For this film, 2 American screenwriters plus a British director, the classic setting of the Manhattan scene, and the direct and clear relationship lines of the 3 personal objects. To be honest, at the beginning of the film, I didn't expect much. But unexpectedly, after watching the whole movie, people gradually turned their eyes away. This film gave me unexpected surprises.
The beginning of the film is simple and simple, and the four shots are low-key lighted and connected, pointing to a trivial and ordinary life scene of a family. The soundtrack contains a touch of disappointment, which sets the tone for the whole film.
After that, there are simple daily conversations in the family, explaining the relationship between the characters. It is not difficult to see from the title that Connie and Edward love each other, but at the same time, it is also easy to find that this kind of love is more like a kind of lost passion. The convenience and continuation of Connie's later derailment motives can be explained.
It is said that the orgasm of sexual thirst for men will come during adolescence, and women will be in the middle-aged period, that is, around the age of 30. People talk about a man having an affair like chickenpox, a 7-year itch, so why not a woman? The American housewife has become a profession. Obviously, in a middle-class family, the husband's personal work can make the whole family well-off and prosperous, and the woman can take care of the children at home and do housework. Such as the family Connie and Edward as a business owner in the film. But in this way, it is easy for the estrangement between husband and wife, so that life loses its vitality under the action of inertial force, and cracks appear in the relationship. A housewife who lacks surprises at home and is desperate for life will naturally find it difficult to maintain her fidelity to her love.
On a windy and cloudy day, the concrete forest in Manhattan, the howling wind blowing under the skyscrapers, and the waving of confetti on the streets seem to herald a turning point in life, and the stillness that is as quiet as stagnant water will be broken by this. She missed the taxis, was swept to the ground by the wind, and injured her knee. Here, she met Paul, the romantic French guy. Paul took her into his home, and the two quickly fell in love with each other. But she stopped at the ceremony, and she tried her best to restrain herself, but she could never forget it.
The second time, the third time, soon, she fell in love with his Romantique, she refused, but did not resist his strong hands, she let him walk and caress her body, her whole body trembled, like A frightened deer, that is a long-lost excitement, fear, joy. On the way home, in the subway, she felt guilty and mourned, but she couldn't help recalling everything just now and couldn't help smiling.
Time and time again, she couldn't resist this deadly thrill, as she herself said: "The first thing I think of when I wake up every morning is you." OL uniforms, evening gowns, dance dresses, she swayed With a long-suppressed desire; on the bed, in the toilet, in the stairwell, she vented recklessly and had fun in time.
Until one day, she absentmindedly messed up a meal, and when she forgot to have sex, she even forgot to pick up her own child. All this made her feel more guilty and cried, and helplessly saw a crack in a family, but she Still can't get out of this, emotion and reason are a pair of natural enemies, opposing each other, water and fire are incompatible. How can a woman who is dominated by the emotions of the moment get away with it.
The 11-year relationship foundation made Edward, as a husband, quickly aware of the strangeness of his wife. Through follow-up investigation, he quickly discovered the ambiguous relationship between Paul and his wife, and came to his home. In an accident, he killed Paul by mistake. At this time, there was a message on the phone. Her wife decided to cut off contact with her lover Paul, expressing that she always loved herself.
What an embarrassing situation, but by now it was too late. He thought about it badly, and wanted to destroy the corpse and destroy it, but like a killer with his feet, he always encountered some bumps here and there. After many setbacks and painstaking efforts, he finally hid his corpse in the garbage dump.
At the end of the film, when the police came to the house to ask about Paul's news, both of them behaved abnormally. Two parallel montages: the garbage truck finally found the body in the garbage dump, and Edward was in a close-up of fear and anxiety, which was used very hot. Finally, when the sound of the siren gradually faded away, the two finally escaped and were relieved of each other. This suddenly reminded me of the last scene of Rong Kai's "Tarapho", Eve pulled Farrager, looked at the blood in the room, and said, "Let's dispose of the body first." No matter how deeply the two were injured by each other , and finally reconciled due to 11 years of love. The desire of the two is ultimately not too long for a complete and happy family.
After watching the movie, I also thought of Maugham's "The Veil". Unlike the movie "The Veil" starring Naomi Watts, the original book is not about the redemption of love in cholera to find true love, but to show the dark side of human nature. , to express human desires.
The heroine in the book also experienced an affair after marriage. Later, she learned a lot from the experience of traveling with her husband to the cholera area. She learned how to love from the village and established an indestructible faith from the monastery. The paradox is that when her husband died, she felt that she had never loved him, and even some emotions were nothing but sympathy and admiration. His death seemed more like a relief.
She returned to Hong Kong and met her old lover. All beliefs and loyalty seemed to be a veil. As long as the desire was a little bit, it would vanish. Carnal desire, lust, everything occupied her again, and her life was once again Fall into the endless abyss. Rational, emotional, and ultimately no match for human nature.
This film is also permeated with such topics, but the good news is that, unlike Maugham's calm narrative, irreversible ruthlessness, and the complete revealing of the evil in love and its complete rejection, the second part of the film Although people's love tends to break apart, it becomes more and more tenacious after the threat. This is the luck of them and this family.
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