The comment said, "It's not very attractive. Just watching the plot has thousands of movies similar to it. The story of a frustrated man falling in love and living again. After all, there is a movie like "Sleepless in Seattle". Meg Ray En's film, even after nearly 20 years, I believe that fans still have a lot of feelings about this film. And this "Women's Land" has no new elements in it from beginning to end, it is hard to believe that it will be a good film film"
and I may have become a fan of director Jonathan because of this film.
The protagonist of the film, Carter, is the character who advances the plot. But if you simply fix the perspective on the trajectory of Carter's character, you will be bored and disappointed in the waves of expectations, and make a blind evaluation of the film's simplicity and nothingness. Carter wasn't the focus, as the film's title "In the Land of women" did as well. The director wants to use Carter's eyes to spy on the secrets of women's hearts in the post-family era. Therefore, the shaping of the image of this man who has strayed into the territory of women is particularly important. Here, the tough guy image that has always existed in American films is abandoned, and the gentle and sensitive, even in the words of the film, "pathetic" 26-year-old Carter, who writes erotic novels for a living.
At the beginning of the movie, it was the scene where Carter's girlfriend Sophia broke up with him in a coffee shop. With tears in his eyes, he begged Sophia not to leave him. The traditional idea of adoring heroic men will surely make his image in the audience's mind drop to rock bottom from the beginning. That's what the writers do. A vulnerable man has a certain femininity, and he is more likely to enter the world of women. This entering is not love, and this non-love contact brings about the perfect reconciliation between the sexes.
With her husband having an affair, estranged from her daughter, and Sarah, who was diagnosed with breast cancer, Carter's life was a mess, and Carter was like a straw that she grabbed, in fact, was just telling, a small place to breathe in her suffocating life. In the supermarket, Sarah said she wanted to open the chocolate on the shelf and eat it, she just said casually, Carter handed her the chocolate and said, you can do it now. She opened the chocolate and put it in her mouth. The action of breaking the shackles is so simple, what is the woman imprisoned by?
Not only Sarah was imprisoned, but her daughter Lucy, like all fifteen or sixteen-year-old girls, was troubled by love and tension with her mother. She went from despising Carter, who couldn't even take out the trash, to trusting him. She could tell a stranger a secret, but she held a grudge against her mother for a trivial matter, which was a sign of the breakdown of a family system on the same level as an affair. It was not until her mother fell ill that she hurriedly and clumsily broke the thick membrane between mother and daughter. In fact, it was not as difficult as she imagined to be open to her loved ones. This is another contribution Carter has made to the family. One shot was very impressive, Sarah cut her hair for chemotherapy, with some kind of resolute determination, while Lucy, who was painting in the basement, finished the mother's portrait in the smear with great strength, dark blue background, Mother's beautiful face, next to a window. This is also the finishing touch. The symbolism is clear.
At the end, Sarah walks her dog, meets Carter outside the house, and the goodbye is simple, not even a hug. Carter's eyes filled with tears again, whether it was for the grandmother in the house who had stopped breathing or the warm encounter that had passed by. This is not a love story, just borrow Carter's hand, push open a window closed in a woman's heart, blow some fresh air, you can breathe well.
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