Sex and comedy are good partners that never change for thousands of years. Comedy is an outlet for people to vent their emotions, while sex is the most sensitive word in the human brain.
The two are mixed together to form the most unique type of comedy-sex comedy. Although comedies like
always revolve around "sex" and are mostly full of dirty jokes, they are not pornographic films and most of them do not deliberately exaggerate love scenes. In addition to being funny, some works also have a lot of depth to explore.
Many times, when it comes to sex comedies, we always like to equate them with young people: ignorant love, restless hormones, little secrets that cannot be told...
Youth provides the most abundant narrative soil for sex comedies, and it came out A large number of classic works: "Color is Empty" series, "American Pie" series, the American drama "Sex Study Room" and so on.
Although sex comedies have a special preference for youth campuses, looking beyond the age range, sex comedies actually have strong universality: Sex education is a course that requires a lifetime of study. Even if you are over fifty, it is still no problem. hour.
For example, can you imagine that a 55-year-old widow who has given birth to two children is as shy (ashamed) about sex as a little girl, and has never experienced a real orgasm. She laughs at herself, "Even a nun has a better sex life than me." Rich"?
Yes, this "sexually ignorant" widow is Nancy, the heroine of the movie "Good Luck, Rio Grande".
"Good Luck, Rio Grande" was just launched on the Hulu platform not long ago. After
was launched, it achieved a good rating - 8.4 on Douban, ranking top 1 on the weekly word-of-mouth list, better than 94% of comedies and 87% of dramas. The video
has attracted much attention even before it was launched online.
Because the heroine Emma Thompson is one of the best actresses in the world today, and her status in the film industry can be as high as "Aunt May" Meryl Streep , "Aunt Yu" Isabelle Huppert Comparable to .
Emma has acted in many familiar classic movies. She is Professor Trelawney in "Harry Potter", the eldest sister Eleanor in "Sense and Sensibility", and the heroine in "Farewell to the World " Keaton's housekeeper... She combines beauty and intelligence. She is the only actress in film history to win the Oscar for Best Actress and Best Adapted Screenplay.
This time, in "Good Luck, Rio Grande", she plays Nancy, a good woman, good wife, good mother, and good teacher in the traditional sense.
She was busy in the first half of her life, living for others and living in the gaze of others. It was not until the age of 55 that she decided to live for herself for the first time.
She booked a high-quality call girl and prepared to embark on a sexy and curious trip to buy sex in the hotel.
The cowherd's name is Leo. He is a young man in his early 20s. He has deep eyes, a strong body, elegant conversation, and a polite attitude. He exudes extraordinary charm.
I originally thought that this would be a sexual intercourse that went straight to the topic, but unexpectedly things changed with the arrival of Leo...
"Good Luck, Rio Grande" mainly revolves around the South The four meetings between Xi and Leo unfolded. The four meetings corresponded to the beginnings and transitions in the play, with textbook-level neatness and completion. Most of the stories in
take place in a small hotel room, relying on text and dialogue to promote the plot and achieve turning points.
The closed hotel room not only strips away external constraints such as age and identity, but also echoes the privacy of sexual topics.There is a large window in the middle of the room, suggesting Nancy's openness.
Nancy is a retired teacher. This is the first time in her life that she has bought sex.
In the past, she followed the rules, only had one man in her life, and used one posture.
As a customer, the only thing she had to do was lie down and enjoy, but she was just the opposite. She was filled with various emotions including anxiety, hesitation, and low self-esteem.
Not only did she buy new underwear, she also took off her old-fashioned thick-heeled shoes and put on pointed stiletto heels before Leo arrived, trying to use these things to enhance her sexual charm.
Even so, when facing Leo, she still had the idea of "retreating": Can he accept an old woman with an aging face and an out-of-shape figure?
For this reason, she even hinted Leo that if he was not sexually interested in her, he could take a "Viagra" first.
When they met for the first time, Nancy kept chattering to cover up her uneasiness and embarrassment.
In Nancy, we can see an obvious sense of contradiction-neither wants to be a "nun" nor a slut.
She is full of desire to enjoy sexual pleasure, but she is disciplined by the rigid concept of chastity and cannot cross the moral threshold.
At this time, Leo's role gradually became apparent - he was both Nancy's physical mentor and Nancy's spiritual mentor.
He pulled Nancy to the mirror and looked at himself.
Nancy is afraid of seeing herself in the mirror. She is afraid of seeing sagging breasts and fat belly. She made some belittling remarks on her own, and finally reluctantly said that her calves were pretty good-looking.
For a sex comedy, the image of Nancy is not that profound.
But what makes her valuable is her authenticity. She truly sees through the passive situation of women in sex.
In the context of the perverted discussion of "sex", many women are not only late in enlightening about sex, but may not be enlightened in their entire lives.
Research shows that in contemporary relationships between the sexes, as many as 63% of women have never had an orgasm during sex, and 90% of them choose to use disguise to satisfy men's self-esteem.
Nancy is like this, and so is Sally in "When Harry Met Sally".
In "When Harry Met Sally", "Sweet Sister" Meg Ryan once played an ironic and classic plot around the plight of women.
However, as a romance film, "When Harry Met Sally" briefly touched on the plight of women, while "Good Luck, Rio Grande" has further discussion and extension in this regard. .
The film takes 97 minutes to discuss many obscure but real issues with the audience: appearance anxiety, self-denial, sense of identity, shame...
The director uses a mirror as the inner self-projection of the male and female protagonists.
Although Leo could talk to Nancy, when he looked at himself in the mirror alone, his eyes were also confused.
Like Nancy, Leo also has confusion about his self-perception. When Leo was 15 years old, his mother and neighbor accidentally broke into his sexual temptations. His mother therefore severed ties with him and left him to fend for himself.
Over the years, he has had occasional contact with his family, but he has never been able to face his work in front of his family. He only made up that he was engaged in oil drilling.
His four meetings with Nancy were actually a kind of two-way self-healing.Both of them untied their knots in comfort and faced themselves honestly.
In the end, Nancy stood naked in front of the mirror and observed herself carefully. Her eyes no longer dodge or hesitate, but instead she put on a confident smile at the corner of her mouth. She suddenly discovered that the door to her heart that she had once locked to please others was actually her desire for freedom.
At the same time, stimulated by Nancy, Leo also confessed to his brother the career he was engaged in.
Overall, "Good Luck, Rio Grande" is essentially an adult fairy tale that touches on sensitive topics.
It reflects the plight of women with universal values through an unusual story of buying sex, allowing the protagonist to achieve spiritual and physical self-reconciliation, looking light, full and warm.
Emma Thompson successfully enhanced the credibility of the film with her performance.
As an actress, she happens to be in the "hardest hit area" of appearance anxiety and body anxiety. The problems Nancy faced with aging, appearance, and body shape were also faced by herself.
So, from this point of view, she and the character become one, and in a sense they achieve a perfect intertext: in and out of the play, she is honest with each other, honest with the audience, and also honest with herself. .
She tells the audience personally -
From now on, be true to yourself, face your own desires, and learn to please yourself.
