The nineteen-year-old post office boy admired the ten-year-old female painter. Whenever the alarm clock went off at 8:30 in the evening, he took off the red cloth on the binoculars and started peeping at her opposite. Peeping into her daily routine of changing clothes and painting, smearing a piece of bread and pretending to eat at the same time as her; peeping at her having a hot relationship with a man, and quickly cutting off the camera to show her pain; peeping at her shoulders trembling and crying with her head buried in her arms , When the overturned milk bottle was on the table, he made up his mind to muster up the courage to confess. The eyes of the nineteen-year-old voyeur were clear and translucent, and the moonlight always fell on his eyes, making people forget that he was an immoral voyeur.
The story is such a simple story. The first two-thirds of the film is narrated from the perspective of the male protagonist, and the depiction of the female painter is only presented through the lens of the male protagonist's telescope, which is a space without sound and without communication. The director skillfully created a spatial distance between the two, casting a shallow emotional line that has never been crossed. Until the end of the plot development, the two lived in the same room, and when the space distance was broken, the male protagonist's pure and beautiful love was also broken.
There are not many lines in the movie, and the telescope is used as a medium to promote the development of the plot. The tone of the whole film is a little dull. The most impressive thing is that the male protagonist invites the female painter to eat ice cream. Alluding to the promise of the female painter. This is the happiest shot in the entire film.
At the end of the film, the teenager chooses to commit suicide to escape the pain of reality, and the female painter turns into the next voyeur, and falls in love with the male protagonist during the voyeur. The exchange of role identities also subtly revealed the change in the two people's moods. The simple teenager is long gone. Does the female artist still remember the date that night, the teenager's hands full of sweat and trembling due to nervousness?
This is an immoral voyeur and secret love, but it makes the big director very tactful and charming.
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