Twenty years later, the actress re-enters the role of an older female corresponding to the opposite play at the age of 18, connecting performance and reality, the unique experience of women facing aging and temporality, and the multiple intertextualities inside and outside the play, including the actors themselves.
The first layer of text is that "Cloud Snake" as a play within a play is a story similar to "The Comet Beauty", in which the young woman Sigrid uses and replaces the old woman Helena;
On the second level, actress Maria and young assistant Valentine also experienced the relationship of dependence/betrayal in the play. The paragraphs they rehearsed together showed their true state of mind in and out of the play, especially the assistant in the mountains. The open ending in the story is meaningful;
The third layer is the old drama bone Maria facing the new generation of Xiaohua JoAnn, which is not only the exchange and collision of two generations of actresses, but also the contrast between the literary/conservative golden age and the popular/multiple/internet/gossip age of New Hollywood;
The fourth layer is the comparison of Juliet Binoche herself, Twilight Girl and Super Killer Girl, as well as the comparison of the actor's own temperament and qualifications.
The fifth layer is the contrast between Maria and Juliet Binoche in the face of temporality, from innocence/desire/ambition to experiencing the deprivation and gift of time, facing the fragility and resistance of aging/madness, in fact, the three are in the same frame In the opponent's play, Juliet's own halo is still the most dazzling, perhaps she herself is the best proof, the unique temperament of fragility and strong, crazy and tough, aging and innocent, sexy and cold, just like the cloud snake in the mountains, There is a certain beauty that transcends time.
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