginning and the end echoed, quite eye-catching.
"Károly Makk (Károly Makk) is an older generation of filmmakers. He is a contemporary of Yansuo. Born in 1925, he is now 80 years old. He directed a feature film for the first time in 1954, and was in the 70s of the last century. Before the 1940s, his work was widely acclaimed in Hungary, but it was not until his work "Love" (Szerelem, 1971) won the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 1971 that he won the world's attention. In 1982, "Another Paradise" "(Egymásra nézve, 1982) is the first Eastern European film to reflect lesbianism." There is also an interview with the director on the disc. The director himself is not gay. He was exiled in France at the time and felt very good after he got the script. , But he didn’t know what happened to lesbians, so he asked a lesbian and the answer was, "FUCK YOU! Use your fingers"-later he used this sentence in the movie. When the police asked about the relationship between Eva and Livia, she answered like this. However, the two actresses are not Hungarians, but Polish. I don't know what happened, maybe because of the time and location restrictions when the film was shot.
The tone of the movie is very dark, but when the two heroines are involved, the light given is very gentle. I can't imagine that an old man can have such soft tentacles—I often think that, in fact, you can't cover your horizons just because you talk about feminism, so that you can have an arrogant prejudice against men.
"face"
"Face" is a movie about the "cultural experience" of Chinese Americans (live learning and using Bayut). The 48-year-old mother is unmarried and pregnant, and her boyfriend is a little brother; her daughter is a promising doctor, but a gay, very esoteric. . "Face" became the most popular film at the Sundance Film Festival at the beginning of this year. The film was released in the United States on May 27. At first, I heard that it was said that the box office was OK. I later checked that it was about $1.23 million. It seems that it is not enough to pay for it, but IMDB gave it a score of 7.7, which is a lot of face. At the beginning of the year, the focus of this film was on Chen Chong. Later, after the Golden Horse Awards shortlisted, the female lead actress Michelle Krusiec was naturally more noticed as a queen candidate, and she still immigrated to the United States from Taiwan. Although he lost to Hsu Qi by one vote in the contest for the queen, he won the best film award in the audience's vote. Not long after the Golden Horse Awards ceremony started, she and Huang Yaoming presented music awards together. Yang Yahui was wearing a pink dress, very model-like, but in the movie, she was dressed in a neutral dress. Looking at the film production specials included in the disc, you can find that Yang Yahui's style in the film is exactly the same as the tune of director Wu Siwei, such as a slight backlash, and Yang Yahui also admitted this in the interview. Yang Yahui was adopted after immigrating to the United States, so she has an invisible English name, Michelle Krusiec, and she also wants to call her English name in front of the Taiwanese media. It is not so easy to mix with the United States.
This film is considered to be a self-reported film by director Wu Siwei. She said it was "A love letter to my mother" because she herself was a comrade, and later won her mother's approval. Will Smith is one of the producers of the film. When Will Smith took the location for his film "The Lover for All", he also helped Wu Siwei to take the location for "Face". The film only took 27 days to shoot. How fast and easy it can be easily noticed when watching, such as clothing, but it did not affect the basic quality of the film. It is still a good film.
The mother played by Chen Chong in the actors should be in place. The doctor Wil, played by Yang Yahui, is a little more subtle and quite satisfactory. The most eye-catching is of course Lynn Chen, the actor of Vivian. Her Chinese name is Chen Ling, she has a very good body and a role. She is a dancer, and tall. Actually, Yang Yahui is not short, she seems to have been a model, and Lynn Chen is half a head taller than Yang Yahui. Later I checked. Lynn Chen graduated from Wesleyan University with a degree in music and women’s studies. Now there is a band YPOK2. Her husband, Abe Forman-Greenwald, is an actor. He also has a part in the band. She graduated from the same university. It's good at this time, ha ha. The eye contact between the two girls is quite moving. There are many small movements and small details, which can show the director's intention and the actor's practical ability.
There is a question about the lines I especially want to say a little bit more, it is the Shanghai dialect in it, and nothing else. At the wedding of Chen Chongyan’s mother, the daughter disrupted the situation, and there was a mess below. There was a middle-aged Shanghainese couple. Each yelled "I love Nong"—I used to talk to my Shanghai classmates a few years ago about how to express "I love you" in Shanghai dialect. The Shanghai classmate said that the word "love" in Shanghai dialect is very strange, and young people want Don't just use English or Mandarin, Shanghai dialect generally only speaks "I am always happy". Director Wu Siwei estimated that when he went out from Taiwan, he didn't know this subtle expression, or the language might actually change after emigration. At the same time, when the film portrays the previous generation and the next generation, it is unavoidable that it is a bit facial, and the younger generations are familiar with it easily.
Sadness and lightheartedness
"Light affection" is a word I talk nonsense, because a colleague asked me how "Face" is better than "Butterfly". I said it was easy and fun. "Butterfly" talked a little bit about politics. Compared with the previous discussion, "Another Paradise" is undoubtedly heavier, much heavier than "Butterfly", the kind of imprisoned freedom and humble feelings under the gaze of Big Brother after the suppression incident, as well as blood. With the end of death, the degree of fragility and sadness—the pressure of watching the fire offshore in "Butterfly" is almost incomparable, and the pattern is really too small. My "lightness" is not "unbearable lightness in life", but "lightness" as Calvino said. Sometimes it’s too much stuffing, and my own ability is not enough to carry it. That’s what I mean by lack of strength, and sometimes it’s overkill. When the director's skill of "Another Heaven" is there, a simple story can reflect the big situation.
When watching movies, I often think that addition is easy to do, and subtraction is more difficult, because there is no unnarcissistic who engages in art. PARTNERNER is good for others, and works are good for yourself. Subtraction is a job of cutting meat on yourself. Compared with "Face" and "Butterfly", it is better at this point. "Butterfly" is based on Chen Xue's novel with a lot of material added, while the script of "Face" was written by the director himself, so it is more obvious to delete it. strength. I saw the deleted passages on the "Mianzi" disc. It was really interesting to look at it alone. When cutting the knife, I guess the director's heart would have to be ruthless.
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