After staying at home to watch a movie, I finally waited for Sofia Coppola's "Under the Peony". Listening to the familiar southern accent and looking at the friendly people of the southern United States, I can hardly love such a super-classical and advanced science-style film. This film is very Sofia Coppola, with casual restraint of perspective but no lack of details. It reminds me of "When Will the Moon Come" directed by Xu Anhua, who also talks about war. Coppola brings out the delicate and forbearing characteristic of female directors, revealing the subtle and complex human nature of the war calmly. He came at dawn and left before sunset. Everything seems to be just a spring dream, licking this unchanging southern town.
Sophia Coppola is still so capricious, and has not deliberately catered to the current hot notions of political correctness in the United States. She simply told a story. A story about the psychology of a woman.
Because I was in the real situation and spent my most important college career in the Southern Girls’ School in the United States, I can actually understand the xenophobic psychology of the Southern Conservative Girls’ School. Not to mention the Civil War, the Southern Girls’ School hundreds of years later is still the same.
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