The title did well, 8 Femmes. Of course it's a story about eight women. I think the director must be very particular about colors. Every woman has her own color of clothing. For example, at the beginning of the show, her daughter Suzon's red dress is very lively and cute. Grandma Mamy's purple dress feels harmonious and comfortable. The elderly; the dark green mother Gaby, with blond hair and aristocratic bongs (? That kind of long smoke, probably called tobacco pipe or something) scattered and elegant; the gray-white housekeeper Chanel is as always The bloated figure is like a dedicated and considerate servant; Augustine, the mother's reddish-brown sister, wears a pair of glasses to show the loneliness and hysteria unique to the old maid. Another maid, Louise, appears in a thick black and a white apron, beautiful A pair of clear but deep eyes under her face (it seems a bit too much to say so); there is also a light blue (later cyan) young daughter Catherine's light and short hair and eager to grow up look just like apple green, and finally One of the male host's sisters, Pierrete, walked in black and red tones, with a neutral and beautiful silhouette, always with an expression that everything is in my eyes.
Eight different women, in the same big house, show a variety of different styles and personalities around a male host, and complete a pair of eight beautiful pictures with eight different songs and dances.
The story begins with the beauties getting along happily and singing and dancing, presenting a harmonious atmosphere in the big house in winter; until the male host was assassinated by a dagger in the bedroom, the roles and personalities of the beauties were brutally separated one by one.
I almost laughed. It was as if all the beauty was shattered by the shining blade of the dagger, and the gorgeous feathers were dyed black as they fell. Everyone was suspicious of each other, and even exposed each other's scars. All ethics and morality were overturned, and they were naked in the snow-white winter.
Suzon came back from London and was pregnant with her father's child, so she felt that it was not a bad thing that her mother was pregnant with her when she married her father; behind Mamy's kind face, she had personally poisoned her husband and then He said earnestly: "In different eras, different ages, there are always different women." I can't bear to be with a man I don't love at all, even if the man gives her everything she wants; even, at any cost Killed him, took possessions, took his daughter (Augustine). This created Augustine's later lack of fatherly love and a broken personality. Her withdrawn temperament made her not good at expressing herself, let alone decorating herself to win the favor of men. When her mother (grandmother) confessed to her, she almost hysterically hated how her mother could treat her father so cruelly, and made her grow into an incomplete woman; of course, she was also blaming herself for her own suffering. However, what shocked me the most was that when Gaby came to stop the quarrel between the two, he could pick up the bottle and hit his mother on the head. Dumbfounded, illogical and unethical.
Scene after scene of ugliness continues to be lifted. Mamy, who has been in a wheelchair for a long time, has long been able to walk. Chanel has a same-sex relationship with Pierrete. Louise is the mistress of the male host. Gaby has an affair with her husband's (host) work partner, and Pierrete's lover is Gaby's lover. , Louise's admiration and longing for Gaby... Everything seems to have staged a dark show of humanity. The most absurd is Gaby and Pierrete, who suddenly attracted each other and cursed each other for the same lover, and kissed ecstatically after writhing on the ground after a woman-style physical conflict.
The only young daughter who seems to be the most normal in the movie is actually the initiator of the whole murder in the end. She takes everything in her eyes, and deliberately lets the other seven people step into the trap she set, and then exposes everyone under the mask, A hidden twisted personality. She thought that by letting her father see the ugly faces of everyone, she would be able to show her love for her father; but she did not expect that the man could never escape from sadness and despair, and finally ended in tragedy.
Come to think of it, the ugliness shown by the eight beauties is only caused by their extremely distorted love for men.
It was only later that I realized that it was not without reason that I could not understand. The whole movie can't be viewed logically at all, or you'll be overwhelmed by its absurd plot before you finish it. The film mainly depicts the faces of all living beings, and performs music and dance. Those seemingly independent pieces of vocal music are put together like the plot of a movie, but also like each person is performing separately. Well, it has a very theatrical feel to it.
By the way, in fact, each person's way of walking is unique. The more typical one is probably the eldest daughter Suzon, who walks with her head held high, very French. hehe.
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