"God created woman", it is more accurate to use such a compliment to name Brigitte Bardot's famous work than "Roger Vadim created Brigitte Bardot". In 1956, the 23-year-old Bardot had been married for 5 years. Vadim, who is also a husband and a director, finally waited for the opportunity to tailor the "God Created Woman" for his wife. At the beginning of the show, Bardot appeared completely naked, coupled with the low-cut and close-fitting clothing in the play, the temptation of spring, the sexy and intense dance, and the relationship between the two brothers, Bardot disturbed all French men overnight. Qing Meng became their coveted sexy idol, creating a myth that lasted for half a century. Today, in the French memory, Bardot is still just "the woman created by God" and the only one.
Just as people have turned a blind eye to the ambiguity implied by "God created a woman" for centuries, Bardot's interpretation of the inner nature of an alternative woman in this film has also been stripped away from the patriarchal vision and only she is left. That seductive nude. God created Adam, and Eve is just a rib of Adam. Men only admit that women are attached to their attributes from the body to the spirit, and the temptation of sweet sins, but do not think that women also have self-sufficient spirituality. It is their curiosity and It is only impulse that makes men walk out of the Garden of Eden and gain their proud knowledge and the eye of wisdom to conquer the world. The reason why women are worshipped on the altar in a patriarchal society is because men know that women will never pose a threat to them, they are only material objects that men desire, possess, conquer or even worship. Praise themselves.
The inspiration for the film is said to have come from a love story between a woman and three brothers, although one of the three brothers did not die in the movie as in the real story, but that doesn't prevent it from being a tragedy, with a woman. It's not about love. People's misreading of the film and relishing Bardot's nudity only accentuates the social significance of this tragedy.
Juliet, played by Bardot, has a strange habit of always being barefoot, and from the beginning to the end of the film, she likes to come and go freely with her bare feet wherever she goes. She just got married, came out of the church, and the wedding dress was still unloaded. She took off her leather shoes and walked barefoot on the stone street of the town. Then, the groom was punched and kicked before entering the bridal chamber for her and the man. After marriage, although she worked hard to restrain herself and gradually developed love for her husband, it was still difficult to cut off the various connections with her past life. She wandered barefoot in the streets and bars, behaved like a child, and finally devoted her attention. The long-cherished Anthony's embrace caused his brothers to turn against each other and blood spattered at the bar. In the eyes of everyone, like Anthony said, they think that such a woman is a born bitch, who only wants to have fun, and only a fool would marry her as a wife.
Is it doomed to be beautiful? Is a woman guilty of having an unruly soul? No one heard Juliet's murmur of fear at the seaside in the middle of the night, and no one saw the bewildered eyes of the dancing Juliet.
On the contrary, Juliet knew herself better. When the kind and fragile boy proposed to her, she did not immediately agree because of the hostility of the people in the town, but said: No, you don't know me, I worry about myself. I always feel like I'm going to die tomorrow, so there's always something inside that pushes me to do stupid things and find joy. When she first tasted the affectionate care of her lover after marriage, she also felt happy like other women, but there was more of a kind of fear in her heart. She knew that she couldn't stop, and she knew that she couldn't stop. Those feet that are used to being naked won't fit any pair of shoes. When I heard that Anthony was going back to the town, she almost collapsed. The strong sense of tragedy and fate in this frantic but fragile woman was exposed in front of us through that shout. This is a woman who does not have enough power to control her heart and control her destiny, but because of this, she seems so honest and innocent. Looking at her, it is like watching another self sink into the mire step by step, but there is nothing she can do, and others will never Will lend a helping hand, just stand by indifferently, and even issue a righteous curse.
Tragedy is already doomed. For such a woman, love or not love is hurt, hurts herself, and hurts those who love her. The sea breeze blew coldly, and she and her loved ones dragged their injured bodies on the way home, just like a flying fish that was dancing on the top of the waves just now, but was just put back into the fish tank, and swayed their bodies in vain. Transparent and cold, the four walls collided, and then, gradually became silent, or did the fish die and the net broke? It turns out that love can be so deadly.
While watching the movie, I remembered for no reason the name of a book by another woman: "It's Not Me, It's the Wind." Juliet is like a pure woman, breaking free from the shackles of materialism, as happy as the wind, erratic, unpredictable, not at the mercy, pursuing independent spiritual enjoyment, with a secular and pure soul. In France at that time, she was a woman who transcended the times, and was intolerant of the world. She did not belong to anyone but herself. Women in this society, just like in Hollywood movies, are heavily wrapped in the eyes of men, either being superficially praised and falsely worshipped, pretending to be hypocritically pure, or being obsessed, molested, conquered and abandoned. For the men who were nurtured and raised in the infantile of patriarchy, Juliet's heart is too strong and mysterious, too bright and compelling, and most of them are weak in psychology. Know, protect and appreciate, but also inwardly and brutally destroy, like Camille Crowdale.
If anyone could understand her, they would be considered half a caregiver, but it was the old playboy-like shipyard owner who had been trying to get her. This is really interesting, maybe for a woman's heart, a man can only understand it through experience and learn to be tolerant.
At least one person in the real world has touched the soul of this barefoot woman - François Truffaut, the young Truffaut said in a comment as people cheered the birth of France's new sexy goddess , "God Created Woman" was a sign of the times, opening up new vistas for rigid French cinema. A few years later, this gentleman shot another more excellent female film "Jules and Jim", and later "Adele Hugo's Story" and "Partition Flower" and other works, which are elegant for women. The independent and wild soul and the mysterious and destiny temperament under the appearance, no one shows more delicate, and more heartfelt admiration and careful care than him. Interestingly, Truffaut has worked with almost all of the best actresses in France for beautiful and short-lived sparks, but Brigitte Bardot, for those of us who watch movies, is one of them. A little regret.
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