Natalie Portman is still the poignant black swan back then, and I'm not what I used to be

Haylie 2022-04-19 09:01:27

The last time I saw Natalie Portman on the big screen was five years ago. I was still watching Thor 2 in a small cinema in Zhangqiu. Over the years, whether I am watching "Song to Song", "Stealing Heart", "Story of Love and Darkness" at home, or watching "Leon" in an elective course, Natalie's appearance in my heart does not seem to have changed. It has always been just 18. When I was old, it was like the black swan I saw when I first tasted the forbidden fruit. That wonderful lipwork is shocking even today, that's when I started to fall in love with her. She seldom smiled, her brows were clenched all the time, her eyes were sunken year by year, and tears seemed to fall at any moment. The stories that happened to her, either her lover cheated or her betrayal, were always torturous and heartbreaking. Twenty-four years ago, at the age of 13, she asked if life was so difficult, or was it just as a child. The answer is, always. Such a beautiful woman is the love of spiritual casting directors. She is a spiritual ballerina, a spiritual Jewish mother, a spiritual stripper, and a spiritual wife of the President. She is sensitive, gloomy, silent, always erecting a sharp thorn facing the world around her. It seems that her love is always difficult, suppressing her desires, following the rules of the world, but at a loss. Sometimes I think she wants to be like Keira Knightley, and at least there are a few costume dramas where the prince and princess come together, but for her, such a story with an easy ending just doesn't work. This may be due to the sadness, gloom, and indeterminacy that are engraved in the soul of every Jew. Let her, who is only 37 years old, endure an age that she should not bear. The horror atmosphere of "annihilation" is well created, and some of my timid friends even dare not open their eyes. I didn't expect to see R-rated films in mainland theaters. I probably grew up in my mental age. It's cool to see mutant creatures. The colorful non-plant and non-animal spreads have a kind of cult aesthetic. But whether mutant animals cannibalize people, lesbians, or cut scenes of erotic violence, these are still small means to avoid sci-fi movie audiences sleeping. Some netizens said that watching a movie is not only about what it says, but also what it makes you think about. I think science fiction will eventually return to philosophical propositions. Who are we, where do we come from, where are we going? Every cell is copied and divided, so does the world keep repeating itself? Humans create so much garbage and destroy so many creatures. Will the earth follow suit to create disasters for human beings? Humans transform from tiny fertilized eggs into unique individuals. Children become like their parents because they were all part of their parents. The repetition of life is unavoidable, all we can do is to be alone, and to do the right thing is to be the right person. Speaking to the small, your life is your reflection, you meet what kind of person you are, how you treat others is how others treat you, and what you are like your children are like. In a big way, how human beings treat the earth is how the earth treats human beings, isn't it? Of course, the original author is an excellent writer who defeated "Three-Body Problem" and won the Nebula Award after all. How can his profound thoughts be guessed by Chinese audiences who can't read English novels. But this movie made me not just feel scary or good, it made me want to think about what it was trying to tell us, and I thought it was a meaningful and worth watching movie. I'm also not the naive audience I used to be. The climax of the film is that the heroine finds a beacon that gives birth to life, which is obviously a metaphor for the son of a woman. Gong, where she cloned another self, and that self successfully destroyed shimming and saved humanity. Is it conceivable that we are not alone in this world, but also have the same self, who has been with us all the time, experiencing our experience and feeling our feelings. It may make us happy, or it may help us avoid possible disasters. I want to say thank you, bro. But in fact, when I was 17 years old when I was bored, I changed the channel to a movie, in which a girl dancing in a green dress was very elegant. At that time, I was He bowed down under those eyes that looked forward to flying. It was only a year later that I learned that the movie was called "The Other Pauline Girl" and that girl was Natalie Portman. Every encounter in the world is a reunion after a long absence.

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Extended Reading
  • Flo 2022-03-21 09:01:22

    The end of the movie is like a screensaver, and I don’t remember anything in the main movie.

  • Fiona 2022-03-22 09:01:20

    When Meitu Xiuxiu dazzles the world

Annihilation quotes

  • Lena: The mutations were subtle at 1st; more extreme as we got closer to the lighthouse. Corruptions of form. Duplicates of form.

    Lomax: Duplicates?

    Lena: [She looks at the tattoo on her arm & lifts her arm up] Echoes.

    Lomax: Is it possible these were hallucinations?

    Lena: I wondered that myself... but they were shared among all of us. It was dreamlike.

    Lomax: Nightmarish?

    Lena: Not always. Sometimes it was beautiful.

    [the movie then cuts back in time to show beautiful translucent single-tailed wormfish swimming alongside double-tailed duplicates. Lena is in a canoe on a swamp located quite near to a corpse that bears the same tattoo as Lena]

    Lena: Oww. Ow.

    [She clutches her arm - there is no tattoo yet. However, a dark blue mark has appeared at the same place on her arm]

    Cass Sheppard: You're hurt?

    Lena: It's just a bruise. I must have gotten that from the gator.

  • Dr Ventress: It's not like us... it's unlike us. I don't know what it wants, or if it wants, but it'll grow until it encompasses everything. Our bodies and our minds will be fragmented into their smallest parts until not one part remains... Annihilation.