Balanced composition, winged heart

This neoclassical film has a delicate style and is adapted from the original novel by Henry James. I have always felt that the woman described by the American writer Henry James is the cutest American woman. He has lived in Europe for many years. His works often describe the interaction between Americans and Europeans. A kind of etiquette tradition. This is just like Milly in the movie, living in Europe, talking and laughing out loud in the high-class social circle. Merton laughed and called this a typical American woman. Kate, on the other hand, is a standard woman who lost her soul in the flashy high-class social circle. This is what Henry James is good at describing, the depravity of morality and purity. However, the complexity of human nature lies in the fact that people can realize their own lowliness in front of the sublime. Therefore, when Milly said "I love you two", Merton was able to cry in her arms, and Kate realized at the end " You still love the memory of her." The three actors in the film performed very well, especially the actor Kate, who showed the complex and delicate emotions to the fullest.

There are two scenes in which Kate and Merton have sex. One was when the two had an affair on a street corner during the Venice Masquerade, and the other was when Kate came to Merton's house and had sex with him in bed at the end of the credits. It will be very interesting to compare the two scenes. The first scene is full of passion, one is because of the irritation, and the other is because of Kate's jealousy of Milly, the emotions of the two are completely released here. At the end of the film, Kate's conspiracy was finally achieved. The two faced each other naked on the bed, but they were not passionate, even sentimental. They all know that they hurt not only Milly's pure emotions, but also their souls. The most passionate moment turned into a ritual to question oneself, and the last hug couldn't warm each other's wounds. Kate got up and left, and Milly's words appeared in Moerton's mind.

Another ingenuity is the application of composition in photography. Because the background of the story is Europe in 1910, the style of the whole photography is relatively very traditional. The photographer also strives for a classicism in the use of light and movement, and the composition is based on horizontal and symmetrical pictures. For example, the close-up of Kate's eyes at the beginning of the film, the overhead shot of Merton lying on a bench while waiting for Kate in the park, and the close-up of tableware tableware after Kate began to adapt to social life, as well as the castle and the street. All these balanced pictures symbolize a stable, traditional aristocratic society. In this system, you can't change it, you can only adapt to it, just like Kate, step by step to become a model woman of the upper class. When they arrived in Venice, three people were sitting in a gondola swimming around the water city, and the director borrowed a subjective perspective to photograph the Venetian architecture. Different from the previous composition, this time because it was a subjective shot of a person on a boat, the building swayed slightly in the center of the picture, destroying a kind of balance and tranquility. And at this time, it was also the moment when Kate began to plan her conspiracy, so this particular scene has a deeper meaning, just like the Chinese translation of the film: this is "three winged hearts".

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