Chloe, who often had abdominal pain, began to seek treatment from a psychiatrist after she could not find the root cause of the disease in her body. Cleverly, as the treatment progressed, Chloe not only no longer had abdominal pain, but also fell in love with her psychiatrist. , will the two finally go down sweetly?
The answer, of course, is no, because this is a Francois Ozon movie.
Judging from his debut short film "Family Portrait" in 1988, he always likes to use a game to open the door to sin. A 7-minute silent film, Ou Rong can make us feel the darkness, not to mention this What about "Double-Faced Lover"?
This film has the touch of David Fincher's "Mind Game" guessing puzzles. The protagonist is placed in a set space. Through the acrobatic control of the creator-director, the protagonist is constantly bewildered, and eventually falls into a frenzy. The situation, but when the truth is finally revealed, I know that this is just a game.
Similarly, Hollywood suspense master Hitchcock's "Vertigo" can also endorse "Double-Faced Lover". Two people with the same appearance, two completely different experiences, paradoxical self-imagination, and suddenly enlightened mystery revealed, of course! Ou Rong's average movie is not as complete as Vertigo, but when it comes to the creation of the mystery in most of the previous parts, "Double-Faced Lover" is not empty, it is intertwined, and it uses a kind of mystery. The delicate touch of the literary film can arouse the audience's visual hunger, which may be the highlight of this film for fans.
Given that the suspense and the mystery of this film may be the highlight of the movie for fans, I will stagger all the descriptions of the mystery with great interest, and wisely find other ways to open it. After all, a sentence of "spoiler to kill the whole family" is really insulting.
Interestingly, a few scenes from the beginning of the film are already very telling: the hair shave (from one look to the other); the close-up of the pussy is superimposed to the close-up of the eyes (the conception of the individual and the peeping inside).
A few simple shots can be used as a foreshadowing. This is Ou Rong's precise grasp of the meaning of the shots, but using the shots to guess lantern riddles is naturally not a good director's sharing, it's just a silly director. boring.
So in most of the later clips, the spiraling circular staircase (don't forget, the same composition can be found in Vertigo, and there is also a "sliding zoom" there!); Close-up, a kind of juggling collage is played like a kaleidoscope in Ou Rong's hands, don't think about what it means, just look at it, it's beautiful.
There is also the side-by-side mirror image of the female protagonist in the multi-faceted standing mirror. Of course, the split and juxtaposition of this portrait can be dissected from a psychological perspective, which also corresponds to the occupation of the male protagonist in the film.
In general, in addition to those narrative shots that create suspense, there are a lot of heroines walking in the architectural space, as well as sex scenes between the heroine and the hero.
For the former, of course, there are aesthetic considerations. Director Ou Rong did not shoot "Double-Faced Lover" as a suspense film, but expressed the erosion of modern architecture on human beings. Although the themes reflected are different, we can find a lot of opposition between "architecture and people" from the images of Italian film master Antonioni. But Ou Rong did not simply use modern architecture, more precisely, he used "modern architectural art", as evidenced by the heroine's career as a museum keeper.
Suits and leather shoes, exquisite makeup, and various avant-garde and modern museum artworks, Ou Rong is using art itself to build up art, a kind of art that uses architectural art to graft out movies. It is a pleasing attempt.
The second thing that appears a lot is the sex scene . This is not uncommon, but it is very interesting to shoot sex in horror, suspense, and confusion.
For example, when the female protagonist is climaxing, she opens her lips when she calls the bed, and then cuts the close-up of the contraction in the vagina. This "playing method" is very unique. It is not only visually novel, but also combines the "built-in and Devour" is reflected in the sex scenes, which is definitely not something that an island country's long-length romantic action movies can match.
And gay men kissing, 3P having fun together, and even more abruptly dividing the female protagonist into two bodies to have sex with each other, and the discussion of "split and juxtaposition" has gone a step further. This kind of interesting erotic scene , Among the movies I have seen this year, perhaps only the "Thousands of Hands Touching the Carcass" in the Japanese movie "Fool's Record" can reach a little!
However, Ou Rong's more talents are limited to this, unfortunately, it came to an abrupt end.
It can be said that the previous 90% of the puzzles are really good. The viewing degree, rhythm, and scene scheduling are all like a long-planned and leak-proof assassination plan. However, in the last shot, we could not see the target. . Just like Jason Bourne holding a heavy sniper on a skyscraper, when he was about to pull the trigger, he found that the glass of the opposite building was not the target person, but a windbreaker.
To a certain extent, Ou Rong did not shoot "Double-Faced Lover" as a suspense film with a rigorous structure and strict logic. Some film critics even ridiculed the film's suspense setting as having the temperament of a mainland "Internet University" . Although exaggerated, it is not without reason.
We did indeed follow Marion Vass, with the face of Juliet Binoche in his youth, peeping a woman under the gorgeous fashions, behind the high-end thresholds, and in the cold works of art In her inner tangle, she tried to find the answer to her lover in the whole film like a nightmare, but what she finally got was her ultimate answer.
"Double-Faced Lover" can be seen more as a highly artistic erotic thriller. Of course, the audience can feel the sharpness and bloodthirsty on the blade of sex in the film, but there is absolutely no need for the so-called "answer" Return with enthusiasm.
As, of course, it is a French film worth seeing, and it is not boring at all, but if you delve into the mystery and dig deeper into the logic, it will undoubtedly be fruitless. After all, any way of "reasoning and analyzing the plot" like "Bomi" in "Villain Film Review" will inevitably lose other things about the movie.
And Ou Rong just wanted the audience to be happy about that.
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