I just want to write a short review and the word count is too high, so I will finish the long review.
Watching a documentary after reading a collection of Vivienne Meyer's street photography and wanting to know a little more about the mysterious "spy" feels like if you like a book, you will learn more about a writer.
While watching the documentary, I always felt that Vivienne Meier was familiar. After watching it, I finally thought that she gave me a bit like the grandmother in "Grandma's Apology Letter". It may be because 1. They are all relatively large; 2. As a nanny, I often spend time with children and take children to places where ordinary adults don't want them to go.
Some fragmentary thoughts:
One of the interviewees in the documentary was a child that Vivian had cared for, and said that Vivian was a little violent and abusive towards her when she was a child. This is really a bit unexpected, and I am a little unwilling to believe it subjectively, and I don't know what the real situation is. I may subconsciously think that this nanny photographer must be true, kind and beautiful, silently recording the world from his own perspective and method, and the dark side of his character does not exist or is not so obvious with actions. In the end, I accepted that people are complex and multi-faceted, not to mention such a unique Vivian!
Judging from the information in the documentary, I feel that Vivian must have encountered bad things in her early years, which made her cautious, sensitive, misogynistic, interested in current affairs, so she likes to collect newspapers, and especially loves to collect some sensational reports that expose the dark side of human nature , will also go to the streets to interview strangers about the political tasks of the country at the moment. Now we see that she is unique, has her own independent thinking, and lives and gets along with the world in her own way. But she was really out of place and weird at the time.
Vivienne first worked in a factory, but because she felt that there were too many restrictions, she has been working as a nanny, so she can be a little more free and have time to take pictures. She also took half a year off to travel around the world. For a poor man at the bottom who has no life security, he thinks it is very valuable. Conditions are limited but always create conditions to live the life you want as much as possible. When the conditions are limited and you cannot "have it all", you know how to choose and choose the things that are really important to you, then everything else can be discarded, and these risks are also mentally prepared in advance.
At the end of the film, she is said to be lonely and desolate in her later years, but I feel that she must not be truly lonely! Finally, I feel that the film excavated people's privacy a bit too much! Before his death, such a person who paid attention to privacy, after his death, he was ripped upside down and sighed!
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