Because it narrates an extreme, temporally narrow, mournful situation, and because its images contain a crushing intimacy, it is difficult to get a glimpse of Jackie's "big picture." The film just wants to tell about a black hole in Jackie's life, express the dense and dissociated emotions of this woman in an emotional whirlpool, and then express some general themes and specific political themes about human emotions (how to protect the legacy of the deceased and the United States the making of political myths). It's not really a film about Jackie, it's about Jackie's memory, Jackie's grief, Jackie's guilt, Jackie's beliefs, Jackie's desire to put her own fictional history into written history attempt. The tragic tone and funeral atmosphere of Jackie's entire film is reminiscent of Shouts and Whispers, the same close-up psychodrama, the same about death and the aftermath. As in some of Bergman's other films, the characters are estranged, from each other and to the audience, and the closeness of the close-up creates a kind of alienation, and their extreme emotions are often abstract and symbolic, revealing deep or split self. I also felt a strange alienation from Jackie when watching Jackie, not because the movie didn't let us share the joys and sorrows of life's twists and turns like a generalized biopic, but because I couldn't empathize with it. word. If the estrangement from Bergman's characters is due to the madness and incomprehensibility of their extreme emotions, Jackie's estrangement from me comes from the fact that her pain is beyond the scope of my experience, so my view Shadow emotion is a gradual accumulation process, not only gradually adapting to Jackie's distinctive manners, but also gradually integrating into her pain and tangled psychological world.
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