" by The Guardian . Hitchcock-style suspense, split characters and plots have been hanging your appetite until the climax of the film; Ou Rong's obsessive-compulsive photography composition, the use of highly metaphorical and symbolic multi-angle mirrors; the high density of the soul-shattering scale , high-intensity, super-feminist erotic sex scenes, wave after wave, completely using the flesh to advance the plot, relying on bodily fluids to stir emotions; the horror often comes unexpectedly, breaking the glass three times unexpectedly, similar to breaking the body The heavily bloody scenes made the scalp numb, and with the weird soundtrack, anxiety and anxiety instantly engulfed the audience like a huge wave. Ou Rong is accustomed to using suspense to draw the audience's attention, and the layout stage makes people confused, kneeling in the trap of his plot. Large sections of provocative scenes, indulge in sensuality, and sprinkle some condiments of derailment, homosexuality, and incest, but in the end he always returns to the right track, discussing the addiction of desire and the danger of deviance, and making a psychoanalytical literary quality to sexual relations and pathological interpretation. This time in "Double-Faced Lover", Ou Rong played more daringly, which was his most unfettered time. In order to ensure a suspenseful ending, Fat Brother tried his best to stop at the point, without going in depth, only a simple introduction. "Double Lover" tells the story of Chloe, a romantic female model, who seeks the help of a psychiatrist Paul because of her illness. The beginning of the story is shocking. Peeking into the camera, going deep into the human body, the pink core, the audience quickly dropped their jaws, this is the internal presentation of the private parts of the female body.
A symbolic "closing", a superimposed image, the eye contour of the heroine Chloe appears in the camera lens, a metaphor for love, a metaphor for spirit, from xx to eyes, from the inside to the outside, the film announced its Lots of erotic and spiritual metaphors in the theme.
Paul, a gynecologist and psychologist, told Chloe directly that her illness, the abdominal pain that plagued her, was not physical but spiritual.
In a brief exchange, Paul listened patiently, with ambiguous attention, and Chloe found the value of self-existence.
She gradually fell in love with Paul, who fell in love with Chloe at first sight.
The relationship between the two was confirmed, and Chloe's condition was under control.
After the sweetness of love passed, the unconfident Chloe began to distrust Paul, and the crisis began to spread and escalate.
Until Chloe met Paul's twin brother, Louis.
Louis and Paul, who are both psychiatrists, have very different personalities, greedy, ruthless, and possessive.
Whenever distrust of Paul increases, Chloe will seek physical and psychological shelter from Louis. The two use extreme physical collisions to dispel Chloe's inner distress and anxiety.
In this way, Chloe is caught in the triangular relationship between Paul and Louis.
In order to show Chloe's struggles in desire and emotion, Ou Rong makes extensive use of multi-angle mirror lenses to express this tearing.
There are also opposing, center-split 3P scenes where Paul and Louis begin sharing Chloe's body after kissing each other, gradually splitting her in two, pulling her into two contradictory parts, from body to spirit.
The purpose of the mirror is to contrast itself, with the constant transformation of subject and object, to put a suspenseful coat on Chloe's identity.
The highly neatly divided composition in the center also hints at the swing and opposition of Chloe's identity.
In the constant magical plot conflicts,
Ou Rong buried Chloe's stomach pain;
the reasons for the relationship between Louis and Paul that did not recognize each other;
the discord between Chloe and his mother;
and the mysterious woman who appeared in the climax of the second act, etc. are all before the suspenseful layout of the story. play.
In fact, all the smoke bombs were caused by Chloe's lack of confidence in love and the guilt of her twin sisters.
Through sudden jump cuts, mirror projections and other subjective lens language, we gradually perceive that the story begins to enter into a narrative line in which the imagination and reality coexist with "the combination of the virtual and the real" and "both real and fantasy".
What exactly is Chloe's imagination, the empathy and reconstruction of her inner desires projected into reality, the Freudian "daydream", the complex fusion and compromise after the fierce competition between the ego and the superego. ,
These dreamlike narrative tricks make the audience fall into the clouds and can only wait anxiously for the moment when the mystery is revealed.
However, the revealing moment of "Double-Faced Lover" is debatable. The story has lost a solid and logical answer, and the characters' inner turning points are not convincing enough. A literary intertext.
In the end, Ou Rong turned to science. With the subtle possibility of medicine and the logic of self-evidence in psychology, the thematic interpretation and answer are given to the previous suspense and the motivation and behavior of the characters.
Arising out of love, out of shame, out of love, and finally relieved.
In the end, with the climax of knocking on the window and breaking the mirror, Chloe completely accepted the tearing of self-identity, and found another layer of symbolic existence value of self-existence in the displacement of signifier and signified.
When watching the movie, you must pay attention to the change of the heroine Chloe's complexion. The three broken mirror scenes are all turning metaphors for her self-identity to be shaken and shifted, while Paul and Louis are just human contrasts of her self-splitting.
"Double-Faced Lover" has good value in terms of artistry and viewing, but Ou Rong's story is slightly disappointing this time.
The ending is sensational enough, but it loses that undeniable literary foundation, giving people a passable, unequivocal sense of skepticism.
However, this powerful medicine is still very strong, and the fat brother fully recommends it. After all, this is an exploration of the movie.
It's still very cinematic.
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