Under what circumstances would a woman who was born in the upper middle class, has a career, beauty, intelligence and elegance be "routine" by the people she hired, and even the people who eat melons say that losing her body is "unrecoverable"?
It's not like the remake version of Chloe, the heroine is always anxious about her own presbyopia. It is not a story of scheming and paranoia. It uses 100 minutes of detail to bring the audience into every aspect of their relationship. Bring in this true and delicate feeling that hears dog blood.
Every time she "explains the battle situation", it is the dancer who expresses the unfulfilled desire in her heart, and it is a euphemism that is silently conveyed to the other party.
It was a nice red room, she said.
The heroine, who was eager to inquire about her husband's secrets, involuntarily followed the dancer's footsteps and walked into the red room where she was whispering.
Everything came too soon, she said.
The heroine is eager to "experiment" her husband, eager to find out the details of the cheating, and desperate to see the dancer when she picks up the guest, which is also too fast.
(As the dancer said at the end of the confession, I didn't seduce successfully at that time, but you were too anxious, so I had to lie, otherwise I would never see you again)
Every time she tells the story, the dancer looks at the heroine without concealing the desire behind her eyes.
But in the language of his mouth, he transferred this desire to the male protagonist's own body.
Transfer to the heroine's imagination of all this
It is this act, unintentional or intentional, that subtly establishes the intimacy between the two women.
Borrowing the discussion method in Sartre's "Being and Nothingness", this is not the desire and self-realization between subject-object, but the flow and transformation of desire between subject-object-other!
"Anecdote" sounds to others, it is the possession of the dancer again and again by the cheating husband;
But between words, "How long will it take for your Natalie" "I didn't answer because I don't think you will like it" "I want to call you"...
Transforming the husband's power to do whatever he wants with the third party arranged by him into his own power to do whatever he wants with the third party's body and actions
Wilde said that everything in the world is about sex, except sex itself, which is about power.
The body and the further spirit, which can demand, possess, and even control at will, are the most thorough realization of the subject's power over the object, and the most essential source of desire. Omnipotent freedom - "one's own, free will, free will" (Dostoevsky), is one of Sartre's ways of being for himself, and is the painful opposite of Wang Xiaobo's so-called incompetence and anger. It is what Don Juan has acquired in one female lover after another that he has really dealt with, not so much excitement, love, but something more abstract and fundamental that he is always looking for.
Chloe put this potential transformation process on the bright side when adapting:
Catherine was dazed by the cheating "real hammer", rushed to Chloe's side, took her to the hotel, pulled her clothes off, and whispered tremblingly and anxiously "How did he treat you! How did he treat you?" !"
At that moment, Catherine threw the anger that she couldn't ask for her husband and the desire to suppress it to the limit, all over Chloe. Since she couldn't get him, she would possess you who bewitched him so deeply!
Whether it's Catherine or the heroine here,
In every narration of "derailment details"
are faced with such a situation:
It's the husband who wants to spy
What I heard was what my husband wanted and did for the dancer
In the case of knowing that you can't get a husband and wanting to conquer him, but the estrangement is too deep, and the husband and wife distrust each other and feel full of resentment
Oneself reduced to the other in this "erotic secret"
It is this other, the spectator, the listener,
What perspective and position should we use to "peep" (here analogous to a term "gazing
On the one hand, reason tells my husband that it is impossible to do this.
On the one hand, he couldn't escape, he was convinced that he had already done so
It's because my husband and I haven't done those wild things
Makes this "peeping" process full of contradictions——
Close your eyes and try to imagine your husband when he cheated,
The dancing girl who opened her eyes and pointed at her body
The female protagonist's experience of "peeping" and listening to secrets at this moment is actually a similar position to us watching all love movies
As one of the hero and heroine, A, falls in love with the other half of the story, B
As an audience with the same standpoint as the other half, B, looked at A's voice, smile, dress and dress, and recognized that kind of character as a human being.
It can be said that any love story that makes you feel good and like must contain two positions and two processes for the male and female protagonists A and B.
Whether the audience is male or female, the love in the story is heterosexual or homosexual
Looking back, in Natalie's story
In every narration, the heroine silently falls into such a situation——
On the one hand, I enjoy listening to the details of my husband's fall into lust, and on the other hand, I follow the eyes of "husband" (in double quotation marks, after all, that is the husband in the story of the dancer's lie) and carefully imagine and chew his desire for the dancer together.
After telling many times, the dancer is no longer a stranger hired by herself
It's the one who understands the desire of his "husband" and shares the desire of the same man with himself...similar to the kind of role that a best friend would assume
And the body of this "girlfriend" is the body that can vent out the desires that he can't realize.
So it can be said that the dancer's body,
It is a pair for the heroine herself,
completely unfamiliar,
Even a body as familiar as her own body (in the process of the heroine's imagination and her husband's love)
There are special shots for breaking into the dance hall many times, entering the hotel room and looking at the bathroom.
I was very surprised that the director was able to use the camera to tell all of this, using scenes, performances, and shots to create such a wonderful transition. Although I was still the audience and the star, I felt at ease and felt the characters telling the story. In the process, the flow of desire, the switching of subject and object, I realized the flow of desire, the process of shifting flowers and trees behind lies
(Picture: "He looked at my chest and I stretched my waist." The heroine's eyes also changed, as if from a manipulator to a "peeping", unconsciously substituting and imagining this peach relationship the role of his own husband)
The moment when the heroine finally discovers the truth but does not resist it happens so naturally (just like the love that crosses the border and the love between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, the real story always has a complex, unreasonable but real human nature)
(Picture: Let the husband cheat, tempt him, and ask for nothing. The heroine's husband, who can't figure it out, submits to the dancer; but at the same time, the heroine gradually subconsciously accepts the concept that the dancer whom the husband submits to is physically, and the will to act is subject to oneself.)
For the heroine, as early as in the narration, the body of the third person, the other, has been integrated with herself in her imagination.
Although theoretically, I knew this was the case in advance, but only after I really watched the film, saw with my own eyes every change in their expressions and eyes, and saw the delicate tension of their emotions, did I really feel deeply. Feel convinced and impressed.
The heroine does not seem to be unable to fall in love with the same sex, but for such a middle-to-upper-class career woman with outstanding temperament, if it is not for her disappointment and loss of control of her husband, there is really no reason to do anything out of the ordinary, not to mention that she and her husband are actually Still in love with each other.
(Picture: The heroine who witnessed the dancer picking up the guest and pretending to have an orgasm felt ashamed but secretly looked at the dancer and looked at the dancer cautiously)
This story, or a series of actions done by the dancer inadvertently (because if you say that one of her purposes is to cheat money, it is indeed unconvincing), what actually promotes is the opportunity for the two to contact, meet, and share their thoughts. It is a process in which human-to-human encounters take root and sprout at first glance.
Intimacy, familiarity, the creation of possessive power, the ignition of desire.
in this relationship
The heroine starts with the power to hire and command (take money to order ridiculous things)
Finally, the nostalgia for intimacy (after cheating on the bartender, she struggled to find the place where the heroine works to ask her to chat) and the power to dominate her desires (everything the dancer does is to get her, even if she strays so far into a lie, she is in a relationship between two people) final leader)
what about the dancing girl
What surprised me the most about the dancers was the part in the taxi.
For her, physical acquisition and physical lust are not ends. She knows too well how to mobilize, create, and release lust.
Her purpose is to quietly reveal her desires in the story, to get along with the heroine every minute and every second, and to constantly approach the distance.
It was the heroine who grabbed her arm and fell asleep peacefully, the kind of intimacy... that might be called love.
The French, who have always been to sleep first and then love, openness and freedom, and action to define existence, used the most wonderful camera language and gorgeous performances to dedicate a story about the rooting and sprouting of intimate love. In contrast, Chloe in North America is about how far-reaching desires are pushed into the abyss of derailment by step-by-step camps. The French transformed the "gazing gaze" into a "peeping" in which the audience and the heroine participated together, and skillfully stripped this peach-colored secret of the dog's blood to reveal the human nature common to all people, and finally turned it into a period between people. Beyond the boundaries, there is a wonderful encounter with a little beauty.
If this is a suspenseful detective type film, it will probably exclaim "So many details are in the spoilers are all hints!"
But this movie actually uses details to pave the way for emotions, the whole process of the dancer and heroine falling into desire and circulating desire before and after
The following is a digression, about the filming technique and the "sense of verbosity"
As an audience, you must be able to adapt to such a narrative
(Instead of watching a movie, you only care about the lines and the development of the storyline, and you get distracted from time to time and don’t pay attention to the picture)
Able to receive carefully presented expressions, movements, changes in eyes, changes in emotions,
(Above picture: full of joy to come to the female lead for an appointment; bottom picture: After seeing the male lead present, she realizes that everything has been seen through, and the female lead does not hesitate to lie to deceive herself. The expression freezes instantly.)
In order to ponder the changes in the hearts of the two; (the subtle changes in the emotions and emotions of the two before and after each time the dancer prepares a new lie)
Feel the emotional tension in each scene, the suppressed and flowing desire
(Picture: After coexisting happily in the bar, staring deeply at the drunk dancer on the street of the heroine)
(Picture: On the taxi, the jazz music "One of the good memories of the last time I took a taxi with my beloved husband" was played. The two were silent but smiled knowingly, and at the same time dodged each other and avoided their eyes tacitly. looking directly)
And understand those seemingly redundant and meaningless shots—
As a medium of the type of film, the filming is not purely for the plot, but to provide the "gaze" audience with a lens for feeling and persuasion
(Picture: On the eve of the confrontation between the three, after learning that the heroine seems to be ready to break up with her husband at all costs because of the story she weaved, the dancer who is expressionless and complicated in receiving guests)
(Picture: From the perspective of the dancing girl watching the heroine changing clothes in the heroine's clinic)
(Picture: As a gynecologist, the female protagonist who treats people's body professionally in the clinic without any shyness)
(Picture: A solo dance shot that promotes the audience's gaze and perception and deepens the "sexy" impression of the dancer)
(Picture: At the end, the heroine returned home, and after everything happened, she returned to her original appearance without a trace)
The fate that should not happen, the temptation that should not be planned, the story that should not be believed, the friendship that should not be deepened, the desire that should not arise,
It all happened so cleverly that it happened by mistake
In the end, the story is false, but the time spent together, the trust given
The dancer captures every detail of the heroine's state of mind, every emotion and desire pulls, every minute of time spent with her (visiting her mother, confiding after cheating, leaving her husband in the theater and releasing it on the bar dance floor), every bit Increased trust and intimacy....but true, irrevocable, not as easily dismissed as a lie
At this time, the passion and romance of the French style returned to the field of vision——
On the eve of farewell, what can be left to each other, can draw a circle on this wonderful relationship, can prove that each other’s sincerity is really out of time, can give each other the most precious memories before we never see each other, can realize All physical lust, emotional capture, and once-complete belonging.…
It is the last physical consolation and tenderness.
(The 190329 mark wanted to watch it, but I just looked for resources recently. I came to watch the dog blood with the same feeling as the love that crossed the borders of watching Thai dramas, but I was completely conquered by the performances and scenes.)
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