Unconventional script and unsatisfactory effects

Joaquin 2022-04-21 09:03:44

There are a lot of bright spots in the script itself. One is the reality of the Internet. This part of the plot is quite similar to the "Qiao Biluo" incident that was hyped some time ago, and Claire's identity has introduced another means of blurring the boundary between fiction and reality - writing. The second is to explore the desire and psychology of modern women. The passages from the famous novels that Claire recounts in class in the film happen to refer to several female figures of different historical stages, and they are also projected into her fictional "creation" in some form. For example, from Mariana, who had to rely on servants to resist an arranged marriage in Moliere's "The Hypocrite", to Nora, who ran away voluntarily in Ibsen's "A Doll's House", women gradually awakened in the process of resisting the lewd power of the patriarchal society. , complete the reversal of its own status, from being a male prey and "doll" to a male "doll" predator. And Claire's online dating with Alex as Clara's virtual identity, to a certain extent, is to use this young man as a "doll" to relieve her loneliness and sexual distress - which also led her to see Alex suffering The situation of not being in love with, and feeling guilty after hearing that Alex "suicide", so he made up his own death at the end of the novel to atone for his sins. For another example, Claire admires Duras' "The Lover", and in her novel of redesigning the online dating story, she can not only face her lover Alex as a middle-aged woman over fifty years old, but also face her lover Alex. Make the other person fall in love with her - in Claire's imagination, happiness is like Duras, who can still win the love of Xiao Xianrou at a vicissitudes of life ("I think you are more beautiful now than when you were young. With you I love your devastated face more than the face you looked at back then"), and then enjoy the pleasure of the flesh with him, and read Rilke's super sweet love poem "Goug Out My Eyes" together.

Goug out my eyes and I can still see you, plug my ears and I can still hear you; without feet I can walk to you, without my mouth I can still pray to you. Break my arms and I will still embrace you - with my heart as with my hands. Hold my heart, and my brain will not rest; you set my brain on fire, and I will still trust you with my blood.
A lot of love, far from rhetoric, but still strong and strong, like a silent crater

However, the screenwriters added a lot of elements to the script, but they did not have Duras' talent to design the lines, and the straight-man thinking of director Safy Nebbou seemed to be unable to control the rhythm of the script. As a result, most of the time, he could only rely on Binoche The acting and various close-ups to capture her subtle emotions up orz...

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  • Percy 2022-04-24 07:01:25

    At first, I thought that this film was about something like "another me in the world", where the identity disappears, splitting the fantasy self as a comfort for some kind of unrequited thought. In that "more perfect" world, everything has become easier. Like my life right now. So I especially resonate with the first half of the film. But after reading it, I found that this "virtual" year-end love is more like a body, and its inside is "return to self". In "The Lover", Duras said, "I love your old appearance more than your youthful appearance." Although it is very moving, the reality is often "how many people have admired your youthful appearance." You have to get old. Only if one does not shy away from the truth, one will not lose oneself. Only by letting go of that "more perfect" self will life stop deceiving you. It's well said in Dubliners, we can't give ourselves up, we belong to ourselves.

  • Keenan 2022-03-16 09:01:09

    SIFF. Very exciting. The ridicule and reflection on the fast-paced friendship in the Internet age, and the delicate demonstration of middle-aged women's anxiety about not getting their love, the two parts complement each other and progress interactively. The plot of the book is very similar to "Atonement", and the continuous reversal at the end makes the theme more profound and powerful. The soundtrack is moving. Binoche's acting is as steady as a mountain.

Who You Think I Am quotes

  • Claire Millaud: There is never just one possible ending.

  • Claire Millaud: I am not afraid of dying but Not with being abandoned...

    Claire Millaud: We are never too old to be little... .