But fate planted her in a dirty and dark corner, let it grow recklessly, and was ravaged by maggots.
Instead of protecting her, her thorny branches pushed her into the abyss of despair.
Finally, she grew into a black flower.
Decided to give fate's deadliest backhand.
"The Hidden" is the latest work of the famous Italian director Giuseppe Tonadore. When it comes to this famous director, the first thing that comes to mind must be "Cinema Paradiso", which is a classic work in the hearts of fans. , followed by The Beautiful Legend of Sicily and The Pianist at Sea.
Throughout Giselebe's films, it is not difficult to find that almost all of his films have a lonely and tragic protagonist. From Salvatore, whose father disappeared in "Cinema Paradiso", to Melina, who was exiled by fate in "The Beautiful Legend of Sicily", to the orphan 1900 who was born on a tanker in "The Pianist at Sea", to "The Secret" She has been a prostitute in 12 years, she has been pregnant with nine children and was raped by men... These characters have all experienced painful pasts and are tortured by the shadows of their past lives, but it is difficult to find an outlet for hope. They all live monotonously under the camera, they are like a fan, full of unknown suspense. The story centers on these unknown and mysterious protagonists, leading the audience to walk into their spiritual world as bystanders and see the most secret stories behind them.
Elena in "The Hidden" is somewhat similar to Melina in "The Beautiful Legend of Sicily". They are both beautiful women. They both had a beautiful love and the light of hope shined. In the end, it was pushed to the bottom of despair by fate under the background of a specific era. They live shamefully and humbly in a dark corner, trying to get rid of them but unable to do anything, wanting to resist but being ravaged even more. It's just that Melina chose to compromise and regain her dignity with a calm attitude, while Elena embarked on the road of escape and revenge. For her lost dignity, for the last child, she became Gysey The most controversial and charismatic female tragic image in Pei's new work "The Hidden".
The film begins with three women in underwear and white masks, who are peered by a man through a small hole in the back of the wall. The film clearly tells the audience from the beginning that this is definitely not a digestible movie. From the beginning to the end of the film, the overall tone of the picture is abnormally dark and gloomy. The city in the film has never had a day of bright sunshine. Under the cloudy city are the more gloomy protagonists, who are wearing black or gray clothes and walking. in bad weather. Elena's rented apartment was so dilapidated that the truck squeaked and squeaked as it passed by. Even the high-end apartment across the street was unusually cold and dark, and the spiraling stairs looked eerie and eerie.
Our heroine, Elena, looks haggard, and Giselebe casts Elena in the shadows of large swaths of the time, highlighting her mysterious and tragic colors. She carefully executes her plan step by step, and the whole story revolves around her. From the very beginning, Giselebe has set the audience's first suspense, who is Elena, why she came to this city, what kind of woman she is, and she brutally pushed the former maid down the stairs so that she could What is the purpose of entering the jeweler's house instead of her, what is she looking for in the jeweler, what is she close to the jeweler's daughter... What purpose does she want in the end?
The woman Elena has become the biggest suspense subject in the whole film. Just like the English title of the film "The Unknow Woman", she is a mysterious and unknown woman, and this unknown has satiated the audience's appetite from the very beginning. .
If the picture of the film is not color but black and white, I feel for a moment that I am watching the noir horror movies represented by Hitchcock in Hollywood in the 50s and 60s. In the first half of the film, before the life of Yelena was revealed, the rhythm of the film was extremely fast and tense, and the flashbacks of Yelena's past were frequently depicted in fragments. At the same time, coupled with the use of a large number of soundtracks, it is enough to make people breathless. One minute Elena was in her apartment, the next she was at the jeweler's house.
The biggest surprise that Giselebe brought to the audience through "The Secret" is that it is also a story that shows the tragic color of women. This time he added elements of suspense and horror, especially he successfully imitated the elements of Hitchcock's films. Such as psychological suspense, space chapters, visual features, etc. The most impressive thing is that Elena visited the former old maid who had become a vegetative. Elena wanted the maid's deposit, so she asked her to sign the money order. I thought that the old maid who had become a vegetative would sign without any response. Words, the first time was like this, but the second time, the old maid actually blinked her glasses and looked at Irina, and said, "Why do you keep asking me to sign?" This detail can be said to be the best in the whole film. The good horror details have also achieved the most deadly horror effect. An old woman who has become a vegetative person actually said such a thing, and she had to break a cold sweat. The addition of these thrilling elements, coupled with Giselebe's superb storytelling and ability to tap into the characters' psychology, makes the film full of watchability.
Irina's mysterious life experience is slowly revealed through flashbacks from the past in the film, and all the audience's previous assumptions may be overturned. At first viewers might think that Irina infiltrated the jeweler to get revenge, that someone in their family must have done her some kind of great harm, and that her closeness to the jeweler's daughter was part of the revenge. As the film progresses, we learn why Elena does those things.
During her time as a prostitute, Elena had been pregnant nine times. She thought the jeweler's child was her own. All she was looking for was the adoption certificate. All she wanted was her child.
He killed the pimp, ran away with the money, deliberately pushed the old maid down the stairs, became the maid of the jeweler, took care of the jeweler's daughter, killed the pimp who hadn't killed before, and the jeweler's mistress died in a In an inexplicable car accident... All this happened, Elena was just trying to find her daughter.
If you say that the whole film is uncomfortable for most of the time, it makes people feel like chewing wax. Then the only place in the whole film that could have been warm - the relationship between Irina and the jeweler's daughter, was also handled abnormally by Giselebe. Being called a game of tying sausages by Irina, it seems extremely cruel. The poor little girl was tied up all over her body, pushed down by Irina and forced to stand up, and then she was pushed down again after standing up... until the little girl Learn to be strong what Elena wants her to learn, when someone pushes you down, learn to stand up on your own, and then smack the person who pushed you down.
Elena believes that the jeweler's daughter is her last child, the child of herself and the man she loves, when we thought the film was going to end like this, when people heard about Elena's tragic past and planned to help her , the film once again gave the audience a very loud slap in the face. It turned out that the name of the jeweler was just a name casually said by a pimp. In fact, the girl adopted by the jeweler was not Elena's child. All hope and beauty were at that moment. It came to an abrupt end.
At the end of the film, Elena comes out of prison after serving her sentence, and only the daughter of a jeweler who has grown up came to pick her up. Although she knew that it was not her own daughter, Elena still had the only relaxed and happy smile since the beginning of the film. .
After all, how can a woman's life be considered miserable, and how can it be defined as happiness, perhaps only a woman like Irina who has been in vain in the first half of her life can give the most qualified answer.
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