In Rio de Janeiro in the 1950s, a pair of youthful sisters exchange little secrets.
Sister Euridice is obsessed with piano and wants to study music in Vienna, while sister Guida is secretly in love, planning a tryst with her sailor boyfriend, and even eloping.
When Guida came home alone with her child, there was no warmth of family reunion, only the deceit of her father and the indifference of her out of the house.
Since then, it has been the parallel and staggered lives of the sisters for more than 60 years.
Compared with her younger sister, her sister Guida is more brave and unrestrained. Bravely eloping with a boyfriend who is in love, and bravely leaving the person who is not worthy of trust; after being kicked out of the house, bravely breaking up with a cold family, and bravely becoming a single mother.
The result of her bravery was a single mother who was not accepted by the society, who worked hard to live alone and struggled at the bottom of the society; she wanted to go to Vienna to find her sister, but she could not apply for a passport for her child because she did not have the authorization of the father.
In the film, after Guida gave birth, the neighbor asked her if she was a boy or a girl. When she learned that it was a boy, the neighbor woman said: "He is so lucky."
Sister Euridice is an obedient and good daughter. With the ideal of learning music, she got married and became pregnant under the arrangement of her parents, and she moved away from her dream life step by step. Euridice's husband seems to love her, is gentle and close to her, but behind it is absolute domination in terms of sex, ignoring his wife's dreams, hiding letters from his sister... The film shows that twice Euridice and her husband are not at all beautiful In an age when there are no contraceptives and women have absolutely no reproductive freedom, she has to become a mother, a housewife, a role she is required to be.
The two sisters have missed each other for a long time, and they both thought that each other was living a happy life in another time and space. The film's cross-narratives and parallel editing are merciless, and fatally show the two people struggling in the quagmire of their lives.
There was a moment when the sisters were almost reunited in a restaurant, the music pushed the mood high, but in the end there was only one missing back.
The cinematography of this film is exquisite, and the image quality is excellent. Especially in terms of color, whether it is the large area of green in the tropical rain forest, the high-saturation dress of the two sisters, the use of light and shadow, the creation of a contrasting color environment, and even the neon aesthetics that appear in several places, every frame of the film is full of pictures. Oil painting.
They should have had a colorful life, not an invisible life. After watching it, I understood the title of the movie.
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