剧情以现今女性身兼多职,国产既要照顾家庭又要兼顾事业,国产面对社会标准、迫人生活及舆论压力,女性往往承受很多不必要的压力为主题。《熟女强人》透过七个女性去探讨及穿梭一些大胆的话题,包括雪卵、争抚养权、同性恋、性上瘾、换妻、爸爸去哪儿及脱单等等。
剧情以现今女性身兼多职,国产既要照顾家庭又要兼顾事业,国产面对社会标准、迫人生活及舆论压力,女性往往承受很多不必要的压力为主题。《熟女强人》透过七个女性去探讨及穿梭一些大胆的话题,包括雪卵、争抚养权、同性恋、性上瘾、换妻、爸爸去哪儿及脱单等等。
回复 :Aki and Naoko are childhood friends who are drifting apart as adults. Immersed in her family life, Naoko now has a husband and daughter; Aki, on the other hand, remains single and is on leave from work due to a personal crisis. The plot might sound familiar but it has never been told like this. The director Kusano Natsuka stages the interactions through an actors’ table-read and, as the lines are repeated, the scenes gradually develop into on-location conversations. Moreover, she repositions the dramatic peak of the story to the beginning: Aki has murdered Naoko’s daughter.Structurally inventive, Kusano's daring cinema implements ‘distantiation’ effects to get to the heart of friendship issues at times when life has settled. While the repetitions convey the suffocation of role patterns in both friendship and family, a line left out or added in unsettles and reminds us life can take unexpected turns.
回复 :James Benning’s first film called The United States of America was a 1975 trip across the country, capturing its scenery through a car windshield. This second one also crisscrosses the nation, but without a car, carving it up instead into a series of static shots of just under two minutes, one for each state, presented alphabetically, from Heron Bay, Alabama to Kelly, Wyoming. The names of the places are nondescript, but the images attached to them are anything but, immaculately composed shots of landscape, cityscape and the spaces in between. As we move from A to Z, the images coalesce into a portrait of today’s USA, tracing out its fault lines almost in passing: fenced-off facilities, a river bed running dry, factories and refineries, run-down streets and gas stations, a camp under a bridge. The past is there too, seeping up through the songs and speeches that sporadically pierce the background noise or the motifs that evoke a whole career; the clouds, trains and cabins are stand-ins for films, not just states. As always, there’s time for more abstract thoughts too: each image may stand for a state, but representativity is slippery. Which state is more cinematic than the rest?
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