There is a saying. Lonely people always say it doesn't matter. A palpable tone of duplicity. The key is to see what kind of people it is.
What a teenage child says will be laughed at by adults as a teenager who doesn't know how to feel sad. What young people say is a kind of petty bourgeois attitude of self-pity and self-pity. If it is a middle-aged person who says this, it is mostly a feeling of helplessness and self-comfort.
In this way, the most suitable person to say this sentence is obviously a middle-aged person over 30 years old.
Especially a single, unmarried woman over thirty.
"Bad English" tells the story of a single woman and loneliness in her thirties. Living alone in an empty apartment, a decent job, and the occasional party make up the life of a single woman, Nora. Boredom is arguably the hallmark word of Nora's life. No boyfriend, no family, no children, it's scary for a woman who is already thirty-five years old. Although the figure is still pretty good, there is not much obvious fat, but the skin is not as moist as it was when I was in my twenties, and there are already faint crow's feet in the corners of the eyes. Time was warning the woman that it would be a much longer period of terrifying loneliness.
Lover, lover, boyfriend. Suddenly, those words made a huge difference, on this planet of lust. From the era of talking about sex change to the era of talking about sex change, most of the time, we are with one person, eat together, sleep and have sex, go shopping, and share each other's life. However, they found that it was always difficult to define the relationship between them. Familiarity in the body could not create understanding in the soul. So, we all panic. Like Nora, she never wanted to talk about love, even when she was naked in a man's arms.
The film examines the love and life of middle-aged single women from a delicate perspective unique to women, which is very simple and life-like, without too much exaggeration. The beginning of the film shows a woman's preparations for a party, choosing clothes, make-up and wearing jewelry. All actions and behaviors are very life-like and typical, capturing a single woman before her appointment in less than five seconds of camera time. Some necessary preparations. But not the usual excitement, but very lazy.
From the beginning to the end, the overall rhythm of the film is unusually slow and lazy, just like Nora's state of mind, she is used to the peaceful life of being single, and doesn't want anything to change her, life is just a pool quiet lake. The sudden appearance of anyone, especially men, is a bit of a surprise for Nora. It is like the ripples caused by a stone thrown into the quiet lake. It is only a moment, and slowly the lake will return to the past. calm.
Therefore, Nora is a contradictory woman who is used to being alone but is unwilling to continue being alone. She yearns for some turbulence in a peaceful life but is afraid of being hurt. On the surface, Nora, who works hard and has a strong personality, has been taking sedatives behind the scenes. Insecurities about love and life make Nora suffer from severe anxiety. You can imagine how many men Nora met in her life, but they all started and ended in the same way. Eating, gossiping to having sex, all these things happen in less than half a day, and all of them have no results. If it is not easy to find a man immediately for marriage, it is even more difficult to find a man for love.
Nora, who finally appeared in the film, became the epitome of most middle-aged single women. She was lonely and frightened. It was difficult to express her feelings in words when she met a man. A quick one-night stand. How fragile and nerve-wracking it is to be grieving like Nora that a man who only slept for one night has a new girlfriend. Until
I met Julian from France, this typical French man with a cheerful, warm and romantic nature, different from the dating routine of any man in the past, brought a little bright color to Nora's life. However, Nora really let herself go completely because of this. She was still scared and uneasy, and she still didn't know what kind of relationship she had with Julian.
From New York to Paris, from Paris to New York. Two men and women who don't speak the language of each other's countries very well have the most amazing love chemistry. Language has become the weakest means of expressing feelings in the film, but the inner feelings of the characters, and some subtle feelings make a sweet love. All the way to Paris to find Julian's Nora is also a journey to find her true self. Sometimes, life just needs some stimulation, a complete abandonment of all indulgences, in order to find and discover what is in your heart the most.
The film is a bitter and sweet romantic comedy, positioned as a comedy because the film will always make you laugh at some inadvertent little details. Without the gorgeous and exquisite pictures and characters in the usual romantic comedies, this film is very simple and life-like. When showing Nora's inner hesitation about love, it also shows that Nora's best friend, as a married woman, is equally hesitant about love and marriage.
The actress Parker Posey, who has often appeared in independent films, gave Nora the most authentic sense of loneliness, blinking frequently, trying to be very charming and sexy in front of men, some trivial little gestures, and the anxiety disorder is insecure. The sexy woman plays very well. The actor's delicate performance method also comes from the director Zoe R. Cassaveze, who is a woman. He has always insisted on carefully sculpting the actor's performance. Only by grasping the character's state of mind can invisible loneliness and fear become tangible. The image is good for the story.
As always, the film still has a happy ending. An unusually dramatic encounter brought the two protagonists together again, and the film ended with Nora's bright smile. I don't like this ending too much, such miracles are too few and too few in real life. I would rather see Nora eventually return to New York alone, but already another person, through a fruitless search, to fully realize what she wants, I think this film may be more inspiring Aftertaste.
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