About actor Gina Rowlands
Her eyes were confused, often revealing an inquiry of pain in a slightly open gaze; her lips were fragile, always flaunting the ultimate madness in trembling whispers; her body was the most wonderful drama, the temperature of her skin and limbs hot enough to burn every hopeless scene of everyday life.
This woman, her tears are a joke about life, her smile is a profound interpretation of pain. Curly blonde hair, pale eyebrows, black sunglasses, and the smell of wine that lingers all the time. Gina Rolands, her fragility is closer to God than strong, and her madness is closer to God than civilization.
Gina Rowlands
The collaboration between Gina Rowlands and her husband, Casaveti, during the New Hollywood era, can be described as interpreting the hopelessness of love and the loneliness of man to the extreme. If Gina Rolands is Casavetti's muse, then Casavetti is Gina Rowlands' stage.
In a sense, the three films "The Affected Woman", "The Torrent of Love", and "Premiere Night" form a wonderful intertext, each telling the same core story, and they themselves are part of a complete and typical Casaveti story.
Gina Rowlands and husband Casaveti
Casaveti's semi-autobiographical scripts are always so close to life, and because of their deep digging into pain, they have a distance from the everyday. Throughout, Gina Rowlands is playing the same role:
A woman who indulges in the thirst for love but never gets the satisfaction of love and is an alcoholic woman. Alcohol is her trademark and a weapon of her madness.
"The Affected Woman" and "The Torrent of Love" combine to be the sum of the contradictions between a middle-aged woman and her family: a marriage that cannot be comforted, a strong and gradually distant husband, and a child who serves as the last antidote to the soul. Although Marbel, the worker's wife in "The Woman Affected", and Sarah, a middle-class woman in "The Torrent of Love", are women of different classes and life backgrounds, their suffering is the same.
The irreconcilable contradiction between the paranoid and fragile Mabel and the busy and grumpy husband in "The Affected Woman" causes her madness, And Mabel has been eager to get warmth from her family, husband and children, but the paranoia of desire has led her to the hospital and forced to leave her family.
Gina Rowlands in The Affected Woman
Sarah, a divorced woman in "The Torrent of Love", places all her hopes and desires on her daughter, but when her daughter can't stand her control and leaves, she falls into the abyss of despair. "The Affected Woman" is the prequel to "The Torrent of Love", which is a hopeless marriage scene and the source of everything; "The Torrent of Love" is the follow-up to "The Affected Woman", an ending without an ending.
Gina Rowlands in The Torrent of Love
Gina Rowlands always appears as a neurotic figure who will be mad at the moments of her children's absence, and will be agonized by her husband's alienation and loss of love.
Her signature movements, the weak but beautiful hook punches, were only accompanied by crazy muttering, powerlessly venting the roar and dissatisfaction with life. She is a courthunt who has been left alone on an island and cannot breathe, like a forgotten fish on the shore, a lonely soul who craves the torrent of love, and asks everyone with confused eyes, "Do you love me?", but never gets an answer.
Inside the screen, she is alienated because of her madness, and off the screen, she is deeply resonated by the reality of the pain.
In "The Night of the Premiere," Gina Rolands jumps out of her family identity and becomes an aging actress with no lover and no children. However, "Premiere Night" includes "The Affected Woman" and "The Torrent of Love" in the form of a play-within-a-play. It's a story about an actress who went crazy on the eve of the premiere of the play The Second Woman because of a female fan's car accident, who fought with fear in her heart and finally finished the perfect performance on the night of the premiere in a drunken state.
Gina Rowlands in The Night of the Premiere
The play "The Second Woman" that Mett performed on stage is the sum of the stories of women in those everyday families. "The Night of the Premiere" completes a delicate three-layer set, with Mett on the stage, Mett on the stage, and Gina Rolands playing Meite, their images are integrated, their stories are the same, and their pains are exactly the same. They are middle-aged women who remember their youth and the seventeen-year-old girl in their hearts, and what they crave is not even the young face and body of a seventeen-year-old, but the endless enthusiasm and ability to be loved when they are young.
Thus the performance that Gina Rowlands completed in the final drunken situation has an astonishing aesthetic, a powerful ability to swallow and digest pain, and she lives in symbiosis with madness and pain, and a flower blossoms on her twisted body.
"Madness combines sight and blindness, mental imagery and judgment, hallucination and language, sleep and wakefulness, day and night, and finally becomes a kind of nothingness, because it combines the various negative factors in them."
Gina Rolands' beauty lies in this, her madness is the submission and sinking of nothingness, the struggle and epiphany of pain, the desire and affirmation of love. As Casavitti says, "All I've been interested in all my life is love, and the need for love." And what other irrational insanity in the world exists than love?
Article author: Zhang Zhirui
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(The article was originally published by the empty mirror solo, and plagiarism must be investigated)