A performance art reenactment of marriage

Danielle 2022-03-28 09:01:14

The film tells the story of the British writer Miller who came to Italy to promote his new work "Legal Copies", and met Juliet, one of the listeners, and performed a performance art about "Copy/(Re-engraving)" with him. Miller believes that "arguments about the authenticity of artistic creation are unnecessary, because the reproduction itself is the original, and the original is copied from other works." Juliet believes that "it is not the object that matters, but what you think of it. Perception," to illustrate this point, she took Miller to see a fake painting that people had long mistaken for an authentic work. Contradictions, Controversies, and Interpretations in . In Juliet's marriage, the male role has never appeared. From her mouth, she can tell that the other party "only cares about himself and his work", and does not give the care he should give his wife and children as a husband and father, although he knows that he has a good fantasy in marriage. It will deteriorate and perish with the passage of time, but it always retains the love of love that is unwilling to be burned by the world. She will immediately recognize what perfume her husband has changed, she will dress up for the wedding anniversary, and she will remember every detail of her marriage fifteen years ago. As a woman and a mother, this memory of love and green years does not It did not grow old with it, but the fact that youth was irreversible made this sense of ceremony seem out of place. This "performance art" time node in the film occurred after Juliet had a conversation with the owner in the coffee shop. The two who were mistaken for a relationship between husband and wife started a tacit "marriage re-engraving" at this time. After that, most of the conversations were based on long shots. The conversation between the two in the restaurant was different from the normal front and back shots, but changed to a close-up shot facing the camera. It can be noticed that the shot facing Miller is Slightly sideways, and Juliet's shot is vertical and closer, you can clearly feel the impatience and impatience shown by Miller's voiceover, and it highlights that Juliet is trying her best not to ruin a date. In some romantic atmosphere, this kind of "decency" that is trying to save it seems humble and fulfilling. After the two broke up, the plot calmed down again. Miller waited for her to come out at the door of the restaurant. Juliet took two breads in her hand, gave Miller one, and walked to the church with her share. Bread and red wine, one is a necessities of life, the other is a regulator of sentiment and ritual, what is marriage? It's like drinking bad wine mixed with cork. It's not as good as a small piece of bread that can replace hunger. You need to put down your dignity to cater. When Juliet's back slowly left, she had already answered the rationality and reality of this "marriage re-enactment". After real friction, I have to deviate from the fulfillment of one corner. No marriage can be completely empathized by others. Juliet wears high heels that do not fit her feet, underwear that restrains her body, hurriedly reapplied lipstick in the toilet, and decorated her earlobes with weights. It seems that all efforts are useless for the "blind person" in the marriage. How to wake up the sleeping party in the marriage? No one seems to be able to give a complete answer. The two of them had a dialogue explaining the mutual dissolution of life and marriage: "I really want to tell them not to be too superstitious about marriage and not obsessed with commitment, but only love and awareness. Marriage can last." "Conscious of what?" "Change. Everything changes, and promises can't stop it. You can't ask a tree to promise that flowers won't wither at the end of spring, because with flowers they bear fruit, and then the fruit will Falling from a tree." "And then what?" "And...the leafless garden". "A garden without leaves, who dares to say that it is not beautiful?" At the end of the film, the two went to the hotel where Juliet married fifteen years ago, trying to make her husband recall the details. He has been grafted with anxiety in a small space, and he has always been indifferent and confrontational. At this time, he is aphasia. It seems that he understands the conceptual definition that he has always been indifferent and persistent to correct. In love and in marriage, it cannot become true, copy The reason why it becomes a copy is that it is not the original work. With the elements of time and age, the reality that people feel will change. This is the case with art, and even more so with marriage.

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  • Dominic 2022-03-27 08:01:01

    #SIFF#Review; All artworks are replicas of reality, when you already have a perfect fake, do you still need to explore the meaning of the original existence? Practise the concept of virtual texts and realize the true "reproduction as it is". You will find that no matter how perfect the reproduction is, it cannot solve the reality. Abbas's consistent theme is extended, but more European intellectual.

  • Johnathon 2022-04-03 09:01:11

    True or false, all couples are bound to end in the same way.

Certified Copy quotes

  • Elle: I know you hate me. There's nothing I can do about that. But at least try to be a little consistent.

  • James Miller: I'm afraid there's nothing very simple about being simple.