There are many remakes of classic movies, but not many directors remake their own works. The Chilean director Sebastian Lerio is not a prolific director, but after just five years, he reproduced his work that hit the Golden Bear Award. It is really a thing that people don't understand.
However, after you have watched the 2013 version of "Gloria" and the new version of "Gloria Bell", you have to admire a little: the director is talented.
It is almost a one-to-one mirrored movie. Not only are most of the lines directly translated, but even a large number of storyboards are exactly the same. The two versions of "Gloria" show different styles and textures.
The reason behind this effect comes from the director on the one hand.
It is also telling a story that appears to be a female middle-aged crisis. When the first edition was released, the director chose to put this story in the political context of his hometown of Chile. The metaphor of the domestic situation makes the realistic meaning of this work more complicated.
But in the new version, Gloria became a middle-class American woman, instantly jumping out of the director’s original vision and pattern, instead making the film’s proposition purer and more focused on a middle-aged woman. Life and mental state.
Of course, what really distinguishes the two films is the change in the protagonist.
In 2013, "Gloria" helped Chilean actress Pauline García win the Silver Bear Award. The performance of this Berlin actress is extremely natural and even makes the film present a touch of documentary.
Paulina's drooping eyes on both sides, her cowering and restrained posture, and the occasional hearty smile appeared to coincide with the image of middle-aged women in many people's impressions.
The new version of "Gloria Bell" invited the famous Grand Slam queen Julianne Moore to play the leading role. Aunt Ma’s acting skills are naturally impeccable, but her own halo and aura have given "Gloria" new life.
The original version of Gloria, dressed conservatively and decently, is a defensive posture even when questioning and blaming, and is more like a mortal; while Gloria, portrayed by Ma's aunt, has more American-style self-confidence. , Is also more feminine, even with a little feminist color.
To talk about a little detail, in both works, the heroines have several passionate or nude scenes. Paulina's body has obvious signs of aging. Her loose, wrinkled body is entangled with the same fat body of the male protagonist, presenting a sense of exhaustion, as if life's fierce resistance and accusation against time.
Although Aunt Ma could not hide her old state between her brows and eyes, the flesh under her dress was still tight and tangible, full of vitality.
In the last section where the egg gun was used to shoot the male protagonist, compared to Paulina's almost deserted performance in the original version, Mo Auntie turned and left violently, which was completely different.
So the completely different temperaments of the two works are more derived from the personal style of the protagonist. Of course, the performances of the two outstanding actresses are not at all superior and inferior. It is just a more personalized interpretation of the auntie, which can make this remake another opportunity, which is also considered rare.
However, whether for "Gloria" or "Gloria Bell", what I like the most is the story told by the film, although it is dull but intriguing.
To say that it is a mid-life crisis for women is actually a very one-sided statement. Women like Gloria who have been divorced for many years, have been alienated from their children, and have always been in a state of empty windows are not a normal situation-but life Loneliness and muddy are the norm.
And it’s not a normal situation for a man like Arnold who has a good income and a successful career, but has been morbidly dependent on his two 30-year-old daughters. Their daughters disappeared after a phone call to act coquettishly and ask for help. And bad things are the norm.
Gloria seems to be a calm middle-class, with a stable but not busy job. She spends her free time in proms and parties all day long. She has children and daughters, and her mother is healthy and carefree. She lives a happy life.
But in fact, she has been in a state of emptiness for a long time in terms of emotion and sex, and the relationship with her children is limited to phone calls and greetings. She also needs to add a sentence "It's your mother" at the end of the phone message to make it weakly emphasized.
When a daughter has a boyfriend, she will not tell her. When a son has a child, she will try to avoid holding her, keeping an embarrassingly polite distance. Even in her career, she has gradually reached a bottleneck and began to worry about her retirement after retirement.
Gloria’s life is as mature and glamorous as she seems on the surface. It is a sense of stability unique to the middle class, but in fact she lives in a rented apartment, and the landlord upstairs seems to be The mentally ill son makes loud noises in the room every day. The noise and chaos at home are the truth of Gloria's life-even an ugly wild cat without hair dared to invade Gloria's territory continuously.
Gloria's hardship is essentially the same as most middle-aged and elderly people-lack of love.
That's why she was hit by Arnold who took the initiative to attack on the dance floor, so she would finally forgive Arnold's recklessness and leave, so she was moved to tears when she heard the few lines of Arnold's lightly chanting verses-normal How can mature women be so foolish?
Finally, Gloria, who lost her helmet and armor, was bruised and bruised, just like the dancing skeleton manipulated by the street performer in the film.
Gloria likes to dance. Not only does she often go to the prom, she also meets Arnold at the prom. In dancing, Gloria feels beauty and passion.
However, when Gloria saw the dancing skeletons on the street, she seemed to perceive faintly that if her favorite dance had faded away from its flesh and blood and only a pulsating skeleton remained, those wonderful movements would change. To be so sad and funny, the humble gesture of Little Skeleton praying for passersby for bounty, isn't it the same as his gesture of praying for love?
In the end, the gratifying shot of Arnold was Gloria's self-liberation and redemption, but in fact, she had already walked out of it before this and.
The wild cat that kept breaking into Gloria's house, Gloria once thought it was reckless and ugly, but in the end she and the wild cat faced each other naked and began to feed it, and even secretly tasted two bites of cat food.
In fact, that hairless wild cat was as lonely and unbearable as Gloria's life, but in the end she chose to accept her imperfect life, embrace it with love, and learn to enjoy it.
After all, this quiet and plain literary film is actually the same as Hollywood’s chicken soup of life.
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