Personal opinion: I think that fashion elements are much better than the simple and crude "fashion films" as a flavoring agent in movies. After all, fashion is more of a device than art.
In the personal shopper, fashion has become a very important device. Which girl is not moved by so many beautiful clothes and shoes? It's really not just the "I want to be someone else" that your heroine played by K said. Then again, can a sequined dress from Chanel make you someone else? At least the countless "fashion films" of ugly ducklings turning into swans tell us it's okay.
Clothing carries social attributes, but fashion carries personal imprints, sometimes even more - as Bill said, fashion is the modern armor to everyday life. Can what Maureen did be understood as sneaking under the skin of others to gain strength against life? With a Hamlet-esque melancholy and wandering, the character shoulders the entrustment of the dead. Her dead half-brother wanted her to find him and establish a dialogue with him to prove that people do have souls and that there are channels of communication between the dead and the living. And Maureen is not as convinced of the existence of the soul as her brother was, she is not so sure of herself. Every moment of life is uncertain, and the congenital heart defect that once took away her brother is also happening in her, maybe the next second, maybe fifty years from now. When will the glass hanging in mid-air fall?
The ending is actually a bit confusing. When the heroine said or it's just me, I immediately thought of Red Lights played by Kilian. Most of the audience probably want to grab the director's collar and ask for an explanation when they are confused (I felt this way after watching Red Lights), but this is Assayas, and it does not give a definite answer. The character played by K in Sils Maria also disappeared into the wild mountains at once, with no follow-up explanation at all. In the end, you don't even know whether the character is dead or alive. Thinking that the horror gene has always been the composition of Assayas movies... and personal shopper As a thriller, I feel that it is qualified, although people who have watched a lot of thriller horror movies may have different opinions. I'm just curious about the heroine eating breakfast in the courtyard, the glass in the background kitchen is hanging in the air, and the man holding the glass at the beginning is a bug... Logically, it shouldn't be, so why did the director arrange for one in the first place? What about the man = =
But anyway, your K is so beautiful, thanks to the director, Assayas is the male director with the most delicate female perspective I have ever seen. It's just that I think you K have brought it into the group again (why do I say it again), and the style in the film feels similar to that of the private server...
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