If there are some moments that can make you fall in love with the movie at a glance.
Among them is certainly "Angel Amelie".
No one can forget this simple and unpredictable girl who stepped on the boundary between fairy tales and reality, her aimless every move, so beautiful and special.
But you may not know that the original heroine of this film is someone else, and the director conceived the role of Emily in her image.
Even the names are quite similar – Emily Watson.
What is her charm?
Listen to Sir slowly tell this confusing story
She was lonelier than fireworks
Hilary And Jackie
She's Lonelier Than Fireworks is also a classic biographical film released in 1998.
In 1999, he was nominated for 10 awards including the Academy Awards, the Golden Globe Awards, and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards.
The film is based on the British cellist Jacqueline Duprey.
Based on the 1997 biography of Jacqueline Duprey's sister Hillary and her brother Pierce, "Wild Love for the Cello".
It tells the story of Dupree's talented musical life and the stormy sisterly relationship with her sister Hillary.
As a biopic, it is controversial.
Dupre's former friends Rostropovich, Menuhin, Perlman, Zuckerman and other music masters publicly issued a statement in the Times during the premiere of the film: This is not the Duprey we know.
Chinese pianist Fu Cong also mentioned when talking about Dupre: I have seen the so-called biographical film "Hilary And Jackie" in the UK, which feels too fake and infuriating to watch!
But as viewers, we.
But you can see a kind of confusion about life.
Whether or not it really happened to Dupre.
01
A pair of sisters born into a musical family.
Hillary is a flute player and Jackie is a cellist.
From childhood, it has been intimate and inseparable.
As a child, Hillary clinton was more talented than her sister Jiqi.
Hillary was even invited by the BBC to play the flute.
At that time, the most common thing adults said to Ji Qi was:
There is a genius sister, you must be very proud
Ji Qi is like a shadow following behind her sister, covered by her sister's light.
Not willing to be left behind and stubborn, Ji Qi began to practice day and night.
At the dinner table and in the classroom, they are "playing" selflessly.
Finally, in a competition, Ji Qi stood out and became the most watched champion on the scene.
My sister's heart was very unhappy.
After that day, she began to be forgotten.
Ji Qi has become the focus of parents' cultivation.
Hillary became the one at the door waiting for her sister to practice.
The words of the adults also became:
There is a genius sister, you must be very proud
A genius, an ordinary.
It seems to be two kinds of life that these two sisters must choose.
Which one would you like to choose?
Are you willing to give it to another person?
The adult Jackie (Emily Watson) lived up to expectations, her cello performance was amazing, and the applause was thunderous.
She finally became an amazingly talented and promising cellist.
Compared with the fame of her sister, her sister Hilary gradually faded into mediocrity.
Jacques was invited to play at the wedding of an Italian princess and asked Hilary to accompany her.
At the end of the concert that night, the sisters slept in a bed and drank and chatted.
But the next day, jiqi went to Berlin.
The room was so empty that Hillary was the only one left.
This morning also became a fork in the fate of Hillary and Jackie.
They are less and less connected.
After a while, Hillary received a package from Jackie.
The whole family opened it expectantly, and the result was only the dirty clothes that Ji Qi had not washed.
Later, tired of her sister's fame, Hillary no longer had the confidence to pick up the flute and play.
In the Royal Conservatory exam, she was so nervous that she couldn't even blow a normal note.
Failed exam.
Hillary braved the pouring rain and walked home in despair.
As soon as I opened the door, I heard the cello sound of my sister Ji Qi.
She's back.
But Hillary felt more and more self-conscious, and she sat down in the doorway, not wanting her sister to see her embarrassment.
Fortunately, at this time, a special person appeared.
His name is Kihua.
Enthusiastic and delicate, Kihua unceremoniously broke into Hillary's house and defused Hillary's embarrassment with two words.
He does not shy away from confessing, "I am in love with Hillary."
It's like Cinderella meets a prince.
Hillary's life began to blossom, and she also held her own concerts.
The conductor of the concert is Kiva.
Not long after, Ji Qi also brought a man home.
He was the famous conductor Barenboim.
The relationship between the two was called the golden child of the music circle by the media.
At the dinner table, she sat on her boyfriend's lap in front of her family and talked about the world performances and newlywed locations that the two had arranged closely.
But the attitude of being too deliberate makes people feel that Ji Qi's words are insincere.
Sure enough, the next shot.
Carrying a suitcase and a cello like her life, Jackie arrives at the country farmhouse where Hilary and Ki-wah live.
She had a purpose in her trip.
I asked my sister to share her...
Husband.
Of course, my sister didn't want to.
But she knew that she had to let her sister go, and that she wanted to prove in this way that her sister still cared about her.
Can't understand this logic?
It seems to be.
In the eyes of outsiders, Ji Qi is indeed getting more and more eccentric.
Obviously, he didn't speak German, but he grunted in front of the Germans, and if he didn't listen to the voice, it was really like that.
The sister said that she was proposed and looked forward to hearing her sister's blessing, but Ji Qi took out her womb hat and said that if you want a man, you don't have to get married, we can share a house, and find men who are not the same every day...
The most incredible thing is that she is obviously a well-known cellist who is touring the world, but she ignores the performance plan and suddenly evaporates.
Back in the English countryside, the home of my sister and brother-in-law.
There are no palatial performance halls, only chicken pens, mud and broken houses...
Look at it this way.
Sooner or later, she will offend everyone and completely destroy her acting career.
But why is that?
We might as well open the B-side.
It recorded Ji Qi's private voice.
02
It was also the morning when I was separated from my sister's hotel that day.
Hillary was still asleep, and Jackie was woken up early, "Tonight you have a concert in Germany."
Originally, I wanted to settle my sister's trip home.
But at the urging of the manager, Ji Qi had to pack her bags in a panic.
Before leaving, he gently kissed Hillary goodbye.
The film uses a series of city names in the waiting hall display to show that Ji Qi's seat is not warm.
Her life was almost occupied by concerts and banquets.
However, the crowd of people does not make up for Ji Qi's loneliness.
Especially in countries where the language is not spoken, she does not know how to contact Hillary, how to contact her family, and even where to wash her clothes.
I had to send them home one by one.
There is a scene where Jacques returns to the hotel.
Seeing the package at the front desk, she excitedly dropped her cello and ran over.
After taking it apart, Ji Qi clutched her clean clothes and said excitedly:
family
It's the smell of my house
Back to your hotel room.
She rolled out the washed clothes and buried her face in it.
Outside the room, there was the abandoned cello.
Back to the rainy day when Hillary failed her exam.
It wasn't a sudden trip home.
After drifting abroad alone, Ji Qi rushed back to seek the warmth that had been lost for a long time.
She also deliberately gave up her seemingly brilliant cello life.
But look at the back of Hillary and Kiva as they leave.
Ji Qi knew that she might be like her sister said, "Without the support of the cello, you have nothing."
She would never be able to be an ordinary person.
Fearing loneliness and longing for love, Ji Qi accepted Danny's pursuit.
They certainly have love, but not pure love.
The day before I went to the farmhouse to find my sister.
Ji Qi asked Danny, "I can't play the piano, will you still love me?"
Danny says:
If you can't play the piano, it's not you
She longs for the quiet country life of her sister and Kihua.
But this kind of life has become the laughing stock in the mouth of her husband Danny.
Perhaps it was from that moment that Ji Qi woke up:
Even if she has a love affair with Danny, she has no right to choose her life.
She also wanted to live an ordinary life like her sister, have a husband who loved her unconditionally, and had three or five children.
But such a life cannot begin.
So, can I borrow it from my sister for a few days?
The night she slept with her brother-in-law, she hummed songs like she had done as a child.
The next day was refreshed and took care of the two nieces together.
But in fact, it is more than this life.
What she really wanted was to return to the most important position in her sister's heart.
Just like before.
The orchestra invited her sister to play, and she wanted to go, but her mother said she was not qualified enough.
So my sister said:
If I don't let Ji Qi go, then I won't go either.
But when did she start losing her sister?
Maybe it was the day he was praised as a cello genius.
The cello kidnapped her.
She won awards as soon as she played the violin, was invited as soon as she won, and then toured from city to city abroad.
Her life was swept away by a rapids, and she couldn't swim back to square one.
Coming home for the first time from abroad.
The brother-in-law had broken into her house.
After that, proposing, getting married, having children... My sister's life flowed into another river, and she couldn't pull it back.
That night, Ji Qi knew that her sister needed her husband's love more than herself.
Ji Qi was alone in the room, wearing a gorgeous nightgown, but he played the cello song with sadness and sorrow.
How much Sister Ren comforted her on the side, she ignored it.
Her brow furrowed, as if she didn't understand when it all started to change.
Finally put down the strings and accept it.
When leaving the farmhouse, the picture of the two sisters chasing the beach cuts in again.
Scenes from the past, like rewinds, played back in Ji Qi's mind.
It was also from here that she finally surrendered
It turns out that the childhood time with Hillary is completely in the past.
03
The film has several names:
Crazy for the cello, love for the wasteland, ruthless day, she is lonelier than fireworks.
Now that I think about it, "she is lonelier than fireworks" is more suitable.
From the day of the great anticipation, Ji Qi was like being caught up in a huge wave, and he also lost the freedom to go ashore.
Like fireworks, blooming in the lonely and deserted night sky, thin and painfully brilliant.
Her surroundings were always surrounded by applause and crowds, but she clearly felt a loneliness that could not be told.
Obviously he has it all, but his heart is extremely humble.
Take this scene, for example.
At the last performance, Ji Qi's condition worsened and she could not stand.
She was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis terminal illness.
Compared with her husband's sorrows, she became unusually optimistic.
In the hospital bed, she comforted her husband almost to herself.
Danny
I am terminally ill
But don't worry, the condition is still mild
The reason may be as my sister said:
"Without cello support, you have nothing."
She knew that Danny was not Kier and that she was not her sister.
She was afraid that once her cello talent disappeared, everything in front of her would flow away.
Danny will also leave.
After that, Ji Qi also began to transfer her anger to her family.
Father came to visit and picked up the food on the table.
Ji Qi accused him with a fierce look, "Cake is used to entertain guests."
Anything can trigger her fragile nerves.
She told her mother:
My fault, I'm not mentally normal
But you're my mom, it's your fault
But is it really Ji Qi's unreasonable trouble?
Not all.
There are details.
In the beginning, when Ji Qi was just diagnosed with a terminal illness, her mother's first words were not to care about her health.
Rather, "Will she stop playing?"
It seems that Ji Qi never cherished the kindness of others, and always acted like a child.
For example, the brother-in-law is used as a doll toy that can force the sister to give up.
For example, if you don't get a doll, you will cry and cry.
For example, if you don't want to play, you will leave everyone on the scene.
But it was not herself who caused all this, to be precise.
It was everyone who rushed to put music and fame into Ji Qi's arms.
Inconstancy
Ability to play
Everyone loves you
Cannot play
People don't look at it
Compared to malicious harm.
What is harder to resist is the expectations of fame, praise, and loved ones.
When you can't escape, is it only self-harm?
Who can see the struggle behind the incomprehensible?
ultimately.
What is seen is gorgeous.
Loneliness can only be left to oneself.
Her lonely beauty may also be your and my own situation, and the movie will be in a place you don't know, waiting to be met.
In addition to Ji Qi, who is lonelier than fireworks, Sir knows that you also want to guess more enigmatic people.
There are "wine-like lives", there are high-quality male and female ukiyo-e paintings of human beings, and there are one-on-one personal lessons that love and kill each other...
No one can be circled.
One person can be a world.