Last year, I was finally able to watch some Mike Lee movies. I never knew this director, as Syskel & Ebert and other critics have heard that his name is making noise. However, I have recently been calm and watched some of his movies.
Is it his 2004? Bella Drake About the Workers’ Saint Vera, who plays Imelda Standon. While working in a minor job in 1997, he is working in house cleaning that performs abortion. Carrier girls Lee’s movie, which starring Catrin Cartridge and Linda Steadman, depicting two women and a few decades of friendship, has a quiet and gentle observation of the British working class. (I hesitate to call Carrier girls Like Lee’s many works, it’s a minor work because I remember the moment in my head and realize that that emotion is coming. )
Perhaps his most famous work is a masterpiece of 1996. Secret and lie。 The film is almost two and a half hours, but I haven’t felt the length at all and watched it three times in the past month, but I can prove that the movie has not yet lost its emotional power. Lee’s movies often feel very deep, and just remembering certain scenes and moments gives a strong impression as watching a movie for the first time.
Lee’s movie is not as interested in plot as characters and stories. Secret and lie This work is a story in which Hottens Cumberbatch, played by a intelligent Marianne Jean -Batist, is sad about the death of the adoptive mother and decides to look for a creator. She learns that her mother is a white woman and Cynthia Purey, who plays Brenda Bresin. It is natural that modern sensitivity is as it is Secret and lie Lee refuses to succumb to the public’s wisdom, despite the theme of race problems.
I say Secret and lie It may be more accurate to say that racial issues are not mentioned, but they are not open. Until Benedict Cumberbatch raises a reddish brown head, Lee’s smart decision is to explain the sly decision to give a black woman who plays Jean -Batist the most British sound. In one scene, Lee skillfully shows that Hotence’s family is no different from Cynthia’s family, and is suffering from a long -lasting drama between families.
For Lee, the movie about a certain thing is far away. Secret and lie It’s a story about various things, but the heart is about love. How do we lose it, find it, and sometimes overestimate it? Lee and his long -standing photographers, Bill Pope, will perform most of the levels of Yasujiro Ozu. Pope cameras often sit behind, frame the two characters, and develop dramas between them. Since John Ford, few directors have understood the power of human faces as much as Lee. You just need to remember the scene. Bella Drake The place where a police officer arrests Bella, and Lee and Pope sitting and showing the face of the stanton deliver an impressive opera in a few seconds.
The same applies Secret and lie, The eyes of Lee and Pope observe their characters and caught their vision carefully. Bresin’s acting, who played Cynthia, would be overkill if he was in the hands of a bad director. Cynthia is always emotionally fragile. She is crying or crying. However, in the scene where Cynthia and Hotens are sitting in a diner and Hotens is not a mistake in Cynthia, she is trying to understand that she is her daughter, and we are treated by Lee’s destructive and gentle characters. I realize the power of.
It’s a simple scene. The two sitting next to each other, and the camera alternately shoots wide shots and medium shots. However, the conversation deepened, and finally Cynthia realized that Hotence was his daughter, and the story was engraved on their face. Cynthia remembers the long memories of knowing who Haotens’s father is and never wants to remember again.
Most directors will be satisfied with Ortens and Cynthia alone. But to Lee, the younger brother of Cynthia, Maurice (Timothy Spole), his wife Monica (Philis Logan), Cynthia’s daughter Loxane (Claire Rush Brook), and Maurice’s assistant Jane (Elizabeth Berrington). A character appears. They are all dealing with their own problems and understands the same as Hotens and Cynthia.
That’s why Lee’s movie is very expressive and makes his character feel realistic. Lee’s movie is often praised by realism, which is misleading. Lee uses the following theatrical techniques without any remarkable. Carrier girls, everyone Lee goes back and forth between the past and the present, lets actors play both themselves and old when they are young, and regulate acting archines and nervous imaginary. His films can be felt naturally and real because they are fully drawn and realized. The character that appears for a moment feels like a character from another movie.
A character like a social worker played by Leslie Mangville is a woman who is clearly overwhelmed. There is one of her scenes, but if Lee chooses to do so, she will be a completely different movie character. Needless to say, how great Mangville is, but she and Lee are clearly stressful and recognize the importance of dealing with Hottens questions with honest and compassion. I am working. This scene is a shrinkage between Lee and his friends, and is pulseed with unpredictable energy. Nevertheless, this scene is deep, warm and impressive. Not only is Manville is wonderful, but Jean -Batist is also wonderful. Her curiosity about adoption is satisfied, and she faces the question of whether she should pursue or stop adoption.
Secret and lie It also works as a metatic comment on how movie production as an art format hides the truth and finds it. Maurice is a photographer, from families to couples who are not very happy, and all of his clients hide their reality, hiding the reality they have. I see poses toward the lens. This is perfectly reflected in a beautiful young woman hiring Maurice to take pictures of scars. Once perfect her face was hurt by the scar of a traffic accident, and the sound of Mosea’s flash seem like a privacy infringement, such as a fluttering face. Despite her demand, every time the camera flashes, the perception that we will reveal something more comfortable we feel.
Lee, Pope, and the editor, John Gregory, cut out the scenes of people sitting in front of Maurice’s camera. We will never meet these people again, but Gregory and Lee can cut these scenes and get a glimpse of their situation after almost acquainted. Lee realized this by creating a character closely with the actors. Meanwhile, Maurice, who builds his family peace, struggles to make people smile.
Lee’s process is probably more famous than him. In many cases, he comes up with ideas and characters, casts actors, creates characters with them, and spins the story from what they have created. rear Vera Drake Lee, nominated for the Oscar Award, had to write a script in a hurry.
Nevertheless, Lee’s movie is tight and more clear than most movies that are strictly obeyed on the script. The conversation has an amazing quality, and it feels natural and natural. For example, Hottens tells his best friend: “Sadness has no rationality. Maybe you’re crying for yourself.” Or when Maurice asked if the water leakage on the upper floor was terrible, Cynthia replied: 。 Only when it’s raining. “
Secret and lie At the climax at Roxane’s birthday party at Maurice’s house. Here, you can see how Lee is the only movie school. The Pope’s camera is sitting again while watching the people who eat dinner. It’s very easy and very believing, so if you don’t know how the movie is being made, you can’t imagine how difficult it is. While Maurice goes back and forth between the table and the grill, the conversation overlaps and the rhythm of the scene changes.
Lee’s characters have humor, love, and sadness. In many cases, they fight each other over hegemony. However, Lee himself is the most merciless to the characters. Lee’s movie has no sense of judgment. Cynthia -like characters may be “toxic” in other films, but Lee’s hand is a woman who requires a lot of love and suffers from assault for many years.
Lee’s movie succeeds because the characters are drawn from the real world. While watching the 1987 short film Short & Curly’s, I was surprised that the characters resembled the people I knew, such as my mother and my young man. Lee’s character appears to be “realistic” because trends and intellectual property are not injected into the characters, but is injected by living humans. Real humans are messy, sloppy, and cannot be liked. in Secret and lie, Maurice’s wife, Monica, is suffering from abdominal pain. This movie hints that it is more than menstrual cramps. This subplot has no benefit. It was only a part of their existence and as a person who is married to a chronic pain. Secret and lie Feeling that cuts to the bones.
Even the class problem comes from a complex understanding place. Maurice and Monica are in the middle class, but Cynthia and Daughter live in municipal housing. Maurice and Monica have three bathrooms, and Cynthia and Roxane have a villa. As I grew up, I went back and forth between the worker class and the world of the middle class. Lee understands the labyrinth of anxiety, jealousy, and complicated emotions when visiting a slightly wider family than himself. Cynthia’s sharp voice after Monica showed a brand new car, “What happened to the old car?”
While Maurice told his wife that his parents and his father would have been more expressive, his wife said, “I can’t overlook what I had never seen before.” Maurice answers, “Can’t you?” Secret and lie It is a movie that remains in my heart for free. Lee’s movie is often set in the past or the past, but somehow understand the unique loneliness of modern life, giving us comfort. You will be.
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