The French film "Two-Faced Lover" belongs to the love thriller and psychological suspense film. Director François Oujong is a director who is very good at creating a suspenseful atmosphere, and "Entering the House" is one of his masterpieces.
The heroine is played by Marion Vacott, a French girl after the 90s, who has starred in "Flowers and Moons", which is amazing to the world. Her short hairstyle in this film has a whiff of Juliet Binoche's youthful streak.
The film tells the story of the heroine Chloe who suffers from a special pathology and seeks self-release and self-salvation. There are two main types of her disease: one is the unprovoked pain in her stomach, the cause of which can never be found; the other is a mental illness called "love impotence", which has some connection with stomach pain.
The storyline is cross-advanced in Chloe's reality and fantasy, which also brings a lot of barriers to the movie, which is easy to make people look confused and confused.
The story is about twins, but it's very weird, called "cannibalistic twins". There is no scientific explanation for this concept. In fact, twins will plunder the nutrients in the mother's body, competing with each other for the chance of survival. The screenwriter thus devised an extreme plot: the heroine Chloe swallowed and absorbed her twin sisters in the womb.
Chloe's illness is the key to analyzing the film, which is both physically organic and mentally ill.
< h1 class= "pgc-h-center-line" > one of the root causes:</h1>
Chloe's stomach often hurts for no reason, but in fact the embryonic remnants of the twin sisters are left in the stomach. Such an evil and terrifying meme does not know how the screenwriter conceived, and I don't know whether to admire his brain or say that she is squeezed by the door frame.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-center-line" > the second root of the disease:</h1>
Chloe is in a strong position in the womb, but when she grows up, she does seem to be very non-committal. The deep reason for this personality is the lack of maternal love in childhood, which is also the root of her "love incompetence" disease.
There are many illusions in Chloe's mind in the story, the biggest illusion is that she created the twin "mirror image" of her boyfriend Paul, Louis, and the explanation given by the screenwriter is that Chloe herself is a deformed twin, and she has sexual fantasies about the twins. I hope to have sex with twins with such a strange heart, and I don't know where the screenwriter summed up the practice from?
It is clearer to understand the strange psychological logic imposed by the screenwriter on the heroine, and then to start telling the specific storyline:
The film tells the story of former model Chloe because of unexplained abdominal pain, found the psychologist Paul, in the treatment of the two gradually fell in love, Chloe's symptoms were alleviated. After cohabitation, Chloe discovers a passport with Paul's other surname, and Paul's simple explanation makes Chloe suspicious that Paul is hiding a secret. Chloe thus sparked an illusionary speculation about Paul's secret:
Paul's twin brother, Louis, is also a psychiatrist, and Chloe pretends to be a patient to go to therapy, and is greatly satisfied in Louis's special "rolling sheets" therapy, and even conceives a child. Chloe is entangled between the two brothers, Louis wants to control her, and Paul proposes to her, Chloe should not break it, the love she wants to love is not deep.
A secret past of the brothers gives Chloe a glimpse of her tragic future:
Louis, jealous of Paul, pretended to be Paul and raped his then-girlfriend Sandra, Paul hated Sandra because she lost her virginity, and Sandra raised a gun to commit suicide, and was paralyzed in bed for life. This corresponds to Chloe's situation, louis pretends to be Paul to hook up with her, and Paul is likely to abandon him if he learns the truth.
Unable to bear such a tragic end, Chloe solves the problem and goes to Louis's clinic with a gun, only to find that Paul is also there, she shoots and kills the arrogant Louis, then faints on the ground and is taken to the hospital.
<h1 class="pgc-h-center-line" > how to prove that Louis is her fantasy? </h1>
The heroine sits down after changing shifts with her colleagues at the art museum, and a halo appears in the lens with her eyes closed, suggesting that the heroine has entered her fantasy world. There are also several proofs:
The pot outside Louie's clinic is full of fake flowers and no dirt, which is a reference to the real flowers and real soil in Paul's clinic; Louis quietly climbs into her and Paul's bed from the darkness and begins a threesome, and the heroine does not struggle at all, but enjoys it; imagines her mother as Sandra's mother, and imagines her gynecologist as the real psychiatrist Agnes Wiesler.
< h1 class="pgc-h-center-line" > Chloe finally achieve symptom relief? </h1>
Faced with a threat in Louis's clinic, the heroine chooses to resist, shoots and kills Louis, kills the "mirror image" of her own bluff inside, and realizes the nirvana rebirth of life. The last shot of the film is when she breaks the glass and reaches her climax at the same time, symbolizing breaking through her own shackles.
There is another point in the film that is particularly worth talking about, that is, the application of mirrors.
As an important prop to reflect the inner subconscious, the mirror has always been loved by directors. The projection in the mirror reflects the projection of the person's heart in the play. Jacques Lacan, known as the French "Freud", proposed mirror theory, calling the situational consciousness that confuses reality and imagination theory of mirror experience. Mirror image is an illusion when we observe the world, and this illusion is based on the misidentification of other people's eyes, and after being transformed into our own "mental image", through this process, the mirror in the mirror becomes another "self". In layman's terms, you look in the mirror and what you see is what others see as they portray or want you to be.
Director Ou Rong has his own unique grasp of aesthetics. For example, his black-and-white film "Franz" contains a classical aesthetic. The composition in this film is also very exquisite, especially the emphasis on symmetry everywhere, which actually serves its mirror structure. For example, the scene where Chloe sits in the museum, the large white background, the loneliness and coldness, and so on.