The core of the film's philosophical structure is undoubtedly the metaphor of the Greek myth of Elphis. Elphis brought his wife back to the world from Hades, but was asked not to look back at his wife on the way back to the world, otherwise the wife would not be able to be resurrected. He abides by it, but turned back at the last step in the world. This core structure coincides with the emotional line between the painter and the lady, which is a metaphor. Although the development of the two people's feelings is different from the context of the myth, they are roughly in line with each other emotionally.
The painter's first portrait failed, and the dignified and generous Iloiz in the painting shows the purpose of the portrait - to her future husband. By the time this painting is completed, the film seems to be narrated from the painter's perspective , the audience also inevitably substitutes, standing from the observer's point of view, lamenting the misfortune of Eloise, the feudal bondage, and the ritual restraint. The product (yes, the painting) brought about by such an observation perspective may satisfy the function in the secular sense of the time, but it cannot be called art!
Eloise hits back at the painter, and she destroys the first painting.
Before talking about the metaphor of the second painting, I want to talk about the first painting that appeared in the movie, "Portrait of a Lady on Fire"/"Portrait of a lady on fire", the subject of the painting, lady on fire, the painting The picture appeared at the bonfire party where the painter and the young lady participated together. The painter and Eloise faced each other across the fire. Love was burning, and fate was also being roasted. It was a sad but bright picture. The fire ignited the hem of Eloise's skirt, she was not flustered, and so did the painter, just like that. People finally rushed to put out the flames on her skirt, and fate and love were still burning.
In the process of painting the second portrait, the perspective has changed. When the painter is looking at the person in the painting, he is also receiving the attention of the person in the painting. The painter is no longer an observer. The painter is also a person who experiences and feels. The second work embodies the two people's high empathy and deeper emotional expression.
But the second painting is not a pure work of art. It has its actual function and purpose. When the painting is completed, that is, when the two parted, the painting will always be finished. Eloise asked the painter when Knowing that the painting is over, the artist replied, at a certain moment, we should stop.
The ending of the two was so irresistible, so the love between the two became more and more desperate. The artist destroyed the first painting, for herself, she wanted to destroy the second painting, for her and Eloise, But she couldn't. She wanted Eloise to resist, but she didn't dare to speak. becomes someone who manipulates her daughter), she can't.
Before talking about the next painting, it is worth mentioning that the illusion of Eloise wearing a white dress that the artist saw when he went upstairs twice disappeared again. The door opened in the corridor, and Eloise said, "Turn around." Immediately, the artist turned around and gave her one last look. The image of Eloise in a white dress overlapped with the illusion, the door was closed, and the white figure disappeared into the darkness. Like the myth of Orpheus turning back, this is a farewell ceremony. Before she turned back, she made a choice, not the choice of the lover, but the choice of the poet.
Years later, the painting exhibition of Erpheus and his wife's farewell was displayed. The painter's blue cloak echoes the blue clothes of Orpheus in the painting, and the falling wife of Orpheus is A pure white dress, just like Eloise when they parted. Years later, this love is still in the painter's heart, flowing on the canvas. This painting is also the materialization of the philosophical structure of the film, and the implied meaning is self-evident.
Another painting in the exhibition is a portrait of Eloise. The young woman in the painting is holding a book in her hand. The corner of the page is page 28, and that page is a self-portrait sent to her by the artist. This love has never been, but, in this way in the art exhibition, they met again skillfully. The painter looks at Eloise in the painting, just as the person in the painting looks at her.
But this is not the last painting. At the end of the movie, the painter sees Eloise for the last time, on the second floor of the attic of the theater, but this time, the eyes never meet, only the painter stares at Eloise, and draws you for the last time, but not with a pen. The Eloise in the shot, the Eloise in the eyes of the painter, gradually collapsed, accompanied by a string of music, the rainstorm hit, and the insects roared, until the flood, and then poured down, with lightning and thunder, and the painter made a lot of years ago. Eloise played the same song.
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