" Phantom Thread " is a romantic film directed by Paul Thomas Anderson (PTA) and starring Daniel Day-Lewis (DDL) and Vicky Cripps. The movie was released in the United States in 2018. Nominated for Best Picture at the 90th Academy Awards.
The story takes place in London in the 1950s. Reynolds, a paranoid, ruthless and talented master tailor, and his sister run a ready-to-wear shop called Reynolds Woodcock, which specializes in designing clothes for high-class ladies. By chance, Reynolds met Alma, a waitress at a restaurant. For Reynolds' authoritarian, critical character and living habits, Alma gradually became a vassal. To restore equality in their relationship, Alma decides to poison Reynolds' food.
Reynolds meets Alma
Frankly speaking, the ending of Phantom Thread was very unexpected. At first, I thought it was a story about the artist Reynolds and fashion, but then it became more and more strange, until I couldn't understand it, and I could only call the relationship between the two people a morbid love.
Reynolds is always standing on the stairs, overlooking the high society ladies walking towards him. Until a surprise dinner prepared by Alma disrupts his lifeless, unchangeable life. For the first time, a woman overlooked him from a height. Although the position soon changed, it implied that Alma was gradually taking the lead: the temple of art would become the playground of love.
That's true, Alma, through poisonous mushrooms, makes the tough, authoritative, ruthless artist so weak that he can't take care of himself, yearning for his mother's care like a child. The mother, who is the spiritual support, appears in the hallucination and is replaced in reality by the living Alma. Reynolds's Oedipus complex is very obvious: when he has mood swings, he will seek solace from his mother's relics, and he will follow his mother's advice to put important things on the lining of his clothes.
's second poisoning, the most exciting. Reynolds was sitting at the dining table drawing designs for clothes, and Alma was cooking poisonous mushrooms on the stove. The exchange of glances indicated that Reynolds knew Alma was poisoning, and Alma knew he knew. But under Alma's loving gaze, he ate it anyway!
I was shocked! Why? Knowing that someone is going to poison you, you have to eat it without any scruples. What kind of mood is it based on, to trust the poisoned person so much?
Is it only through this abnormal method that Reynolds allows himself to show weakness and accept the care of others with peace of mind? Can Alma change the position of absolute obedience in the relationship between the two to take the initiative and achieve equality in love?
Or is it only through this cruel way that the high-ranking artist and the humble-born waitress can overcome the barriers of class and embrace and share the hall of love? After all, we have heard too many failed love stories that cannot cross the class: Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai; Princess Diana and Prince Charles; Samsung Princess Li Fuzhen and the security guard... But it is irrational to know this. , Abnormal but still experimenting with ways to achieve the story of two people loving each other harmoniously. When I started writing, I couldn't think of other cases except "Bitter Moon".
Reynolds and Alma's are worlds apart: noble and commoner; artist and waitress; stillness and movement; elegance and vulgarity. Such two people seem to be daydreaming when they first get together, automatically ignoring the obvious differences between them. Until Reynolds can't stand the sound of Alma's breakfast, the perfect dream begins to crack.
And when the two realize the daydreams exist, both take action to stay in the dream, or to make it a reality: Reynolds hurriedly married Alma after his first illness ; Alma continued to use this method to regulate the discordant relationship between the two after the second poisoning; Reynolds willingly ate the poison again and again and became a weak child.
In addition, "Phantom Thread" has exquisite clothing, which can give a glimpse of the history of the fashion industry in the last century. The movie also has a wonderfulThe music and performances are well worth seeing.
Sister Sirio is arranging embroiderers to make clothes
