What are we afraid of?
"Personal Shopper" is the film I'm most looking forward to at this Hong Kong International Film Festival. Whether it's the Hong Kong translation of "Ghost Fashion", the promotional trailer, or the film's thrilling opening, it all makes people feel that this film is about ghosts. Ghosts are everywhere and nowhere to be seen, Kristen Stewart resists (ghosts) and hopes (sees his brother undead) all the way, avoids all the way but to no avail. Until the end, when she walked thousands of miles away to a foreign land, she still felt (saw) ghosts following, so she said the full-stop sentence---
It's that ghost, or just myself?
So in our lives, what are those "ghosts" that are entangled with us? Dissatisfaction with work, hurt by lovers, unrealistic fantasies, regret, nostalgia for lost people (things). Disapproval of self, unwillingness to the status quo, wanting to change but unable to change. Can't let go, can't walk away.
These are Stewart's questions and fears in the film, and more or less ours.
After watching the movie, all of us are discussing the various problems of the movie in a fog: almost all the gaps in the story are not closed in the end, you can have ten explanations to try to tell the story roundly, but It doesn't seem to make sense how to explain it.
Suddenly I thought of a sentence from the American TV series How I Met Your Mother: "No ghost is at peace until it finally moves on." -- The root of all fear is that you can't watch and open yourself.
The camera follows Stewart riding a motorcycle through the streets of Paris, and the city feels very charming. Stewart's appearance in the whole film is also fashionable and comfortable to look at. Her temperament itself is too fashionable. Galeries Lafayette selected her to endorse Chanel ten years ago, and her vision is really poisonous.
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