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movie sets the tone. The close-up opens the whole film, and in a soft and warm white light, a piece of fabric that looks soft and warm is suddenly pierced by a needle - Fanny is sewing. The thick, hard, dark needles slowly cut through the fabric, heralding the film's tragic end: what looked round and warm is ruined by something discordant and rigid. Warm and blunt, the strange coexistence in this shot is not harmonious, and it is full of their own reasons for existence, which makes people have to accept. This is the theme I read in this movie, beautiful, tragic, romantic, helpless, great, selfish, crazy, hateful, soft and pitiful, a combination of all kinds of contradictions, not necessarily so Worthy of admiration and perfection, but a love that transcends everything and is beautiful. Just like a flower that blooms in the dust, it is beautiful, but also rooted in the dust and surrounded by easily flying dust. The soft and clean petals are covered with dust, which is dust, but also reveals a shining light.
The film mainly tells about the love between Keats and Fanny, and a hidden thread contains a final affair between Keats' friend and Fanny's maid. There is no decent, perfect love here, no one worthy of love. Whether it's Keats or Fanny, it's abhorrent a lot of the time. Keats was a poor loser, and he considered himself a loser, poor, sick, weak and abrupt. Fanny is a selfish control freak, her whole family is tormented by her joy and anger, when she is overwhelmed, she will call out "Mom" and call her younger brothers and sisters to do everything for her, only when she is at the mercy. When she was in a good mood, or when she needed help and comfort from others, she would only show tenderness to her younger siblings. She has always demanded from her family and never paid for them. When the maid came to her house with her newborn child, she was the only one who did not look at the child at all, because she only had Keats in Rome in her heart. In the slightest, the whole world is paying for these two lunatics, the whole world is pampering them, watching them suffer in love, because their love is not necessarily perfect, it is just fanaticism.
But their love is so beautiful. In the movie, there are too many the most beautiful details that can be extracted from daily life, such as the spring when flowers are blooming; the open window blows the spring breeze, the gentle sunshine enters, and the curtains and skirts are lifted; such as the love poem of two people; Butterflies in the house; notes shoved to each other through the cracks in the wall... Keats wandered outside Fanny's house like crazy in the heavy rain. When he came to her, he fell ill and nearly died under the flowers in her house. Fanny The crying scene at the news of Keats' death is particularly exciting. Those madness are the ultimate beauty of their love.
It's this contradiction that haunts the whole movie, and that's the good thing about this movie. Of course, there are many movies about obstacles in love, but those movies are very smooth and complete in both the love part and the obstacle part, and they make love and obstacles absolute - two people who love each other are worthy of love, and difficulties are helpless The absolute difficulty of it increases the dramatic effect, and the emotional inclination of the audience is much easier. But this movie is different. Love is a rough wool blanket, and the obstacles are the thorns on the ground that pierce the blanket. Beautiful and warm, and embarrassment is everywhere. Maybe a lot of times, the love in life is indeed like this, and it is not pure at all. Fanny's maid didn't write too much, she looked like a simple girl, but she wasn't perfect either, she looked more like a fool. But she loves very sincerely, a clumsy fool loves sincere and stupid, is it good love? The most impressive thing
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this film about sound and video is actually its use of sound. Unlike most movies that tell celebrity love stories that are coordinated, smooth, and deliberately polished to a clean ambience, this movie retains a lot of rough ambience, not necessarily beautiful or beautifying, but But it makes everything have a sense of existence and three-dimensionality, and you can hear space and emotions in the sound.
The use of ambient sound to create effects, such as "Rosetta", gives people the feeling of being too much, deliberately emphasizing roughness and reality, and filling all the space too much, but there is little room for perception. However, the ambient sound effects in this film are just right to show the texture of the film, and Campion's delicate and sensitive women are fully reflected here. As I've said before, this is a movie that engages all senses, with many shots from a private point of view, zooming in rather than zooming in to beautify the details, and even dry-sounding ambient sound that doesn't necessarily make people "immersed in it." environment”, but can fully perceive the protagonist’s situation and emotions. And many of the details, I guess, are unique to women.
I love this scene where Keats and Fanny celebrate their engagement. Fanny's family and Keats celebrated their engagement in the mountains outside Fanny's house. People danced, but there was no music on the scene, and there was no music laid out outside the painting. Only people clapped their hands and beat their mouths, but the dance was enthusiastic. The mountains were beautiful, and Keats had a small bouquet of red flowers in his ear. The sound here is monotonous and dry, not very celebratory. The sound of clapping hands is even abrupt. Compared with people's smiling faces, joyful dances and beautiful environment, it is an appropriate embarrassment, desolation and helplessness. As a result, the sound effects are poor and the joy of the protagonist's poverty and illness is particularly colorful and splendid, and at the same time, it is also very sad. There is a kind of love and struggle for survival in friction and life-consuming helplessness and despair. Of course, the movie also has music, beautiful music in the style of classical ballads that you will never forget, like those lost legends that blow on the hills.
Burning beautifully with a gesture of perfect transcendence, and withering quickly with a dryness of embarrassment and despair, these are the extremes of the different trends of this film, but they coexist and interweave all the time, bringing the audience a torment that cannot be comforted and calm in their hearts.
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