Would you click on a movie like this:
80% of the space is about dialogue.
The maximum number of actors in the scene is not more than 5.
The cost is extremely low, less than $20w.
No passion drama, drag racing drama, suspense drama, and even the plot is very light.
But the length reached an prohibitive 3 hours...
Sir believed most people were shaking their heads at the moment.
However, Sir also wants to tell you:
Such a "stuffy film", after being broadcast for half a year, doubled the local divorce rate and reached a historical peak.
Let the director continue to hold the throne of the world's film master.
A little curious?
46 years later, it made a comeback and poked at the heart as soon as it aired.
No way.
Who let it stand on the shoulders of giants:
Married Life
Scenes from a Marriage
The giant is Ingmar Bergman.
One of the "Holy Trinity" in the history of Western cinema, the master in the heart of the master.
Woody Allen adored him:
"The combination of intellectual artist and film technology has never been seen before."
Ang Lee was inspired by him.
It is rare to see the "idol" side, and just hold it and cry like a child.
When I was 18, I watched Virgin Springs at the screening office. After the movie, I sat there paralyzed, not knowing what hit me... I couldn't say it, so I sat over there and watched it again. After watching it twice, I still don't know what hit me. It just feels like life has changed since then.
After four failed marriages, Bergman made Married Life.
How can movies change reality?
In front of Bergman, Korean movies are still "brothers":
It aired on Swedish television in 1973 and raised divorce rates in Sweden and Denmark.
A year later, the six-episode miniseries condensed into a 168-minute film version was released in the United States, winning the 1975 Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
The new HBO edition is adapted from it.
The name is the same as the play, like a pool of water, straightforward and calm.
Face up to the commonplace scenes in marriage: eating, sleeping, washing, dating...
It was renovated after 46 years, renewing the contemporary concept of marriage and the perspective of women.
But the core of the new Married Life is still raging.
If you only use the word "persuasion" to summarize "married life".
No matter which version, it is a gross underestimate.
It was dismissive and never wanted to "persuade" anyone in the past.
It just gives you a new understanding of marriage, love, and yourself (so whether you're married or not, whether you want to get married or not, it doesn't affect watching the movie).
Such as "a knife in clear water".
That lengthy conversation after another was actually sharpening the sword.
Slowly cut open the marriage, the slightest lingering...
Tiredness.
01
The intimate couple in the poster is the protagonist of this film, a middle-aged couple.
Married for 10 years and have a 4-year-old daughter.
10 years, in the United States, where the average marriage age is 8.2, is a long time.
So they were invited to be the subject of research on marriage for students at the school where their husbands taught.
What's the secret to a marriage surviving a safe period?
As the play's wife, Mira (Jessica Chastain), says.
It's about maintaining a very delicate balance.
Well? What to say?
Their home, the female lord outside the male lord inside.
His wife, Mira, works as a vice president at a technology company.
Her husband, Jonathan (Oscar Isaac), works as a teacher at school.
Balance, first and foremost in complementarity
Temperament: She is rational, he is emotional.
Schedule: She's busy, he's idle.
Most of the parenting problems that exist in families they don't have.
The husband has a lot of time and is mainly responsible for childcare, but he has no sense of sacrifice because he has a nanny to help take care of it.
The wife has little time, but will try to get home before the child goes to bed, and although she loves to work, she still takes a long parental leave for the child.
The above description comes from the conversation between the two people.
A harmonious dialogue depends on the tacit understanding of the listener and the speaker.
When the wife can't remember the words, the husband will remind.
The wife encourages the husband when he feels that he is not speaking well.
From this conversation you can see that there is understanding, respect, and concern between them.
Very tacit, very loving.
Balance also stems from the emotional basis - acquaintance in college.
The female protagonist is a prominent figure in the university, and the male protagonist who has been in boys' school since childhood is naturally in love.
After work, there is a stage where the life and work of the heroine are not smooth.
And the male protagonist was the opposite of her at that time.
It had the look she wanted to be.
The two fell in love with each other.
Now it turns out that the original choice was right?
This marriage balance seems to be solid?
02
A detail.
After dinner with friends, the couple stood side by side in front of the mirror to wash up.
Still tacit understanding.
Toothpaste was on the husband's side, he picked it up and squeezed it, and handed it to his wife.
The two are busy with their own business: brushing their teeth, removing makeup, shaving, and washing their faces.
The husband did less, took the lead in completing it, and after wiping his face, he cleaned up the countertop on his side and went to bed.
The wife, who was slightly slower, did not speak, but was still stunned and quietly sighed.
Sigh?
The husband is "lazy" - the so-called cleaning, just to lift the fallen up, crooked right, rather than put things in the position where they should be put.
I can only sigh, because I don't have the strength to make trouble anymore.
Looking back at the couple's interviews now.
In addition to understanding, respect, care.
There is also a layer of undercurrents.
She seems to be cooperating with "perfection".
Take a long breath before being interviewed.
Still silently shivering.
During the interview, she also occasionally had a few unnatural expressions.
Asked how to meet and fall in love.
Her eyebrows furrowed and she closed her eyes, seeming reluctant to recall.
John Gottman, a master of interpersonal relationships, mentions in Happy Marriages:
"To test whether a bunch of couples' systems of love and praise are still working is to see how they see their past."
The wife obviously didn't want to look back.
Because......
In the past, it seemed to be out of sight.
She loved him because she felt that he had a clear goal and that she wanted to be like her husband.
But the husband has a different version.
He said that was actually his most confused time.
What she fell in love with was her fantasy.
Live together for 10 years.
Eating together every day, sleeping, raising children...
Any illusion should land on the ground.
And she is no longer the confused girl she was, she is better than her husband.
She looked at him with a look that no longer longed.
More accurately, the dreamy throbbing that comes with losing that kind of love.
Now a balanced life, stable.
Nothing new.
Even the derailment almost didn't make waves.
When she told her husband she was cheating.
The husband did not show a big fuss, but an unexpected calm.
This calm is not because I don't care, but because I didn't expect it.
Regarding the problem of cheating, after a few conversations, he actually went to clean up the dishes as usual.
And it is this kind of life that makes the wife feel tired.
It's like reincarnating in the same kind of day.
One night I suddenly had crazy thoughts
Touch your pulse to see if you're alive
Do you understand that feeling?
It's like lack of oxygen and inability to breathe
Will it always be...
Like this......
No......
feel
How much does she want to run away from the relationship?
Her husband had an asthma attack, and she hurried to find medicine, a habit she had been doing for years.
Immediately, she threw away the medicine again and did not hand it to her husband.
Is this thinking of a husband dying?
Not really.
She was just too tired of it.
The next second, she would administer the drug.
The next second, they forgive each other, tell each other their hearts, and then reconcile.
Another second, back to the previous second.
03
Why tired?
Did you wear out love in 8 years?
The morning after the infidelity, the wife woke up confused and said good morning to her husband.
She subconsciously touched his cheek, feeling the curvature of his eyebrows.
Gentle fingertips and a tight smile.
She still loved him.
As for the husband, he may not not love.
When his wife wept over her infidelity, he should be sad despite himself.
Sit next to her, gentle and soothing.
Ironically, betrayal washes away tiredness.
It seems that also... Rekindled love.
This is also the cold truth that "Married Life" currently presents:
Love is not worn down by time, but those "love" of unknown direction and origin can even make you lost.
That's why Sir said it at the beginning.
Married Life doesn't want to dissuade anyone.
Even if it is undeniable, this series carries a certain degree of authorship (the Bergman version can find many shadows of his own marriage).
But it ultimately ends up with "marriage."
It's "people."
More precisely, it is the numbness of man.
Therefore, Sir does not agree to just because "Married Life" is slow paced and has a lot of dialogue, it is classified as a "stuffy film" and a "bad film".
Take a step back.
Its rhythm is muffled, and the image is muffled.
Is the content really "stuffy"?
Sir said one action:
The next morning, the wife touched her husband's cheek, and the next second, she immediately turned back.
What does the remaining tenderness represent?
What does a decisive departure mean?
What does the silence before leaving, the husband's scrutiny, mean for this 10-year marriage?
In Sir's view, this momentary awakening and struggle is far stronger than the cool drama written by the hot search section on the market.
Bergman set a precedent in this form 46 years ago.
Because marriage, emotion, and human nature are worth immersing ourselves in.
They are educated and seem to know everything, but they can't deal with the simplest emotional problems, because they lack education in this area. I want to tell the story of a group of 'emotional blindness' who don't understand emotions and perceptions, and who lack insight into themselves or the hearts of people they are close to.
Bergman
To this day.
Sir didn't know how many other people would be willing to immerse themselves in it and look at it.
This is where Bergman's old spice comes in.
He probably saw through it early in the morning that numbness was the most "non-problematic problem" in human nature.
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