There is a realistic blueprint behind the story of THE LAKE HOUSE. When I saw the glass box by the lake, I immediately thought of Bauhaus and modernist architecture; Wang Shouzhi mentioned Mies and his Farnsworth in the publication book "Indulgence in Modernity" by Lixun. Residential.
Then I was in high spirits. I want to see how the movie interprets the master’s story. Because in my heart Mies’s passage can be equated with Sartre and Simon Beauvoir, Hitler and Eva Braun. Absolutely heavyweight.
In the film, the master Mies became an American immigrant. The few single-family works he designed in his life were placed by the lake (actually in the forest) for framing. The career of the heroine was also grafted across generations (according to the film Family relationship, the actor’s mother should be a doctor).
In fact, the glass box in the film is the famous Farnsworth house in the history of architecture. It was designed by the modernist architect Mies from 1949 to 1951 for his beloved woman, the female doctor Edith Farnsworth, just like in the film The whole body of the house is covered with glass curtain walls, a white steel structure, and 8 steel columns supporting the whole building. It is so simple that it cannot be added.
The motive for building the house is hidden in the film, and the cuboid glass BOX is nothing more than a prop. As for the shadow of Mies, it is just to give the male protagonist the identity of a talented and unique family of architects.
In the film, the actor Alex mentioned that his father had a great friendship with Corbusier and Wright, which proved to be a master of the same age. It is time for Miss Quanxia to know and rest, because the director allowed him to live an extra 35 years until he died in 2004. The art gallery he designed before his death was the new international gallery in Berlin.
The story takes place in Chicago. Mies’s great lakeside apartment stands on the shore of Chicago Lake. I think the reason why the film uses a lakeside house as a clue is precisely because of Mies's original intention and implication! The glass box is vaguely used as a kind of endorsement in the film. Mies wanted to give the best house to his beloved woman, and Farnsworth House was his work of concentration. It adopts white, which is rarely used in Mies architecture, is pure, pure, transparent, without privacy, and full of love. This is probably the endorsement of love-without a trace of clutter, but for life.
Fruits that are as beautiful as midsummer are extremely perishable and spoiled, and high maintenance costs, such as their appearance. So is Mies's glass box. Ignore the function and cost, and ignore the psychological needs (Lu Tao in the struggle is a bit of his style). In history, Farnsworth ordered Mies to change the design because he was dissatisfied with the exposure of his privacy. Mies refused, and was sued in court. The Farnsworth House thus became a sad stroke in Mies' architectural design career.
Many people’s views on love are flat. Movies have made it three-dimensional through the dislocation of time and space. Maybe people who are very close on the surface actually come from different heights and the world. It is hard to bend, and high climbing is risky; people of the same height and world They also turned a blind eye; if you let your eyes go, there may be people who are more suitable for each other; and in the same world, there may be only one's own shadow. What people should take care of in the end is their own souls. Because only when you are happy inside can you truly feel happiness. So Xu Zhimo said to visit his only soul and companion in the vast sea of people. It is fortunate to have it; not to be fate. Sartre and Beauvoir are lucky, as are Alex and Kate in the film.
Alex took good care of Kate during his 2004. In 2004, he booked the "Sea" restaurant to meet in 2006. The tree transplanted by the lake in 2004 was able to protect him from the wind and rain in 2006 when Kate was looking down on the lost property. . . But when Kate didn't want to contact him anymore, he insisted on restraint. This is the materialistic standpoint of love that I admire, caring for the soul rather than the heart. Taking care of your own heart is the starting point, and taking into account the feelings of others is the principle.
It is not easy for people from the same height to appreciate each other. It’s even harder to appreciate each other from the same height through pen pals. Appreciating each other from the same height is to know each other first through pen pals, and it is even more difficult to not ignore each other. The only thing I don’t like is the ending. They can actually travel through time and space and hug each other by the lake. Although it is a fool who is watching the show, the fool seems to be such a comedy that is too unreal, and there is no deep tragedy. Beautiful things should still be there. It fades just when it is beautiful. . . . .
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