Billy Wilder is indeed a master of comedy. The most amazing thing about the movie is the rhythm. The rhythm of the whole film is really good. It makes full use of every scene and space to create dramatic conflict. The plot is relaxed and precise. The narrative is neat, with no extra lines at all.
The scene on the train is my favorite. There were 13 women in a cramped berth, crowded, chaotic, and noisy. But in the empty bathroom, there were two people quietly chatting about the frustrations and misfortunes in their lives.
The contrast between the two scenes, the transition between the loud and the quiet, is like a short piano solo suddenly followed by jazz, and the layering of the film is gradually built up in this way.
After that, the noise was so loud that it made people worry about whether the explosion was going to be filled in the next moment, but the director used the trick of the train to pull the brakes, restraining all emotions without any nostalgia, and simply entered the new scene neatly.
Few directors have this kind of control these days.
However, the emotional lines of the male and female protagonists are set too badly. The silly white sweet sugar played by Monroe pinned herself on a man and was easily deceived. The male protagonist uses the advantages of disguising a woman, and after understanding sugar's preferences, he builds an image for her weaknesses - it's not enough to get her, what he wants is for sugar to offer everything. Isn't this a form of emotional manipulation? A girl like Sugar gives everything stupidly, but whether she can be happy or not depends on the man's kindness or awakening. This is so desperate and so ironic.
This line is the biggest flaw in the whole movie in my opinion.
Fortunately, the role of Daphne has been restored a little. Daphne played by Jack is really cute, lively and sympathetic. The line between him and the millionaire Osgu is also very interesting, nobody's perfect, enough to be included in the classics of film history. It seems that when I heard this sentence, my heart was healed.
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