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Everyone’s heart is an island-all the time.
Even the beloved of the party is right beside him, closing his eyes to keep this moment of infinite greed.
Always, what we choose to talk and listen to is only our inner monologue.
And most of them are feelings that cannot be talked or understood.
Tom Ford's debut work may be different from most people's impressions (or prejudices) of him before.
He was previously known for playing the G word between the palms of his hands, challenging people's definition of sexiness, with American aggressiveness, and an invincible genius in business.
Always maintaining a perfect figure, and the excessive injection of botox on his face, also made people suspicious of his narcissism.
This movie proves that he is a man with classical feelings, a renaissance man, a true romantic. What
he strives to explore and interpret is also the classical philosophical propositions of isolation and connection that seem to be out of date.
This film also reveals his American style of work again: it is not an unprecedented creation, it has clear references, but it mixes and mixes its own style.
For example, clips that pay tribute to Hitchcock and Almodóvar; such as the scenery and clothing of the 1960s; and the music of Mei Linmao (In the mood for love, 2046), which has collaborated with Wong Kar Wai many times.
He was confident about what he wanted, and he finished in just 21 days. The details were taken into consideration, and even the vending machine for selling Coke was meticulously looking for the iron leather floor with the most design sense at the time.
George spread the gray and black suit jacket he had prepared behind him on the table, the Mercedes cyan classic car, and even the bright black revolver used to commit suicide.
Even the Cowherd that I met at the door of the grocery store was also James Dean's appearance, too stunned and beautiful.
This is a natural expression of his talent and taste-an unavoidable fatal injury, which is naturally used as an excuse for criticism.
Although this is the truth in his mind. In his heart, he experienced the beautified fantasy precipitated by time.
What saved the whole film is truthfulness.
First he found Colin Firth. This man, who is also Virgo, also experienced ups and downs.
Since 1995 when Mr. Darcy appeared in the BBC TV series Pride and Prejudice became popular, he has experienced a long period of silence.
Bridget Jone's Diary, who brought him back to life in 2001, also played a modern version of Mr. Darcy.
No wonder the film critic Richard Corliss of Time Magazine called this "the role of a life time for Colin Firth."
When winning the prize at the Venice Film Festival, Firth, who had always been calm and calm, choked up a few times, with tears faintly in his eyes.
He married his current wife Livia and gave birth to children. It has been 14 years and he has not been accepted by her family for a long time. Although he is fluent in Italian when delivering the award speech.
Most of his previous feelings were invested in the filming, and the drama was true. Also a long-loving man.
George in the film is introverted and clear, with strong and sensitive emotions and not easy to reveal.
Jim is like a light, igniting his island. Later, Kenny was so young and persistent, with an ignorant and fearless brute force.
In the established order of the adult world, it takes such effort to make people believe in love and unreserved true feelings.
It is almost painful to be aware.
So chatting madly, swimming in the sea at night. (This section of music is particularly beautiful, by Abel Korzeniowski)
Repeated rehearsal, several shots of simulating suicide by swallowing a gun, reminded me of the scene where Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung tried to break up in the Mood for Love.
It takes a very idealized person to throw himself to the end of life just like squeezing out a cigarette butt.
On George's last day, there was nostalgia from time to time. Everything around him seemed to be the first sight, with divine light, more beautiful than reality and memory.
Charley of Julianne Moore is also lifelike. It's not just an authentic London voice.
She also experienced disillusionment and loss. The old relationship with George has gradually evolved into friendship and family. Her maternal embrace is George's subconscious destination when he experiences drastic changes.
She is brave. She is timid. Like all women, she has a lot of unsatisfactory feelings.
George said that his feelings for Jim are not a substitute for the feelings of men and women, and that his feelings for Jim can never be replaced.
But human beings like the new and hate the old, the motivation to move forward is to give themselves hope, and hope that there will be grass in front of them.
Afterwards, Kenny's appearance was not a substitute.
Kenny is so reckless with sincerity and familiarity.
I thought that Nicholas Hoult acted very real.
Perhaps when people are young, they do not restrain their hormones too much, illusion that they can save themselves and the people they love.
I am also willing to expose my emotions completely. This made the middle-aged man under the mask and routine especially shocked.
This passage reminds me of the love between the original author Christopher Isherwood and his lover Don Barchardy.
They met on the beach in Santa Monica, California on Valentine's Day. The age difference between the two is almost 30 years old. He was a minor boy at the time.
This relationship lasted until Isherwood passed away at the age of 81.
Tom Ford's own emotional experience is similar.
He was a sexy idol in his early years-shooting dozens of commercials a year, naturally there is no shortage of women's favor. He didn't realize his sexuality until he moved to New York and appeared in the nightclub Studio 54.
He was only in his early 20s when he met Richard Buckley, his 20-year-old lover. For 23 years, I have never left.
What is not well known is that when he accepted the job of Gucci and moved to Italy, it was also after Richard had cancer surgery that the two changed their environment together.
This drama may seem to outsiders to be a topical film with beautiful visuals and an outstanding selling point (sex and heterosexual audiences take it all), but I think it is very personal.
This is Tom Ford's private log, recording his transformation from boy to man, from Kenny to George.
It is also his most sincere emotion for his lover.
Bravo!
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