In October 2015, the Australian film "The Tailor" was released, which was hailed by fans as the best "fashion film" in the past ten years after "The Queen Wearing Prada".
The costume designer for this movie is Tim Chapel, who won the Oscar for Best Costume Design in 1995 with a piece of "Desert Girl".
This film is adapted from the novel of the same name. The story takes place in Australia in the 1960s. It is edited by Chapel, an Oscar winner. The retro-style costumes in the film are pleasant to the eye.
The poster design is very eye-catching, and it perfectly combines the two thematic elements of "fashion" and "revenge".
Plot line
In the middle of the night, a bus stopped on the side of the old and humble small town.
Under the dim street light, the heroine Tilly (played by Kate Winslet) walked out of the car with luggage.
Walking to the door of the house, Tilly met Police Officer Farret (played by Hugo Weaving) who hadn't seen him for many years.
This is an interesting character.
Officer Farrett is about half a hundred years old and has an old face. He doesn't seem to be a fashion-conscious person, but when he sees Tilly's attire, he can see that the design of the clothes is inspired by Dior.
Tilly was deported when she was ten years old for murdering her classmate Stewart. Twenty-five years later, she returned to her hometown to investigate the truth of the case.
Tilly is a skilled tailor, but her clothing style is simple and generous, and the colors are mostly blue, black, brown and other cool colors, which is very consistent with the identity of Tilly's victim.
I can say responsibly that "The Tailor" is the one that combines fashion and plot the most closely and the most tacit coordination among the movies I have seen.
The costumes in the film are not only exquisite, but also the color itself is used to the extreme.
The first intimate contact between fashion and plot appeared in the football match between this town and the neighboring town.
Red is the most sexually interesting color. Someone has done a test. In a set of photos of the opposite sex in different colors, the one in red won the favor of most people.
When a fashionable woman returning from Paris appeared on the field in a red dress, it was like dropping an atomic bomb in a deserted town, and the radiation power can be imagined.
The elegant and sexy Tilly immediately attracted the attention of everyone present, but the profound meaning in the eyes was different.
Women's eyes are jealous, men's eyes are lingering, which directly led to the town's team losing the first half of the game.
In the second half of the game, Tilly changed to a black dress. Black is not as eye-catching as red, but it is recognized as the most mysterious color. This mystery is fascinating and inquiring.
The color of Tilly's dress is conservative, but the style is quite bold. The crisp breasts and beautiful legs made the men more eye-catching and caused frequent mistakes by the opponents. In the end, the town team led by Teddy won the game.
After becoming famous with clothes, fashion has closely linked Tilly's life with the people around her.
The first person to approach Tilly because of fashion was Officer Farrett.
Officer Farrett loves the clothes and accessories Tilly brought back from Paris. He confessed to Tilly that he was caught by the mayor of "transvestism" twenty-five years ago and had to be ignorant. Conscience expelled the framed Tilly from the village.
Justice cannot be eaten as food. When "survival" and "conscience" sway from side to side on both sides of the scale, most people, like Police Officer Farret, prefer the former.
The kind-hearted Tilly not only forgave Officer Farret, but also became a year-end friend with him because of the same fashion hobby.
The second person to approach Tilly because of fashion is Teddy (played by Liam Hemsworth).
William of the same village is about to get married and invites Teddy to be his best man. Teddy comes to Tilly to customize the dress and take the opportunity to express her heart, but Tilly thinks she is a "cursed person" and dare not accept Teddy's love.
It is often said that people who have a happy childhood will usually also have a good life.
Unfortunately, Tilly had a dark childhood. The phrase she and her mother Molly mentioned about "I have lost a child", although not much, it speaks to her unsatisfactory feelings and life as an adult.
Tilly is aware of this, so she returns to this place that has hurt her, and stands in front of those who have hurt her. What she wants is not only to find out the truth, but also to be accepted and recognized. , To open up the knot and walk out of the shadows, but it can only be said that Tilly is too simple and underestimated the complexity of human nature.
Molly saw this more thoroughly, she told Tilly, "If you make them beautiful, they will still hate you."
"Tailor" is an excellent fashion group drama, everyone not only dresses beautifully, but also has their own characteristics.
This girl is a hero in the movie, and she didn't even mention her name, but her outfits are all Chinese fabrics with Western tailoring. The girl's fair complexion and slender limbs match this style of dressing very well.
With Tilly's skillful hands, the women in the town have all turned from rural women into fashionable girls.
Among them, the one who has benefited the most is Feige, who is also the third person in the play to approach Tilly because of fashion.
Grid, who first appeared on the stage, has a bad image as bad as it is. She loves William, the rich and handsome small town, but William turns a blind eye to her.
When Grid showed up at the ball in a dress tailored by Tilly for her, everyone was stunned.
I watched this segment of the dance three or four times repeatedly before I was sure that the same actor played Grid before the costume and Grid after the costume.
Grid is different from the previous one, she is the well-deserved prom queen, this is the second intimate contact between fashion and plot.
Seeing this, everyone will surely believe that "people rely on clothing, and Buddhas rely on gold."
Grid won William's love and had a flash marriage with him, but she did not appreciate Tilly for it.
When Tilly was in trouble, Grid not only did not stand up to speak for Tilly, on the contrary, she was the first to join the camp that excluded Tilly and her family.
Molly's words were best confirmed by Grid.
As a supporting role, Grid is also a villain. The number of costumes is not as good as that of the heroine, but the style and suit surpass Tilly.
Gert's costumes are more or less supplemented with red, which is in line with the character setting of her newlyweds; on the other hand, the bright and vivid colors of the costumes are in sharp contrast to the dark and ugly hearts of the characters.
Beautiful clothes may modify the external beauty and ugliness of a person, but they cannot change the good and evil in the heart. "The beauty of beautiful clothes cannot conceal the evil of human nature" is fully reflected in Gert.
Fashion in this film is not only the branch line to highlight the theme content, but also the main line to guide the plot. Every time the plot starts and turns, it is inseparable from the fashion.
The fourth person to approach Tilly because of fashion is Marigold.
Mary Gold is the mayor's wife and Stewart's mother. She was fooled by her husband to think that her son fell from a tree and died.
Marigold found Tilly to customize the dress for Gert's wedding. It was this contact that prompted Tilly to learn from her that the country teacher Beulah was a witness in the case.
Tilly's flanking blows and pressing step by step forced Beulah to confide the truth.
The wedding of Grid and William is not only a fashion feast, but also a plot climax.
At the wedding banquet, the colors of the two people's costumes were particularly eye-catching. Tilly's purple dress and Mary Gold's (mustard) yellow dress were opposite colors, and the color opposition suggested their conflicting identities.
This is the third intimate contact between the film's fashion and the plot, and it is also a fierce spark collision.
The "truth" in Beulah's mouth made Marigold almost crazy, she yelled "Murder" to Tilly.
Tilly couldn't argue, and what was even more unacceptable was that in this conflict, Tilly learned that the despicable and vicious mayor was actually her father.
There was another person going crazy at the wedding-Teddy's disabled brother Barney.
Barney couldn't bear Tilly's grievance, and told the hidden story he had witnessed back then. So far, the truth about the death of the mayor's son has been pieced together and restored.
The truth is clear but it doesn't help. In the hearts of others, Molly, who was abandoned by her lover, is still a slut, and Tilly, who is framed for murder, is also a wild species and murderer.
For Tilly, the only gain is love, but the tide of happiness will not overwhelm her and Teddy in the future, but the shadow of death has enveloped them.
In order to prove that Tilly was not a "cursed person," Teddy jumped from a barn several meters high. This was a game he and the youth of the same village usually gambled with, but this time there was an accident.
Teddy’s death pushed Tilly to the forefront, and the Grid’s grocery store became a hotbed of gossip.
As the saying goes, "Poverty mountains and evil waters lead to troublesome people."
The less crowded the place, the faster the rumors spread.
No one cares what the truth is. Rumors can be deduced into various versions at will, but the final result is only one, that is, the core figure involved in the rumor has become an alien and evil in the minds of others, and once this impression Formation is difficult to change.
The theme of "Tailor" is "human nature", and the entry point is "prejudice", which inevitably reminds me of the film "The Beautiful Legend of Sicily" with a similar theme.
Malena was at least an adult when she was insulted and harmed, and Tilly was only a ten-year-old child when she was framed and murdered.
In fact, the story told by "Tailor" is far more cruel than the former, but the presence of fashion elements has a certain degree of neutralization, weakening the dark temperament and depressive atmosphere of the film, and also adding to the film’s viewing and enjoyment. Interesting.
If the tragedy only comes to an abrupt end to Teddy's death, at most it will only announce that Tilly's self-salvation has failed, but the next two things will completely push Tilly on the road of revenge.
Molly suffered a stroke, and the quack doctor in the small town not only ridiculed her death but also ridiculed her.
Soon after, the quack doctor died unexpectedly, and his assistant planted the charges on Tilly without hesitation. Police officer Farret, who had an unconscionable conscience, charged the charges alone and went to jail.
Family members, lovers, and friends left one after another, and Tilly finally understood the so-called redemption. It is better to save people than to save themselves.
The story begins in fashion and is bound to end in fashion.
The double climax of the whole film's fashion and plot comes in the Summer Poet Concert. This is the fourth intimate contact between fashion and plot.
Tilly made the costumes for the villagers to participate in the competition, but she also accepted the invitation of another group of people.
On the day of the game, the residents of the town led by Gert appeared in Baroque costumes.
These costumes are exquisite and gorgeous, but the colors are mostly dark colors such as gray, blue, and light green. The colors of the costumes are a metaphor for their fate of losing in the game.
On the other hand, the Japanese kimonos worn by the opponents are obviously better, especially the golden kimono that the lead singer is particularly eye-catching.
Yellow represents wealth and authority in the concept of Easterners, and the color of clothes indicates the belonging of victory.
While the game was going on, Tilly ignited a prairie fire in the town. This fire of vengeance destroyed the source of evil and also announced Tilly's Nirvana rebirth.
At the end of the film, Tilly boarded the train going away.
I am more timid about being close to my hometown, and dare not ask anyone.
Behind every hometown that cannot be returned, there must be a sad past.
Unable to look back, stride forward.
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