Life is a tireless performance. Fortunately, we can never see the truth.
Frankly speaking, it is not the first time that Kate has watched such films about extramarital affairs, but she just clicked on this "Ferris Wheel" out of inertia. The unsurprising plot didn't come to a dramatic climax until the end.
Ginny stole her husband's private money to buy an expensive old pocket watch as a birthday present for her lover Mickey, but Mickey felt that the gift was too expensive and officially unacceptable to him, and suggested that their relationship was just a time together. Summer vacation only. Ginny was furious and threw her pocket watch to the beach. Back at home, the husband mistakenly thought that his son had stolen his money and wanted to teach him a lesson. Ginny explained that the money was taken by herself, and lied that it was to pay her son's psychiatrist's treatment fee, because his son almost set the consulting room on fire. Her husband had been arguing with her, when Ginny had a migraine and was going to be late for work again. She finally couldn't hold back, she opened the cupboard and took out the hidden wine to drink. That's when her husband's daughter, Carolina, came back for her wallet and said she was going to a pizza restaurant with Mickey. At this time, Ginny had a hundred kinds of tastes flooding into her heart. Came to the restaurant to work and learned that Carolina's underworld ex-husband was looking for his wife who left without saying goodbye. Ginny wanted to call Carolina, who was dating her lover, but instead thought, Carolina's disappearance. Maybe it will make her life return to its original state, and she hung up the phone in a hurry. The next day, Carolina disappears, and Ginny dresses up again, looking forward to reliving her old dreams with her lover. At this point Mickey appeared at her door and said he had fallen in love with Carolina. And with Carolina gone, everything with him and Ginny will come to an end.
This wave after wave of interlocking episodes seems to be a wonderful summary of a condensed version of all the extramarital affairs Kate has played before. Thinking about it carefully, it is not an exaggeration. In our ordinary and bland life, such a nervous heartbeat, noisy and trivial, and full of absurd scenes will indeed be staged by coincidence. Life is not a grand show, but we don't know which of the many characters is the real self.
Like Ginny, she plays the oyster-washing waitress in such a humble restaurant, looking forward to getting a little tip from the diners she despises in her heart to make ends meet. In the emotional fantasy, she wandered with her lover in a quiet and elegant oriental garden, and whispered that she wanted to play a role in a play written by her lover. Yes, a mediocre life cannot satisfy our spirits. He is obviously just a supporting role, but he is not reconciled because he claims to be extraordinary. What I miss is the glorious moment when the protagonist was ill and played an important role by accident.
Like in the movie, the awkward, contrived lighting when Ginny falls into a dream, and the dissonant-sounding tune that slowly drifts out of the conversation. I don't think this is the director's poor foil, but an allegory, just like the stupidity that sometimes we know that life is full of sensational deceptions, but we still go away like moths to the flames. Around this time, we all knew that it was a play, so when it was our turn to act, we never exposed it, and never asked about the ending. Yet Ginny is so committed to believing it that we don't know whether to praise or scorn. After all, it is no longer new for us to use any means to play with our feelings for money. However, those fools who waste money for their feelings until they exceed what they can bear are few. When a 40-year-old woman who is struggling to live, stole money from her husband to buy an expensive gift that was rejected by her lover, and throws it on the beach without hesitation, you should know that this woman really wants to A dream come true. Perhaps a more authentic emotional experience to you than disgust or anger is compassion.
Ginny confessed to her lover for the first time that I'm more than thirty-five, I'm thirty-eight, no, thirty-nine, and I'm married. She thought that her lover would be with her for a long time and cared about it was nothing but self-love. This is not the first time she has cheated. The first time she had let her ex-husband run away to commit suicide, and thus left an indelible psychological shadow on her son, causing him to be obsessed with playing with fire and hopeless. And this time, the feelings of gratitude and absolute love for her second husband made her repeat the same mistakes, and even her husband's daughter, who could have started everything over again, was in crisis again because of intense jealousy. Strangely, however, it seems that we do not hate such a woman. It seems that she is the portrayal of our real life mentality, who is mediocre, cowardly and pretentious. She does what we want but dare not do. In her repeated self-immolation, we see another possibility in the ordinary life.
Life, no matter how wonderful a performance, will be like those boring writers under the guise of romance, and the final work is destined to be judged as a series of inappropriate plays and cannot escape the fate of being thrown into the wastebasket. But the good thing is, even so, we still live happily ever after. Saying this, it seems that the cowardly person has also become a hero. Life is a tireless performance. Fortunately, we can never see the truth.
I watch Kate's movies a lot because she's so different from me. Compared to the romance of the Ferris wheel, I prefer the fairytale feel of the merry-go-round. Because when the Ferris wheel rose to the highest point, I was always afraid of heights and didn't care about the beautiful scenery at a glance. Only when I returned to the ground did I feel safe and secure.
And in those niche and slightly bland scripts, the heroines played by Kate have always been unconventional and charming. Whether it's Clementine, who changes her hair color frankly and casually in "Warm and Light", or in "The Tailor" who lost her lover but did not succumb to the cursed fate, ignited the whole town in a fire After that, the rebellious Tilly Donaghy who left Paris again. In her daring to act, I also seemed to realize another possibility that I was looking forward to in my heart. Perhaps starting from "Titanic", when Ruth grabbed the cigarette butts in other people's mouths and then began to inhale it, Kate was destined to be such a woman.
What surprised me even more at her stubbornness and tenacity was the middle-aged Hannah in "The Reader" who fell in love with a fifteen-year-old boy. Her self-esteem was so strong and stubborn that she was imprisoned because she was embarrassed to admit the fact that she was illiterate and took on trumped-up charges. In the end, she still looks forward to the existence of love, and when there is only pity left, she would rather choose suicide. My favorite scene is when the boy and Hannah were out on an outing, and the waitress mistook her for a mother and son while eating in a small shop in the village, and the boy kissed her in public in this name. Only the two of them understood the secret meaning of the kiss. They had loved each other so deeply, but it was not quite the same as between adults.
Maybe she is such a woman. When they first met, men would be fascinated by it, but after a long time, they felt uncontrollable and overwhelmed. In her eyes, men are cigarettes and spirits, and they don't necessarily have to have them, but the smoky moment of drunkenness is her eternal charm. She has a mature and charming appearance, but after experiencing setbacks and ups and downs, her heart is still full of girlish longing. A stunner, more like an angel.
Her series of roles will remind me of Nora's runaway. In fact, running away or not, active or passive, Nora will wake up from her dream sooner or later and see the cruelty of life. Maybe no matter how hard she tries, she can't get rid of the mediocre fate, she can't become a good writer, and she can't become a well-known actress, but her weak shoulders will eventually support herself a small world for herself to roam in beautiful dreams. .
Now looking back at those bright and moving but very different women, my favorite is still the original Marianne. When she played the piano and sang at the party for the first time, she did not know that the colonel outside the door quietly stopped for her. In those moments when we are caught in the puzzle of life and about to fall into the abyss, we always wait for the prince on a white horse with fairy tale expectations. Regardless of age, this is a dream in women's lives that they know is impossible to achieve but have been reluctant to wake up.
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