The film is a same-sex film, and one of the two heroines, Nomi Merlant, plays the young female painter Marianne.
Marianne received a commission to complete the portrait of the rich lady before her marriage without the other party's knowledge. Adela Harnell as Heloise, the rich lady.
The content of this film is very simple, the plot is also very pure, there is no violent plot conflict, all the emotional accumulation and bursts are completed by the perfect acting skills of the two actors. This film also does not have lines that often appear in same-sex themes like "I like this person, it has nothing to do with gender", but it shows the love between the two in the age of ritual restraint and deduces a different style. Perhaps the real non-discrimination is not to mention or care about it deliberately. If you want to say where the highlights of this film are, the editor may be speechless. It’s not that the highlights of this film are hard to find. It’s really for such a pure and perfect movie, and then go to superfluous to analyze the plot and rhythm settings. , is blasphemous. Any senseless compliments seem dull, and I just want to quietly appreciate the shock of calm and clarity in the film. The story of Orpheus looking for his wife in the underworld mentioned in the film. Orpheus went to the underworld to find his wife. Hades proposed that he could not turn back on the road. One step ahead, Orpheus wanted to look back to see if his wife was following, and the moment he looked back, his wife was captured by Hades. Several women in the film have a very exciting interpretation of the look back. Marianne thinks that Orpheus is the look back of his own choice. He has already made his own choice at the moment of looking back, that is, he wants more than his wife. The memories of his wife are preserved. Eloise, on the other hand, thinks that perhaps his wife turned Orpheus back. Whether this choice is the poet's or the lover's may not be conclusive, but this interpretation also confirms the ending of Marianne and Eloise and the choice they made about love when faced with a choice. Marianne is more inclined to struggle and freedom, but fighting the whole era alone in that era is turning the world into purgatory. Eloise has a deeper understanding of love. If you can't fall in love completely, I will love you forever in my memory. There is no violent plot conflict, and a few words are enough to make people's eyes wet. The extraordinary thing about this film is that the rhythm of the plot is soothing and peaceful, but there are huge emotional explosions brewing. It is often in the peaceful gaze of the characters in the play, and we outside the play have already burst into tears.
At the end of the film, Eloise is about to marry far away, and Marianne is about to leave. Marianne walks through the long corridor. At the end of the corridor, Eloise calls her: "Look back", dressed in a wedding dress. The Eloise of the suit is perfectly frozen. Just as Orpheus chose to look back at his wife, only this time, Eloise wanted Marianne to remember her in her wedding gown. Because this time to leave is a farewell, the choice between lovers may be to keep each other in their memories! In the end, the director arranged for the two of them to meet again, but it was a very distant reunion. With the connection of music, it seemed that the two had returned to the time when they first met. Marianne explained in a panic and played "Four Seasons". , Eloise looked at her face carefully, you asked me when I wanted to kiss you for the first time, I am afraid it was when you were playing "Four Seasons" in a panic. We often say a saying on the Internet, "How can a person who falls in love at the first meeting become a friend?" live? Maybe that "turn back", the warmth and safety that will remain in your memory forever, is the greatest struggle I can give you! The so-called liking is indulgence, and love is restraint. If Marianne just liked Eloise at the beginning, then the look from the distance at the last concert showed that she already loved Eloise. It's love that has nowhere to go. And Eloise may be full of love from the beginning, and restraint everywhere makes this love seem great and rare. At the end of the film, we watched Eloise's face from weeping to smiling, pear blossoms with rain, and finally the tears on his calm face dried up. At this time, we outside the play remembered the person in our hearts who was sealed by memory. In the middle of the night, when the lights are dim, I can't remember your beautiful face, I can't remember what you looked like when you came, the memory will be eroded by time, the memory will be trampled by time, but I remember the first time I liked The moment I fell in love with you, you were young and indifferent, beautiful and warm; I remember the moment I fell in love with you for the first time, your eyes were clear, firm and kind; I also remember the moment I wanted to kiss you for the first time, You are astonishing, there is a trace of panic, I seem calm, and my heart is turbulent! You ask when this painting will be completed, maybe when I stop writing, when will my love for you fade away, maybe at the end of the years, when you appear in my hazy eyes again! peaceful love,
Restrained with the heat and warmth of the flames,
I stepped on fire under my skirt,
move slowly,
You're on the shore watching the bonfire,
stand and stare,
will you remember me?
In the crescent moon that dreams of every midnight,
I will remember you,
On every starry night about you!
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