Phantom Thread

[REVIEW] Phantom Thread (movie): Love and fashion

The movie Phantom Thread was made in 2017 under the talented hands of director Paul Thomas Anderson, the movie theme of fashion and also extremely delicate when it comes to love. Also Nextphim review this movie offline!

Explain the meaning of the Phantom Thread 2017: Love and fashion

Set in the 1950s, Reynolds Woodcock, a fashion designer known for products for the aristocracy, as well as the royal families throughout Europe. The fashion design profession, especially his dresses, comes from his late mother.

To have the convenience of his daily work, sister Cyril Woodcock, who manages all activities in Reynolds's work and his life. Mr. Woodcock created beautiful dresses, which made every woman fall in love with his products, and one girl said that if only she could be buried alive under the pile of rope that Mr. Woodcock used. to create his products in Phantom Thread.

In the post-war era of the 1950s, the main jobs, especially those of the same industry as Woodcock, were mostly done at home. With his unapproachable personality, coupled with being obsessed with the death of his mother, Reynolds always tries to push people away from him.

Woodcock was an extremely fashionable man, when from the very first scenes, we saw him use his hands to stroke his "salt and pepper" hair, saw the George Cleverly shoe made for him, the pair. dark purple knee socks, plus an elegant Anderson and shepard suit, which partly made up his temper and style, a perfectionist in all matters.

Not only was he a perfectionist, Reynolds was a genius, when he designed his first dress for his mother at age 16. However, his talent also brought him some disadvantages, as he was very difficult to approach with those around him and seemed to be able to completely trust only a few of his sisters Cyril.

Woodcock does not accept people who have different or different opinions on each thread of his - for Reynolds, breakfast is the most important meal of the day, so if the rattling of the table could be distracting For Reynolds to eat breakfast, and if breakfast was not good, that day would be a disaster for him.

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And then one day, things began to change after Mr. Woodcock met a beautiful waitress with the name Alma on one of his business trips. They begin to love each other and Alma moved to her home to live as well as to work with Reynolds. She was also the caretaker of Reynolds whenever he fell ill. She was both a source of energy and a new source of motivation for Reynolds. She was willing to sacrifice anything for him.

But, as mentioned above, Woodcock is an extremely fastidious person, so it is understandable that he gets angry at Alma when she does something wrong, even a very small thing like a plaster. on a piece of bread. Of course, it is difficult for people to approach Reynolds, with their self-isolation and concern only for their own interest.

Alma, too, initially allowed her to do anything to her or even despise her position, because Alma was quite passive. Even when they were a couple, Alma was often criticized by Reynolds for her vision of life.

One of the best scenes of the movie is the scene when they have dinner, intended to surprise Reynols as well as want to spend more time with him, even being opposed by Cyril. In that conversation, they poured out their emotions and thoughts during their time together, when Reynolds said that Alma was no different from a harasser, and Alma admitted that she was a fool all day long. You have to wait for one person.

In such a painful relationship, Alma decided to break Reynolds's big ego, that behind his wealth and personality he was also a weak and predictable person. . For all the women that Reynolds used to know, those relationships only stopped at things like beauty, popularity, elegance, ..., but in contrast to those relationships, Alma brought back give Reynolds something, something warm, these are old memories of his deceased mother.

And then, we see a twist on the screen: when Alma decided to poison Reynolds to make him sick and able to take care of him, as well as to prove that she was worthy of her relationship with him. But the crazy thing is that Reynolds knew Alma had poisoned him and he loved it so much that he could come back to bed and be taken care of by the "mother."

From the very first moment on the Phantom Thread, we know that Reynolds is a very strong person, but doing so can cover the deep shell inside him, a weak person. Alma was the first to witness it when she completely broke his ego, which is also why he was about to end the relationship with her, but then kept her behind.

She was a "ghost of the thread" when turning Reynolds back to a child cared for by his mother, he wouldn't trust anyone but her. This was a crazy game where she kept making Reynolds sick and then got well so he would "find" her and they would still be together. Because for Alma, deciphering the Reynolds Woodcock problem would make her life a mystery.

Maybe according to many people, the ending of this movie is not good or not complete but for me, it is different. The film also speaks about the cycle of fashion and designers, when they have to keep up the trend to be able to please consumers, as well as the fact that it is eating away the real people inside us. - Woodcock and Alma's relationship, too, the two of them fell into a symbiotic relationship and that they were hiding their people. Reynolds Woodcock also represents the concept of "fashion" and their disadvantages. It also wants to speak of the dangers of material solemnity - while also wanting to show a happy relationship.

For Nextphim, perhaps Phantom Thread is one of the best fashion films that I find, as it has given me an extremely "artistic" experience with every camera on the director's screen. Paul Thomas Anderson, with his beautiful dresses decades ago. It's sad when Daniel Day-Lewis shared that this was his last role in his career, I think it was because of family matters, but he still left us with an extremely good role. .