Anyone who is familiar with the famous American film director Woody Allen knows that this unassuming little old man dedicates a good-quality "literary film" almost every year. In these films, the protagonists seem to be talkative and often appear big Duan Da Duan's lines, and these rambling words are almost all director Woody Allen's thoughts on life, so he was also named "Intellectual Director".
On December 15, 2017, Woody Allen's latest work "Ferris Wheel" was released. This film adheres to the director's usual characteristics of tuberculosis, and once again tells us a common but talkative story. Behind the story, he still continues his thinking about life.
We always hear the "seven-year itch", which means that people's love or marriage life may gradually become dull and regular in the seventh year, and become bored and boring, and reach a period of burnout, which will lead to a crisis test. In our real life as well as in film and television works, we can see many such examples, especially for marriage, when the initial passion subsides, life becomes the common behavior of two people, getting up regularly , regular work, regular family gatherings, regular sex, etc., in the repetition of day after day, it becomes plain and ordinary, no longer exciting, but there are always people who are unwilling and want to be in this repeated dull life , find something different.
Ginny is such a woman who is constantly looking for excitement. As a former actress, she has a perpetual restless heart. Whenever life becomes dull, this restless heart beats wildly, urging her to seek stimulation. The first time was with an actor who was even less famous than herself, and the second time was with a beach rescuer who was much younger than herself. Her heart was satisfied by cheating again and again, but when the excitement passed , but it was another shock that made her more desperate.
The entire "Ferris Wheel" revolves around Kate Winslet's "Ginny", the beautiful actress who once amazed the world with her role as "Ruth" in "Titanic". When people reach middle age, although they gain weight and become fat, they still cannot hide their proud appearance and become a beautiful mature woman with a charming charm, and this point also coincides with the role of Ginny in the film. Ginny used to be a well-known actor with ideals and aspirations, but her life fell to a low point because she was seeking excitement and cheating. Now she can only serve dishes in restaurants. This is for her who still has some beauty and drama ideals It is unacceptable, and what makes her even more unacceptable is her mediocre and incompetent husband and weird son. Out of unwillingness and escapism, she cheated again, trying to use an exciting and enjoyable affair to help herself out of this predicament, But the result can only be worse.
This is why this movie is called "Ferris Wheel". When we get on the Ferris wheel, our subconscious mind is tired of the mediocre scenery on the ground and wants to detach and go to the sky to seek greater excitement. When it starts, we continue to rise with the rotation of the Ferris wheel, the scenery we can see is farther and farther, and the psychology is more and more exciting. However, the Ferris wheel will not stop at the highest point forever. The excitement only lasted for a short time, and it didn't take long before we were back on the ground and continued to be in the company of those mediocre landscapes.
In fact, it's not just Ginny, but also several other characters in the film, such as Carolina who wants to escape from the gangster husband, Mickey who wants to become a famous writer, etc. These people have their own troubles, their Ideal and real life cannot be on the same line, so they all want to escape through a stimulus, but they find that after a big circle, no one can escape their own life.
Another interesting point in the film is that people are envious of each other. Ginny is envious of Mickey's life and experience, and Mickey is envious of Carolina's life and experience. In the inherently complicated triangular emotional relationship, another layer is added. "Envy Chain", this reminds me of Woody Allen's original "Midnight in Paris", in fact, they are all the same in essence, whether you envy the past times or you envy other people's lives, in fact They are all a kind of spiritual escape from one's own life. They want to achieve spiritual escape by means of "envy", but once they escape spiritually, then the physical escape is only a matter of time.
And this film also clearly tells us that this kind of escape is useless. The life of an adult is like a donkey pulling a mill. Going round by round is the essence and normality of life. If you want to pass some kind of stimulation The way to escape quickly, it can only be like a Ferris wheel, returning to the ground again after a brief pleasure.
I think, in fact, this "Ferris Wheel" can be watched in tandem with Woody Allen's previous "Anything Is Good" and "Midnight in Paris". After reading it, you will find that "others are heaven, others are hell", others are The life of others is yours, you are yourself, opportunistic and stimulating will not make you live like others forever, nor can you get rid of this repetitive and dull life, you can only follow your own heart and do what you want to do. If you keep working hard on things, you can get real happiness and make yourself a donkey that drags the millstone forward, not a donkey that drags the millstone in circles forever. Just like the little boy who set fire in the film, his hobbies are watching movies and setting fires, so he has always insisted on his own heart, stealing money and skipping classes to go to the movies, and he can seize the time to set fires when he sees a psychiatrist. , he is the director of his own life.
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