The woman Sandra played by Marion Cotillard is a person who has suffered from depression but is recovering but has to be laid off due to the downturn in her company. She is occasionally hysterical, mentally unstable, anxious, suspicious, self-denying, and dependent on drugs. According to Freud's words: "lack of sufficient intellectual control and excessive mental power and energy." She represents a group of psychiatric patients who are destined to be marginalized, separated from and ignored by mainstream social groups in a capital society whose ultimate goal is to pursue profit: they are often not accepted by society because of mental illness and are easily listed at work. As the first rejected person, their treatment and recovery cannot be trusted by everyone, and these suspicions and rejections often aggravate their condition, and the vicious circle continues. And such a group of people, they are labeled by the society with a common label-"depressed patients", under this label, people's understanding and impression of them can not be separated from the symptoms of illness. They are abstracted into concrete and personified representatives of a disease, and the identity of the individual subject is no longer important.
In the case of the Darnet brothers, Sandra is not just such a representative of social and historical grouping. The other side of her repeated neurotic emotional bursting is her painful strength when facing her children. She makes the children’s bed. She is attentive and considerate, and her understanding of her old friends who avoid her...everywhere shows her unique subjectivity. In addition to the scenes of howling and crying and swallowing overdose of antidepressants, the visits and persuasion she visited and persuaded her colleagues gradually revealed her unique way of dealing with and dealing with people. Principles of life. Her image is no longer just a monotonous depression recovery woman under the ingenious close-ups of the Darnet brothers, but kindness, trying to be strong, willing to help others, tolerance... these kind of human nature with warmth. The edges and corners gradually plumped up on her.
As a realistic work, "Two Days and One Night", the plain narrative of its storyline continues to deviate from Hollywood's thrilling business model. The extensive use of close-up shots of characters is also a huge challenge for actors. But it is also the close-up shots they boldly used and the cleverly arranged story structure that make the complex emotions of the characters truly and vividly expressed. Each shot highlights the details, which seems plain, but it is memorable.
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