After reading "Cleo from 5 to 7", the feeling of surprise is still accompanied.
Cleo was a singing beauty, regarded by all, including herself, as a fine piece of china. But in the evening (5-7 o'clock) that day, she was anxiously waiting for the medical report, which was most likely a cancer verdict. Cleo the previous hour was "an empty house", and she felt that everyone was a cold-eyed bystander who couldn't understand her anxiety and pain. In the next hour, when she took off her wig, changed into a black dress and walked out into the street, she truly became a swimming drop in the sea of people—traveling through with a sense of personality she had never had before. She becomes a self-checker.
The duration of the film overlaps with reality equally, so that the viewer is like a silent and compassionate shadow of piety attached to Cleo at the same time, accepting all her helpless and flustered perfusion and feelings. There are many long shots, or she is running on a lively street, feeling the strange gaze of pedestrians, and the oppression and anxiety also form a tingling on the viewer's cheek. Or in a bustling coffee shop, as you would do the countless afternoons you've ever sat alone in here on weekdays. Cleo ordered a song of her own on the karaoke machine in the coffee shop, only to find that people were still talking about paintings, the trivialities of life, war... Some people even thought the song was too loud, maybe she realized at this time that every Individuals are actually just stones that cannot stir up ripples.
In fact, the fear and loneliness of facing death cannot be resolved. Only when you meet someone who is in the same and equally deep fear as you, but is still full of courage. At the end of the thirteenth chapter - at the time of seven o'clock, Cleo came to the park alone, and met Anthony, an officer who was going to the Algerian battlefield early the next morning. Echoing the fortune-teller's prophecy at the beginning of the film, she met the person who changed her, and her fate and fortune were truly wonderful. She opened her mind and was persuaded by him to go to the hospital to take the initiative to inquire about the results. What followed was a rambling chat between the two, on the walkway and on the bus. The description of the plot is often the most unwilling and embarrassing for me, especially for some extremely romantic scenes, the fragmented retelling is too clumsy and boring. So just a few excerpts from the conversation:
one
A: But I can wish you a wonderful summer. Because today is Lixia. Today is Flora Day.
C: My name is Florence. But everyone calls me Cleo Patra, or Cleo Florence for short.
A: Florence, it reminds me of Italy, Renaissance, Botticelli, Rose, Cleo Patra, Egypt, Sphinx, Viper, Tigress. I prefer Florence, I like the flower gods more than the beasts.
of two
A: I was wrong about Flora, Ceres is the goddess of summer.
C: What about Flora?
A: She is the goddess of spring.
C: Spring ended yesterday.
A: Today is summer in Florence.
In this way, Cleo was spiritually healed, because she finally said, "This garden is so lovely, there is a fragrance in the air", began to plan dinner for the two, and began to reluctant to part. There is also the sentence - "We have too little time to spend on stupid things." I thought again, time can't really be measured by length or amount, because it's just in such a short time and conversation , people who lit and redeemed each other just met and fell in love, is what I read from the teardrops on Anthony's face in the final shot. It was a great time, in abundance that most people have never had in their most complete and long lives.
When I was about to finish writing, I came up with another metaphor - this film is like a carefully captured time slice, and the lens is a microscope, giving me a glimpse of how a woman filled with anxiety is running on the streets of France On an ordinary and extraordinary evening in the film, my mood was reckless but never aggressive, so that I could still indulge in Cleo's beauty and style; to the "shadow within the shadow" that the director deliberately put in - "The Fiancee on the McDonald's Bridge" Unforgettable; lingering in the most life-like scene, feeling the bumps of the tram, the wind raising the shawl, and a little bit of the scorching, dying sun.
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