Women's Personality Film Class

Author: Ling Xi
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Publish Date: 2005-05-01
Features: Movies are truly miraculous treasures. Sometimes they are reflections and reflections of real life, and sometimes they are distortions and exaggerations of fictional images. You can find and see undeniable masterpieces in the vast hall of light and shadow. Movies are emotions, they are vibrant and colorful things. And the women in the movies are even more prominent in their unique position in human emotions. They will always be depicted as secondary elements, either vividly or subtly, showcasing their joys, sorrows, loves, and hatreds, thereby revealing their existence to the world. My movies are about confusion and darkness. You can say it's real, or you can say it's imaginary. It's not a dream, but it's not reality either. —David Lynch
When I have several different concerns and conflicting attitudes in my heart, my movies come out. —Ethan Frome
When we are closest, the distance between us is only 0.01 centimeters, 57 hours later, I fell in love with this woman. —"Chongqing Forest"
Movies are truly miraculous treasures. Sometimes they are reflections and reflections of real life, and sometimes they are distortions and exaggerations of fictional images. You can find and see undeniable masterpieces in the vast hall of light and shadow. Movies are emotions, they are vibrant and colorful things. And the women in the movies are even more prominent in their unique position in human emotions. They will always be depicted as secondary elements, either vividly or subtly, showcasing their joys, sorrows, loves, and hatreds, thereby revealing their existence to the world. Every woman is like a peacock, her life full of stories, experiencing love, hatred, and emotions in her life, like colorful feathers covering her life. Due to the increasing diversity of culture, the experience of watching movies is becoming more and more standardized. This is no longer an era of simplicity at its peak. In the eyes of most people, technology surpasses experience, data replicates emotions, and the imaginary kingdom and the fictional heroes dominate the screen. The creativity, technology, and style that were once pursued have become distant and desolate, and they are no longer within reach! And the most important character in the movie is also becoming more and more vague, the plot is thin, and everything flows through our hearts like fast food. What fills our brains is simple stimulation and pale words. After everything is over, nothing is left. That's why this book is necessary, hoping to give you a guiding light in the vast sea of movies.
Before the 1950s, movies were basically a male world, and women were mostly decorative roles. For example, in Hitchcock's films, he was interested in the charming appearance of women. The women under his command were all beautiful, blonde, and blue-eyed. Even the individualistic Ingrid Bergman was just a beautiful decoration in his films. It wasn't until movies basically matured and male roles had no further room for development that the content of women beyond their faces and figures was filled, and their personalities were discovered. Starting with Katharine Hepburn, women's roles in movies were finally confirmed. In the films, we learned about many unknown and unique women, such as Frida. Her impact on us goes far beyond what we can understand in real life. The creator gave her suffering beyond what ordinary people can bear to inspire her deepest desires, allowing her to show the brilliant light within her that ordinary people do not have. She was so bold and unrestrained, so freely releasing her inner desires, venting the pains life gave her. Her personality and experiences have an irresistible charm for us in the mortal world.
When watching Adele, we know that love comes at a price—laughter, ruin, misunderstanding, even death. Despite this, so many people still choose to live for love. For those who have no love and prefer to immerse themselves in their own fantasies, even at the cost of their lives, we have no right to judge or regret the quality of their lives or their dedication to love. Only they themselves know how happy they are. We experience what is ordinary and what is ordinary, these are the essence of most people's lives. If everything must end, let the magnificent curtain fall at a peaceful dusk. Indifference is the most beautiful music, and peace is the best accompaniment. The flying feathers will commemorate a pure passing. What is called love, apart from love at first sight, holding hands, and growing old together, can also be like in "Love Letter," where an accidental coincidence after parting reveals a pure emotion that has long been unnoticed in the heart. Gradually, it overflows and spreads, not only not fading away for a day but rather increasing day by day, perhaps until the very end of life. A woman's wisdom, like her beauty, is always full of danger. Even quiet flowers can show their desire for absorption with a moment of opening and closing. When desire blooms on her soft skin, the desire that spreads out must be the lamb waiting to be captured, just like the brilliant Roman general who could not escape the enchanting and intelligent Cleopatra.
Movies show us one after another of real and rational women. They come from life, but they are more complex and more interesting than life. When life falls into despair, we need fantasy to heal our wounds; and when life is empty and meaningless, we wish we were on the edge of a choice, so that life wouldn't be so boring. So we are destined to hold movies in our hearts, and we are destined to grow with women of all kinds, and then inspire ourselves. In other words, having this life is not enough, and the lives, temperaments, and destinies of other women are so far away from us. We should also have a poetic world to inspire us together with others. Women are a painting, each with an elegant posture; women are porcelain, each fragile and easily broken. Any woman is like a blooming flower, each with her own beauty and charm. The key depends on whether you value appearance, temperament, or other things. Sometimes, just having a heart that appreciates is enough. Women of different temperaments have different colors and feelings. Some women are like Yeats's lyrical poems, calm but full of hidden surges, making people unconsciously resonate; some women are like Chopin's nocturnes, full of endless genius, yet still with a gentle sorrow; some women are like sorrowful springs, but the sound of dripping water always makes people feel that they will eventually flow toward hope. Simple or sharp, calm or passionate, enjoying solitude or knowing many people—each has their own temperament and their own fate, and each has their own sky.
Whether it's envying others or examining whether you can do it, if you can, you might as well improve yourself greatly; if you lack the strength, you might as well just admire it. Life is short, there's no need to work too hard. Remember what Akira Kurosawa once said: "Movies are like containers, they can hold all the flavors of life, and turn those initial sorrows, laughter, emotions, and pains that are originally floating outside of movies into concrete forms, so that everyone can share." When I saw this sentence, I truly realized the perseverance and ideals of the masters contained in a short film of just a few dozen minutes or a long one of just a few hours. And because of this, I restrained my previous purely for entertainment views and began to appreciate them more, and also understood them better. I hope to be happy for their happiness, sad for their sadness, pursue for their pursuit, and be happy for their happiness.
However, in this real world, except for geniuses, basically every ordinary person finds it difficult to overturn human conventional consensus. So, not being a genius, we will strive to seek in the lives of movies those wisdom and knowledge that can make us more composed and tolerant, all of it. If possible, we would love to sincerely do the thing we most wanted to do when we were six years old in our twenties, thirties, or even forties. But we lack the courage and such a tenacious memory. So, on a certain afternoon, when we see in the movies the love, choices, difficulties, and encounters of those women, and when we think about what we would be like in such a situation, we might be so weak that we have no counterattack, or we might have already escaped. Life is sometimes sweet like a smile, and sometimes desperate like pain, often dazzlingly beautiful and then returning to normal. Because of the vigor of youth, the hardships of turbulent times, and the firm perseverance in the face of difficulties, we gradually grow into a steady, detached, and open-minded old age. Most people's lives follow this path, so we should take our time to savor movies and life.