Secondly, the control of the film rhythm is also worth mentioning. As we all know, in recent years, various films, especially TV series, have accelerated the narrative rhythm. It is a very obvious phenomenon, so what form should ethical films adapt to this audience and market change? "Lady Macbeth" gives a useful attempt. There is some tension and relaxation, and the places that should be skipped are lightly stroked (such as the death of the father-in-law and the funeral), and the places that should be fully highlighted are not afraid of wasting ink (such as the crying scene of the heroine after the boy's death), although some places are switched. It's still a bit blunt, but this kind of narrative style that doesn't procrastinate or even jumps slightly compared to the previous one may be more acceptable to the fast-paced audience in the future.
Well, since it is a love ethics film, the focus of this article is mainly to talk about the performance of a few characters:
1. Lady Macbeth and her lover
read other comments and thought it was best not to take Lady Macbeth all at once. It is classified as a selfish woman who is chasing power, because first of all, this is a woman who is eager for love and survives in a deadly situation. After she met Sebastian, she tasted the joy of love and the body, and tried her best to maintain this happiness. Of course, she had never loved before, and she didn't know how to maintain the proper dedication and balance in love. , I only know to express my feelings strongly to my lover, "I'd rather you stop breathing than you don't understand my love for you." Such feelings, sincere but controlled, are suspected from the very first appearance. Sebastian's displeasure.
Of course, the plot of the story is that the hero and heroine killed the father-in-law, the husband and the little boy successively under the condition of half being forced and half taking the initiative. No matter how beautiful the love is, it can't match this heavy fact. , in any case can not easily continue to live.
2. The lover The
lover is a sturdy groom. He has a strong hormonal atmosphere from the very beginning. He picked up the heroine and disturbed Mrs. Macbeth's heart. The lover slips into Lady Macbeth's room in the middle of the night, and all desires begin here.
But the young impulse was unaware of the moral sanction that followed, and the continual killing due to resistance. This is beyond the acceptable level of the lover's heart. He is a kind person, otherwise he would not choose to save the little boy when he finally had the chance to kill him, but at the same time his strength is not strong enough, and he is fighting with his husband. At the time, Sebastian did not show the physique and bravery he should have. On the contrary, he was rescued by Lady Macbeth's decisive blow when he was bitten. Such a young man, finally unable to bear the condemnation in his heart, rushed in and confessed everything to the doctor, losing control.
3. Maid Anna
Maid Anna is a very interesting setting, because she speaks very little and the characters are more intriguing. Personally, this is an example of an attempt to become civilized but ultimately failed. There are two animal descriptions of her in the movie. One is when the male protagonist appears, and he introduces Anna as a pig. The second is when her father-in-law said something to Anna when he was angry at home, "You act like a I'll treat you like an animal," and then let Anna climb out of the restaurant.
What is the difference between animals and humans? It is whether you begin to have self-knowledge, whether you have experienced enlightenment. When Lady Macbeth asked Anna about her family, Anna said that she didn't remember much. It is difficult to say that a person who is vague about his past is an awakened person. But Anna is also a smart girl, she is very clear about what happened to Lady Macbeth and the groom, but she chooses not to betray Lady Macbeth when her father-in-law is held accountable, and reminds the groom in her own way. As for whether Anna was really dumb and didn't give an answer, she didn't dare to open her mouth after knowing what Lady Macbeth had done, or she didn't want to speak. All I know is the surprised look in her eyes when Mrs. Macbeth wronged her at the end, it was really speechless, only when she was a scapegoat when she was uncivilized, she could not escape her humble fate.
But she is the closest person next to the heroine, witnessing the evolution of Lady Macbeth and experiencing her growth, so she also has subtle feelings for Lady Macbeth, a feeling of incomprehension, suspicion but sympathy , but the heroine doesn't have such deep feelings for her, and pulling the maid's back at the critical moment is also a proof of the heroine's cruelty.
4. The Maid Anna and the Lover
Of course, there is also a reason for Lady Macbeth's cruelty, which is the vague story that happened between her lover and the maid Anna later. There is no need to delve into the nature of a lover's provocation. The special situation in the film is that under the suffocating pressure at that time, the lover can only find a trace of relaxation here with Anna, and find the simple happiness of a man for a moment. It's not that he didn't love Lady Macbeth, otherwise he would have abandoned her and run away, but Lady Macbeth's love-controlling desire was too strong for him to breathe, and he couldn't escape the haze of murder when facing her.
5. Husband and father -in-law
The husband and father-in-law can also be pondered about a few details. The husband is not an idiot who does not understand the style. The reason why he does not touch Mrs. Macbeth is because this is the marriage that his father chose for him. The hostility is actually the hostility towards the father.
Of course, you can also guess why the father-in-law arranged a marriage for him at that time, because he had his own woman outside and was a black man. This was a very shameful thing at the time. We can guess that before the marriage started What happened is also the origin of tragedy.
6. Mrs.
Macbeth and the little boy There is also a wonderful fate between Mrs. Macbeth and the little boy. In the whole film, only the little boy praised the heroine for being beautiful, took her hand and asked her the story of her childhood. This is the only character in all the characters who really expressed concern for the heroine. The heroine told him about her mother and talked about it. Birds and trees, beautiful feelings arise between two people.
That's why Lady Macbeth showed genuine grief after the little boy's death (and this unadulterated grief saved her from suspecting she was the murderer). But after feeling her pregnant belly and thinking that the little boy was the real heir of the family, she cut off her human side and killed the boy herself. If the first two murders were to save her lover, this time it was her. The beginning of annihilating one's own humanity.
Tragedy must not be because the characters are in some unfortunate situation at the beginning, but the tragedy is that the characters struggle repeatedly in this situation and finally go to the abyss of no return.
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