I didn't really want to write anything for the film "The Edge Of Love", so I put it off for a while, and now I finally wrote Braille, probably because The colourful imagery is unforgettable, and the overall production and costume design are among the best in recent British cinema, mainly due to the performances of the actors, especially Sienna Miller and Cillian Murphy.
Undoubtedly, Sienna Miller is getting more and more good at acting. Except for the weird accent in this film that reflects life in Wales, other aspects have made great progress. Yu is often even slightly better than Keira Knightley, who was born in a family of performers, especially in the adjustment and interpretation of the friendship between two women mixed with complex emotions such as understanding, sympathy, jealousy, suspicion, etc.; Ciri Ann Murphy plays William Crick, whose style seems to overshadow Matthew Rhys, who plays the poet Dylan Thomas in the film, and the outward expression of his psychological activities is released naturally and convincingly , whether it is the love and suspicion of his wife Vera, the wickedness of war, or the anger towards a shameless rival, all of them are fully expressed. After watching the film, the descendants of the two families expressed their great appreciation for Cillian Moss. Fei's performance, that "he endowed William with dignity and integrity".
Those who like biopics should not take this film as a pure biopic, it belongs to a new story based on real historical figures, as the "Sun" said: "If Thomas was still alive, he would definitely But, this is basically not a Dylan biopic, so you don't need to be dissatisfied with "The Edge of Love"." In reality, the British poet who was active in World War II during the Second World War Len Thomas did have certain poetic qualities, brilliant talent, alcoholism, and a chaotic private life, British author Kingsley Amis wrote before his 1991 Dylan Thomas collection: Disgusting people, he cheated and stole friends and urinated on their carpets." The film also uses Dylan's repulsive traits as plot material, but it is still non-biographical, and its focus on Dylan's own life It doesn't cover much, focusing on the delicate relationship between two important women in his life - wife Caitlin (Sienna Miller) and lover Vera Philip (Keira Knightley).
Perhaps, the ambiguous color exuded by some of the posters of the film before gave people a misunderstanding that there was a same-sex complex between the two women. The film had actually discarded the rumors about them at the time of creation, but Focusing on the war, the two women's hardships, interdependence and intermittent jealousy - the fast-talking Caitlin has to do all the household chores on her own, not only raising children, but also dealing with a lustful husband who keeps going. Injured her, not only still coveted the childhood sweetheart Vera, but also never rejected the roadside love that was readily available; Vera's husband William was ordered to go to Greece to fight the German army, Vera had to face the heavy responsibility of childbirth alone, and she herself Still caught in the green yearning for Dylan... Under certain circumstances, the two women went from being jealous and disliking each other to relying on each other for life, in solving difficulties together and sharing each other's troubles, under the premise of keeping the promise , know each other's cold and warm, and support each other. The film expresses this indescribable relationship and the status quo of coexistence through two people who often smoke a cigarette together.
Since this is a fictional story that reflects emotional entanglements, there is no need to follow real-life records and historical traces in the performance. Therefore, under the control of director John Maybury, the actors did not bother to restore the real characters. However, it has been appropriately developed according to the script, thus giving the character a more vivid personality, such as Caitlin's character characterization. By the way, the screenwriter of the film is Knightley's mother, the famous screenwriter Shaman MacDonald. She originally planned to let her daughter play the role of Caitlin. Throughout the film, it was found that her mother had a unique vision, and Caitlin played the role. The mental process and the taste in it are indeed more complicated than those from Vera, so there is more performance space and more layering. And Knightley's Vera, as someone commented, "is suspected of being in such a role by mistake", but fortunately, Keira is experienced and skilled, and can still control this role. In addition, she also sang the screen debut for the film and performed the song "Blue Tahitian Moon" affectionately, but when she sang, her two suspected tiger teeth became more and more conspicuous, which made people think that if she played a vampire, Must not need fancy dress like Kate Beckinsale.
The film's producer Rebecca Gilbert, the granddaughter of William and Vera, was interested in the film "not in making a biopic or a documentary, but in putting these four characters in a world war. to tap into the emotions that push and tie them up against the background." If that was the film's highest goal, it seems to have done it. However, after viewing it, I still feel that something is not right, just like a painting, the color composition and emotion are important, but the main idea to be expressed is more important, perhaps as the "Daily Telegraph" said: A film that knows exactly what he wants to do and what he says, but it's still pleasing to the eye and attracts a lot of attention."
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