While I was still applauding the two women in "Miss" for picking the fruits of their love victory, "Portrait of a Burning Woman" seemed to drag me back to reality.
The story is set in Brittany, France, in 1760, when the shackles of etiquette were when a woman was a mere commodity in her marriage. The painter paints the portrait and sends it to her husband's house, and if she likes it, she can marry her. The portrait is hung in the man's home at the moment of consent to the marriage.
But if you think that the woman on the portrait is not good-looking, or do not like to quit this marriage, then the woman's value will fall sharply, and it will affect her future life.
Unfortunately, the well-to-do rich lady chose to jump off a cliff to commit suicide before getting married.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" >01 Transcend gender and status equality, which is an analysis of true love</h1>
According to the maid, Eloise's sister had quietly jumped off a cliff while walking with her, never screaming even in a terrified fall.
When he learned that his sister was dead, he was going to become a bride in her place. Eloise had no choice but anger. On that isolated island, she had no contact with anything other than Mass. In the heart of this kind and innocent girl, she never thought of using death to rebel against things she didn't like.
Some of her emotions were just anger, like other ordinary girls, dressed in monastic clothes and doing Mass regularly every day.
The kindness of Eloise is the epitome of all the young French brides to be married, who came out of the monastery and waited at home for their parents to arrange their marriage. They have never understood love, thinking that love is to get married and have children. Their uncertainty and fear of marriage are written on their faces, but they are afraid that the portrait they give to their fiancé does not really paint their most beautiful appearance.
In the blankness of love and the desire to be seen in their most beautiful souls, Eloise and the painter of the same woman made the most fatal mistake— they tried to gaze at each other's deepest souls in a campfire.
Isolated island cliffs, rough seas, corresponding to the desolation of two lonely souls. Even though the role of the man in the whole film is only two minutes except for carrying and rowing, there is not a moment when the two heroines are not living in an environment oppressed by men.
The dying Eloise survives in fear of marriage and longing for love, the maid bears the pain of stealing the forbidden fruit alone, and even the female painter with a skill can only exhibit her father's name when she exhibits her own paintings.
The voice and body of a woman who has been suppressed in history. In the closed little world, director Serene Sienma uses classical oil painting texture lenses to outline not only a fascinating emotional storm, but also an immersive emotional experience.
This is not a purely female work, and As a long-time researcher of gender issues, Sianma knows better than anyone that when we can really explore love above gender, we can truly understand the meaning of love.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" >02 From burning to staring, even the most beautiful love will eventually escape a moment of separation</h1>
At the beginning of Portrait of the Burning Woman, the identity of the painter Marianne as a model is placed on the bench, which is the gesture of painting and being painted, the gesture of staring and being gazed, and this equality and flow also runs through the entire film as always.
The female painter was hired to paint portraits of Eloise, and in conversation with her mother, the two reached an agreement to deceive Eloise, only to tell her that she was a companion who had come to accompany her for a walk. The first portrait was quickly completed, and the painter Marianne realized that she was doing something disrespectful to others, because through the simple eyes of Eloise, she saw the trust and beauty of the 19-year-old girl.
On both the level of love and relationships, Marianne is reluctant to allow herself to be a liar. So, she chose to confess. This confession was exchanged for the departure of madame and Eloise's questioning of his painting skills, which also opened the door for the two to be honest with each other.
Marianne realized at this time that her subjectively conjectured figure could not draw the truest soul. She began to talk to Eloise, to a bonfire party with her, and to listen to her tell herself about ancient Greek mythology.
However, it turns out that they cannot break the traditional feudal concept of following the shadow.
First, at the bonfire party, Eloise stared at Marianne for the first time, so that the hem of her skirt was on fire. Unfortunately, before they could pass on the meeting, the crowd had already rushed forward to put out the fire.
In recounting the fable of Orpheus coming to the underworld to find his dead wife, Orpheus finally did not resist looking back at his wife, breaking his oath, and eventually the wife lost the opportunity to return to the human world. Marianne commented that perhaps Orpheus herself had chosen to love her in her memories; eloise said, it was also possible that his wife had called on Orpheus to look back at her.
The two made eye contact and decided to make a storm for this crazy love at any cost.
Even in the end, they didn't ask if it was a mistake to fall in love with the other person. This is love aside from all scrutiny, and on this isolated island, everyone carefully tries to strip away the male discourse and live independently.
Director Xi Amma is always making each frame of the shot a little more poetic, even when the three decide to form a camp to help the maid to have an abortion, while the child in the belly dies, the maid holds the hand of the baby boy lying on the edge of the bed, half crying and half rejoicing.
In the book "Oranges are not the only fruit", there is a saying that "when you overturn the snow-white brocade, you find that there is only a bowl of soup underneath." If we have not tried to love, to the opposites and divisions, we will never see the best way to achieve love.
In Portraits of a Burning Woman, Eloise says to Marianne, "Do you know what love tastes like?" Not everything in the world is so short-lived, such as a deep love and heartfelt heart. ”
They broke through the worldly eyes to love, in the corridor of midnight dreams, on the beach of the reef of the great waves, and on the edge of the snow-white bed. Marianne is not so much awakening the deep desires of Eloise's soul as it is hastening eloise's endgame of love, thus evolving her into a successful rich wife.
Finally, Marianne bid farewell to the castle according to the original rhythm, and at the moment when the door was pushed away, she chose to look back, and Eloise in the wedding dress was in harmony with her inner aesthetic imagination. At this point, she finally became Orpheus, and Eloise became Eurydice.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" >03 From breakthrough to struggle, it is the most tangible inspiration for women's progress</h1>
Director Xi Amma has said that the real tragedy she understands is to first give the two people the possibility of love, and then make it impossible because of the working mechanism of patriarchal society. She is good at mobilizing the emotions of the characters to the extreme in a carefully crafted small world, and she is better at capturing the emotional flow between the characters in the most detail.
Marianne and Eloise had two possible encounters over the years, once at an exhibition between the same confined spaces, where Marianne heard the call behind her, and after crossing the sea of people, she only saw another portrait belonging to Ailosse. At that time, she was already a mother, holding the same docile and lovely daughter in her hand, and she still had the myth that she had read together in the old days, or the original 28 pages, or the same did not forget.
Another time, at a closed concert, the camera replaces Marianne's gaze, and we see Eloise sitting in the corner, who begins to take on the appearance of a noblewoman, wrinkles and eyes that become more and more real with time. When the piano song of "Four Seasons" was played, she suppressed the pain while forcing herself to laugh.
In this narrative with only women as the clue, in addition to feeling the sadomasochism of abnormal love, returning to ourselves, it is more important how to find an important way to promote women's progress and social growth through objective analysis of the film.
In this pure love story, no one side becomes a loser. Their bold confession of love has already drawn a heavy knife to that era, this love is liberating, will continue to grow, and has a future.
Expect us to write down all our experiences of love, and expect that when love and gaze meet, we truly feel that love and equality give us the truest meaning and inspiration.