What a teenager says will be laughed at by adults as a teenager who doesn't know how to feel sad. What the young people say is a petty bourgeois attitude of self-sorrow and self-pity. If a middle-aged person says this, it is mostly a helpless state of mind and self-comfort.
From this point of view, the most suitable person to say this sentence is obviously a middle-aged person over 30.
Especially a woman who is over thirty, single and unmarried.
"Broken English" tells the story of a single woman in her 30s and loneliness. Living alone in an empty apartment, a decent job, and occasional parties constitute the entire life of a single woman Nora. Boring can be said to be the iconic word of Nora's life. No boyfriend, no family, no children, it is terrible for a 35-year-old woman. Although the figure is still pretty good, there are not too many obvious fats, but the skin is not as hydrated as it was at the age of 20, and there are already faint crow's feet in the corners of the eyes. Time is warning this woman that if this continues, it will be a longer period of terrible loneliness.
Lover, lover, boyfriend. Suddenly, these words made a huge difference, on this planet with a big explosion of desire. From the time when we talked about sex change to the time when we talked about love change, most of the time, we were with one person, eating together, sleeping, making love, shopping, and sharing each other's lives. But I find that it is always difficult to define the relationship between each other, and the familiarity of the body cannot create the understanding of the soul. Therefore, we are all panicked. Like Nora, I don't want to talk about love anytime, even when lying naked in a man's arms.
The film examines the love and life of middle-aged single women from a delicate perspective that is unique to women. It appears very simple and lifelike, without excessive exaggeration. The beginning of the film shows the woman preparing for the party, choosing clothes, make-up and wearing jewelry. All actions and behaviors are very life-like and typical. Each shot takes less than five seconds to capture a single woman before her appointment. Some necessary preparations. Not the usual excitement, but very lazy.
From the beginning to the end, the overall rhythm of the film is very slow and lazy, just like Nora’s state of mind. She has become accustomed to a single life without any surprises, and she does not want to change her in any way. Life is just a pond. Quiet lake. Anyone's sudden appearance, especially men, was a little caught off guard for Nora, like the ripples caused by a stone thrown into the quiet lake. It was only a moment, and slowly the lake would return to the past. calm.
Therefore, Nora is a contradictory woman who is accustomed to loneliness but is unwilling to continue to be alone. She longs for some waves in a peaceful life but is afraid of being hurt. On the surface, Nora, who works hard and has a strong personality, has been taking tranquilizers behind her back. The insecurity of love and life made Nora suffer from a serious anxiety disorder. You can imagine how many men you have met in Nora's life, but they all started and ended with the same routine. Eating, chatting to making love, all of these things happen in less than half a day, and all of them have no results. If it is not easy to find a man for marriage, it is even more difficult to find a man for love.
In the end, Nora, who appeared in the film, became the epitome of most middle-aged single women. She was lonely and terrified. It was difficult for men to express their feelings in words. It was caused by too much fear and shame, so she could only replace her with a quick fight. A quick one-night stand. How fragile and nervous it is to be sad like Nora for a man who has only slept for a night to have a new girlfriend. Until I
met Julian from France, this typical French man with a cheerful, passionate and romantic nature, unlike any men’s dating routines in the past, brought some bright colors to Nora’s life. However, Nora didn't really let herself go completely because of this. She was still worried and uneasy, and she still didn't know what kind of relationship it was with Julian.
From New York to Paris, from Paris to New York. Two men and women who didn't speak the language of each other very smoothly had the most wonderful love chemistry reaction. Language has become the thinnest means of expressing feelings in the film, but the inner feelings of the characters, and some subtle feelings make a sweet love. All the way to Paris to find Julian's Nora is also a journey to find her true self. Sometimes life just needs some excitement. You need to put aside all indulgence once and for all, in order to find and discover what you want most in your heart.
The film is a bitter and sweet love comedy. It is positioned as a comedy because the film will always make you laugh in some inadvertent small details. Without the gorgeous pictures and characters in the usual romantic comedies, the film is very simple and lifelike. While showing Nora's inner hesitation about love, it also shows Nora's friend as a married woman who has the same hesitation about love and marriage.
Actress Parker Posey, who often appears in independent films, gave Nora the most real sense of loneliness, blinking frequently, trying to be very charming and sexy in front of men, and some trivial small actions, which made the person suffering from anxiety insecure. Sensual women play very well. The actor’s delicate performance method also comes from the director Zoe R. Casaveze, who is a woman. He has always insisted on carefully carving the actor’s performance. Only by grasping the character's mood in place can the invisible loneliness and fear become tangible. The image is conducive to the story.
As always, the film still has a happy ending. In an unusually dramatic encounter, the two protagonists finally come together again. At the end of the film is Nora's brilliant smile. I don't like this ending too much. There are too few such accidents and miracles in real life. I would rather see Nora return to New York alone in the end, but she is already another person. Through a fruitless search, she fully realizes what she wants. I think this film might be more inviting. Aftertaste.
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