This summer, the palace fight drama is on fire again.
"Yanxi Raiders" and "Ruyi Zhuan" have earned enough traffic and eyeballs.
The harem women's deception in the field of interests is quite similar to the intrigues in the workplace, calculating in human feelings and playing in power.
All the way through the thorns, like a promotion and salary increase, this kind of workplace textbook sense of substitution makes white-collar women look at it with relish.
But in fact, the palace fight drama is only cloaked in the cloak of inspirational women, and the bones still can't escape the Mary Sue character setting.
Whether it was Wei Yongluo or Ruyi, if there was no such domineering president as the emperor, he would not know how many times he would die.
Real life, not like palace fighting, although people's hearts are sinister and full of thorns, but you are not so lucky, there is always a living bodhisattva for you to overcome the danger.
Today Xiangyu came to introduce a female movie that has no palace fight drama, no life-and-death fight, but makes people's blood boil.
This is the real inspirational -
"Young Woman"
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It is the debut of French director Leono Sehay.
Won last year's Golden Camera Award at the Cannes Film Festival (Director's Debut).
Steve McQueen, Hero Chen, Jarmusch... These directors have all entered the world film industry with this award.
In addition to the coronation at Cannes, there are a bunch of awards:
Best Film at the Stockholm Film Festival in Sweden; Best Film at the Champs Elysées Film Festival in Paris; Best Actress at the Valladoli Film Festival in Spain; London Film Festival, Busan Film Festival, Vienna Film Festival honored to be selected;
To this day, the Rotten Tomatoes freshness of "Young Woman" remains at 100%.
Some even said, "This is the best feminist film out there."
Because the focus is on urban women gaining new life in the experience of life, many netizens call it "Paris Women's Picture Book".
As soon as the film opens, Paula, who has just stood in her thirties, is dumped by her boyfriend who has been in love for ten years and is thrown out of the house.
It is false to say that it is not painful, after all, 10 years of feelings are there.
Therefore, it can be expected that the scene of the breakup is not friendly at all, and it is filled with smoke.
Paula knocked on the door and injured herself and was taken to the hospital.
When I arrived at the hospital, I pulled the medical staff to turn over the old accounts like a "complaining woman", complaining about the cruelty and ruthlessness of her boyfriend.
After being discharged from the hospital, he ran to the door of her boyfriend's house again, scolded and scolded, and her ugly appearance was revealed.
Such a "crazy woman" image who is obsessed with love is really not pleasing at all.
But in fact, she was once the muse in her boyfriend's heart.
Her boyfriend, who is a photographer, became famous for his photos of her as a model.
Today's Paula is discarded like a rag.
At the age of 15, he broke up with his family, and at the age of 30, he was kicked out by his boyfriend who had been in love for 10 years.
She thought, "Or just occupy a small corner in her boyfriend's big house, and your boyfriend doesn't even need to notice her presence."
In order to save love and life, she can humble herself to this point.
Here we have to praise the heroine's actor Lititia Dosch.
As a newcomer actress, she gave a stunning performance, interpreting Paula's vulnerability, madness and tenacity just right, and was eventually nominated for the César Award for Best Newcomer Actress for this role.
In the end, Paula still retained the last bit of dignity and did not beg her boyfriend to stay.
But she and the cat in her arms were completely out of the way.
At this point, it is better to go to the nightclub first.
However, after the hi, we always have to face reality.
To her despair, even if she sold all her jewelry, it would not be worth much.
When there was no way to retreat, she decided to fend for herself.
But how easy is it for a woman to make a living in Paris?
What's more, in the 10 years that Paula has been with her photographer boyfriend, she is basically a small pet in captivity, and her ten fingers do not stick to the spring water.
You can imagine how difficult this new prologue of life from scratch has been opened.
Interviews have been repeatedly rejected, and it has become commonplace.
The dilemma of no money to pay rent and no money to eat is also hanging over the head every day.
In desperation, she met a woman with a warm smile on the subway. The woman mistakenly believes that Paula is her elementary school classmate, and the joy of "knowing from other places" is reflected in her warm hospitality to Paula.
It was also through her that Paula found a job as a nanny and also worked part-time as a lady at the underwear counter in the mall.
Just as her life is gradually getting on the right track, the ex-boyfriend reappears, trying to save their relationship...
Peeling back the core of the story of self-redemption after a lost love, "Young Woman" shows how a woman tenaciously struggles to survive and break out of her own piece of the sky in this dangerous patriarchal world.
Because they are all female themes, as well as the high degree of overlap between the protagonist's personality and encounters, the media called "Young Woman" "The French version of Frances Ha".
Uncle Fish has also recommended "Frances Ha," a black-and-white comedy starring Miss Bird director Greta Gerwig.
The protagonist, Frances, is a 27-year-old silly big sister who lives clumsily and sincerely in the big city, constantly losing and growing in the collision of ideals and reality.
Both films are surging with a very delicate flow of life, and the heroines have a simple state of mind that does not match their age, stumbling to find the direction of life in the big city.
But the overall tone of "Frances Ha" is always to be high-spirited, and the heroine has always been very clear about what she wants, so even if she has suffered a lot of life, she can always stand up quickly and continue to face the next challenge;
In contrast, "Young Woman" is much darker, and Paula has to recreate a new independent self in the absence of nothing.
The ex-boyfriend bought out ten years of her youth with a good life.
During this decade, she was the photographer's girlfriend, who traveled the world with her boyfriend every day.
She does not belong to the ordinary real world of the moment, but is just a beautiful woman frozen in film.
The sufferings of the world, the pains of growing up, all have nothing to do with her.
Love is the whole of her life and the foundation on which she builds her own existence.
So much so that a breakup of her boyfriend ten years later was enough to instantly disintegrate everything she had built during this decade.
So the first scene of the movie is Paula desperately banging her head against the door in the dark, begging her boyfriend to open the door.
Because for her, no longer the photographer's girlfriend, her life will be precarious, which makes her desperate.
What's more, she no longer knows who she is.
Therefore, she needs to hide the empty shell inside by playing someone else again and again in the film.
In front of her new friends on the subway, she is the chubby Sarah Princess in the fifth grade of elementary school;
When interviewing the counter lady, she is an unwavering supporter of the brand and calm;
In front of her employer, she was an art student at the university and only came out to work part-time in her spare time.
These "stolen identities" are not suitable for the clumsy her, and she walks with trepidation at every step, afraid that her disguise will be punctured.
Although at first, she was indeed walking on thin ice, pushed by life.
Walking non-stop, flawlessly reflecting on her identity or future, the present alone is enough to make her live in a mess every day.
But even in the most difficult moments, she never thought about giving up on her new life.
Even when he was the loneliest and most helpless, he did not show weakness in front of his ex-boyfriend, but lived a more dignified and confident life.
This kind of life that falls to the bottom and then bottoms out and rebounds is the most exciting.
Paula could have returned to her comfort zone by reuniting with her ex-boyfriend, but she chose the hard mode that life gives.
These silent years of cultivation have gradually become the proof of her existence as an independent individual.
Xiangyu admires Paula after the breakup from the bottom of her heart, and this turnaround battle is too beautiful.
It is too boring to live on film and become immortal, but to taste the ordinary taste of living in the world.
She digests the challenges of life one by one, and instead of complaining, she experiences them all as "life I haven't experienced."
Whether it is to discover an independent self or to find her own value, from beginning to end it is her own war.
It's just that in this war, there are no complicated plots and strategies, no smoke and swords and swords, and some are just struggles between themselves and themselves, as well as between themselves and life.
Xiangyu especially likes the ending——
Paula slowly closed the window and stared out the window with her beautiful heterochromatic pupils, as if to say to the audience:
"Well, my story is over, what about yours?"
If I answer:
To fuck immortality and loneliness, life is still a long dream, it is better to make a vigorous creation.
Whether or not I love it or not, I have to live myself, not someone else's note.
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