When Ang Lee was 18 years old, he saw Ingmar Bergman's film "The Virgin Spring" in Taiwan. Excited and crying like a child.
Bergman has made countless acclaims in movies and plays throughout his life. He often discusses grand propositions such as religion and personal survival through daily topics such as family, love, and marriage, and is full of delicate and profound rational thinking. The 1953 romantic film "Monica, the Bad Girl" may not be in the top five of Bergman's masterpieces. In this film, you can see Bergman's early romantic style "Summer Interlude". The shadow can also glimpse the scrutiny attitude throughout the later "Marriage Life", and its classic handling of the scene is quite inspiring for later creations.
Bergman is known as the director who loves metaphors and captures expressions the most. In "Monica", Monica appears in the mirror at the beginning, and Harry looks in the mirror with his daughter at the end. The comparison before and after is a reincarnation.
There is a scene of breaking the " fourth wall " in the film. Monica, who was tired of Harry, hooked up with other men in the hotel in a blink of an eye. She lit a cigarette and looked directly at the camera with an almost provocative look, as if Tell the audience, you are not qualified to judge me. This method of shooting later became one of the hallmarks of French New Wave cinema.
In 2002, after Zhou Xun was also confessed in the movie "When the Flowers Blossom", he turned to the camera and contributed a spiritual gaze. Director Gao Xiaosong commented that his eyes could penetrate the air and play that side.
"Bad Girl Monica" is a classic three-stage structure, which restores the process of men and women from acquaintance, love to marriage. The girl Monica met the boy Harry at the hotel. At the beginning of the meeting, Monica said: Spring is here, have you noticed? Harry: Of course. Monica: This kind of weather really shouldn't be used for work. Harry: Yeah.
So, they stole Harry's dad's boat and went on a trip that just went away, to an undisturbed island to live an Eden-like life, sea breeze, sunshine, young flesh, as if floating in the air With the sweet smell of love; gradually, they sit and eat, and the hunger is irritating. Harry has repeatedly expressed that he wants to go home, and Monica insists on not returning. She went to the village to steal food and was almost caught, and what was worse, She is pregnant.
They had to go back to the city. After their daughter was born, Harry worked hard to earn money, but Monica only cared about having fun. After the adultery was discovered, Harry cried and complained. Monica left her daughter and her husband and left without looking back. .
This film has created a vivid female image of Monica, or through Monica to tell the truth from love to marriage, how the beauty of life is eroded by reality little by little, how a person is suppressed , the destruction of the empty spiritual life, the ritual function of marriage and the reasons for its failure. People like Monica will definitely be scolded in real life. She is lazy and vain, doesn't want to work, doesn't want to make money, and has too many fantasies about life; she is selfish and arrogant, and she keeps accusing Harry when difficulties are approaching; she Superficial and ignorant, without a sense of responsibility, just want to live a free life.
At the same time, Bergman lets the audience see the other side of Monica's rough surface. She is innocent and optimistic. While crying for the love in the movie, she doesn't care about the real world. She is disappointed one second and full of hope the next; When desperate, Sapo asked: Why do some people always have such good luck? The tone of voice is frank and sincere, which makes people want to laugh. She complained that Harry had no money, complained that she had no new clothes, and she was righteous and aggrieved. In short, Monica is like a bomb, igniting a small flame in the audience's heart from time to time, looking in a mirror and finding a place to empathize. Because it is direct, it is full of power.
Monica is poor, lazy, unrestrained, and loves freedom. As the saying goes, "heart is higher than the sky, and life is thinner than paper". You can often see condemnation and satire of such people in film and television dramas, such as "Ordinary World" Wang Manyin in "Li Chun" and Wang Cailing in "Li Chun", the creators have a particularly vivid psychological analysis of them. After the canonization, they have almost become a prototype of "judgment of ugliness". But if it becomes easy to judge right from wrong, its richness will be compromised.
"Monica" has no pre-set perspective of God, no ambition to write a book and biography. It shows a life and a soul chasing freedom in a concise and true lens language. The brilliant thing about the film is that it does not try to summarize. Nika, like Nora, closes the door and walks away, with an uncertain outcome.
This reminds the author of Xiao Hong, and her narration. Xiao Hong's life can be connected by "The Legend of Hulan River", "Shangshi Street" and some memoirs. The transparency is quite high, but she in the movie and TV series does not look so different. picture. The reason may be that the creators have pre-set it before the idea: what a miserable girl.
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