"Forty-fifth Anniversary"
is a film about youth and aging, love and habits, soul and body.
Being able to accurately express such complex emotions and emotional states, not only are the two veteran actors of the show, but the director is also very scheming.
The husband received news from as far away as Germany that his girlfriend more than 40 years ago had been found in the snow-capped mountains. Faced with a series of abnormal behaviors from her husband, the wife tried her best to maintain a normal mood and a peaceful life, and to prepare for the forty-fifth wedding anniversary four days later.
The plot is so simple.
Do you think the director is talking about the jealousy of women? not completely. Do you want to talk about the revival of a man's old love? Not even. The director's ambition has been fully expressed in the bleak, cold-toned shots at the beginning of the film. What he wants to say is far more complicated and tangled, and chilling.
The director's lens language is precise and meaningful. There are traces of the couple living together for 45 years in the room. There are so many cups hanging, but only one simple glass is used to drink water at a time. The house is a little messy, and things seem to be in disorder at first glance. The temperaments and habits developed by the two of them through mutual compromise in decades of marriage have become so well-integrated that there is no possibility of any quarrel.
OK, here comes the problem. What happens when the sense of security takes over all the marriage?
Do you think the director is just asking this, and another question follows, how can you tell if your love is true love? Is it by time? Or by feeling? Are they reliable?
Every night, the male protagonist is talking. For the first time, the director gave a close-up of the female protagonist, completely ignoring any expressions of the male protagonist, only the voice. He told the story and details of the disaster that happened to his ex-girlfriend more than 40 years ago. We can read the heroine's anger and grievance from the heroine's expression. What does the director want to tell us? Can we all see that the wife is unhappy, but the husband can't? You see, why are you talking so recklessly? So we have a more urgent desire to watch the movie.
The second time is to turn around to give the male protagonist a close-up, and the female protagonist does not have any shots. What is the main character talking about? He is seriously telling his wife about himself, about youth, about his fears, about the ruthlessness of the years and his helplessness in life. Such a stingy, loving and cool male protagonist when he was young, expressing his truest self to the people closest to him at the head of his dying bed. Is this love? or habit? I am even used to it that I can express my reluctance and love for my ex-girlfriend without shyness in front of my wife. Is this belief that no matter how self-willed you are, your wife cannot leave her sense of security, is it the culprit that ruined the marriage? Or the gorgeous gown that whitewashes the marriage?
So, it was the wife's turn to be sad. "The mountains and the rain are about to come and the wind is full of buildings", the film expresses the meaning of this ancient poem very well. And the tension of the film is also increasing. The sad wife's face and the withered leaves in the picture make people feel sad and heartbroken.
The wife finally couldn't take it anymore. The film also ushered in the climax.
The director cleverly found an extremely cruel shooting angle, so that the picture of the young pregnant ex-girlfriend and the wrinkled face of the old wife appeared together. One is youthful and energetic, symbolizing exuberant vitality; while the other is humble and fearful, hiding alone in a small attic to peek at her husband's secrets. We sigh that our youth has passed away, and we also pity the sadness of the waning years.
However, is the hero wrong? Where did he go wrong? As if to excuse himself, the director confessed that there was nothing wrong with the male protagonist. Given such a shot. The pen head can be played like this by the male protagonist. Does he look like a child? Did his presumptuousness and chaos in marriage create his love for his wife?
The director began to slowly answer our questions about the male protagonist at this time. When he was young, he was unruly, smoking, and unruly. When he lost his love, he chose to bury himself in another bland and secure marriage. However, fate played a joke on him on the forty-fifth wedding anniversary, and rekindled the passionate self in the depths of his heart. He started smoking, and began to look down on money, drinking, cursing, etc. as he did when he was young. . Like a willful child. However, when his wife is still angry, she has to take care of his food and daily life, and also celebrate their wedding anniversary, all kinds of life details and emotions pile up, forcing him to make a choice in his heart, he finally realizes, He loves her. He finally made a clumsy and affectionate confession to his wife at the banquet of several years of marriage.
Do you think this is a happy ending? No no no, solve the husband's problem. What about the wife's problem? After forbearance, struggle and countless struggles, the wife thought she would be relieved when she finally confirmed that her husband's heart belonged to her. But she didn't. What about the previous forty-five years? When her husband hasn't figured out that he is the favorite, what is she? The next best substitute? How can he be responsible for my forty-five years of dedication? Do I have to forgive him? Am I pathetic? The performance of the heroine's dance at the final banquet deeply and vividly reflects this series of heart changes. The film also came to an abrupt end with the desperate and confused expression after the heroine pulled out her hand.
Gender relationships, even without sex, are complex struggles. Jealousy and possessiveness, dependence and humanity, tolerance and hypocrisy, forgiveness and deception. They go back and forth in marriage, never ending.
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