Selling soul and body = gaining money and power

Davonte 2022-03-26 09:01:04

Every character in the movie has their own character image that is very three-dimensional, and the decisions they make are beyond the audience's expectations, but they are very in line with their personal settings when they think about it. Even the last shot of each character's exit contains a wealth of information. The exit of one man is used as a metaphor for the exit of another man, and many storylines are hidden behind the scenes. Especially the scene scheduling, the use of camera language can be called the wonderful of the wonderful, the rational use of the foreground and background, the movement of the characters in the queue and the camera movement, and the wonderful dialogues at the textbook level all make me love it, can't help but think about it. Read it several times.

This movie shot in 1950 (in the golden age of Hollywood) is to sell their honesty and soul to the people who are chasing fame and fortune under the Vanity Fair, and use the "show business", a circle of people's attention, to calm down the turbulent waves on time. There are undercurrents and undercurrents, but the film has no negative comments on this type of occupation and human nature. It just tells us with a mirror at the end of the film that there will always be countless people who will seek power, beauty, money, status, love... . One after another. But we always have options.

Choices must be made, although we often ridicule that "children only make choices, adults do", but in reality we can only make one choice, and then continue to choose, just like the bifurcation of the maze, each time we can only choose one direction. When you choose who you want to be, you have to give up some qualities, but that's not a bad thing. Because of this, the qualities of kindness, simplicity, honesty, and bravery are more precious and beautiful. It is precisely because there are so few people with these qualities that it would be wonderful to meet such a person in one's life.

ps, I think the quality of kindness is extremely beautiful, how wonderful the person who has it is

If you can, you must think like the male protagonist in the anonymous person.

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All About Eve quotes

  • Lloyd Richards: Karen, let me tell you about Eve. She's got everything - a born actress. Sensitive, understanding, young, exciting, vibrant...

    Karen: Don't run out of adjectives, dear.

  • Karen: [narrating] Newton, they say, thought of gravity by getting hit on the head by an apple. And the man who invented the steam-engine, he was watching a teakettle. But not me. My big idea came to me just sitting on a couch. That boot in the rear to Margo. Heaven knows, she had one coming. From me, from Lloyd, from Eve, Bill, Max and so on. We'd all felt those size fives of hers often enough. But how? The answer was buzzing around me like a fly. I had it. But I let it go. Screaming and calling names is one thing, but this could mean...

    Karen: [continues] Why not? "Why," I said to myself, "not?" It would all seem perfectly legitimate. And only two people in the world would know. Also, the boot would land where it would do the most good for all concerned. After all, it was no more than a harmless joke which Margo herself would be the first to enjoy. And no reason why she shouldn't be told about it... in time.

    Karen: [on the phone, calling Eve to let her in on her little "joke"] Hello. Will you please call Miss Eve Harrington to the phone?