It's the end of the year again, and the Hollywood awards season kicks off.
Popular new films, launched one after another.
One of them, Uncle Yu has been looking forward to it for a long time.
It's just because of the lineup-
Natalie PortmanwithJulian MooreStarring two goddesses.
Directed by Todd Hines, the great director who filmed "Carol".
It was shortlisted for this year's Cannes main competition unit, and has been included in the top ten films of the year by foreign media such as The New York Times and Indiewire.
Involved**, derailment, **dramaand other large-scale topics.
What are you waiting for, this is the inspection-
The relationship between the two actresses in the film is very tense.
Natalie Portman, plays a HollywoodActress, is about to star in a live-action adaptation of a biopic.
And Julian Moore plays the prototype of her characterGracie
Gracie is a pileSex scandalsThe protagonist.
36 years oldThat year, she had a husband and a son, but she was with one13-year-old boy JoeHad sex.
Subsequently, he was imprisoned on suspicion of being a minor.
In prison, they also gave birth to their children.
The subsequent development is even more surprising.
After being released from prison,Gracie divorced and married the boy Joe
They had three children in total.
Now, more than 20 years later, the child has reached the age of leaving home to go to college, Joe, who is only in his 30s, is about to become an empty nester, and Gracie is also beginning to enter old age.
For a long time, these have been reported by ** and have become people's after-dinner conversations.
It is conceivable that such a controversial character is very difficult to play.
The actress did a lot of homework on this.
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After receiving permission, she went deep into Gracie's family.
Dinner with a large family.
Visited where Joe works.
Went to their daughter's class.
He even went shopping with the family and attended the children's graduation ceremony.
However, it was completely different from what she imagined.
She had expected that Gracie's life would be a mess.
Unexpectedly, this family didn't feel a little shame, and it looked no different from an ordinary family.
He lives in a large, beautiful and clean house, has a good relationship with his neighbors, and often has family parties.
In addition to getting along with his family every day, Gracie also does baking and flower arrangement, and lives happily and contently.
Could it be that the so-called sex scandal is actually a true love story that has been misunderstood by the world?
Naturally, it's not that simple.
The biggest attraction of the film is not a curious freak love, butThe two major actresses are racing in the same frame
Gracie and the actress seem to hit it off at first sight.
They all say that they want the movie to be real, but in fact, they have their own ghosts.
Gracie's purpose for authorizing the filming of the film and allowing the actors to invade her home was toWhitewashing
She wants the outside world to see her happy familyProve that it was not a crime, but that it was out of true love
The man has also emphasized many times that he is not a victim, and they will live together for 24 years if they really have feelings.
However, for the actress,took over the filming of this drama, which is to take a fancy to the moral grayscale of the character
She wants to play a black-bellied character, not the heroine of a pure love story.
She is here for the brutal truth behind true love.
Therefore, from the first time the two met, it wasOne offense, one defenseof tension.
The actress tried to see through Gracie.
For example, when she learns flower arrangement with the other party, she will coldly throw out a sharp question:
Don't you have any more nostalgia for the past?」
Then observe the other party tentatively, waiting for the moment to break the defense.
But Gracie just smiled as well as ever, and even the movement of pulling his hair remained fixed and unchanged.
While sitting in Gracie's warm home, the actress suddenly asked about Gracie's experience of moving many times under pressure in the past.
I want to know about her bitter history of blood and tears.
But the other party still doesn't change his face, I will make friends wherever I go. 」
The actress is pressing step by step, like a gossip reporter digging up black material.
In the end, she used a killer trick - deliberately mentioning her and her ex-husband's son.
He must be as old as Joe. 」
What was your relationship after this happened?」
Sure enough, Gracie's courtesy smile disappeared in an instant, and he replied: Does this have anything to do with the movie?
However, after a brief gaffe, Gracie quickly took control of the situation again.
She sent the actress a family ** episode to prove that she lived a happy life.
Even in front of the mirror in the bathroom, bluntly told the actress:
Everything is going well, my life is happy and my children love me. 」
This performance is worth playing.
The actress's eyes are always locked on Gracie.
And Gracie, even when talking to the actress, is looking at himself in the mirror.
It was as if she was convincing not only the actress, but also herself.
With the action of touching up makeup, she is more like she isSculpt a product called Gracie, instead of being yourself.
As the actress asked, "Are you too naïve?"
Gracie shifted his gaze to the actress, and a hint appeared in his eyesProvocation
I was naïve, naïve all the time, and in a way, it was a gift. 」
And the actress is confused, frustrated, and deeper confused.
There are many netizens who commented,Moore's acting skills beat Portman
However, Uncle Yu feels that this is due to the relationship between the two.
Did you find it?The actress who has been attacking is actually the weaker side.
Her snooping keeps failing.
And Gracie, who is meticulous in his mask, is the strongest.
She is like a mystery, elusive.
Until the end, the actress failed to find out Gracie's heart.
She can only find a breakthrough in other people.
Through many inquiries, the actress learned about the other side of Gracie.
It turned out that her cake business was all taken care of by a few sympathetic neighbors.
She was ostensibly brave, rebellious, and sober, and got everything she wanted.
But behind the scenes, if an order is canceled, it will collapse repeatedly.
And her marriage is far from as perfect as she describes.
The actress even does not hesitate to push the boundaries of ethicsSeduces Gracie's husband Joe
A relationship takes place, which confirms that Joe is not loyal.
At the same time, he also found that he was fragile and almost a child.
Not at all as mature and responsible as Gracie described.
Seeing this, Uncle Yu felt that the director was trying to refresh everyone's cognition.
When it comes to biopics, actors and archetypal characters are the most intuitive criteria.
If you look similar on the outside, it will become a marketing point.
For example, Haiqing and Zhang Guimei.
Actually, this is just a superficial appearance.
The movie also shows the actress trying to imitate Gracie.
Draw the same makeup, do the same movements, and make the same cake gestures.
She definitely works hard, and she is always taking notes in the process of experiencing life.
But, despite this, the result was a failure.
Until the final shoot, she still couldn't resonate with the character.
She mobilized her whole body to perform, and she couldn't see Gracie's shadow at all, only her own ambition as an actor.
It's not difficult.
Acting, too.
There is no shortage of hard work.
So what's missing?
Understanding and excavating the complexity of people.
On the one hand, the actress, despite her repeated emphasis on objectivity and neutrality, inadvertently falls into a preconceived moral judgment.
She didn't really want to understand Gracie, but she wanted to find an ultimate answer about her.
After doing your homework, you think you have grasped the source of the tragedy of this role.
Not only did he see through Gracie's constant concealment of the essence of the criminal.
It is also learned that Gracie was hurt by her brother when she was a child, which may have led to a deformity in her adult view of love.
But she completely ignores the complexity of human nature.
Later, I learned that there was no such thing as ** at all, and it was deliberately made up by Gracie and her ex-husband's son who were insecure.
The actress also has no way of judging whether Gracie's clarification is true or false.
This reminds me of Xiao Hong played by Tang Wei in "** Times".
Xu Anhua once mentioned how much effort she put in, understanding the background of the times, practicing the accent of Xi characters, and reading relevant books well.
But in the end, it turned out to be a failure, and it didn't look like the real Xiao Hong.
But on the other hand, Guan Jinpeng's "Ruan Lingyu", based on a new understanding of this character in the new era, reconstructs the triple time and space, and reshapes her image between imagination and reality.
Maggie Cheung's appearance was criticized for not being similar enough at first.
But she resonates and thinks about Ruan Lingyu's "vase" that was pasted in her early years and her stubborn character after being attacked by gossip.
From the script to the actors, they have a deep understanding of the character, which makes the character come alive.
On the other hand, human nature itself is obscure, and the real and the false are intertwined.
It's not just celebrities who have personalities.
Even ordinary people like Gracie and Joe have personalities, that is, they are eager to peddle an image of affection to the outside world.
is like the bright Lijun couple who were hotly discussed on the whole network some time ago.
Because of the unfinished building incident, they became victims in the eyes of the public.
It is true that this identity has attracted attention.
Recently, they announced that they would stay in Zhengzhou to start a business. It seems that a new kind of character has begun.
Which side is the real them?Or are they both?
It's like the world opened by two pills in The Matrix.
We live in a vast chaos where it is difficult to distinguish between truth and falsehood, and complex propositions such as identity, morality, and power are mixed.
In the current ** environment, we are used to seeing words such as asking for hammers, fighting fakes, and whitewashing.
But this film goes back to square one and asks us:What is true?What is Fake?
Rather than dwelling on the true and the false, it is fair to say that in such a complex and pluralistic era, our judging methods are too crude.
The film is interspersed with the whole process of the butterfly from the egg stage to the emergence of a butterfly, which precisely silently conveys ——
The abundant experience of life should not be oversimplified.