I thought that after "Love Death Machine 2" rolled over, Sir had learned to suppress expectations and calmly watch the drama before watching the play.
But a recent suspense drama, Sir still can't help but pull the expectation value full -
Lisi's Story.
Look at its lineup:
Director Pablo Lareon, Venice and Oscar powerhouse candidates;
Screenwriter, horror master Stephen King directly operated;
The lead actor is even more eye-catching, with the actress Julian Moore and the long-lost Cliff Owen.
Logically, this wave of star teams, starring in TV series, should have been a dimensionality reduction blow.
Unfortunately, after the launch, Douban 6.7, IMDb 6.2, no matter which point, is a bit catastrophic.
Stream-of-consciousness narratives, sad wives, cages of memories... The threshold is high and the freshness is low.
So today is what I'm going to say.
It's a movie that transcends it a lot.
Thriller, literary fan.
It's still Julianne Moore, along with Nicole Kidman and Aunt May (Meryl Streep).
Three hollywood heroines, with this film, rushed to the peak of their careers (Aunt May said otherwise, because she is the peak every time).
Come on, put the piece.
Always
The hours
You say you can't find Nicole Kidman?
Because she had a fake nose.
Why fake nose?
Because the writer Woolf is a big-nosed beauty.
This film is a tribute to Woolf's famous "Mrs. Dalloway", "All the Time" was released 19 years ago and is still a classic of feminist stories.
Released that year, it was an Oscar hit, and the legendary American host Larry King directly said after watching the movie:
It's a work of art, nothing to say.
△ Nicole Kidman won the Oscar that year
The texture of this artwork has been there since the beginning of the poster.
Rough looking unremarkable, it is three star adult heads, it seems to be particularly uncreative.
Look closely, but it is full of the imprint of the times and the sense of design, clothing, hairstyles, glasses, hanging ornaments...
In particular, the eyes have different ages and different moods.
This is a win-win poster that not only takes into account the public needs of commercial films, but also reaches the theme of literary and artistic direction.
The three female protagonists look directly at the audience in the same space and from the same angle, vaguely, and let people feel that they are some kind of female self-examination -
Are you her?
Which of her are you, which kind of her?
Did you become that "she"?
While studying All The Time, Sir discovered an interesting tidbit:
At the Berlin Film Festival that year, the Silver Bear Award for Best Actress was given to three leading actors at the same time.
Historically, there are not many "Double Dan Shadow Queens", and "Three Dan Shadow Queens" are even more unprecedented (and the only case so far).
A few years ago, the Golden Horse Awards were awarded to Zhou Dongyu and Ma Sichun of "July and Ansheng" at the same time, in addition to being a kind of expedient that is difficult to choose, it also involves the judges' understanding of the role -
"These seemingly independent characters are actually one."
It is difficult to say that this evaluation of the judges did not refer to the earlier "All the Time".
Interestingly, such a trinity is not only not one person, but even time is inconsistent.
Three women, living in 1921, 1951 and 2001.
The story tells the story of a day that they can't cross, but are vaguely intertwined.
stupid? Never mind.
The details will enlighten you a little bit -
Similar sleeping positions, they are awakened one after another in successive shots.
The actions of a character in the previous shot will be continued by another character in the next shot.
Even the soundtrack.
They will all be seamlessly connected in three time and space, strung together in a flowing stream of opening clips.
(Listen, this wave of manipulation is not a work of art, you say.) ）
But three women, how do you make a connection?
This is thanks to Woolf, who mentioned earlier that her famous book , Mrs. Dalloway , will be the bond of destiny for the three women.
The plot of the book, Sir briefly explained two sentences:
The book is biased toward stream-of-consciousness creation, about a seemingly confident woman who is planning a party. Her demeanor convinces everyone that she is living the life she wants, in fact?
Everything she did was for others to see, and she wasn't doing well.
Such a weak plot story, like a curse, changed the fate of the other characters in the movie.
The first woman, writer Woolf (Nicole Kidman).
One day in 1921, Woolf was conceiving the novel Mrs. Dalloway.
At this time, she was in a period of mental fragility, emotionally unstable, unconscious, and attempted suicide.
Tortured, she was arranged by her husband to go to seclusion in the countryside.
It's not so much convalescence as house arrest.
Everywhere she went, she was surrounded by doctors, and everyone tried to tell her what was good and what was bad.
Even if a person goes to buy flowers, it is suspected by others that they can do it or not.
This state is written by her in the first sentence of the novel:
Mrs. Delovis said she wanted to buy her own flowers.
It seems as plain as water, but it is full of accusations.
Here, flowers become an image of "freedom," and buying flowers becomes a sign of freedom.
Next, the second woman's experience —
In 1951, the novel was read by a housewife named Laura (Julian Moore).
Her superficial life is solid and happy, but it seems that she also lives in some kind of "being a wife" restriction.
She has always tried to play the role of a happy, conscientious wife, such as making a cake for her birthday husband.
But the child Richard's unintentional words easily broke her weakness.
Mother: We're going to bake cakes to show that we love Him.
Son: Or would he not know that we love him?
She was like Mrs. Dalloway.
Carefully whitewashing all the details of life, but can not cover up the core weaknesses -
She was passive, accused, and she wasn't free.
Woolf could not buy flowers alone, what flowers she wanted, her husband picked, she could only passively accept.
In 2001, we unveiled the story of the third woman —
Clarissa (Meryl Streep).
Let's start with a fun one.
Clarissa is free to buy flowers.
One day in 2001, Editor Clarissa's best partner and ex-boyfriend Richard (not the same name, he was Laura's son) won the award.
To congratulate Richard, she fulfilled Mrs. Dalloway's little wish early on:
She wants to buy flowers "herself" and throw a party for Richard.
At first glance, Clarissa is the only woman who has anything to do with freedom.
But actually?
She had lived to be Mrs. Dalloway.
It seems that buying flowers is not a dividing line of freedom, it is just a metaphor.
So, what is it?
Writing about it, in the long course of history, has been a male world.
Woolf was known from the beginning of sir's novels, and she was famous not because she wrote better than Márquez, but because since World War II, there have been very few women writers who have dedicated themselves to feminism.
She is the child of a remarried family, her mother died very early, and the current situation of mental breakdown, some from reality, some from writing, will continue until her old age.
So the broken life has always been one of the focuses of her writing.
Woolf's sense of brokenness may have come from some kind of punishment for not being a normal person.
In the movie, every morning when woolf wakes up, he has to face a series of troubles:
The husband goes out of his way to chant and "advise".
Whispers behind the servants.
In the eyes of these normal people, female writers, going in and out of literary parties all day and staying up late to write, are not so normal behaviors.
But leaving is also a luxury.
For Woolf, there is no pure land in the world, and the three views are the same everywhere.
To a conscious wife, the husband doesn't feel like he's doing anything wrong.
Everything is done to make you good!
It's all out of love!
Others will think you are ungrateful...
She certainly knew that her husband loved herself.
In the face of this love, which was given the name of justice at that time, any slight disobedience will appear ignorant.
But knowing this "lifting", the already small self, will be buried in the dust.
At first, she also tried to pray bitterly in the name of love.
Even the most helpless, the most pitiful patient
You also have the right to decide what life you live
This is her way of expressing her humanity
You look at the look on your husband's face, he doesn't know how to answer.
Because the correct answer has not yet appeared in the times, let alone in the minds of men.
In the past 30 years, feminism has sprouted into a relatively mature period.
Look at the second daughter Laura, is she liberated?
In 1951, World War II ended, and the United States entered a period of nearly 10 years of tranquility.
The return of her husband and the growing up of her children are the happiness lauras look forward to, but they also possess her personal choices and desires to a certain extent.
She does not have her own way of life, and the rhythm of her life is subject to the arrival and delivery of her husband when he goes out and comes home.
Subject to children's learning, growth, and play.
Although these things are part of family life.
No, they may be part of the husband, a large part of the child.
But it was all Laura had.
In the movie, Laura actually hides a secret.
This secret, in 1951, was not what a "normal person" should have.
She may be a lesbian.
Laura's kiss with her friend, so unsympathetic, a kiss, became a temporary outlet for reality.
Another 50 years later, Laura's child, Richard, committed suicide.
The heroine of 1951 met Clarissa (Aunt May) in 2001.
She spoke of her remorse and another word: there was no choice.
Because "When you have no other choice, what does regret mean?" ”
Woolf had no choice, Laura had no choice.
Most of the tragedies of the times originated from the three views of the time, which lagged far behind the choice of human beings.
Let's talk about the third heroine, Clarissa.
She meets a new lover and breaks up with Richard, but the relationship doesn't end, it becomes increasingly deformed.
Richard was suffering from AIDS, so Clarissa would take care of him.
He had already lost the will to live, and death was at any time for him.
But what about Clarissa?
Even if the other party has always wanted to expel her from the relationship, she still accompanies the other party in pain, and does not hesitate to hold a party where no one will be happy.
It was her choice, and it was even a contradictory, not entirely idealistic choice.
The choice was free, even if it manifested itself as unfree—she had to take care of him, accompany him, and sacrifice her love.
Even gained some kind of peace of mind, she said:
I am truly alive.
Three relationships, it seems, have different degrees of unfreedom.
But the position of the last story is debatable – because this story comes from our time, the questions it raises still have their own answers.
Do you think she is free or not.
What about yourself.
And to what extent is "Mrs. Dalloway"?
Interestingly, "All the Time" was the original title of Woolf's Lady Dalloway.
From the movie point of view, spending a day is like having experienced a lifetime.
Imagine it by extension, it seems that what cannot be put down "all the time" is the dilemma of life that women think about repeatedly.
Whether it's dreams, love, marriage, family.
Today Sir said so much for it, the purpose is one -
Don't think that "All the Time" is just a fictional story, or some kind of award-winning work on the shelf.
It is a work of art, but for ordinary us, it is not only.
The plight of women it illuminates has a global universal significance, and what is more, the three stories have a very broad sense of symbolism, which is enough to correspond to the details of many people's lives.