The most large and complex image should be Carol's house itself. It is Kahlo's "private realm". The cracks in the house are the disintegration of the private realm (and the telephone and doorbells that constantly invade the private realm). When facing outsiders, Kahlo keeps retreating into it and cohesive. Later, the house itself gradually evolved into a kind of refraction and mental illusion of Kahlo himself. After Carol murdered and hid the corpse (in the bathtub), with Carol’s sight, the appearance of the house suddenly changed completely. The originally narrow and tight arrangement became a long corridor, and the lonely and dark vacant house. At the end of the corridor is the bathtub. . Of course, there is also the narrow corridor that thinks it is Avalokitesvara Avalokitesvara to touch Kahlo.
There are countless images of disgusting and disgusting. Rotten rabbit meat, the mouth squirming when the old woman in the beauty salon talks.... The subject of disgust suddenly shifted to the suitor (again, a close use of the elements), when his three or five friends regarded his love as a sexual mischief, but the male protagonist (?) just took on this. Five minutes after the appointment, he received a bento under the beating of Carol, who was holding the pedestal, and the rest of the scene could only be lying in the bathtub obediently.
There are also crazy images. Three buskers playing music hunched across the road, the deformed Kahlo's face reflected on the steel surface of the kettle. After about the first half of the film, whenever Carol had a chance to get something like a knife, I would start to get horrified.
The question is, why does such a densely structured and precise movie make me feel so tiring when I watch it? Probably the oppressive, sensitive and shrinking emotions are too dense, for too long. And Polanski’s sense of humor came out of place for me. A sense of humor is very suitable for dealing with some kind of silent madness. The only funny thing about Polanski in this film is before the actor is beaten, and when Sister Caro and her sister's boyfriend go home, it really doesn't help. Towards the end, the camera shone out of the window and saw three humpback street performers playing brisk music. Deal with madness and sadness with a joyous atmosphere. These can actually appear long ago, but they only show up twice at the end. These all make certain passages a little boring and less charming.
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