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As we all know, "The Phantom Sewer" is the film of Daniel Day-Lewis, the only three-time Academy Award winner. Born in 1957, he plays the head of the leading family of London fashion tailors in the 1950s, "Reynolds Woodcock". It is said that in order to play the role of tailor, he spent 1 year learning how to sew a dress.
The whole play is like a delicate oil painting, and every shot is beautiful. Daniel Day-Lewis's impeccable acting skills bring out a talented seamstress full of personal charm, concentration, stubbornness, intellectualism and fragility.
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Some people jokingly called it an R-rated adult romance. However, the whole play does not have a set of "inappropriate for children" scenes. There are even a few scenes of holding hands and kissing. But he is indeed a cold and down-to-earth love film, in a specific era and professional background, interpreting the love and entanglement between a man and a woman.
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Reynolds is more than half a hundred years old, childless, not married, living a life of a sewer every day, and when he gets up, he must trim his beard and be meticulous, wearing red high socks, and the gentleman's dress is unchanged, cold and arrogant. Such an emotionally wandering, career-focused prodigal son who lacked maternal love in his childhood met Alma, a waiter, when he went to a country restaurant to dine.
Alma was young, but not pretty, with a tall figure.
After the first date, he took her back to his home, which was also his studio. Tailor her and treat her as your own goddess.
Alma did not refuse.
In this way, the female protagonist walked into the world of the male protagonist with the doubts of the people around her and a little trembling.
However, such a career-focused man, even after establishing a lover relationship, still chose not to be disturbed, leaving himself room for solitude, and he let Alma live in the bedroom next door to him.
This kind of imminent separation makes the heroine more addictive.
In the career, the two people support each other, and the female protagonist becomes the model and assistant of the male protagonist.
At work, they are full of tacit understanding. In addition to life, in the career they support each other and recognize each other.
However, with the deepening of the work, the female protagonist gradually found that the male protagonist had to tailor for countless royal families and nobles every day, and even had to smile at these female guests.
Until the appearance of the elegant royal princess, the heroine overturned the vinegar jar.
Because of the needs of work, she can endure the male protagonist's imminent departure every day. However, emotionally, for a princess, he also needs to pay ambiguous care, which the heroine cannot tolerate.
She sent away all the staff and servants, even the sister of the male protagonist, to create a space for 2 people to be alone, and then confide in her heart.
But although she changed into a fancy dress and prepared a sumptuous dinner, contradictions and conflicts erupted because of the question of whether a bamboo shoot was fried or boiled.
Although he is such a good and perfect man, but because of his excellence, resulting in him almost harsh, his concentration, let him not eat human fireworks, everything is imminent, let the heroine's heart fall into an infinite waiting, she is fed up with such waiting. She missed the warmth, the infinite need for her, when he fell ill at work. Therefore, at the most irreparable time, the male protagonist felt that the arrival of this woman had disrupted his normal life and work order. The heroine chose poisonous mushrooms.
It's really a good medicine, a good medicine for love. The male protagonist was tortured and did not want to live, but let the female protagonist find her lover again.
The plot is based on this big twist, the male protagonist decided to marry her after being carefully cared for by the female protagonist after his illness. The man who once said he was cursed not to marry gave up his former insistence for her sake. How great love is, how easy it is to make people dizzy.
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Those wonderful scenes that make people think, including the heroine Alma is going to a New Year's party, and the male protagonist is determined not to attend. But at the moment when the last female protagonist pushed the door and went out, driven by inner worry, the female protagonist fell into the crowd of party celebrations, in a noisy riot, once let the male protagonist who caught up after him look hard, when he found her figure, he took her hand and rushed out of the crowd.
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There is also the last scene, which was rated by the Internet as a Hitchcock-style eerie scene. The female protagonist cooks poisonous mushrooms for the male protagonist affectionately, and the male protagonist voluntarily eats it and kisses the female protagonist in the case of knowing that it is poison, and the female protagonist kneels in front of the male protagonist and says "I love you". Sadistic love, the beauty of love makes people willingly swallow poison, just to enjoy the warmth of that moment.
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Finally, I would like to mention Cyril, played by the actress Leslie Manville, who plays the sister of the male protagonist in the play.
Her acting skills are also superb, and the image of a sincere male protagonist defender is remarkable.
From the contempt for the heroine at the beginning, the suspicion of this young new face, waiting and seeing, to the recognition and acceptance of the back, the same voice. The emergence of this functional character adds flesh and blood to the plot, allowing the male protagonist to be relieved from his hysteria and his vulnerability with nowhere to be placed.
At this year's Oscars, she won the Best Supporting Actress Award. A lovely old woman.