This is a very beautiful movie that is not kidnapped by morals. It touches the weak, vulnerable, dark, tyrannical but attractive part of human emotions. It cleverly "smuggled" the ineffability of high art in the shell of popular culture.
This movie can be a touchstone to test the audience's comprehension ability.
Those with poor ability can only wield a moral stick, wishing to beat up the heroine Jackie; in this, some people think that her sister Hilary is great and tolerant, and some people think that she is inferior and has no bottom line. The film is eager to show its position.
The translation of "She is Lonely Than Fireworks" is elegant and attractive, but it is indeed misleading. Therefore, many short comments mistake Jackie's deep motivation for "loneliness", leaving behind "loneliness is not an excuse to hurt others". the comment of. And think that the theme of the movie is the artist's "loneliness".
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The title of this movie is "Hilary and Jackie", and its theme is also the relationship between the two sisters.
The relationship between the two of them, using the current popular tags, is somewhat similar to (Platonic) Lily + Orthopedics + SM sadomasochism .
——Of course this is a labelled, very simple and crude explanation.
Why can the film win so many praises from professional film critics? Because it expresses far more than these labels, it finally presents some "unspeakable" emotions.
It explores the relationship between people, like "affinity", alienating and approaching again and again, breaking and reconnecting, and finally reconciling.
The first half of the movie "Hilary" subtly presents half of the story, as if to give the audience a puzzle: Secretary Kim, no, why is Jackie like that.
The second half of "Jackie" is the answer to the puzzle, clarifying the motivation of Jackie's behavior one by one, explaining in detail bit by bit, wishing to feed the spoon into the audience's mouth. (But many people still can’t understand it.)
Jackie’s attitude towards her brother-in-law has always been very defensive. From the guarded eyes when she first met, to when her sister awoke excitedly when she was asleep, she told her brother-in-law had proposed marriage, but she took out a condom and said she just used this. You don't need to marry him.
It is clear everywhere.
When Hilary said that he loved Kiffer and was willing to marry him, Jackie felt betrayed for the first time.
Because in her mind, her sister should be one with herself.
"You can't marry him. You can't leave me like this."
"I didn't leave you. You don't live at home anymore."
But in Jackie's heart, she has always lived at home, no matter where she performed, her dirty clothes would still be sent home, and then washed and ironed, and sent back to her with the taste of "home".
The two sisters were finally not on the same track at this time.
In my sister's eyes, her sister had "cheated" on her.
But after this, Jackie still did not give up the effort to monopolize her sister.
In the wedding photos of sister and brother-in-law, it turns out that the younger sister is hugging her.
(Director: I have already made it clear to this point, what else do you want.)
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Both Kiffer and Jackie's husband Danny appeared suddenly.
It is unprepared and gives a sense of invasion.
This is the way to express the emotions of the characters-the audience's uncomfortableness at this time is exactly the stunned elder sister or younger sister at the sudden appearance of the other party's "partner" in the movie.
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In one of the most "curious" plots in the film, Jackie asks to have sex with her brother-in-law Kiffer, and her sister finally agrees after struggling. In fact, her sister hopes that her sister will become one with herself as she did in the past, without any barriers.
My sister agreed.
Why would my sister agree to such a strange request?
Compared to spoiling, it is the consistent mode of getting along between them.
It would be an exaggeration to say that it is a spiritual SM who is willing to fight a willingness to suffer, but the sisters are obviously used to the communication mode of the sister's domineering and strong, and the sister's grievances and accommodations.
This model is their comfort zone until Hilary goes out first and finds a new "important relationship", which is her small family.
The request to "share her husband" is Jackie's strong return, pulling the two sisters back in the past and strengthening the connection between them indefinitely until it is unbreakable .
So, after "successful", Jackie was radiant and extremely happy the next day.
She thinks that her sister has "chosen" between herself and her brother-in-law. She thinks that to her sister, her sister is more important than her husband.
She was more friendly to her brother-in-law than ever, because at this time she judged him to be "harmless". In Jackie's eyes, she accepted her brother-in-law (and his children) and became part of the family formed by her and sister.
Together with her sister's grievances and gloom at this time, it was also her trophy-just like every time she let her when she was a child.
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Similarly, when she knew that her sister needed her husband's love more than she needed herself, she also ran away from her sister's home after a mental breakdown.
After Jackie fell ill, when Hilary came to visit, Jackie, who was very happy to see her sister, undoubtedly got a head shot after seeing her sister’s pregnancy, so she immediately humiliated her sister in front of her noble friend, and finally Sister walked away in anger.
Why is this movie good?
This is a very beautiful movie that is not kidnapped by morals. It touches the weak, vulnerable, dark, tyrannical and attractive part of human emotions. It cleverly "smuggled" the ineffability of high art in the shell of popular culture.
It uses mature photography and soundtrack techniques, and the actors’ performances are sophisticated and straightforward. Its use of color, panning, and metaphor make the sense of art naturally natural. It should wrap the audience’s emotions all the way forward, making it impossible to disassemble. A certain part of it for analysis.
If I were to find fault with it, I would say that it took too much space to explain and clarify. Although it made the movie no longer obscure, it provided a standard answer that was too simple or even frivolous, and there was little room for speculation and controversy. (Who knows, it's all done like this, but some people don't understand it.)
Some people can only watch all movies with the most superficial moral judgment, with the mentality of reading "Story Meeting", and with the enthusiasm that can't wait to express their opinions, they leave bad reviews on the Internet.
What can I say about this?
At the end of the film, Jackie's soul returns to the depths of memories of himself and his sister, the beach where they played in their childhood.
She saw herself and her sister hugging tightly when she was a child, and they were the only ones for each other at this time.
Then she said to her childhood self: Don't worry, everything will be fine.
Death freed her soul and made her finally reconcile with herself.
At the moment of death, she was no longer crazy and restless. She finally became what we advocated-a peaceful, rational, self-denying, "sound soul".
Then the camera zoomed out and took "us" away from the beach, leaving the world with only Jackie and Hilary.
postscript
I watched this movie because I wanted to know more about Du Pre's music, and I unexpectedly felt that the movie was quite good. Artistic biographical films will always receive a lot of criticism, like "The Last Days" alluding to Nirvana, "Velvet Gold Mine" alluding to David Bowie, and "Factory Girl" about Andy Warhol. The fate of Fei Ma by fans of the movie prototype (even by the movie prototype himself) cannot be ignored.
In fact, the passer-by audience (me) does not confuse art films with documentaries. So there is no need for music fans to feel that the movie "smears" the artist like that. Taking 10,000 steps back, even if the artist himself is really shown in the movie, there is nothing wrong with it.
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