After reading it, I realized that it was a big mistake. Although to some extent, its exquisite temperament is a little bit like "The Box of the Sphinx", but it is not that dark at all.
Even a tragically obsessed love story.
In fact, in terms of filming techniques and techniques, even a layman like me can see that the director was really immature back then—it didn't quite match her pretty good aesthetic taste, so there wasn't much to say about this movie. of. But the details are a lot of fun, and I'm a little sorry for its poor popularity if I don't say it.
I didn't do any homework before watching it, and when I watched it, I realized that the director's name was too familiar - she was David Lynch's eldest daughter. Mr. Lynch has been married four times. He has produced four babies with a stable output of one baby at a time. The oldest is Jennifer. This sister is just like her father. She has a very boring aesthetic taste and is versatile. Not only can she direct plays, but also She can write novels, but it seems to dilute her father's talent a lot, so as a director and writer, it is not so noticeable, and her novel is "Laura Palmer's Secret Diary", which is her father's famous film. The mysterious blonde in the unfinished "Twin Peaks" is also somewhat touched by her father's light.
As a director, she does not have many works, and she is basically rather boring. It can be seen that her aesthetic taste is rather exotic and classical, so her main energy is focused on this, and her level is a bit more eclectic. In 2008, she directed a "Snake" starring an Indian actor. The content was about the revenge story of the Indian serpent goddess. There are a lot of curious stills on the Internet, you can feel it yourself. There was a Surveillance in 2009, the style has changed a bit, but it is still a crime thriller style, and the degree of completion is much higher. In 2012, I made a movie called Chained, which still takes the elements of crime + suspense + imprisonment and training. The evaluation is still not high. The male protagonist is good-looking, and those who like vampire-faced blond teenagers can watch it. The latest work is A Fall from Grace in 2014. I can't watch it now, but the lineup is amazing, not only Tim Roth, but also her father himself.
Well, I have successfully digressed thousands of miles, let's revisit this directorial debut in the early 1990s.
I believe European and American movie fans and Lynch fans should feel that the male and female protagonists are very familiar. The heroine Sherilyn Fenn is the short-haired beauty AH in "Twin Peaks".
The actor Julian Sands is relatively more prolific. I believe most people remember him because of "A Room with a View". He was so handsome in that film, with a York accent, alas... but the whole line It's all a little weird and cute = = ...
and in this film he plays a role that can basically be regarded as a pervert.
I don’t know if the director deliberately arranged such an unrefreshed and unmanageable hairstyle for him, who has a serious hairline. Although the surgeon + social elite, the male protagonist Nick dresses very seriously most of the time, but for the sake of Highlighting his dependent and somewhat paranoid personality, as well as the feature of "not very attractive to the opposite sex", it not only adds a sense of wretchedness to the hairstyle (deliberately highlighting the hairline is not good, the soul is weak), the size of the clothes It is too large, monotonous in style, and short-sighted, which greatly weakens the natural appearance of the actor, although it is a bit natural and cute (mistakenly).
In fact, from the beginning of the film, the image of Venus with the broken arm has been transplanted. (There will also be a few female figures without limbs in Helana's "bedroom", which should be the intention.) And the dissolute mother also appeared in the shape of long black gloves, as glamorous as a sculpture, looking at Nick's childhood The look is almost disgusting. The father has only one back, and he left a sentence that he wants to work; the mother is also incompetent, and basically doesn't pay much attention to his own baby. It is conceivable that Nick, who is still a little kid, almost collapsed... So the part of his personality that is beautiful to his mother The yearning for image and the dazed alienation of intimacy have become a shadow for a lifetime. Although he remembered his father's teachings and became a surgeon, even though he loved his fairy-like mother, he hurriedly threw rose wine at his mother's funeral and left to go to the hospital to perform an operation. People who are at a loss when they leave work, interpersonal relationships No wonder there are cups everywhere.
In the face of the beautiful woman Helana he loves, although he doesn't even have the courage to talk to people in a bar, he can climb a tree and peep at people's nightlife. Seeing Helena, who doesn't like to close the window, was cracking with her boyfriend, she was naturally stimulated mentally, but after jumping from the tree, she called her friend to tell her about her cowardly attitude (naturally, she was scolded by her friend). ), and after my friend told me not to think about her and not to recruit her, I sent flowers to others with a cheap hand, and the diaosi mentality reached the point where there is no cure...
But in fact, it can be called Gao Fushuai in terms of conditions. He is not short of good women to like, but he doesn't know how to deal with good girls who are sent to the door. He can only hide and hide, which is more sad than not being able to get a girlfriend...
And the beautiful Helena naturally disdains him. And contempt, in front of his face, attracting bees and butterflies, showing beauty, and drawing countless hatreds. And apart from following the goddess's breath without any self-respect, facing the fact that the goddess was hooked up by others, although he was full of NTR mentality, he didn't dare to say a word.
Such a "little boy named Nick", even an ordinary girl can't hold fire when she sees him cowardly.
And such a beautiful "slut" who couldn't help but despise the male protagonist, when Nick tricked her home to see the Venus, her expression was quite interesting. At that moment, she, who had been driven crazy by Nick's attentive, clumsy and gruff face, suddenly softened her expression, mixed with a bit of pity, a bit of thoughtfulness, and even a bit of yearning.
In view of (spoiler here! Don't watch it if you don't want to know!) The later plot will be reversed, so Helena finally lost her limbs and gradually adapted to and even "falls in love" with Nick The plot does not exist, and here It was Helena before the car accident, so her performance was real. Although there was no real love scene until the end, Helena's expression in this scene showed that there was a hint of softness in her heart, but then Nick, whose emotional intelligence was so low that there was no medicine, angered Helena, so she ran away angrily, Accident happens.
Unlike the female protagonist who is usually helpless and helpless when she encounters misfortune, although there are technical bluntness in many parts of the film, the process of Helena's transformation is actually relatively natural. Although she suffered a great blow at the beginning, she maintained her healthy pride and integrity. Seeing that Nick, a coward, can only make her beloved woman "can't get away" by this means, she is not afraid because her life is in the other's hands, but she intensifies her sarcasm and sarcasm, so that Nick does not take up any of it. The calm in a favorable position, on the contrary, is even more afraid of her. This kind of tragic and terrifying cowardice, apart from the hopelessness of Nick's own character, also shows the deep damage caused by his parents' indifference and spiritual abandonment. It also shows that in the face of uncontrollable "love", How small a person can be.
It's a pity that the more careful you are, the more you lose your ego, an admirer who is as low as the dust, how can you appreciate the brilliance of his humanity, I am afraid that at most it is nothing more than charity and pity for self-protection. Watching Helena keep roaring, "I don't belong to anyone, not now, and never will be in the future", Nick was facing her in a panic and didn't know where to put his hands and feet. Which is more pitiful, Helena and Nick, whose humanity has never been complete.
It was not until the final reversal that I realized that Helena was brought back by Nick after the accident and was disabled step by step. For a drop of blood, I also dreamed that the feeling of avoiding normal medical common sense turned out to be the meaning. The bloody scene of Helena's legs being run over by wheels was real at the time of the accident in the real world, and then even though she's turned into a doll, she hasn't turned pale, she's still blooming like a flower As plump as a sculpture, it turns out that everything is just a dream. And the incoherent parts of the incoherent mother imagery, the weird eroge, and Helena suddenly getting up from her chair to talk to Nick making Nick sexually confident are really "unreal". Nick is not a pervert in the Japanese cult style, so he is still a sad person even in his dreams, he made a despicable way to keep her, but when faced with her, he can't speak ill of her, and he can't " Touching her, all he can do is to cherishly wipe and take care of this "goddess", he can only crawl under her feet, pour out his love, and tell her over and over that he is willing to do anything to make her happy. Even if the woman he loves actually loses the ability to resist, he doesn't dare to do whatever he wants, just like his mother's words "You're peeking at me, right?" Can't stop. Looking at the lover in front of him, what he showed was not the look of a man at all, the helpless little eyes showed that at this moment he was just a little boy who lacked love. At this point, you are so unsound in front of love, even if you are tall and handsome, rich and powerful, what can you do, you are seen through by the woman you love at a glance.
I don't know if you have noticed that after slowly adapting to the "new identity", Helena was dressed by Nick, took off the heavy makeup, and became a lot more pure and soft. Maybe this is what she really looks like in Nick's mind, and it's only in a dream that she looks at Nick with this expression. And the wild, seductive real Helena, Helena like Nick's mother, Nick loves him, but also fears her.
As a woman, although Helena is not a female classmate without a story, even if she is not afraid, she is probably confused by the sentence she asked in her dream, "Do you love me as a woman, or do you love me? As property?" Innocent love that transcends sensuality, probably she also desires it. If she really turned out to be like that, faced with a Ray and a Nick, one who thought she "was beautiful" and one who thought she "is beautiful", she would probably have made a hard choice too. Hua Wu Hundred Days of Red, although facing a criminal, but a person who knows the value of beauty, lost all of this at the peak of the flower cluster, I am afraid I can't resist the temptation that some people think that you are "beautiful still", the three views are really It's not right = =...
And in the end, like thousands of real people in reality who have silently watched their beautiful faces and dared not approach them, all he can do is stand up and reach out to save the goddess when she is in distress. , and then full of guilt just because he had an excessive dream, not even daring to face the little gratitude the goddess might have when she wakes up. At the end of the day, he's just a human being, just a man "sadly in love."
Alas... Generally speaking, it means a bit of a negative emotional teaching material that is not deep enough. ˊ_>ˋ
In fact, I am particularly interested in the soundtrack. If you listen carefully, in fact, the film contains a lot of popular songs in the 1980s, such as women in chains in tears for fears, Lenny Kravitz, and Enigma, etc. The appearance of classical music is also very suitable. Perhaps the most exciting is the ending song I Can't Make You Love Me. This song is a famous sad song in Europe and America. It has been sung countless times. Even George Michael and Adele have more than one version of each. The movie specially chose Venice to sing it. The version is affectionate, and the voice is closer to Nick's temperament. The original author (and original singer) of this song is Bobbie Rait, please listen to her version! It is said that her inspiration for writing this song came from a social news. A man killed his lover by threatening him with a gun because his lover insisted on leaving. When he was on trial, he sighed with emotion: When a woman doesn't love you, you can't force her into submission no matter what. As the song says, if you don't love me, I can't make you do it. After seeing Helena stubbornly shouting "You can't change anything by doing this", and hearing this song, alas, the female director is indeed a delicate emotional existence.
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