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Soul Manor is adapted from the novel of isabelle allende, a South American magical realist woman writer. The true feelings of Oscar-winning stars Jeremy Irons, Meryl Streep and Glenn Close, together with the efforts of director billy august, make it an epic work that is always worrying.

The heroine is a little girl born with special functions: Meryl Streep plays a girl and an old man. Such a long time span is quite a test of acting. In the film, she and jeremy irons, the actor, performed well. It can be said that this film made them complete the most successful characterization in their acting career.

It can make the audience sit still and shock the soul, and it also benefits from the solid literary foundation of the film. Introduction: The story happened in Chile in the 1920s-1970s. Although esteban, a farmer, had an illegitimate child, he married Clara, a woman of a famous family in Chile, and gave birth to a beautiful daughter, Blanca. However, when she grew up, Blanca stubbornly fell in love with Pedro, the only son of the employee. In order to stop their tryst, esteban sent her daughter to boarding school. However, Blanca, who returned to her hometown after graduation, continued to fall in love with Pedro and was denounced by her jealous and hateful half-brother. Father beat her black and blue. Clara left her home ruled by the surly esteban with her daughter. Before that, esteban had driven away her single sister Ferola because of jealousy. She and her wife were like brothers. ...

Magnificent historical changes have affected people's destiny partners. Entrepreneurship, revolution, coup ... people's hearts have also been tested in repeated struggles. Compared with Clara, who is as pure as an angel, esteban's stubbornness and toughness are disgusting. When he is frustrated and empty, he always chooses to sink irresponsibly-his bad temper and selfishness make him win wealth and fame quickly. But the act of driving away his sister in the name of love and opposing his daughter's free love simply turned him into the embodiment of evil. It was not until Clara, who ran away from home, told her daughter that her beloved esteban was a strong man that the audience realized that this diligent villain image represented the truest side of human nature.

In the face of time, we can't simply define a person with "good" or "bad".

At the beginning of the film, old esteban, accompanied by his daughter and granddaughter, returns to the manor to miss his lover. Therefore, the historical narration in the film is surrounded by his sincere feelings and atonement consciousness. Therefore, his "all kinds of evil deeds" in the middle and young age constitute the biggest suspense of the film: how did he change? Can he be forgiven by his lover?

Finally, we are happy enough to lie on the sofa and watch other people's lives without experiencing changes. We are shocked by the historical truth and human conflict conveyed by the "movie illusion": this is not a movie that makes you happy at all, but it is as full of encounters and accidents as real life!

When Clara was a child, she could also help others rewrite their destiny with her special function of predicting the future, but Clara decided not to talk after her sister died. Since then, life has become more and more depressing, and people are powerless to change and escape! In the face of her daughter falling in love with an employee and her husband sleeping with women of different classes, Clara's choice is "not to talk", including the car accident that killed her parents. Clara, who predicted in advance, failed to insist that her parents listen to her opinion because of her long-term closed function-what can a person do even if he has special functions in the face of the cruelty of reality and the torture of life? Only after a long time can we change everything!

Esteban didn't realize what he had lost was the most precious until his old age. Life still hits people head-on as before, but he has been making up for his mistakes in his later years ... At the end of the film, the scene of his "meeting" with Clara is touching, there is love in the world, the singer is sad, and the listener is crying!

By this time, I have to marvel at the talent of the director! It's more than enough to shoot a TV series with dozens of episodes, just like shooting a Jin Yong novel or a Dream of Red Mansions movie. It's almost impossible to tell The Elf Hall perfectly for more than two hours, but director billy august proved the great role of film language with facts: a qualified director won't panic when time is not enough. In the eyes of people with profound film attainments, refining and editing can't destroy the integrity of narrative and the accumulation of emotion. They are even addicted to film narrative methods. What can better organize time and space and stimulate the audience's passion than movies?

Director billy august was born in Denmark on 1948. He studied photography in Sweden in his early years and then went to the Danish Film Academy for further study. Director's debut in My Life (1978) created a new trend of Nordic movies with "concise brushwork and analysis of reality", 1983' s City of Children (1984 Berlin Film Festival's Best Children's Film Award) and 1988' s directed. Therefore, it can be said that 1993' s Soul Manor is the pinnacle of billy august's creative style.

Duration: 2 hours and 20 minutes

Type: drawing

Director: billy august

Actors: Jeremy Irons, Meryl Streep and antonio banderas.