格洛丽亚

一个中年女人的单身生活Hunting for love的故事

Gloria中年的生活除了日常工作就是每天流连于同一个酒吧和不同的男人跳舞，回到家面对的是无尽的沉默和空虚。和女儿儿子的关系限于日常探望，孙子不让自己抱，她去女儿的瑜伽班上课才发现女儿交了男朋友。在一天的hunting中她认识到一个gentleman，gentleman带她去摩天大厦的顶楼吃饭，说赞美的情话，继而肌肤之亲，在午后对她读情诗让她落泪。

在她激动地以为the one就是他时，她渐渐发现对方还在被前妻纠缠，屡次破坏约会，甚至在她带他见亲人时，他被一通电话call到就消失了。

她又开始用大麻麻醉自己。在被gentleman各种祈求挽回后，她接受了去开海景房的邀请，她开心地洗净净时又听到外面的电话，前妻摔断腿了。gentleman不断道歉的同时更像是自说自话，“我要和前妻断绝关系，要断绝关系，要坚定…..” 她走到门口又折返，直接推到gentleman开始sex，她敞开衣服，皮肤松弛且有赘肉，gentleman被脱光时露出了瘦小几乎不可见的生殖器，两人生猛的来了一分钟的sex。

酒店晚餐时，她带着十分想改变他的激动心情push他说，忘掉过去，你要有自己的生活！gentleman带着承诺的眼神说，是的。她说，我们去古巴吧！去古巴来一场10天的旅行，去那里尽情跳舞。他听到此，盯了她一会，说，不好意思我去一下洗手间。然后就再也没有回来。

她买醉、和陌生人kiss跳舞，她的神情疲态尽显，无助难过，只能让酒精和新的男人麻醉自己。第二天发现自己身无分文的躺在沙滩上，钱包手机全丢。

故事的高潮在生活的真相尽显之后，她可以继续颓废，也可以继续重复追求零星刺激的空虚中年生活。她无疑选择了后者，她开始接纳总是跑到家里长的丑的猫，走形的身体全裸躺在床上，与一只没有毛的猫一起。

她收拾好懦弱的男人送给她的玩具枪，在他前妻家门口等，从容地走上去给了他几枪，男人捂着自己肚子痛苦缓慢的倒下。

他也只是个可怜的人。身上有责任有重担有枷锁，使他在面对真感情时开始懦弱，怕失去之前的拥有。Gloria是自由的是无根的，她承担的则是单打独斗的无爱的孤独。

她打完男人之后停下车笑了，她完成了漂亮的回击。电影结尾她一次摘掉烦人的眼镜（她一辈子要依赖眼药水和眼镜才能看清），自信地又迈入了舞池，尽情的跟着Gloria挥舞、摇摆不再灵动的身体。

故事发生在智利，但看电影时我一直以为发生在西班牙，弄错了背景好像并无大碍。背景电视机和街道上不断的街头示威，危机在哪里都是一直都在的，她处在这样的危机中不能自拔，无法改变。电影不是在讲激励性的女权主义，只是一个成熟、tough的女人对抗生活的个人故事。

故事发生在智利首都圣地亚哥。葛洛莉亚，58岁，总是戴着一副大框近视镜，离婚10年。然而这些单调而沉闷的标签并没有阻止她对幸福生活的向往和追求。葛洛莉亚热衷于参加各种单身聚会来寻求短暂的满足感，即使每每派对结束，葛洛莉亚仍要独自一人承受更大的寂寞与空虚。直到葛洛莉亚偶然间在一次派对上结识了温文尔雅的退役海军军官鲁道夫，久违的爱欲之火在浪漫的邂逅中熊熊燃烧。二人参加迷彩射击游戏、玩蹦极当然还有甜蜜的肌肤相亲。鲁道夫一瞬间唤醒了葛洛莉亚的所有激情与欲望，她开始憧憬和鲁道夫的未来，甚至与之携手终生。然而在与鲁道夫的亲密相处中，葛洛莉亚的担忧却日益加深。终于，在一次生日宴会上，鲁道夫再次不告而别。此时的葛洛莉亚下定决心告别这段关系。

Rightly tapping into the cliché of middle-age solitude, GLORIA, the up-and-coming Chilean filmmaker Sebastián Lelio’s Golden Bear contender (rightfully won its leading actress Paulina García a coveted BEST ACTRSS gong), is a brutally honest take on our titular heroine’s stagnated status quo and her inexorable endeavor to break it.

A petit bourgeois divorcée, Gloria (García) is in her 50s and has stayed single over a decade, she has a stable office job, the relations with her grown-up children have become distant inevitably through time and she frequents a club tailoring maturer clientele to seek some new spark in her inert life, that’s where she meets Rodolfo (Hernández), a retired navy officer and a blow-in of the divorcé club. Physically, their sparkle is incandescent, by way of a daringly hardcore directness in their one-night-stand (and many intimate occasions would follow), Lelio brings home to audience that as unprepossessing as their act seems by the standard of common aesthetics, that is what sex looks like at that age: flabby flesh, furrowed face, unwieldy posture, yet, nothing can possibly take away the carnal sensation the process engenders, and granted not everyone is bestowed with that privilege in their autumn years.

That said, there is always a catch in the passion-kindled romance when it passes the initial stage of purely physical attraction towards something more personal and complicated, something is detrimental to the budding relationship. In this case and according to Rodolfo, it is his over-dependent adult daughters, but in the event, after being wantonly stiffed by him not once but twice (the first is a misstep to bring him to her son’s birthday party where her ex-husband is also present, and the second is a much more invidious hammer blow), Gloria realizes that this umbilical cord is bilateral, or even worse, insinuated by the last appearance of Rodolfo, decked and peppered by Gloria’s vengeful paintball pellets, maybe his side of the story is a total whopper, that is what one calls a superbly orchestrated open-ending eliciting a viewer's afterthought.

Through and through, Lelio levels his camera to the indefatigable Gloria, accentuates the emotional spectrum through a much trodden path, and crystallizes the cathartic moments with sublimely figurative strokes (let it be the dancing skeleton metaphor, a thinly-veiled political snapshot in the background or that precious white peacock knockout), often with optimal diegetic music choices (sometimes played lyrically through real-life musician Hugo Moraga),culminated by Umberto Tozzi’s erstwhile hit GLORIA, trenchantly hits the bull’s eye with its rousing tempo and significative pertinence, that is the damn theme song and a tribute to our heroine and gazillions of women like her in the real world, sidelined and often slighted by this ageist and sexist society, but never subjugates themselves to victimology, instead, they are absolutely faithful to what their hearts desire and never flinch back by the sporadic impediments.

Meanwhile, it is also a hard-won victory for the central players, Paulina García deserves all the acclaim she garners for a bold but minutely precise, unmannered yet immensely visceral tour-de-force, which sets a high bar for its slated USA rehash, directed by Lelio himself and starring Julianne Moore. And last but not the least, Sergio Hernández, impresses viewers with equal dedication and beguiles us with his seemingly benevolent and passionate efforts, which speaks volumes about a callous male ego, there is an abuser underneath a commoner’s camouflage, soundly punches above its weight in this emphatic feminist chord-striker.

referential point: Kleber Mendonça Filho’s AQUARIUS (2016, 8.3/10)