All about Eve is a movie recommended by my high school teacher. In the case of color film shooting technology, the director still uses black and white tone. The reason is probably that it can better highlight the image and relationship of the characters, and express the appeal of the film. A relatively simple story, but a poignant satire on the relationship between the comet-like journey of stars in the entertainment industry and the heavy pressure of women in a patriarchal society.
Among them, the comet-like fast shining and falling path can be seen from Margo being replaced by Eve, and Eve also implies the fate of being replaced at the end of the film. The multiple figures in the mirror in the final ending imply that the director believes that this phenomenon of replacement will continue for a long time in the entertainment industry: in the future, there will be thousands of people like Eve who will repeat this blissful affair Old, youth is fleeting, and the empty space is full of sighs.
But this cycle only applies to women, Edison is the same villain as Eve, only Eve's conspiracy is debunked.
Edison is quite familiar with this cycle, and he can even use it well: his conspiracy is hidden in the starlight of the comet beauties, silently boosting the cycle behind his back at the rhythm he wants. At the beginning, the director arranged Edison as the narrator, which also implied the fact that he was still standing in the entertainment industry. His contemptuous tone showed his rational to cold-blooded attitude and views on the blossoming and fading of the entertainment industry again and again.
As for Bill and Lloyd, they made mistakes at a very low cost and didn't have much impact on their later careers. Comparing with Margo, it can be clearly seen that she was the first to discover Eve's problems, but her cost was much greater.
Plus, it's always the men who dominate the entertainment industry: the playwrights, the directors, the film critics, and they're the stalwart center of the entertainment industry. The way they sit on the stairs is the epitome of class in the entertainment industry. The top-down hierarchy is very obvious. The only exception, Karen, actually implies that she is an outsider. Women can only exist as fast-consumed actors. It was considered abnormal for women to make public appearances in American society at that time: women eventually became poor and wanted to return to their families.
Margo chose the best destination for herself, and it was also her ultimate compromise between life and the world. She probably lost the strength to fight with Eve and the fighting spirit to resist the established rules, secular framework and cognition of the entertainment industry. For so many years, she was confused and tired. In the end, Margo chose the same life as his friend Karen: returning to the family with honor. (Karen was a high-achieving college student) On that unusually "turbulent" night, in the environment where everyone was drunk, the only sober Margo, after mourning for himself with repeated sad songs in the incomprehensible distress, silently accepted The fact that it is only a comet, not a star, slips to the ultimate fate of the comet.
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