I think this film focuses on portraying the psychology of women. So in the character setting, 3 main female characters are set, vicky is traditional and rational, christina is romantic and free, and Elena is artistically crazy. There are two male characters with very opposite character traits, one is antonio, who is talented in artistic romance. One is Vicky's good husband, Doug, who is down-to-earth and single-minded.
The character characteristics of each heroine are very obvious. The rational ones are never indulgent, the romantic ones are never rational, and the crazy ones are never normal. The male protagonists have opposite personalities. Antonio is talented and romantic and is a crazy artist. Doug is the most serious office worker in the United States. He is down-to-earth and devoted to love. It is said that the characters should be three-dimensional and full, that is, both positive and negative. From the facial expressions of these characters, I guess that the director did not want to talk about a thing that can happen in ordinary life at all.
The story takes place in Barcelona. Some people say that this is Woody Allen's love letter to Barcelona, and I think it can be seen in all the details. The dim yellow sun by the Mediterranean Sea haunts buildings and deep alleys in Spanish. There is some sort of oil paint powder in the air. From the fast, low chants of the Spanish female voice throughout, "Barcelona." We can seem to feel the romantic and wonderful atmosphere of Barcelona. The narration of this film is also a Woody Allen-style narration, rambles, and turns, adding to the explanatory effect that some actors' performances cannot achieve. Therefore, the film supplemented some details with narration, and put more energy on expressing the feelings of vicky, christina and antonio.
Vicky has dark brown hair, dark brown eyes, and is an MA. She pursues a stable relationship and an insurance lifestyle. In and treating antonio, she began to feel absurd, ridiculous. But at Christina's insistence, they embark on a small town tour of Orvieto. When Christina was sick and bedridden, Vicky subconsciously rejected all the romantic suggestions that Antonio put forward. She subconsciously rejected all possibilities of insecurity. But even after she and antonio played the guitar late at night and they had a relationship, she was suddenly lost. She once thought she was holding on to her love with her fiancé Doug, and she lost the self-control she thought she had.
Christina is the image of a typical American girl. Blonde, plump figure, dismissive gesture. Art students. The most revealing sentence of her character said in this film is: I don't know what I want, I only know what I don't want. But it's better than vicky, vicky doesn't know what he wants, and he doesn't know what he doesn't want. She is the one who is completely lost. She blindly walks the path of life without danger and without scenery that her predecessors have traveled. Christina is charming, sensual, romantic, and never rejects any possibility that life offers her. She's good at appreciating new things and feelings, and I think she's looking. It seems that her state of life is to keep looking.
Elena is a beautiful Spanish girl. She appeared to be poisoned when she came out. Because of the previous foreshadowing, I knew that she faced Antonio with a knife. She also took precautions against people. For example, on the first day, she rummaged through Christina's suitcase without permission. She said, "How do I know you won't kill me? I thought about killing you." She Such an extreme woman.
But after she saw the photos Christina took, she admired her talent and spirituality from the bottom of her heart and went out with her to take photos. She is direct and talented. She speaks English in a completely different state than her native language. She can express a sense of wildness and power in her native language. Her long wet hair, deep facial features, almost crazy explosiveness in her native language, those limbs The gestures on her make her as charming as a witch. This may be the charm of the mother tongue.
At this time, the feelings between antonio and christina and Elena appeared. This is the relationship I am most infatuated with. Elena said, "You're like a blender of paint between the two of us, and the picture is even more beautiful with you." And, "I'm happy to hear you guys have sex like crazy at night." That's what makes them different from ordinary people. Bar. In the traditional concept, love is the loyalty and singleness of a man and a woman. But in fact, love has other ways of existence, such as homosexuality, such as three people. The same-sex kiss between C and E in the darkroom allows us to see many possibilities for love. Christina said: "I was very troubled at first, and then I thought of all kinds of measures of love, what is right and what is wrong, what is ethical, but you look at how many screwed up relationships?" Elena said, Incomplete love is the most beautiful. All of these, how beautiful, are they all contrary to the secular regulations of love?
Christina enjoys everything that life throws at her and refuses to label herself anything. To enjoy or to give up this kind of life is her pursuit of what she really wants. She didn't know what she wanted, so she could only give up what she didn't want.
Because the film focuses on describing the psychology of women, both men appear simple and one-sided in the arrangement of male roles. Antonio is a romantic artist, he said, "The city is so beautiful, the night is so charming, and we are alive, isn't that enough?" He invited two strange women to the town for the weekend, and his romance with elena and christina, You can see that he is a sentimental, casual, and kind person. He lived the life of an artist, both in terms of life and emotions.
And Doug is an American white-collar person who lives an ordinary life, has the most normal values, loves his wife, and is dedicated to his feelings. For his future, we can even imagine it according to the usual ideals, a stable marriage life, having a child, a promotion, maybe cheating, forgiveness, and living trivial things together. This is the ordinary life that each of us can foresee. But I can't guarantee that one day I will get tired of this kind of stereotype, and I can't resist the temptation of extramarital affairs when I am as old as Judy.
This film has a lot of passionate scenes, but there are not a lot of passionate scenes. It stops at the point, without procrastination or tediousness, but it makes the audience fascinated by imagination, which is also the great trick of all works of art. Expensive in the aftertaste, by no means a naked glance.
Everyone in the film becomes a nearly symbolic face. Everyone can more or less see their own shadow in the movie. It's like a mirror, reflecting you directly. The director broke vicky's rational grasp of himself. He made reason absurd and made love a new form. The exotic artistic atmosphere of Barcelona's orange sunshine became a foil, a metaphor for love that "humans have not learned for thousands of years" . In this romantic city, it seems easier to approach the essence of human love. Crazy, lost, looking. Life and love, if you don't truly love and feel yourself, how can there be any truth at all? !
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