Kathleen is a middle-aged obstetrician and gynecologist, her only son is in a period of rebellion, and her husband is increasingly estranged from her. Kathleen felt lonely and helpless.
Kathleen first met Chloe in a restaurant. When her husband flirted with the young waitress, Kathleen went to the bathroom alone to hide, but heard a sad cry from the toilet next door. Across the wall, Kathleen asked the girl if she needed help? That girl is Chloe. Chloe was very beautiful, with long blond hair cascading down her shoulders like a waterfall. After expressing gratitude to Catherine who was washing her hands, Chloe took out a silver hairpin and asked if Catherine left it behind. It wasn't Catherine's, and after Catherine rejected Chloe's suggestion to keep the hairpin, the two returned to their seats.
Chloe is a prostitute. When Kathleen looked down from her clinic window, she saw Chloe picking up customers at the bar across the street, and Kathleen knew Chloe's identity. It didn't take long for Kathleen to find Chloe at the bar. Chloe was a little surprised to say that she did not take over the female guest alone, but fortunately Catherine immediately clarified her intentions. Kathleen asks Chloe to seduce her husband. Catherine saw a photo of him and a young girl on her husband's mobile phone, and suspected that her husband betrayed her and was unfaithful to her marriage. Catherine asked Chloe to help her confirm her suspicions. Chloe had no reason to refuse.
In this way, Kathleen meets Chloe from time to time in the coffee shop. The warm sunlight shone through the glass windows, illuminating Chloe's beautiful blonde hair and smooth, elastic skin, and across from Chloe was Kathleen's loose, wrinkled and speckled face, in the bright scene. It's cruel and pathetic. Chloe recounts how she approached Kathleen's husband, how the two met for a meal, and how the first kiss and first touch began. Catherine listened to Chloe's narration and felt her heart shatter one by one, watching her marriage disintegrate piece by piece.
Chloe asked Kathleen if it was going to stop? No, Kathleen wants Chloe to go to the end and strip out the bloody result. So Kathleen got what she wanted. It didn't take long for Chloe to text Kathleen, asking her to come to the hotel room. After Kathleen entered the door, what she saw was the big bed with only one messy cover, and Chloe who had just finished showering and cleaning. Kathleen slumped on the sofa, listening to Chloe describe the complete process, the final result. Chloe said very carefully, how to hug, how to kiss, how to touch... With the results at this point, what else can Kathleen say? Kathleen still wanted to say that when she was waiting for the elevator side by side with Chloe, Kathleen couldn't help but talk about the sweetness of her first time together with her husband, her eyes were red and her shoulders were trembling as she talked about the affectionate part. past. Catherine finally couldn't stand it anymore, she sat down on the seat beside her, her hands covered with her tears wet eyes. Chloe cautiously lowered her body in front of Kathleen, patted Kathleen's hand lightly, and kissed it deeply. Kathleen hesitated for a while, then got up and ran away.
Catherine and her husband attended the celebration banquet of her son's piano concert that night. The husband gently held Catherine's hand and said that she was really fragrant. Yeah, that's the scent of the lotion, it's the lotion that Chloe uses, and it smells Chloe. Catherine could no longer face her husband's indifferent and affectionate acting skills. She rushed out the door, went straight to the bar where Chloe often stayed, took Chloe, who was affectionately facing the guests, and went to the hotel room. That night, Kathleen and Chloe had a relationship. Kathleen wanted to feel her husband's love from Chloe and take back her husband's tenderness from Chloe. When Chloe and Kathleen left the hotel in a taxi, Chloe took out the silver hairpin again and insisted that Kathleen take it. This time Chloe frankly said that the hairpin was left by her mother, and she wanted to give it to Kathleen. Catherine hurriedly took it and ran home to face her husband who had been waiting until late at night. The husband suspects his wife is unfaithful, and the two argue loudly until an angry son interrupts.
Caesari was late for work the next day, and as soon as she entered the office, she received an urgent email from Chloe with an intimate photo of the two in the hotel. Kathleen called Chloe immediately, but Chloe was already outside the office with a bunch of flowers in her hand. Closing the door, Kathleen hurriedly wrote a check, asking Chloe not to meet her husband again, and that was the end of the matter. Chloe was hurried out of the office by Kathleen with a check in her hand. Chloe blushed, anger rose, and things shouldn't end like this. Soon, Chloe called Kathleen again and told her that she had just separated from her husband, and that Kathleen's husband insisted on being with Chloe. Catherine had had enough, she asked Chloe to meet at the coffee shop. Chloe didn't know that Kathleen also made an appointment with her husband, and decided to tell everything. Before Chloe came, Kathleen and her husband sat face to face, and Kathleen asked her husband to confess the truth of her cheating. However, the husband insisted that he had never done anything wrong to his wife, despite the many temptations outside. Chloe came, but when she saw Kathleen's husband was there, she turned and left. But the moment her husband turned to look at Chloe, Catherine knew the truth. Instead of seducing her husband to cheat, Chloe cheated on Kathleen. So Kathleen told her husband how she asked Chloe to test her husband and told her betrayal.
Catherine and her husband talked for a long time, and both of them expressed their tremors and suspicions. The husband told Kathleen that it was her active alienation that caused the gap between the two. Catherine told her husband that it was difficult for her to face her increasingly loose and out of shape body, and she could not face her husband's disappointing eyes. After all this, the two finally opened their hearts and regained their old intimacy. After her husband went back to work, Kathleen hurried home to wash up and get dressed before her husband returned. As soon as Kathleen entered the door, she went upstairs and rushed into the room, and went straight to the cloakroom to take off her coat without even turning on the light. When Kathleen walked out of the cloakroom wearing a petticoat, she realized that there was someone lying on the bed, her son. And when the son saw Catherine jumping up, the sheet lifted revealed Chloe, who was lying beside him. Chloe started approaching her son when Kathleen was giving her money, and when Chloe saw Kathleen sitting with her husband in the cafe, she turned and went to Kathleen's house to seduce him. son.
Catherine was not angry, she quickly pushed her son out of the room and locked the door. After turning around, Kathleen asked Chloe in a low voice not to involve her son, because she should not use Chloe to test her husband. Chloe blamed Kathleen for not using money to kill herself, and she shouldn't just drive herself out of her life. Everything Chloe did was for love, not money. Chloe picked up the silver hairpin on the dresser and pressed it against Catherine's neck. Kathleen asked in a low voice, what do you want? Chloe said, I want a kiss. So Catherine kisses Chloe. Catherine's son didn't understand the ins and outs of the matter. He was worried that Chloe would be hurt by his mother, so he hurriedly entered his mother's room through the side door. When Kathleen saw her son's figure on the window glass, she hurriedly pushed Chloe away. Unexpectedly, Chloe just hit a window, and the window fell off with the frame. Fortunately, Chloe's hands clambered on both sides of the window frame and stood quietly in the open window. Chloe looked at Kathleen fixedly, then let go of her hand and slowly fell down, ending her own life.
Kathleen and her husband threw a feast at home to celebrate their son's graduation from college. Catherine carried the wine into the living room full of friends, and her husband and son stood at opposite ends of the living room. In this way, the three looked at each other quietly until Catherine turned around because of the friend's call. For the sake of her husband, Kathleen always tried to let her long hair shawl in front of him. But at this moment, Kathleen's hair was pulled up high, and Chloe's silver hairpin was deeply inserted into her hair.
The film begins reminiscent of 1998's American Beauty, which explores the family and emotional issues women face as they face a midlife crisis. But by the middle, it is reminiscent of 1987's "Fatal Attraction," starring Mike Douglas and Gloria Clarence, which focuses on the crisis that an affair brings to the family. However, in the end, it was a bit vague and ambiguous, and I didn't quite understand what the director's intention was. Is it Chloe's thirst for love? Is it an obsession with love to death? The character and background of Chloe is not described too much in the movie. I only know that she is a beautiful and extraordinary woman. She speaks rationally and mildly, and always listens carefully to Kathleen's sadness. Always calmly and calmly describing her words and deeds when she is with Kathleen's husband, the audience has no way of knowing why she fell in love with Kathleen, or why she would not let go when she died. How could a woman who can ask for anything in a man's world fall madly in love with a middle-aged woman, and all the madness and misfortune finally turned into a hairpin, which was left behind in this reunited family.
Julian Moore's acting skills are always very good, and he shows the inner hardships of middle-aged women in the face of aging and indifferent family emotions. She only wears very light makeup in the film, so that the slightly aging skin can be truly presented on the screen, which is regarded as a performance of sacrifice for art. However, I personally feel that Julian Moore, despite his acclaimed acting skills, has never been at his best, probably because of the lack of something called "personality". Whether it's Merry Streep, Judy Foster, or even Nicole Kidman, or Julia Roberts, when they meet the right script, they can show an energy that only belongs to them, Able to play the role to the fullest. But Julian Moore, no matter what role he plays, is always warm and on point. This is similar to the leading actor Lien Nixon in the play. He plays everything well, but he plays almost everything.
In general, "Chloe" is a good-looking movie. Whether it is the scene or the lighting, it is very detailed and textured. The acting skills of the three main actors are also above the standard, and the director's narrative technique is also smooth. Leisurely, it's just that Chloe's unreasonable persistence makes the focus of the whole film very blurred. If the focus is on Chloe's love, then this love is very empty and thin, if the focus is on Kathleen's hardship, then this hardship is pale and fragile. If the point is to compare Chloe's Crazy for Love with Kathleen's Reason for Love, the contrast is bland and vague.
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