Looking back at The Danish Girl

After watching Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them recently, eddie redmayne, the leading actor, once again came into people's sight. Because of his freckles, people nicknamed him Little Freckle. Because of moving, there was something wrong with the internet, so the image of a woman with small freckles in my mind lingered. Finally, I went online and soon found the 20 15 movie The Danish Girl.

? The protagonist of the story is the earliest recorded transsexual case in the world. The legendary Danish painter Einar Wegener was later Lily Albee. His wife Gerda is also a painter. He mainly paints landscapes, while his wife mainly paints people. The relationship between husband and wife has been very good, until one time Gerda's model could not come, and Gerda, who was eager to create, asked her husband Aina to wear women's clothes as her painting model. Einar was summoned from his female personality, and Lily Albee was born. He always attended parties on various occasions as Lily, until one day, he found it difficult to wear men's clothes, and he found a doctor to help him with a sex-change operation that was still in the experimental stage. Finally, Lily Albee died.

After watching the movie, I felt uncomfortable. Many scenes in the film challenge the male audience's perception and gender stance. First of all, I'm not a male chauvinist, and I'm not a straight man with cancer, but standing naked in front of the mirror with a close-up of a male organ in my thigh is still uncomfortable. However, as a film, "The Danish Girl" is really a good work, the picture editing is just right, and there is no great success in the use of color. It seems that 1990 specially designed a variety of high-grade gray combinations to cope with the heroine's identity as an oil painter, which makes people look soft and comfortable at first glance, just like classical oil painting, restoring the beauty of Europe before World War I, and there is a strong contrast in the last third of the film, that is, Einar incarnates Lily and goes to the residence of her boyfriend who once met at the party. White houses and bright yellow roofs even make people feel dazzling. The only strong contrast in the film is Einar's inner contradiction during her first female date. Einar's white wall is his foundation as a person, but it is gloomy, and lily, as a bright yellow roof, is slowly being awakened. In terms of clothing, it restores the life scenes of the 1980s, and is realistic without affectation. The film won the Oscar for Best Actor, Best Art Director, Latest Fashion Design and Best Supporting Actress.

In characterization, Xiao Freckle's acting skills are beyond doubt. Hawking's portrayal in The Theory of Everything is brilliant. However, due to the length of the film and the tendency of the script, Xiao Freckle obviously has few inner scenes and can only be expressed through exaggerated body movements and heavy makeup. Looking at his wife Gerda again, after discovering her husband's gender problem, it better explains the performance that a wife should have, perhaps because there is not so much script space, but it gives actors more room for development. Anyway, freckles and Alicia came with the sequelae of everything and mechanical Ji, so there is no need to be suspicious in acting.

In terms of narrative, I personally think that narrative estimation is the flaw of this film. When it comes to story telling, it depends on the source of the story. The movie "The Danish Girl" is a story of four hands playing together. What can I say? The story itself, that is, the reality of the archetypal characters, is the first-hand information, and the autobiography of the protagonist Lily, the man who turned into a woman, is the second-hand information. David Abel Schaefer wrote the novel The Danish Girl based on his autobiography, which is the third-hand information, and then it can only be the fourth-hand information in the movie. Therefore, all kinds of more and more beautified stories and artistic treatment make the film beautiful and moving, without losing warmth in plain. As an artistic narrative film, there is no dispute, but since it involves transgender people, it is undoubtedly a pity to stay in artistic narrative.

I looked up the information about Lily. Obviously, the story is not as beautiful as reflected in the movie. Nowadays, transsexuals are still a sensitive issue, not to mention the Lily era more than 100 years ago. Einar was born in Denmark on February 28th, 1982. Einar loves art and painting and was admitted to the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. His wife Gerda is his classmate at school. They got married in 1940, and their artistic achievements were recognized all over Europe in the 1930s. As the film is based on a book, I found the original The Danish Girl. David Erbishev described Einar, who was wearing women's clothes for the first time, as follows: "Wearing mustard yellow shoes, suspenders and a white dress, Einar couldn't help feeling dizzy and feverish, and Lily, a girl living inside her, was awakened. "

The film is basically loyal to the original, and the performance of freckles is quite in place. Einar actually resisted at first, but it has been several years since she started modeling, so Einar gradually got used to it, recognized Lily from her heart, and took the initiative to pretend to be a woman and participate in various activities.

19 12 years, the couple moved to Paris to seek greater development in painting. Soon, he found himself living in the room where Wilde, the greatest British writer in the19th century, died, so he spent a long time reading and interpreting Wilde's works, and was moved by the tragic story of gender confusion and taboo love in his works, which deeply produced a * * * sound.

Gerta's illustrations of characters are quite large, which made her quickly popular in Paris. People found a girl with unique almond eyes in most of her works. But with the passage of time, people gradually found that this girl with high frequency turned out to be her husband. Since then, Einar has disappeared, and Lily Albee has officially appeared in the public eye. From 1920 to 1930, Lily attended parties, went shopping and even stayed at home in Paris.

Al slowly disappeared, and Al even stopped painting the pictures he loved, because the reason was to let Lily get rid of Al's identity completely. 1930, Lily found a German doctor and planned to go to Germany for the world's first sex-change operation. Because there was no money to support Lily's business, they went back to Copenhagen to hold an art exhibition and sell paintings to earn money. But how could secular eyes and people tolerate them at that time? All efforts have had little effect. It shows that they didn't recognize it at that time and the Danish king personally abolished the marriage relationship between Lily and Gerda. From these two points, we can see that they were classified as heterogeneous and excluded by the whole society at that time, and their life should be very difficult. Personally, I think if the secular exclusion, the hardships of life and Lily's determination are added to the film, will it be fuller?

193 1 year, Lily went to Berlin to receive the world's first sex-change operation, which shocked the world. In the next two years, Lily underwent many operations. 1930, Lily went to Germany for sex-change surgery, which was in the experimental stage. Lily Alber became the first person to eat crabs! Lily has undergone four operations in two years. The first operation was performed in Berlin, and the testicles were removed under the supervision of sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld. The rest of the operation was performed by Kurt Werner Close, a doctor at Dresden Women's Clinic. The second operation was to implant an ovary in her abdomen, and the third operation was to remove the penis and scrotum. The fourth operation is to transplant uterus and construct vagina. Lily fell in love with Claude Lejeune, a French art dealer. She wants to marry him and have children for him. Therefore, she has high hopes for the last operation, which is a uterine transplant. June, 193 1, the fourth operation, transplanting uterus and constructing vagina, was the first attempt in the world at that time. There were no anti-organ rejection drugs at that time, so Lily didn't recover after the operation. She died three months later, that is, 193 1 September 13. The cause of death was uterine rejection caused by her immune system infection, which eventually led to cardiac arrest.

Gerda also married an officer and moved to Morocco. She divorced an Italian officer the day she learned of Lily's death. Gerta returned to Denmark on 1938 and held her last exhibition in 39 years, but her paintings have long lost their elegance. Finally, he lived on hand-painted cards and died in July 1940. If the couple with a bad ending are added to the film, it is estimated that it is not only a sensational effect, but also the status and influence of the film will be very great, so it is estimated that the director's positioning of the film is different.

The film is generally successful, but with the prototype of reality, there is contrast, and reality is far more exciting than the script, which is also common. There is no doubt that the beautiful oil painting color picture and the vivid expression of small freckles make the film more aesthetic. Maybe it's a personal problem. I think since it is a biographical film, it should be clear that the film only stands on the position of the protagonist, as if all the people who appear in the film support her. Only at the end of the film, two gangsters flirt with Lily, which is a bit secular, but after all, they are gangsters, jumping out to destroy the aesthetic image like naughty children deliberately arranged by two directors. There are so many awards in movies that most of them are perfect. Generally speaking, it can be regarded as a high-quality film in recent years, but the plot is a bit regrettable.