How willing Woody Allen is to show off his legacy as a veteran classical music fan! 's film "Another Woman", which is only 1 hour and 20 minutes long, let his fans hear the works of composers such as Satie , Bach , Mahler , etc. Among them, Bach's works It has also been cited many times, in the order of appearance, namely "Suite for Unaccompanied Cello", "Cello Sonata No. 2", "Cello Sonata No. 3" and so on. Although
has used so many Bach works, if classical music is regarded as the theme music of "The Other Woman", I am afraid that it must be Satie's "Nude Dancer". has such a determination, of course, this song appears many times in the film, and the length of each time is enough to remind us of the maverick of the French composer Satie, as well as the absurd surface of the work and the sincerity of the inside. .
How absurd is Sati's behavior? For example: Sati eats only white food, including eggs, sugar, ground bones, coconut, salt and rice; Sati's house is like a garbage dump, but he cherishes the things he is highly attached to. After his death it was found in his filthy home a neatly tidied closet with a dozen black umbrellas neatly arranged, 84 identically folded handkerchiefs, and 12 identical sets of brown Velvet suit. For a composer like
, who is very weird in the eyes of outsiders, will his works be as absurd as his behavior? certainly. In a piece called "Worry", Sati repeated a theme 840 times! 840 repetitions of the theme determine that the performance length of this piece must exceed the limit. So, how much time does it take to play "Worry" according to the composer's request? In 1963, Sadie's loyal fans tried it out in New York, where 10 pianists took turns playing for a total of 18 hours to complete the performance. Of course, it is difficult for people to continue to pay attention to such a scene. It is reported that in the end, there were only 6 audience members left in the concert hall, including a snoring reporter who had to stay because of the interview task. If
assumes that Satie's work is too experimental to be heard, it is wrong again. I remember hearing Sadie's "The Naked Dancer" for the first time on a cool afternoon. I was leaning on the couch listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony. After the end of the Ninth Symphony , Sati's famous piece was also recorded. "Naked Dancer" was so different from Mahler's Ninth Symphony that this piece, which was still quite unfamiliar to me at the time, only played a few syllables, and the melodious melody pulled me out of bed Go to the bookcase and look through the books that may have recorded Sadie's story.
The history of classical music really attaches great importance to this composer who is not very rich in works, and very solemnly introduced Satie's masterpiece "The Naked Dancer", so I know that Satie's work consists of three small pieces in total. The performance time 7 minutes in total. Compared to the 18-hour "Worry", the 7-minute "Nude Dancer" seems trivial, but it is a famous classical music closely related to Sadie's name. According to Satie, this piece was inspired by reading Flaubert 's novel " Sarangbo ", and it uses sound to restore a ritual dance performed by ancient Greek naked men. But today we listened to "Nude Dancer", and more often we were deeply moved by the beautiful music full of mystery. In the soft and melancholy mood, we seem to be taken to the endless wilderness by the composer, lying on the soft grass and looking up at the mysterious starry sky. It was a summer.
Marion
However, in Woody Allen's understanding, "Nude Dancer" probably does not have such a beautiful image, otherwise, he would not arrange this song for the movie "Another Woman" as the theme music.
Marion, the 50-year-old dean of the philosophy department of the university, is regarded as a winner in life by others. He has a decent job and a good income. In order to write a book, he can rent an apartment for himself as a studio at will, and has a very good social reputation—— Once at a restaurant, I was recognized by a former student. The other party excitedly said that Mr. Marion had changed.Her life - despite a failed marriage, Marion remarried a year ago to a skilled cardiologist. In the year after their marriage, the two lived harmoniously among friends with good backgrounds, living a high-quality and happy life. Marion's new life, starting at age fifty, would have been happier if it wasn't for the noise outside his house that interfered with writing. Although the apartment rented by
is isolated from the noise outside the window, the voices of the residents downstairs can be transmitted through the heating pipes. However, there is a psychiatrist living downstairs. On the first day of , Marion heard another woman's voice. The core of crying is "why can't I get rid of the lie all the time". This sentence made Marion feel affectionate, and went to the door to look at the other woman who was about to leave. The woman was gone, but her words "seed" into Marion's heart, and she began to reflect on whether she had lied in the past 50 years that she couldn't get rid of.
's student friend Claire no longer has contact with herself. On the road, she meets Claire, who has become an actor, and follows them to the bar for a drink. Marion is accused by Claire of always seducing people around her with an innocent attitude. man. Of course Marion, who has always been elegant, refused to admit it, but after breaking up with the Claires, she asked herself, and Marion felt a little guilty.
's first husband was his teacher. The two got together because they admired each other's talents, but broke up because Marion quietly destroyed their children for his so-called self-motivation. Sam accused Marion of being selfish, and Marion refused to admit it until his death. When the scene of arguing with her ex-husband over this matter reappeared in Marion's dream, Marion was flustered by her defense at the time.
In the eyes of his father, Marion is a success, and his brother Paul is a failure. Marion always thought that she was sympathetic to her brother, but her sister-in-law told the truth that she didn't think much of her brother. Marion went to her younger brother to ask for evidence, but her younger brother recited her vicious remarks about her own work...
overheard another woman's cry that she can't get rid of lies in her life, which seriously disturbed Marion had been living a life of leisure, and after encountering another woman who was crying in a gift shop, Marion managed to get close to her. After seeing the art exhibition together, the two walked into a restaurant for lunch. Marion's original intention was probably to ask each other for evidence and tell each other that there were no lies that could not be escaped in life. How could he have thought that Marion had only seen the newlywed for a year. Her husband's affair with his friend Lydia.
Another day, writing at the rented apartment again, this time Marion anxious to hear what another woman would say about their encounter yesterday. Another woman really commented, she told the psychiatrist that she met a very decent woman yesterday, "She didn't allow herself to have feelings in her life, and as a result she lived in a lonely spiritual life... One day when she looked up, she would find, There is nothing in life." This truthful description from the downstairs deeply stimulated Marion, and then she divorced her husband and fought for a life of something. How can a story like
be set off by Satie's "Nude Dancer"? However, Woody Allen used it, and used it three times. Once in the opening credits, the second at 47 minutes when Marion listens to his father's complaints, and the third at 1 hour and 14 minutes when Marion reminisces about his sweet life with his first husband. . Jumping and reviewing these three clips of "The Other Woman", I have to say that Woody Allen is worthy of being a senior classical music fan. The 50-year-old Marion heard the voice of another woman by chance. After being deeply touched, she began to reflect on her life. Isn't it a process of looking up at the stars and knowing destiny.
