Narrative Skills, the burden of layers of development, is the most profound part of the film.
So, I would first define it as the beautiful narrative technique of melodrama
, the beginning and the end of the two lines running side by side. Then it mixes, and the two perspectives describe that part of the mix, respectively, and then merge again. Divide again and end with a confluence.
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The plot is so detailed and intricate, so the overall style of the film is rationalism. Emotions are in a completely repressed position in the film. In the story, it is due to the strict tutoring of the uncle; but more importantly, in the entire film framework, the characters' emotions are also tightly controlled in the narrative skills, and the lines and viewpoints are carefully selected. They can't say one more word in inappropriate places and show one more look, because the burden will be exposed in advance. The reason why the film is less emotionally touching is because this emotional inhibition is more derived from technical control and then the
theme. Love is not the theme, family love is not the theme, and feelings are not the theme. The non-gay subject
identity is the key word
's yearning for others and infatuation with oneself. The predicament of identity and
the people who escaped from slaves want their daughters to be ordinary. The mother in the quagmire of poverty is afraid that her daughter will continue to be embarrassed.
Both mothers have fulfilled their wishes, and
two unrelated people have become confused by this exchange. Both were offered the opportunity to become another self, but still couldn't resist the possibility of another.
Is their love for each other out of confusion about "unfamiliarity" or infatuation with "self"?
See how a few key characters are connected - their nodes are: homosexuality, obscene books, and elopement
are the film's biggest undercurrents. Sex and love are a huge magnetic field that brings together the originally divided plot elements.
Talk about the details. Pretty refined movie. Pay great attention to the use of symbols. The hand is the main intention of the film. Fingersmith, can be a thief, is the profession of the protagonist, and symbolizes the stealing of identity. At the same time, the hand also serves as a sex organ. Put on your gloves, fingers on the library floor.
Overall a well-made drama!
Back to the general style again. Compared with textualism, the main and most memorable part of the film is completed by plot and rhetoric, and the video part itself is reduced to a subsidiary. The imaging part is not very invasive to people. On the contrary, the blue-white-red series is a typical one that relies on the emotional layout of video music to complete the theme.
The biggest regret of the film: the ending is not strong enough, I don’t know when it started, the plot starts to move forward in a rhythm, and finally ends without pain or itching. The melodrama, which ends with the protagonist's emotional confession, is unfortunate. Because the whole feeling is suppressed. In the end, I suddenly did such a love confession, but it didn't work. Lack of emotional foreshadowing.
Last but not least, is my personal subjective judgment record. Beautiful, with a surprise. But not infatuated. The narrative skills, the use of symbols, the switching between the beginning and the end of the two-line story, and the narrative rhythm are all worthy of admiration. Aesthetically nothing special.
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