Max, the evaluation of the movie My Love.

Max, My Love continues the depiction of French upper-class families in bunuel films such as Beauty in the Day and The Charm of Bourgeois Prudence (mostly written by Carrier), and the idea of using chimpanzees instead of husbands is obviously printed with strong irony. In the film "A Family of Three", the rich and comfortable life does not bring sincere treatment between husband and wife, but covers up the appearance of their infidelity, and the secret of the ambiguous relationship between the hero and heroine has completely become their tacit acquiescence. The special affection between Margaret, a housewife, and Max, an orangutan, is not so much "love at first sight in loneliness" as rebellion and revenge against her hypocritical marriage life, and Max, who bares his teeth, is just a prop for her to vent her anger.

In the face of this almost absurd "ape love", her husband Peter was puzzled and annoyed, and her lover Kami and archaeologists were scared to death. The relatives and friends attending the banquet are at a loss, and the maid at home is even allergic to the skin ... From an outsider's point of view, this strange desire directed by Margaret and Max is more like a challenge to secular concepts and traditional taboos. Margaret's wanton love orientation and poised confession reflect the inner desire of human beings for sexual freedom. Disgust-doubt-contradiction-acceptance, the film skillfully uses the protagonist's attitude towards Max the gorilla, and shows the spiritual course of an ordinary person who gradually gets rid of ideological imprisonment and re-examines life. At the end of the film, Peter finally accepted the special relationship between Margaret and the orangutan, and the family was reunited in Paris. Margaret even made it clear that she could kill Max to avoid affecting her neighbors. Obviously, the sincere love between husband and wife has revived, and the orangutan, a prop for his wife's feelings, can naturally withdraw from the stage.

Film style

The performance in Max, My Love follows the consistent style of French indoor drama, which is delicate, calm and clever. Actors' expressions and movements are quite restrained, and there are few exaggerated and ostentatious scenes. On the contrary, the gorilla Max left a deeper impression on people. In the scene of family banquet, his rich facial expressions fully expressed his intoxication and obsession with the hostess. The use of a large number of trick photography created this wonderful close-up and became the key to the success of the whole film.

Although the plot of the film is full of banter and satire, the director's way of dealing with it does not simply imitate bunuel's sharp and bitter style, but also hides his symbolic and dignified criticism in the past, and is replaced by warmth, reason and humor. Coupled with fresh and bright romances and simple and smooth photographic clips, the whole film actually exudes the charm of traditional French comedies such as Renoir and Claire. Although restrained ridicule weakens the criticism of the work on real life, on the other hand, it also reduces the oppressive feeling brought by aggression to the audience, and makes the expressive means of emotional tolerance obviously adapt to the appreciation habits of more audiences. Whether this is Zhudao's painstaking exploration of the director's style, or from the perspective of humanitarian care, or taking into account the feelings of western audiences and even box office benefits, is still inconclusive. Let's forget this problem for a while and enjoy this special movie and this unique love alone.

A brief review of movies

When bunuel's producer crossed the ocean to find Zhudao, the world film industry was destined to be firmly shocked-this time, a chimpanzee named Max was able to go down in history. When the wife of a British diplomat was tired of boring bourgeois life, she found this chimpanzee. Women eat and sleep with Max, and then keep a relationship unknown to outsiders. Of course, the diplomat's husband was angry. He couldn't stand that his position as the head of the family was usurped by a chimpanzee. However, when he pretended to be generous and invited Max home, he found that his wife and son fell to Max's camp together. The husband was not at ease, but also asked prostitutes to verify the possibility of chimpanzees having sex with their wives. After losing everything, men's weakness and drift are vividly portrayed. Actually, from the behavioral point of view, my wife doesn't "love" Max, and Max is just one of her super pets. The desire for intimacy led to Max's strong "invasion" of his family.