"Beauty by Day" reminds me of the early work in the history of French avant-garde films, "The Smiling Madame Bird" , it was written by De Luc and directed by Dirac, a film with a strong impressionistic style, which also expressed the inner portrait of middle-class women in marriage.
In terms of form, Impressionist films are mostly fantasy, and dreams are filled with emotional colors, and I am very interested in this subject matter. For example, in Fellini's "Eight 1/2", the allegorical simulacrum of dreams is breathtaking; for example, David Lynch's "Mulholland Drive" makes you fall into the director's riddle unknowingly...
Dreams, sometimes I wonder if the real world is not everything we see, but the reflection of a real consciousness, in other words, we are the dream relative to the "dream" at this moment. . Just like the message of "Break Your Eyes Off", we may be just a dream of a virtual plot that has been set. As the so-called, we are full of exciting, non-directional "accidents", only the inevitable in the accident.
"Beauty in the Daytime" can be interpreted from many angles. At first glance, it may just be a sexual fantasy of a young woman. However, the director's skillful and sophisticated technique has raised the film itself to an artistic level - criticism. The three paragraphs of "Daydream" in it are just a reflection of the heroine's inner portrayal, and a critique of the hypocritical and seemingly regular middle class on the surface. The commentary on the social background of prostitutes is a direct attack on society. The perverted behavior, in stark contrast with the real identity of the society, collided strongly again. At the beginning of human beings, nature is inherently evil. We embark on the long road of life, greeting everyone, and all this is an illusion, and even, looking at ourselves... can't help but feel sympathy for the beauty of the day. In the dream, the husband threw mud at him. Although he was in an ugly sexual fantasy, he also felt a sense of shame about himself. At the end of the film, the paralyzed husband suddenly stands up and the carriage of the opening fantasy appears. At this point, it is difficult to know whether it is a dream or a reality. Maybe it's because the beauty of the day didn't stop her fantasies, maybe it's the real scene, all the dreams are about to come true...
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