Nicole Kidman's early films

An early and stunning work is TO DIE FOR, which is also translated as The Secret of Love. Matt Dillon and Joaquin Phoenix also star. In the film, Nicole plays an ambitious small-town weather forecaster who wants to become famous and uses all possible means. First, she used her beauty to marry the most charming man in town (Matt Dillon), and then seduced a young boy (Joaquin Phoenix), and used the young boy to kill her husband to create public opinion in order to achieve the purpose of becoming famous. It turned out to be really popular. But things didn't develop as she expected. When she was about to send a tape of her monologue to the media, she was eliminated by a hitman hired by Matt Dillon's parents.

I also like Nicole very much. I heard that this film is her masterpiece and I watched it. The film is somewhat documentary in nature, interspersed with interview-style monologues, both true and imaginary. The director is Gus Van Sant, and his films are all so personal, but it's a matter of opinion, and not everyone likes it. Nicole's performance was quite good, quite different, with few restrictions and very relaxed, because at that time she was still a second- and third-tier actress, so the psychological pressure was naturally not comparable to what it is now. Today, when she acts, people hold her to the standards of an Oscar-winning actress, and she herself takes this too seriously, so she always overacts.

If you like Nicole, you must not miss it at all costs, because that is the real Nicole, the free performer Nicole, not the arrogant Oscar-winning actress today.