The film won the Palme d'Or at the 49th Cannes Film Festival in 1996.
The film tells the story of a pair of siblings and two families. There is a pair of siblings, the younger brother is a photographer and his wife lives very well, while the older sister is a factory worker and his daughter lives an ordinary life. The elder sister does not have a harmonious relationship with her daughter, and she does not get along well with her brother's wife. Only the younger brother still cares about her, but he does not visit her often. These make life less fun for the sister, prompting her to quarrel with her daughter frequently. Although the younger brother has a stable job and a well-off life, the relationship between husband and wife is not very harmonious, and there are occasional quarrels. My sister gave birth to a black girl at the age of sixteen and was abandoned by her. Now that the child has grown up, she plans to find her biological mother. The black man learned the address and contact information of his biological mother through various channels, and after thinking for a few days, he called the biological mother. My sister was very surprised when she got the call and didn't want to see her at first, but the two eventually met. After the two met, they were very surprised. My sister didn't think that the child was black. After thinking about it, my sister understood everything. Since then, the biological mother has often met with black people, and the two get along very well. The younger brother is going to hold a birthday party for his sister's daughter, and the elder sister invites black people to go with him, but as a friend. The younger brother's colleague and the daughter's boyfriend also came to celebrate. After the birthday party started, everyone ate happily. But when my sister saw this joyful scene, she couldn't help but tell the truth, which shocked everyone, and her sister and daughter left angrily. After the brother's painstaking persuasion, the daughter came back, and then the sister told what happened, but did not tell everyone who the father of the black man was. Later, under the pressure of the elder sister, the younger brother also expressed his difficulties. It turned out that he and his wife had no children because the wife could not bear children. This incident made them very painful and even affected their marriage. In the end, after everyone told their secrets and franked themselves, everyone forgave each other, and the black man and his daughter became good sisters.
This is a very good-looking movie, and it is also a thought-provoking movie, the content of which is the name of the movie "Secrets and Lies". Secrets and lies are inevitable in the existence of human society, they are the embodiment of human intelligence, and they also represent social progress. In other words, we live with secrets and lies every day because we hide secrets, weave lies, and accept what other people do every day. Therefore, the theme involved in this film is not special, but the uniqueness of this film is that it shows the impact on people's daily life through the secrets and lies in the film, and the most direct manifestation of this impact is pain. ! Just like the sentence said in the film: Secrets and lies make us miserable. This film makes us who are numb in life wake up, secrets and lies can also bring people a lot of harm and pain! If it hadn't been shown in this film, we might have continued to immerse ourselves in our own lies and hidden secrets.
However, secrets and lies are inevitable in the daily communication of human society, and they cannot disappear out of thin air. Everyone will have secrets, and everyone will deceive others. These are the instincts of human beings to protect themselves. So even though secrets and lies cause pain and harm, we will continue. Who can guarantee that they will never lie? Who can guarantee that he will always be honest? nobody! Therefore, although the theme of this film is profound and thought-provoking, it has little practical significance, because there is no one who does not have "secrets and lies"! Moreover, a society without secrets and lies is also terrifying. If everyone sees you and tells you the truth, who can stand it? In short, after watching this film, the wise audience will probably only do it, not to create secrets and lies for the purpose of "evil".
One of the things the film also excels at is the unscripted way of shooting, but it's the way it is shot first and foremost on the screen. The use of lenses in this film is very simple, and the use of a large number of fixed lenses makes the film look very simple and makes the audience pay more attention to the plot itself. On the other hand, the shooting of this film is where the camera is placed, and the actors start chatting, which is too simple to be simple. It is precisely because of this picture that the filming method used by the director of this film is breathtaking, that is, there is no script, and the actors are completely on-site and temporary. This shooting method makes the movie look very realistic. For example, the dialogue between the black man and the woman who helped to find his biological mother can clearly feel a kind of reality like life, as well as the scene when eating barbecue at the brother's house, the chaotic atmosphere and life no difference in. The best thing about the director of this film is that when the biological mother and the black man meet, the two have never seen each other at all, and the biological mother does not know that the other is black, which makes the plot of the movie look like it really happened! All in all, Mike Leigh is a very good director. The directing method he uses on the spot and without script makes the film have very strong contradictions and conflicts, which makes the film not only good-looking, but also touching.
Because the choreographer used the method of the actors to play temporarily, the performances of the actors in this film were surprisingly wonderful and impressive. Especially the acting of the heroine Brenda Blethyn makes people unable to believe that she is acting, as if she is the unfortunate woman who lives in an unfortunate life. She looks pitiful and looks sad. What impressed me most about her was the scene of drinking tea after meeting the black people. She expressed all kinds of emotions such as excitement, excitement, shame, etc. It was really admirable. Brenda Blethyn is a real acting prodigy. The black actor Marianne Jean-Baptiste in the film is equally good, but she is too ugly, especially some of her expressions look like a man. How could the crew of this film find such an ugly woman as the protagonist? The younger brother played by Timothy Spall, the younger brother and wife played by Phyllis Logan, and the sister and daughter played by Claire Rushbrook, the three of them did not have many roles, but they also played the roles perfectly. And Claire Rushbrook looks very similar to Brenda Blethyn, really like a mother and daughter.
in conclusion. This film tells the secrets and lies of the two families. In fact, it describes the misfortune of two women: it is unfortunate to have a child if you split your legs early, and it is also unfortunate to have a child if you split your legs at an old age. Unfortunately. But whether it is passively or actively splitting the legs, it is happiness to have children when you are old. Life is so tiring! But in any case, the film's excellent plot and actors' superb performances make this film a perfect film.
Brenda Blethyn
Brenda Blethyn
Marianne Jean-Baptiste
Marianne Jean-Baptiste
Phyllis Logan
Phyllis Logan
Claire Rushbrook
Claire Rushbrook
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