Frankly speaking, if this black and white film covered in gray in the corner was not available on station B, if it weren't for the lily film directed at Goddess Hepburn, I am afraid that even fewer people would know about it.
Although this is a movie from the 1960s, the rigor and sophistication of the script is still admirable, including the characters' grasp of the lines and the tight rhythm of the plot. It is also stronger than many of today's blockbusters. Many people complain about the visual performance of the entire film. The problem, I think it's okay, at least, the expression of the image makes the logic of the whole story clear and clean.
However, Goddess Hepburn is still a little disappointing.
But she herself played a person who was inexplicably involved in be lover rumors by being loved, and the performance space itself is indeed limited. How do you want a straight guy to act: ah, my best friend loves me mentality? If such a thing really happened in reality, it would be really difficult to express the subtle emotional changes that are complicated and hesitant to refuse and fear the other party's injury.
The two emotional catharsis scenes in which Sydney first smashed the iron and then roared that she loved Hepburn did indeed show that the actor's acting skills were very strong. Both times, the goddess was stunned.
Although the bear child is a little tougher, but such a small mind and action force is also a strong impetus for the whole story.
This story seems to be a tragedy caused by a bear child, but after thinking about it, I think there is still a deeper core of tragedy. This core spans time, space, and region, and it will still be staged from time to time until now.
The core of this tragedy is called: falling in love with a straight friend.
There are many things in this world that are unresolved, and this incomprehension is not like the concrete and naked contradictions between Jews and Arabs who have forged a bloody feud due to irreconcilable beliefs.
There is a kind of contradiction that is difficult to explain, and it may even never happen, but it has been turned upside down. Most likely between women and women. For example, a sullen Lara falls in love with a shining straight man.
Of course, because of the cruelty of time, this story is still very convincing in the 1960s in the United States. That kind of plague-like secrets that everyone avoids, or curious secrets like watching monkeys come true, can really make people emotionally broken.
This is how Sydney's character saw with her own eyes that if she loves, she will die without a place to be buried, and even her dear ones have to tactfully leave her and collapse.
In fact, the bear child is very annoying, but she is not the fatal determining factor, because when the rumors eased and changed later, Sydney was terrified to find that the bear child did not spread the rumor, and all this was true.
The hardest thing for people to get rid of is to turn a blind eye to their own hearts.
If you turn a blind eye and see, the cruel reality can only suffocate yourself.
Hepburn is kind, I want to find a job elsewhere, do you want to come with me?
Kind rejection sometimes looks more like sarcasm.
But everything is helpless and incomprehensible.
In the United States, where homosexuality is legalized, the malicious avoidance caused by those rumors will definitely disappear, but it still cannot change the fact that the person you love will not love you in the end, and will leave because of your love. you go.
Universal.
People who are more vulnerable may no longer be physically destroyed, but they may also be walking dead.
Therefore, the Chinese title of this film is also in a good mood: resentment, obviously nothing happened, but there is a huge gap between the two because of this.
May the world's LGBT not go to indulge in straight people, no matter how glorious they are, otherwise, the "friendship" of the dull knife will one day make you feel resentful.
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