In this film I saw Meryl Streep again, her identity is still the usual, independent professional woman Susan Orlean, a middle-class intellectual, middle-aged woman, excellent, wise, very educated, elegant, Capable, with a slight sense of distance, and unique charm; the public image is bright and bright, and she is a columnist who is respected and admired; she is delicate in heart and has a relentless pursuit of spiritual life. The setting around her seems a little old-fashioned and nothing new : A wealthy, isolated, but still peaceful husband. It
seems that everything is fine with Susan, even admirable. However, if a person is always describing, ideally setting things that are actually outside his life, Sacred, mysterious, clothed with a non-objective cloak, consciously or unconsciously beautifying and even pinning something, we can know that the life he lived in it did not satisfy him, and the emptiness shrouded there like air. Columnist Susan In her non-fiction "Orchid Pirates", she writes about the ghost orchid, who has never been seen before and only exists in other people's descriptions. She is full of yearning and passion, intoxicating and captivating readers.
"Orchid Pirates" The protagonist of the book, John Laroche, is a man "in normal" who seems strange to people, outside the social rules and mainstream. Become unrivaled experts in those areas, reach a state of extraordinary madness, and then suddenly leave it behind and plunge into the next field. This is a person who is not suitable to live in the real world, An outcast versus a self-exile.
It's easy to imagine how attractive a man like John Laroche is to a woman like Susan. When Interviewee J mentions to Interviewer S that his wife When he left him after the fatal disaster, S was obviously touched and said: If it were me, I would also leave, and going through the crisis of death gave people reasons and opportunities to leave and start over (there are differences in the original words, to the effect).
Their relationship reminds me of Karen and Denys in Out of Africa, and perhaps not entirely coincidentally, Karen is also played by Meryl Streep, and they are so amazingly consistent in character, origin, problems, and even Both have a wealthy and indifferent husband. And John Laroche, who is obsessed with turtles or orchids all day long, is like the mysterious hunter and flying Denys in "Out of Africa", an anomaly living outside of life, their Life seems to be just what the Karen/Susan yearn for and out of reach, smeared with gorgeous and dreamy colors like the magnificent sunset... In short, whether they can and should bear it, they have become their sustenance.
To be honest, I've always been inexplicably wary of Out of Africa (although I'm also fascinated by the majestic graphics and John Barry's terrific soundtrack), which I haven't previously attributed to targeting The sensationalism in it, until the "adaptation of the script" mercilessly pointed out the essence of the problem that aroused my vigilance. Why did Denys die in a plane crash at a critical moment? And this crucial death only happened indirectly in the film in a way that was narrated by people? At the end of the film, the image of a great and strong woman has been perfectly achieved. The picture is matched with the epic and continuous music, which reminds me of Sri Lanka at the end of "Gone with the Wind" standing under the tree in the wilderness to meet the future. Belle: "Tomorrow is another day."
Would there be a perfect Karen/Scarlett if Denys hadn't died in such an abrupt plane crash, if this celestial man hadn't left in one way or another? This is an arranged death, which is the "murder" necessary to complete this aesthetic homework. Through such a death, a series of unsolvable problems are buried, and all uncontrollable factors that are contrary to perfection are strangled. Things stay on the aesthetic level, everyone can safely and comfortably enjoy a perfect movie, "the most representative literary romance of the 1980s", "a good film with all aspects and impeccable" (if the IMDB information says) - — There’s even a (degree: harmless) “feminist element”.
Such "safety" is completely gone in Adaptation, in fact, it was smashed to smithereens. Like Karen/Denys, Susan/John became lovers. Since John wasn't scheduled to be "just in time" If she died, then he took Susan into the swamp. He called out to Susan excitedly, and the latter finally saw the legendary ghost orchid - at that moment, it was completely beyond her own and even the audience's expectations. Unexpectedly, but it was normal, she didn't feel the slightest shock or excitement. She didn't know whether to say "that's just a flower" to herself or to her companions, just like saying any random word in everyday life. Man Consciousness He was slightly depressed by what had happened, that's all; the woman's reaction was more than that, a depression and emptiness that was bigger and more irresistible than before the encounter with John and his orchid thief career (?) The attack was accompanied by some inexplicable sense of disillusionment.
Of course, the matter is not over. It is
conceivable that as successful people, independent journalists and columnists who are the embodiment of public conscience, Susan and the deviant orchid thief John The relationship between them is more suitable and stops at "infidelity", which is good for "everyone". However, the screenwriter Charlie Kaufman, who was caught in his own crisis, regarded Susan, the author of "Orchid Thief", as a life-saving straw. He and his twins The younger brother Donald Kaufman accidentally broke the reconciliation between S and J.
Poor Charlie saw something he shouldn't have seen, and was caught by the two victims. He had no choice but to show himself to the naked John and the unclothed Susan his identity; as naked as his body, John quickly let go of his hostility, turned his anger into joy, and greeted Charlie like an old friend; Susan, who had never let go of her vigilance, decisively gave the "correct" order: "Kill him." Her expression was serious, but normal, not distorted, exaggerated, or inhuman at all.
The film then turned from the trivialities of literary/intellectual films into the usual Hollywood chase procedure, but the same scene this time did not give people a sense of entertainment. The chase ended in the swamp where the ghost orchid grew. At the end, John, who pounced on Charlie with a gun, was killed by a crocodile that seemed to be disturbed by people in the water. Susan was holding John's body and wailing, while viewers like me were ridiculously asking why she didn't let go while he was still alive. . A person who is not suitable for life finally finds a way of existence that is not too bad, but loses everything because he is dragged into other people's problems. The so-called "Out of Africa" is still a fairy tale/myth. Seemingly powerful Susan, in fact, can't afford to lose anything. She can't move, and she lacks the practicality and minimum courage to move. Her wisdom, delicacy, pursuit and nobility may turn out to be the source of trouble in the end, because since you can't solve anything that might as well just do not realize what needs to be resolved.
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no mention Kaufman brothers that line, this is the first clue, there is also the subject as described in the film. talk about it.
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