no man's arena

Kole 2022-02-07 14:53:09

The English and French, who are separated by water, have many differences in character. The meticulousness and rigor of the British made them create cool and wise detectives like Sherlock Holmes and Poirot, while the same reasoning story was interpreted by the romantic and casual French, but it became more and more exciting.

A sudden heavy snow trapped eight women at home, and in the same house, a man was stabbed in the back and died on his bed. Around the cause of the man's death, several women with different motives began to suspect each other, and in the process of guessing and reasoning, these seemingly pure and elegant women gradually revealed another unknown side.

The heavy snow arranged by the director at the beginning of the film should have other intentions besides confining all the scenes of the story in a closed space. Under the cover of white snow, the dirty world becomes beautiful, the dark relationship becomes pure, and everything is shrouded in an illusory beauty. But the ground after the snow melts is destined to be a mess of sewage. This is the real world. This is probably the subtext that the director wants to tell us. The entire film of "Eight Beauty and Thousands of Charm" is all about female protagonists, and the only male character is only the back from beginning to end. But in this river and lake without men, the coldness and gloom of women make us feel as cold as snow.

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Extended Reading
  • Gayle 2022-03-26 09:01:13

    The Blizzard Mountain Villa murders, theatrical scenes and curtain changes, Jacques Demy-style colors and singing and dancing, and French young, middle-aged and young actresses performing on the same stage are all formal elements. Multiple forms are nested layer by layer, character relationships are intricate, same-sex and bi-sex infidelity is complete, and under the carnival-like dazzling flower work, there is no effective core or true feelings. A work of style, but by no means a masterpiece.

  • Vita 2022-03-28 09:01:12

    The eight women at the end use their selfishness to drive a man to death, a blatant indictment of a gay director. There are different women in different eras, and women of different ages have different demands. They are all good at hiding themselves and will never tell the truth unless they are forced to. However, once they decide to reveal their own secrets, they will involuntarily expose the privacy of another person, and finally the harm to a man is the accumulation of power.

8 Women quotes

  • [first lines]

    [in French, using English subtitles]

    Suzon: I'm going in, Mom.

  • Gaby: [6 of the women reenter the house after their investigation outside to find Gaby and Pierrette engaged in what appears to an act of woman-to-woman love] . Wait, it's not what you think.

    Augustine: We don't need to think, we can see.