This film is one of the 100 films recommended by the National Film Critics Association.
Bitter Rain Falling in Love with Spring Breeze is a classic work of Seker. The film is full of bold and abrupt Sirk style, which makes the audience not only see the plot, but also full of visual wonders. People's emotions are expressed through vision and form a mythical structure. Seck put the sensibility of modernism into popular culture.
In order to compete with TV, Hollywood began to develop new artistic complexes and color technologies, and movies began to fight back with pornography as a selling point. Under the pressure, Hayes code had to be relaxed and revised slightly, all of which happened when "Bitter Rain Loves Spring Breeze" was released. 1956 "Bitter Rain in Love with Spring Breeze" shows more sexual content than those explicit sexual scenes today. Then the newspaper published such a headline: "Bitter rain falls in love with spring breeze" is by far the most frank film. In Writing in the Wind, failure and frustration are the reasons why Kyle Harder uses alcohol to anesthetize his sexual fear and his sister Mary Lee falls in love with the casual Mickey Wayne. Kyle's fear of impotence turns into a fear of infertility after he marries Lucy Moore (played by lauren bacall) and refuses to have children. The film alludes to these "failures and setbacks" with a lot of explicit Freudian and superficial light effects, colors and scenes. Sirk puts Kyle and Marylee at the center of the emotional vortex in the movie. Their highly stylized performance and the way they artificially stated those weird and somewhat lengthy lines won the Oscar nomination for this life movie-and also for themselves (dorothy malone finally won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress).
Sirk is not only a superb film stylist, but also one of the great men who closely combine scene scheduling with roles and express unspeakable emotions with pictures. He explained the end of the second act of Bitter Rain in Love with Spring Breeze: "Mary Lee lost everything. I found such a sign in this game-Mary Lee was sitting there alone with a damn oil well model in her hand. And that oil well, in my opinion, is an extremely daunting symbol of American society. " Formalists believe that the external environment is the reaction of internal psychology, so Sirk has made the following allocation to the color system in the film: red represents love, enthusiasm, desire, violence and danger; So Marylee's room is red. She lit a cigarette in the fire. She is like a flamingo, dancing wildly and full of desire. Finally, I also played with fire. Lucy Moore is also related to red, such as a lot of roses, and the bed is also red, suggesting that love later turned into violence. Another interesting detail is that Mickey Wayne shows off a small red sock in the bar, which seems to convey a hidden love. Kyle Hadley is associated with white, which is related to illness and death, symbolizing his weak body, weak willpower and powerlessness to sex, which made him feel highly frustrated and anxious, and finally he embarked on the road of death. As for the big pillars symbolizing the family, they are also white, which may represent the decline of a family. As for my father, the color is earthy, and even the room is filled with authentic wood and wooden bookshelves, as well as oil well towers towering above the earth. German director fassbinder once said: Sirk's picture structure and color are excellent!
Heaven allows 1955
The film is clear-headed, showing the contradictions and conflicts of outlook on life, values and love. The first is class contradiction. The upper class and the lower class civilians exist in the world, seemingly developing harmoniously, but forming their own life circles, and their relationship is irreconcilable. The second is ethical contradiction. It is immoral for an older woman to fall in love with a younger man.
This is Sirk's iconic work at the last turning point of his bumpy career. Because of the success of Magnificent Obstruction published a few years ago, Universal Pictures gave him enough funds and freedom to better develop his mature style to the extreme. Everything in Paradise contains all the features of Sirk style works: light, shadow, color, lens angle, and the trademark uses a mirror to divide the picture.
At that time, Universal Pictures had doubts about putting jane wyman and rock hudson at the center of this old woman's teenage love story. Wyman has passed his heyday and recently divorced Ronald Reagan (who later became the 40th president of the United States). He is worried that his future career will be spent in those soap operas, so he is happy to cooperate with Hudson.
Today's critics have read and interpreted a hidden text, which contains bisexual orientation and ambiguous feelings far beyond the representation in rock hudson, the Royal Hero by Seker. Although "Deep Lock Spring Day" has a happy ending on the surface, this kind of "reunion" is interwoven with more symbolic strokes of "Sek-style fables".
Gorgeous obsession (1954)
It can be said that Sirk's first successful personalized work in Hollywood.