a fantasy love

Dandre 2022-03-26 09:01:14

If it wasn't for the lead roles: Nicole Kidman and Robert Downey Jr, you might miss a movie like this, because Nicole was seen in a teaser one time, wearing a gray-blue dress, touching an old-fashioned camera, straight Staring at the camera, the kind of quiet vision that can shatter the camera is rare after Adjani, so the LIST in my head also put this movie in it. The story of how a housewife transformed into an artist always makes people feel mysterious and curious, so an imaginary history and love begins.

This movie starts like "Desperate Housewives", the middle is like "The Phantom of the Opera", and the end is like "The Lover" (the Korean one), of course not to mention the most reminiscent "The Brave", because

of the appearance of the two male protagonists Amazingly similar and furry. After telling the funny clips, let’s go back to the main line of the story: Diane Arbus, who was taking pictures at the celestial camp for the first time, was still a little nervous and uncomfortable. When a naked female person in charge asked about the necklace box on her neck, her expression suddenly changed. Gentle and sad: it's from a friend - I immediately realized that the hero is probably dead.

The first acquaintance of this love is a meeting of eyes inside and outside the back window, then the key in the sewer, the unbearable first half of the hero's life in the projector, drinking tea and sharing the little secrets and treasures in the heart, happily making wigs, Going in and out of freak bars, and even going to meet Diane's parents for a birthday together, Diane's hair went from messy to free, and her expression went from nervous and repressed to natural and loving. If you ignore the part of the husband and children, this is simply a perfect love story, or even with the role of the wife and mother, it is still a perfect extramarital affair, Titanic generally short and full of splendid discovery. Emotions at screenwriter arranging actor to be in Diane's room on her birthday
Tell her that when his time is running out, he begins to move towards the sensational route, because of a love that competes with death for time, most people will be moved. As a love film, many small details in the middle are quite touching, and there is no need to outline the specifics. Although I know that many people go for those naked shots, the love itself is delicate and eye-catching enough in the movie. Especially when he knew that he was going to die, all the careful arrangements were really a tender farewell. The scene at the seaside was just like the last scene of "The Lover", but the male protagonist chose a more BIG BLUE way, so that even if he left, he would never leave. Always be by her side.


But when it comes to the role settings in the movie, the male protagonist acts more like an enlightening role, releasing Diane's boundless desire for incompleteness and truth, and finally tempting her to leave the seemingly normal life of a wealthy family. Since 1956, she has What appears in the camera is no longer the fashion of VOGUE BAZZAR, but the monstrous deformed people, the naked crowd, the old helpless or the young and helpless outcasts on the fringes of society, all looking directly at the camera, and directly. Look into the heart of the viewer. Her art is not a kind of joy, but forcing people to experience pain and think about the ugliness of life. And she herself became increasingly frantic after taking this route, cutting her pulse in 1969
after . Therefore, the story setting of the movie itself makes me feel that it is not suitable, because this love and the way of explaining the deformed group are too gentle. Although Robert Downey has always played a neurotic artistic genius, he interprets the male protagonist as a furry gentle mentor. Just step by step to soothe and discover Diane's talent and passion, the voice and eyes are all gentle, and everything is arranged before the end is known, and the friends he brings - there is not much drastic action or anything. Different from the performance of ordinary people - it stands to reason that if this is the case, Diane's image should not be so cold and real. But the story and the truth are always two different things. It's good to watch this story as a love movie. It's good to watch Diane Arbus's photography because of this. After all, there is another world there, which is eternal in the light and shadow of an instant.

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Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus quotes

  • Lionel Sweeney: Cookie?

  • Diane Arbus: Why isn't she your girlfriend?

    Lionel Sweeney: She doesn't touch me.