I have watched three of Polanski's films so far, and I feel that no matter what the subject matter is, his performance in film and television is the kind of heavy dark color, a texture like Rembrandt's oil painting. The style of shooting is biased towards the characteristics of European films.
At the same time, in his stories, the heroine is always a passive position who is spoken, manipulated and kept in the dark. Of course, it has to be said that his movies are all based on the heroine as the main object of expression and focus, but I still can't get rid of this passive position. Even in this movie, the heroine threatens to sue with a gun, but what we see is still that she is asking her husband to judge and give her justice. It seems that only in this way can she get a legitimate The reason for her actions, but at the same time, she has another identity, that is, an inmate who was abused by the secret police. No matter which identity she is, we can see that she is a passive existence.
Even in Polanski’s film narrative’s consistent way of narrating facts from a single-person perspective, as the film progresses, this fact goes from bizarre to plausible, but it’s hard to prove in the end. When it’s about to accept the status quo at the end, it suddenly reverses and the opposing forces suddenly admit it. , the original status quo was overturned, and the original narrative was rectified. At this time, the story ended in a hurry, leaving a desolate and intriguing ending.
This film is similar in structure to "Bitter Moon". It is a closed structure connected end to end. In the end, Schubert's "Girl and Death" was still played in the concert hall, and the male and female protagonists in the crowd noticed the two. The opponents in the stands, one high and one low, looked at each other silently, implying an accusation of the violence caused by the vague dictatorship in the background. It also reveals that personal resistance in the face of the power machine is almost an effort to act as a chariot. The power structure shown here is: power machine-male-female. It's not hard to see that women are at the bottom of power.
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