Out of touch

Tressie 2021-11-12 08:01:24

"Butterfly Dream" is the first Xi Pang movie that I have come across, but compared with Xi Pang's mature works, this movie is still very immature, but it also has some highlights that are worth mentioning.

The English name of the movie is Rebecca, which is the name of a dead character. What's exciting in the movie is that this Rebecca does not appear in the movie at all, and all the images about her are portrayed by other characters in the dialogue. The film really didn't spend a lot of pen and ink on her, but it made Rebecca's shadow everywhere in the film. All this makes Rebecca mysterious, and at the same time it becomes the source of all suspense in the movie. The film's handling of the atmosphere is like four or two strokes, no tricks to win.

Fang Deng's performance in the movie is impeccable, playing an ordinary woman with a kind heart. Generally speaking, flying on a branch to become a phoenix is ​​a beautiful thing, but for the other side, it is a torture. The gorgeous mansion has turned into a huge shadow, making the story more and more suspenseful. Fang Deng's character is the key, and her ordinary personality makes her look out of place in the mansion, and she is also in a state of fidgeting. On this uneasy basis, the film focuses on the ubiquitous Rebecca elements, but keeps silent about Rebecca's past, which makes the suspense of the film more and more tense and makes the audience more worried about the fate of the heroine.

It can be said that the creation of suspense is excellent. As the above plot progresses, focusing on describing the state changes of the heroine, and gradually unraveling the mystery is a smooth way of film development. However, the film did not develop according to this idea, but took the initiative to expose the mystery and let the male protagonist take the initiative to tell the truth, so this shifted the focus of the film from the female protagonist to the male protagonist, and the audience's attention was turned to worry about the fate of the male protagonist. , It also turned the heroine's excellent performance in the first half of the movie into a transition of the plot, which can be described as a movie failure.

With this treatment done by the director, the film is clearly divided into two sections in structure, the latter half of which is turned into revealing the truth and saving the fate of the male protagonist. What about the heroine? Decreased into a vase in the second half, why bother to spend so much effort in the first half if it develops like this? So the movie arranged for Rebecca to have cancer and let Rebecca's believer butler destroy all of it. Such a scribbled ending is too simple and rude in technique.

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Extended Reading
  • Cale 2022-04-24 07:01:05

    The first half is the story of Cinderella, and the second half is the jealousy of the housekeeper with a dark heart. There is suspense in love. The whole city of Mandalay is full of the remnants of the deceased lady. Becca's death was a shackle and a mess of an unhappy marriage. The doctor's testimony untied the cruel woman's mentality of framing it, and a fire fixed the final struggle.

  • Dana 2021-11-12 08:01:24

    Unexpectedly, Vivien Leigh's favorite man looks like a gentleman, and the plot is generally okay. In fact, the director can dig Rebecca’s and the mysterious butler’s lily tendencies

Rebecca quotes

  • Mrs. de Winter: [opening voice-over] Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again. It seemed to me I stood by the iron gate leading to the drive, and for a while I could not enter, for the way was barred to me. Then, like all dreamers, I was possessed of a sudden with supernatural powers and passed like a spirit through the barrier before me. The drive wound away in front of me, twisting and turning as it had always done. But as I advanced, I was aware that a change had come upon it. Nature had come into her own again, and little by little had encroached upon the drive with long, tenacious fingers. On and on wound the poor thread that had once been our drive, and finally there was Manderley. Manderley - secretive and silent. Time could not mar the perfect symmetry of those walls. Moonlight can play odd tricks upon the fancy, and suddenly it seemed to me that light came from the windows. And then a cloud came upon the moon and hovered an instant like a dark hand before a face. The illusion went with it. I looked upon a desolate shell with no whisper of the past about its staring walls. We can never go back to Manderley again. That much is certain. But sometimes, in my dreams I do go back to the strange days of my life, which began for me in the South of France.

  • Maxim de Winter: You despise me, don't you?