The film starts with a monologue. The heroine Hester uses a slightly trembling voice, mixed with complex emotions, to read a suicide note to her lover Freddie. When the voice falls, the title of the film emerges in a touch of blue, and then, like an oil painting The shot flows slowly in Samuel Barber's Violin Concerto - London in 1950, a quiet street, the sound of burning wood mixed with a few barks, an old woman opens the door and puts down a bottle of wine (is it wine? bottle? I didn't see this) and went back into the room, the gentleman leaning against the wall to smoke stepped on the cigarette butt and walked down the stairs, the camera zoomed in, the old man on the second floor was listening to the radio, and in front of the window on the third floor, Hester was dressed in dark green Checked pajamas, looking at this dull, suffocating night, as hopeless as her life is. Hester closed the curtains, locked the door, blocked the crack, took sleeping pills, put a blanket on the ground, and put the suicide note on the cabinet. She saw a few shillings on the cabinet, so she put them Picked up one by one and threw them into the piggy bank, then turned on the gas, and slowly lay in front of the heater, waiting for death. Every scene and object in this short five minutes, every action of the characters is handled very well, without any redundancy, it naturally brings us into the memory of the heroine, and the story begins here. Hester is a lawyer's wife, and the life of a married couple who respects each other is uninteresting. Hester is tired of this life, and at this time she meets her husband's golf friend Freddie, a retired pilot, and falls in love with him, for Freddie's sake , Hester disregarded the moral criticism and left her husband and gave up the upper class life. After a few months, the passion faded, the relationship between the two gradually became difficult, and they eventually parted ways. Many people think that Freddie is a heartbreaker, but I think that the two were very in love until the end, but it was a wrong love, so it would end without a hitch. The director will show the discussion of this love in many details.
Let's start with falling in love. There are only a few fragments in the film's description of the two of them falling in love. Some people think that the explanation is too little. In fact, every fragment is in place. The scene where the two met was very beautiful. Freddie stood half-sideways in front of Hester, tall and handsome. He walked to Hester and sat down, and even took Hester's hand, he said, "you are the most attractive woman i've ever seen, i really mean it." It looks a bit rude, but it's what attracts the heroine, as in many movies, beautiful princesses are always attracted to poor boys, because poor boys have what they want and can't get. - Freedom, vitality and hope. But it's usually just a fairy tale that has a perfect ending, and the ending of this movie is the most likely one.
Don't go too far, let's continue talking about love. The plot after the first meeting is the date of the two. Hester kisses her husband goodbye and then goes to the coffee shop to meet Freddie. This scene is also very beautiful. Glass window, although the camera is fixed in front of the door, but from the posture, it can be seen that the two are trotting towards each other, like happy deer, with a few simple greetings, the joy is beyond words, and at this time, the soundtrack also happened to reach its climax. In the coffee shop, Freddie gushed about his experiences and feelings on the battlefield, "i servived, mixture of fear and excitement", "we were doing sth importent." Then, when the love is strong, naturally he will kiss , but it is not difficult to find that Hester is not interested in the topic of war, and Freddie's enthusiasm for it is quite persistent. In fact, it has already shown the fact that the two are not from the same world, but love is blind. In front of passion, This subtle contradiction is easily overlooked.
Freddie brought Hester back home, and then there was a sex scene, accompanied by the second climax of Fan Yanlin, even the sex scene was quite beautiful, and there was no erotic feeling at all (so this movie turned out to be R-rated, R is in Where! Naked is also very subtle, okay! Is it R if there is a sex scene? Or is there a suicide plot, so R?). After that, there are two episodes in which the two were in Freddie's friend's bar. The first time was Freddie and his friend performing a flying battle. Freddie said, "How can you be so cold, it makes me so sad." It was a joke, of course, Hester sat beside him with only a smile, she obviously couldn't fit in with them. There was another time when Freddie and his friends were singing. This song is very nice and suitable for the occasion. "You belong to me", Hester can't sing it. It is assumed that this song may be a song that soldiers liked to listen to during the war. Once again, it describes the two of them. The difference, but she still looked at Freddie very affectionately, she only had him in her eyes, and it was enough to have him.
These four episodes were when the two were in love, and the contradictions were already hidden. When the passion cooled down, the contradictions could no longer be covered up by love, and would inevitably turn into quarrels and cold wars. Freddie accompanied Hester to the art gallery to see paintings, of course Freddie couldn't understand cubism, he made a joke and Hester didn't laugh, so he broke out, "You can't always ask me to follow you" "You can't always So naive" "It's the naive people like me who are protecting you from aggression!" From Freddie's words, it can be felt that he always needs to find his own presence in the war, and Hestre understands this, just like her relationship with "Freddie seems to live before 1940," said the lawyer's husband. More contradictory films have not continued to be described, but the audience has already understood them. So the heroine chose to commit suicide. Although it was an attempt, it still ended the relationship. When Freddie knew about this, he made up his mind to leave Hester. Can you say he doesn't love her? No, he still loves her very much, and when he left, there were tears in the corners of his eyes, but men are often more decisive than women, and have the courage to cut through their mistakes.
Some people describe this as a moth-to-fire love. The heroine knows the difference between the two and is still reckless. In many love films, such a brave love is praised as true love. Is it really true? The director's position is very clear, so he arranged such a dialogue, the old lady of the landlord said to Hester, "There is always some false love, and when it comes to true love, it is like crying in the dark, when never When bad things happen, keep your last dignity, and your life will go on." These sentences are very difficult to translate. I tried to find the original text but couldn't find it. I think it should be translated like this, "A lot of love is wrong, (the original text is rubbish, it is naturally inappropriate to translate it as garbage, and it is easily understood as hypocrisy when translated as hypocrisy, so I think it's wrong to express it), when you When faced with an unexpected predicament, retain the last dignity, so that you can continue to walk, and it is true love." Hester has been begging Freddie to turn back, but Freddie said "he never ask for love", wrong love, even if you give up The last dignity is irreversible, and true love should give you hope. And this hope is always there, constant, not temporary. That's why love born of loneliness and freshness is not true love, because it is only a temporary need, rather than always giving you positive strength.
The title actually comes from the phrase Between the devil and deep blue sea, which means "a dilemma". Many people are hesitant about love and are in a dilemma. Do you understand that the source of hesitation is irreconcilable contradictions? Going a step further is bravery, but bravery brings deeper mistakes. Staying still is cowardice. Cowardice saves you from harm and may bring more harm, so Freddie's departure is the right choice. At the end of the film, with the same soundtrack as the opening scene, Hester walks to the window, opens the curtains, the camera slowly moves down, the landlady opens the door to retrieve the bottle, and the gentleman walks out of the stairs, each scene echoes the beginning, but different The thing is, the night has passed and a new day has come. Several children are playing by the firewood not far away, as if hinting at the hope of a new life, and Hester's face is no longer a tear, but a smile.
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