Remember last year's Italian love thriller Perfect Stranger? Seven friends gathered together on the night of the lunar eclipse, spent a good night together, put a good king pesticide and did not play, had to play what game of sharing mobile phones, the result of No zuo no die, seven mobile phones together detonated an annual tearing drama.
This year, there is also a tearing drama staged - "The Cocktail Party". If "Perfect Stranger" is a personal emotional experience, a discussion of moderate social distancing and intimacy, then the themes explored in this movie are much more advanced.
Premiered at the Berlin Film Festival at the beginning of the year, "The Cocktail Party" is short, only 71 minutes, using black and white images, and the entire set is limited to the hostess's home, and a bloody crime caused by several green hats is staged in a cramped environment. Notice that not one, but several.
The hostess, Janet, who had just campaigned to become minister of health, celebrated her rise to the top of her life by hosting a party at home and hosting a dinner party with her husband, Bill.
As she prepares dinner, her phone rings non-stop, and in addition to congratulatory calls, there are some ulterior motives.
Janet is played by Kristen Scott Thomas, who was nominated for an Oscar for the role of Catherine in The English Patient. In the recently released Darkest Hour, she played Churchill's gentle and charming wife.
Janet's husband, Bill, played by Timothy Spoo, once won the Cannes film emperor with "Mr. Turner".
Bill was a high-ranking intellectual, but he gave up his opportunity to teach at a prestigious university for janet's political career, and was willing to be the man behind successful women. But this man didn't seem to be very happy, listening to lonely songs and drinking lonely wine.
The first to visit were girlfriend April and her husband.
April used to work with Janet, and when she saw through the hypocrisy and ugliness of politics, she was willing to quit politics and become a kochi. As soon as she and her husband entered the door, they froze.
It is no wonder that her husband maintains a perfect inconsistency with her in every way, claiming to be a "spiritual leader" and using all kinds of chicken soup bodies as soon as he opens his mouth.
This pair of estimates is not optimistic, and April does not hide his dislike for her husband, and even says that the party will be the last supper for the two.
April is played by Patricia Clarkson, a Yale school bully who has just won best supporting actress in a British independent film with "Cocktail Party".
The husband of the god stick is played by a powerful person, Bruno Gantz, we call "special actor", and the grandfather in the previous year's unpopular film "Heidi and Grandpa".
This was followed by Martha and her same-sex partner Ginny, a pair who had just been successfully conceived and were triplets. Martha and Janet's husband Bill were college classmates, the same senior intellectual, and a feminist.
Martha is played by Cherie Jones, who won the Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Allison in 24 Hours.
Ginny is played by Emily Modimer, the eldest daughter of the famous mystery novelist John Modimer, who played the rich lady Croy in Woody Allen's pinnacle of "The End of the Race".
The last to enter the door was Tom, whose wife Marianne worked with Janet, and she was one of the PhD students bill brought out, but today only Tom was at the banquet, and he claimed that Marianne had something to delay and would come back later.
Tom is a familiar face, the famous Nolan royal supporting actor Killian Murphy. Tom is a financier, as soon as he enters the door, he seems a little pompous, before he sees the master, he goes to the toilet to smoke some white powder, and then takes out a gun from his arms, shaking the bullet of the rope, probably a new gunner, but after the shadow of the shadow of this room, who are you going to kill?
Don't worry, the good drama is behind. The happy banquet begins, everyone is ready to celebrate Janet's promotion, when Bill, who was already very unhappy, threw the first bombshell of the audience - I am going to die, I am already terminal cancer.
Everyone looked at each other, and his wife Janet was also dumbfounded, thinking about her husband's efforts for herself over the years, and immediately stated that the work was not done.
The lover also broke up immediately, taking good care of Bill and making up for the debt he had owed over the years.
In the midst of peace, Bill dropped a second bombshell, and in the few days remaining, I wanted to spend with another woman.
WHAT？ Janet immediately slapped her face and said, Who is it? It was the man who was absent today—Tom's wife, Marianne.
With such a big green hat on his head, it was no wonder That Tom was carrying a gun to the door. During the quarrel, Janet discovers that her good friend Martha has also provided divine assistance for her husband's cheating, and often lends them her apartment to steal, for a particularly intimate reason.
The scene suddenly turned into a scuffle, at which point Bill casually recounted that when he was in college, he and Martha shared an apartment and shared everything.
At this time, Martha's partner Ginny is not happy, you have said that men are rapists, but you did not expect that you once had a relationship with a rapist.
After a while, Bill has issued three green hats, which is nothing, and the god reverses at the end to tell you what is the most awesome green hat, no spoilers.
Looking at the plot, this tearing scene is full of explosive points, and behind the multi-party scuffle, it is actually a mutual diss and self diss between high-ranking people in society.
Janet, who has reached the peak of her life, is already a leader in the political world, in addition to the invisible little secrets, she will also be bombarded by a dog blood drama of life, to the point of doubting life and doubting herself.
A well-dressed capitalist, with wealth, collapsed in marriage, and his wife's infidelity made him angry and murderous.
The central figure in the audience, the high-ranking intellectual Bill, who believed in knowledge and culture all his life, slid into agnosticism in the final stages of his life. Cancer shattered all his rationality and even led him to ask "Why Me?" "Such a fatalistic question.
He even began to doubt modern medicine, wanting to believe in what her husband called "karmic retribution" and "faith healing."
Even when his confidence was completely defeated, he still maintained the characteristic purity of Kochi, calling Tom a financier with no morality to speak of, and angrily accusing Tom of stealing the fruits of the laborers' hard work.
But all the life he has in his hands is based on what he calls "dirty money," sad, ridiculous, and pitiful.
The real brilliance of the film is not about the tearing of a few green hats, but about the fierce collision of ideas between social politics, economy, culture, and beliefs, and in the sparks, little by little tearing off the coats of the so-called high-ranking people in society, naked and opposite, you will find that they are just like us, two eyes, one mouth, in the face of some unchangeable bloody reality, there is no choice but to admit it.