Author: Fox Fairy
Human desires are nothing more than material desires and spiritual desires, and neither kind of satisfaction is enough to feel happy. And spiritual desires contain at least two kinds—love and sex. They are neither noble nor vulgar, but a natural choice in the depths of everyone's heart. The movie "Ammonite" discussed today is, in another way, a work of art of love and lust.
This is a film dedicated to women, but also a film dedicated to same-sex love, but also dedicated to the film of an era. Therefore, some people call "Ammonite" a work of art, believing that a scene and a thing, a candle, a sea, a hand, and a foot in the film are all expressing and telling. If I hadn't watched this movie, I must have felt that she was exaggerating, in fact, I really think she was exaggerated without seriously tasting the details of the movie, but slowly chewing on the characters in the film, I will find that all the things around them are vivid, they cooperate with them, they set off them, they make their love, deep into the hearts of the people.
Let's start with the heroine of the film, Kate Winslet.
Love Kate. Winslet is not the young and beautiful Rose in Titanic, but the middle-aged and fat Hannah in "Life and Death Reading". In "Life and Death Reading", Hannah is thirty-six years old when she meets the sixteen little fresh meat Mick, but with a plump body, Mick is attracted to Hannah's body, and Hannah is attracted to Mick's knowledge, because he reads to her, opening up another colorful world for her. She was immersed in the ocean of knowledge, listening silently, not saying a word, but several times bursting into tears.
Years later, he became a lawyer after she worked as a concentration camp guard and was indicted as a Nazi. At this time, Kate has changed from the beauty, sexiness, and style of her thirties to the vicissitudes, clumsiness, and dullness of her forties. In court, she answered all questions in the most succinct, cold and rude way. Hurt by life, she only did not want others to know that she did not recognize words, confessed to the confession, and confessed to the sin that should not belong to her.
Arguably, Kate. Winslet uses his acting skills to provoke the spiritual core of the film.
What is touching is that in "Ammonite", her performance has become more and more mature. Stout and old, she is like a peasant woman, but she interprets this not beautiful same-sex love to touch people's hearts, and the emotions and sex like a storm make people surprised and amazed.
Mary, played by Kate, is a well-known fossil expert in England (history is true), because of her three major discoveries, making her famous in the scientific community, but she did not change her life, she and her mother usually rely on the sea to pick up some small stones to make crafts to sell, in order to maintain their basic life.
Obviously she has strength, but she lives so depressed, because of her lonely and cold personality, and even more because she is a woman. She is like a hermit, obsessed with studying her fossils, ignoring the outside world, but there are still people who come to her. A noble gentleman from London came to her to ask her about the process of identifying fossils, and within a few days he lost patience, but left his wife, who was mildly depressed, to her and went on an expedition abroad alone.
That's where the story begins.
The other heroine in the film, Silsa. Ronan. The 26-year-old has a very good performance in the 2020 release of "Little Women", in which she plays the beautiful, kind and independent heroine Joe. In "Little Women" played by the heroine Joe is eye-catching, not only sweet looks, her acting skills are also very superb, 13-year-old she has been nominated for an Oscar, "Miss Bird" after the release, won the award to get soft, some people say that she is the future Aunt Mei, in "Ammonite" she is bold, natural, completely able to catch Kate's play.
In "Ammonite", she plays charlotte, the wife of an aristocratic gentleman, beautiful, melancholy and lonely. Hiding in the room every day, unwilling to go out, like a small sheep to be slaughtered, sometimes with the idea of taking his own life. During a serious illness, she was carefully cared for by Mary, and the two gradually became fond of each other in a short period of time together, but there was no ambiguity, but after a concert, Mary suddenly broke out, and she watched the young and beautiful Charlotte quickly integrate into the social circle and talk freely with the other wives. Silent, she sat like a needle felt, from irritation to anger to sadness, Mary used her expression to extend all the psychological layers silently, until she rushed out of the concert hall and sat sadly at home to write a small poem, I knew that she had fallen in love with Charlotte.
How did they fall in love?
The film does not deliberately perform, carefully recalled, in fact, it is also a dark foreshadowing. When Charlotte was sick, she silently stayed by her side, not hesitating to ask for medicine from the people she hated, watching the helpless little woman slowly get better under her own care, and her cold heart melted little by little. It was about the first time that she had cared for a man in this way, like the little prince taking care of the rose in his hand, which had been infused with her emotions, and the rose looked the same as the other five thousand roses, but only the one was his.
After the health of Charlotte, she is lively, cheerful, and pretty, and although she is already a wife, she does not have a trace of the dirty atmosphere that has struggled in the red dust. On the surface, she and Mary are people of two worlds, but in fact, they are both pure inside. Mary's heart is quiet and pure, like a clear stream, living in her own world. She is not very expressive, arrogant and cold, living in her own world, but she is as lonely as Charlotte. The true connection of hearts and minds not only transcends age, time and space, but also informality. They complement each other in personality and are consistent in spirit, and when they gradually approach and see the true side of each other, the spark of love quietly shines...
If the beginning of love is the connection of love, then sex is the sublimation of love.
To solve the deepest loneliness in a person's heart, it must be the person who is close to your temperament. The most wonderful thing about love is not only to touch the scars of the years in the mind and body, but also to stimulate a maximum potential. When they know each other's intentions, they no longer hide their inner desires, and like lovers in love, passionately embrace, kiss each other deeply, in the cottage, in the sea, on the beach...
Never seen lust between the same sex, used to be unaccustomed, from the depths of the heart there was always a little rejection. Before watching this movie, I didn't know that it was a same-sex film, it may be that the film made me understand Mary little by little, and even longed for her to have a love from the bottom of my heart, breaking her lonely and lonely life.
When Charlotte saw Mary's love and took the initiative to express her feelings, they suddenly exploded, they knew that their time together was very short, so they cherished and warmed up, and the strong love made them melt again and again in each other's bodies...
It turns out that same-sex love is not inferior at all.
This is the first time I have watched sex between the same sex, watching "Color Ring" without the slightest touch, watching "Ammonite" even saw the heart beat, full of red face. To say this is not to be pretentious, but to be attracted by their repressed and fierce love first, and then to be shocked by their bold and brave love.
It turns out that their love is no different from the love of the opposite sex, equally great and brave, equally narrow and limited. They completely subverted my previous understanding of same-sex love. "Broken Arm Mountain", released in 2005, only watched the first part every time, I couldn't watch it, although I have always respected the love between the same sex, but as soon as I saw two big men making love, I had a headache.
Why did I watch the intimate action in "Ammonite" in its entirety this time, I think it originated from Kate. Winslet's performance.
Born in 1975, she is better than Nicole, who was born in 1967. Kidman looked a few years older, especially her stout figure, losing the femininity of a woman. However, she is so unique in the film, like a well, like the moon on a winter night, and like a faint but always unquenchable lamp, she imprisoned herself, both pure and turbid, both inferior and strong. She does not need the pity and help of others, but silently resists the pressure of the outside world; she is silent, wrapped in a thick layer of "armor" that no one can easily walk into; she is so inferior and shy, she needs the people she loves to get closer and warmer step by step.
Charlotte's arrival was like throwing a stone in a well, and the splash of water awakened her deepest longing.
It's just that their love, destined to be a beautiful dream, will soon wake up. In less than six weeks, they were separated. After separation is lovesickness and anticipation. After receiving Charlotte's letter, she was like a child, happily taking care of her luggage and running to her. However, when confronted with charlotte's desire to take her in, it infuriated her fragile and sensitive heart, and she was like an unreasonable child, angrily accusing Charlotte of her kindness.
Her rebuke was not so much Charlotte's self-assertion as it was hurting her self-esteem and touching her sore spots. Poor and poor, she is more self-respecting and arrogant than anyone else, and she needs love and understanding, not sympathy. So, she didn't hesitate to step out of the world that didn't belong to her.
The film ends with openness, where they meet in a museum and look at each other speechless.
I hope they don't see each other again, and this kind of love may always stay in the best moment. In that era, don't say two women, even if two men love each other, there will be no good end, love will only become a disaster for them.
The film ends, the love of the two people can not see the light, but like a wisp of fragrance, lit in the bedroom, continuously. This is conducive to the dedication of the two heroines, which simply makes people suspect that they are really same-sex lovers, so devoted. Especially Kate. Winslet's performance, restrained, understated, subtle, but contains a wealth of emotions, like a thick cloud, a warm wind blows, the rain falls in a hurry, but it is so dense and quite restrained.
Note: After writing this film review, in fact, I want to thank Adai, the film was recommended by her, I did have some feelings when I watched it at the time, but I wrote a little, but I couldn't write it, she has written all the wonderful parts of the movie, written so deeply, even if I have some emotion, I can't write her deep affection. However, for more than a month, seeing that she would send Winslet every day, she was like going into a pit, like a silly girl, obsessed and persistent. Today, she said that only if I write, I can save her, although she is laughing, I still promised her, which is also a respect for this movie.
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