How refined can a person's life be? Director Giuseppe Tornadore tells you in a film's time.
Friends who love to watch movies must be familiar with this Italian national treasure director.
The classics such as "The Beauty of Sicily", "The Pianist of the Sea", and "Cinema Paradiso" are all written by him, and the next one to be introduced is his first film shot entirely in English.
In addition to the famous director, the actor is Captain Barbosa in "Pirates of the Caribbean", and Jeffrey Rush, who was nominated for the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for the role of language therapist in "The King's Speech".
And with another veteran actor, Donald Sutherland, who won the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 90th Academy Awards.
The film was once hailed by fans as a thriller without murder.
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The film has a rating of 8.3 in Douban, which is not very high compared to Giuseppe Tornadore's other classic films, and some people think it is easy to guess that the protagonist is in a scam after watching it, and feel that there is no surprise.
But in my opinion, the purpose of this film is not as mysterious as the general suspense movie, to see the audience in the clouds.
As viewers, the greatest pleasure in watching this film is not to guess the ending like a detective solving a crime, we need to enjoy the process slowly, because the scam they designed is so superb and elegant!
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Without further ado, start piling up!
Oversized apartments, beautifully furnished and designed to rival five-star hotels, a full cabinet of bespoke suits, and a neatly displayed pair of gloves.
There are also hundreds of portraits of women by famous artists in the Chamber of Secrets, and it is worth a lot to pick one at random.
All of this belongs to an old man named Oldmann, one of Austria's most prestigious art auctioneers and the owner of one of the top art auction houses.
His strong professional skills and decades of appraisal experience make him unique, and each observation is like a wedge of precise size, accurately distinguishing the age and authenticity of the artwork.
He hates contact with people, even indirect contact is unbearable, and with extreme cleanliness, he never leaves his gloves when eating, and even puts on another layer of tissues when answering the phone.
Can't contact women, can't shake hands politely, and can't even face people.
Staff members were not allowed to enter their dwellings, and the servants were irritable as they walked around in front of their eyes and had to leave as soon as they finished their work.
Such a stubborn and reclusive personality has led him to remain celibate for decades, and although he lives a delicate and elegant life, it is also tedious.
He is cold, he cherishes words like gold, he is shrewd, there is only interest and no emotion in his eyes, and art is his only faith.
As an appraiser, his sensitive identity can not participate in the auction process publicly, through the cooperation with his old partner Billy, he can use his superb painting skills to hide the sky and the sea, at a low price to shoot one world famous painting after another.
When looking at the portraits of women in various periods that he collected, the usually fierce and indifferent eyes instantly became gentle, and only at this time was he willing to take off his gloves to feel the mystery in the painting and touch the beauty without temperature.
He would have enjoyed being alone until death, without the girl's presence.
It was a mysterious girl with a mental illness called "agoraphobia", who could not meet anyone and would be so nervous that she would be paralyzed and have trouble breathing once she went to public.
The girl, claire, hid in her "mansion" all day, communicating with others only by phone or email, and she completely sealed her body.
She is full of resistance to the outside world, unable to get along with others honestly, in a sense, how similar she is to him.
Without normal social interaction, naturally she could not find a job, and wrote and published books anonymously to cope with daily expenses, but she thought that life was not rich, and then she thought of the countless antique furniture left to her by her parents.
Oldman is a professional antique appraiser, and Claire needs a professional antique appraiser, and that's when they started to intersect.
It was the hardest client of Oldman's career, and the contact from the start was fraught with bumps and stumbles, and it was the most important deal of his life.
Being repeatedly broken and unable to talk face-to-face with the owner of the furniture was undoubtedly a humiliation for the arrogant Oldman.
After being provoked several times, Claire finally tries to confess to Oldman and gives him her armor, the keys to the house.
The exposed weaknesses succeeded in arousing his sympathy, and after many encounters, her weight in his heart slowly increased unconsciously.
Even with some knowledge of her, the relationship seemed to have gone a step further, and Oldman's privilege at Claire was still just "being met."
Keeping the mystery is undoubtedly the best stimulant for men.
Talking closely through the door, Claire could observe Oldman through the hole in the door, and Oldman could only see one eye, a beautiful and sad eye at most.
Unable to see her, Oldman could only imagine her by looking at the countless portraits of women on the wall on the phone.
Claire never hid her admiration for Oldman and seemed to be dependent on him, always acting in anticipation of the next meeting.
From the initial sympathy, to curiosity, through continuous and deep contact, Oldman seems to see his own epitome in her, and gradually, he develops different feelings for this strange girl.
When with a handsome young antique mechanic restorer, the mentally and physically heavy cleanliness sufferer couldn't help but share with him the mystery that the girl had brought him, and the feeling she brought to him was so unique that it could even make him let go of his usual insistence.
In fact, he is stepping into a trap, a trap called "love".
He wanted to help her remove the paleness from her face, he wanted to give her a normal life, and the most beautiful years of her life should never be wasted behind that iron door.
With the advice of a mechanical restorer, he embarked on the only courtship trip in his life.
Patiently accompany her, even if it is just a chat;
Remember her birthday and buy a large bouquet of flowers as a gift;
Unable to appear in public, he took matters into his own hands and decorated an exclusive private restaurant in that house;
I have always been used to being alone, but I bought a mobile phone in order to let her contact herself at any time.
He acts to increase her sense of security about herself, and at the same time, he becomes less closed to himself.
People are old, their hair is white, let's make it white, gloves are gradually becoming less important, and hands that do not see the light of day can now touch anything freely.
Remove all your defenses and show the softest part, and a single knife is enough to kill this fool.
On a rainy night, Oldman was suddenly attacked and collapsed in front of Claire's door, watching him dying in a pool of blood,
Claire, who was constantly struggling inside, finally overcame the heart disease that had accompanied her for more than ten years and successfully sent Oldman to the hospital.
The eccentric old man curtailed his temper and successfully redeemed the only lover of this life through unremitting efforts, which seems to be the perfect story of an old knight rescuing the imprisoned princess in the castle.
Originally planned to participate in the last auction of his life, he quit his job and enjoyed life with the princess.
However, the turn came too quickly and flashed to the old knight's waist.
Upon returning home, Oldman was greeted by an empty wall, and the portraits of famous artists who had spent his life were swept away, and only the mottled marks on the walls showed that everything before was not an illusion.
"There's always something crazy that can obscure the falsehood." The expressionless robot shook its head sluggishly and kept repeating the sentence.
What's the crazy thing?
Combined with what has happened during this time, it is not difficult to deduce that this love that transcends the world is indeed the most expensive love in the history of cinema.
As you watch the film, as time progresses to unravel the mystery that hangs over Claire, Oldman's process of getting deeper into her heart is like a suspense film.
And when I watched the whole movie, I found that it was more like a textbook demonstration performance of behavioral psychology.
It systematically tells you like a textbook:
How to open a person who is extremely stubborn and autistic, how to always hang on to his curiosity, how to destroy his psychological defenses and make him knead them like dough, everything is carried out in an orderly manner.
In this elaborate deception, Oldman undoubtedly suffered heavy losses, not only lost hundreds of world famous paintings, but also lost the only person he was willing to spend his life with.
At the end of the film, Oldman finds the "night and day" restaurant that Claire mentions, and he seems out of place at the last table.
When the waiter asked him if he was alone, he said he was waiting for someone, and unfortunately, at this wrong time, he could never wait for this person.
Love is to life, just like the delicate bubbles are to champagne, without those rich bubbles, champagne is no longer champagne.
Over time, the foam will eventually dissipate, but only the small bubbles left in the wine can still enrich the wine.
Under the schemes of the deceivers, he was finally able to stick out the head of the turtle shrunk in a hard shell, taste a taste of love, and he had expectations for the rest of his life.
For Oldman, although he spent such a high price, love was a willing deception, and his life was complete because of such exquisite love.
This article is written | Internship Meow