This article was written after the 90th Academy Awards ceremony, so all the winners of this year’s Oscars have been released, aside from technical awards, but from the perspective of screenplay, film and director awards, this year’s Oscars have completely changed. The best film is "The Shape of Water", which uses the expression of species equality, the best director is Toro, the best adapted screenplay is "Call Me By Your Name" on LGBT, and the best original screenplay is "The Black Race". "Escape from the Dead", even the best foreign language film that has always been out of the picture, has become "Ordinary Woman" about transgender people.
From the perspective of the best foreign language film always upholding artistry, "Ordinary Woman" is inferior to "Flesh and Spirit", but because it is more "conscious of current affairs" in terms of subject matter, it is not difficult to win the top prize among the five nominations. .
"Ordinary Woman" stars a real transgender actress Daniela Vega as the heroine. The film begins with a date between her and her sunset lover Orlando, and then the plot takes a sharp turn. Orlando dies unexpectedly. The year-old Marina began to suffer from all kinds of exclusion and discrimination, and was even considered a suspect in Orlando's death for a time. The entire film revolves around Marina's sadness after losing her love and being treated unfairly by those involved at the same time.
But the film did not reveal the true gender of Vega's character at the very beginning. From when she winked and sang passionately in the bar, the image of this hot South American woman was ready to emerge, and when it came to dating, dancing, and having sex, every time A step looks like a confirmation of female identity. It was not until nearly halfway through the film, when Vega and Orlando's ex-wife met, that Vega's identity was really revealed, and the audience's emotional identification occurred instantly under this arrangement. converted.
In the beginning, Vega is just a hot woman dating an old man, which is casual and poetic; then, she has a verbal conflict with Orlando's son, which is mundane and laboring; in the end, she is a trans person. To return the lover's car to his ex-wife, it can only be sad and helpless.
The establishment of this sense of identity is the most meaningful part of this film. It does not use political slogans like "120 BPM" to express its heart directly, nor does it like "Please Call Me by Your Name". The re-pickup, which was originally Nishang and Liuyi, was a kind of "misplanting", which first showed the identity and experience of an ordinary woman, and then inadvertently broke the context of this identity, so that the audience was instantly stunned by this "lie" Brought down by a thousand words. How did Orlando and Marina fall in love? How many rumors and rumors they have encountered have turned into a lighthearted situation here, leaving only the most serious result: the old lover died in the bed of the transgender girlfriend, what should I do?
The sudden predicament, Marina really can't handle, so the most direct action she can make is to escape, she is neither Orlando's family nor his legal wife, the living Orlando, she can love, but The dead Orlando, she can only miss, and the last thing she needs to miss is to stay beside the dead.
However, the middle section of the film becomes a vulgar "show of pain". The police will strictly interrogate her, the personnel of the indoctrination center will speculate maliciously on her, and even the doctor will not hesitate to take pictures in order to visit the body of the transgender person. The record, titled "Injury Check," but the dirty conversation behind it is revealed. As for Orlando's family, they were carrying out "material deprivation and spiritual blows" against her. If the first half of "Ordinary Woman" shows the embarrassment faced by an ordinary transgender person in unexpected situations, the second half of "Ordinary Woman" is using the discourse of "equalitarianism" to seduce moviegoers.
Actor Vega, as a true transgender, has of course experienced the social dilemma brought about by this identity, but when this dilemma is translated into film images and scenes, it is the responsibility of director Sebastian Lelio. In the first half of the film, he also pinpointed the "unknown encounter" brought by the image - how a woman handles the funeral after the sudden death of her lover, but after the mystery is revealed - the audience knows that Marina is a transgender , the bridges in the second half are taken for granted, and then follow the script: society is inherently cruel and ruthless, and transgender people will be treated ruthlessly.
Originally, after this more meaningful issue of sexual orientation was exposed in the film, there should be a more in-depth discussion, but this has become the film's last card. At the beginning of the film, the bathroom and the two air tickets to Iguazu Falls were used as introductions, and the "No. 181" key hidden in the whole film kept appearing. This could have been the highlight of the whole film, but When Marina opened the cabinet, it was empty. The director not only fooled Marina, but also the audience.
He uses this kind of fooling as an excuse to inspire women's consciousness, tearing up the love between transgender and normal people in exchange for tickets to women's independence and rebirth. Instead of spawning new themes of LGBT themes, it encourages the isolation and rejection of the world by the LGBT community.
After all, the rights and interests of LGBT groups can indeed be fought for in reality, as in "120 BPM" or "The Normal Heart", relying on legalized organizations to publicize slogans, and use various effective campaigns and demonstrations to express the group's slogan. special request. But LGBT themes are not slightly tolerant of movies because of the uniqueness of their themes, because every theme in the movie can be counted as "unique" at the time. But "Ordinary Woman" still chooses an ordinary way of presentation to express the "experience" of transgender people.
This kind of cheap and clichéd film language is forgivable in commercial genre films, but if it were an art film, it would be opportunistic, not novel or emotional, and this may be the reason why this year's Oscars give People's greatest impression.
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