水瓶座

Brazilian film critic turned filmmakerKleber Mendonça Filho's second feature AQUARIUM, after his well-acclaimed debut NEIGHBORING SOUNDS (2012), has already received Cannes main competition treatment, which could be boosted by the consequential involvement of one of Brazilian cinema's living legends, Sonia Braga, who dauntlessly takes its central role of Clara, a retired music critic and refuses to move out of the film's titular building in Recife even if she is the only resident remains.

The film's vintage prologue takes us back to 1980, we are first introduced to a young Clara (Coleen), celebrates both her victory over cancer (later a briefing scene will inform us it is breast cancer) and her aunt's (a sprightly silver-haired Perez) 70th birthday, who reminisces of her wild youth (a carnal liberation in particular) when she clocks to an inconspicuous cabinet, which will become a mnemonic to trigger Clara down to her own memory lane 35 years later.

In the present time, Clara has outlived her husband for 17 years (life has its unpredictable quirks, who could image a seemingly healthier husband would be gone so soon) and now lives alone, she takes the leisurely pace to continue her daily life, as an independent, mature and loving woman: schmoozing with the lifeguard (Santos) on the beach where she routinely swims; enjoying a dancing night with her girlfriends and having no qualms to engage in a spur-of-the-moment making-out with a widower, who politely recedes to decency when he is aware of her physical condition (how shallow a man could be?). And obviously she has become much closer to her nephew Tomas (Queiroz) than her three adult offspring (a married son, a divorced daughter and a gay son), especially her relationship with her daughter Ana Paula (Jinkings) is strained, because of the status quo: the Aquarius building, erected in the 40s, is acquired by a construction company for a complete reconstruction except for Clara's apartment, and Ana Paula doesn't understand the reason why Clare won't sell it.

So what is the reason? Clare cannot be bought off by money because as she claims that she has 5 apartments under her name, therefore she has no financial exigency to exchange her favorite property into cash, which marks her a different case from the usual hungry-for-pecuniary-gain mass. Aquarius adumbrates her fondness, nostalgia and affections of her long winded past, all the happenings (like the B-day party in the prologue) comprising her entire life, in her sense, they live and die with the building itself. There is no denying it is a somewhat selfish reason to sabotage a project might be beneficial to assuage the local housing problem.ButMendonça Filhois trenchant and adamant to exercise the disproof, a final startling revelation will jolt Clara into the self-righteous action of hauling the evidence right in front of these corporate crooks. This is a tub-thumping censure to a society festered with sleaze and corruption, and utterly relatable in most corners of our world.

What hits the unusual mark of extraordinary is the filmmakers' impeccable tact and devotion of playing out an unbiased portrait ofa woman of certain age who, more often than not isn't even be considered to assume the cynosure of a movie, andMendonça Filho welcomes her with the full treatment including the often dismissed libidinous department, when you find out there is a raucous orgy organized in the empty apartment above yours, what is the best rebuttal other than calling an escort to quench that aroused thirst?

It goes without saying Ms. Braga's towering performance is of tectonic import to the success of the film, so much composedly immersed herself in the character, she takes Clara's prosaic daily life in stride, and not for one second, slackens her dignified defiance or renders it patronizing or haughty (which would very likely occur in lesser hands), she holds court whether there is a tacit awkwardness in her bungled sex-in-the-car diversion, or a whiff of disappointment toward her self-serving daughter, not to mention when she lets rip with a tirade in front of Diego (a smugly educated Carrão, admirably fending off Braga's all-out verbal offensive), the young representative of the company, that sequence alone can give 2016 Best Actress hopefuls a run for their money!

AQUARIUS is ultimately a rapier-like social critique welded with an endearingly patient character study, manufactured with deliberation, consideration and integrity, a transcendent sophomore piece presages an auteur in the making. On a less rigorous note, it is a cautionary tale exhorting us not to mess with a refusenik who has a hammock in her apartment, which means that she has both strength and means to stick it to the end.

一个乳腺癌后存活30年的女作家为了保留充满回忆和美好的家，即使在建筑里所有人的搬走后牢牢扎在建筑里，影响了建筑公司的利益。建筑公司由大鳄留学归来的孙子领导，用一切手段想把克拉拉赶走，克拉拉说服了自己的孩子坚持下来。结尾的时候，建筑公司的工人离开建筑公司并告诉克拉拉，建筑公司在克拉拉周围的房子砸了很多裂缝并放了很多白蚁，克拉拉带着律师把箱子里的白蚁砸到了大鳄的办公室。

钉子户全世界都有，个人也可以对抗资本。

克拉拉从内到外都散发出坚毅和美，她对抗癌症，吸引异性，人格独立，斥责大鳄孙子关于教养的一段深得我心。追求有品质的生活。

勇敢的人并不是没有害怕的时候，她找海滩救生员，也是她的爱慕者的时候，是她觉得孤独和害怕的时候，被救生员认为在搭讪。她一个人住在一个建筑里，被外人认为是鬼屋，她却自得其乐。有着坚硬的神经。

个人碎碎念

有些地方，可以是一个凝固的场景，保存了一些遥远记忆；可以是个夜晚永远亮着灯的书房，还有灯下痛苦写作交稿的人；可以是满室阳光绿植的光影，还可以是清晨六点被砸门叫醒送早餐的恼怒回忆，离开这间居所，到哪里心里都是空空的。是的啊，我此刻想起的就是西一巷。 电影看完就想哭泣。我已经在这个世界步履不停地走了很久，我也知道未来还要去攀登更高的山峰，去做更好的人。可是啊，西一巷的那些时光始终在我心底。如果我也写一本《最美好的回忆》，萨冈赌赢了钱去买了房子，我是在那里度过了纯粹的时光。

没看片子之前，一直以为是一部讲星座的电影，一开头我还以为是关于一个水瓶座的人的故事，后来整个情节的发展有点让人有点隐射的味道。

克拉拉是一名巴西的女作家，一开场就是她们家族在召开生日趴，孙子孙女们都热情的朗诵诗歌来祝福。大家都很开心。然后是镜头切换到，克拉拉第二天早上起来去海滩游泳，真羡慕这种靠海的房子，走过去就是海滩。游泳完后，居然还出现了大尺度的洗浴镜头，还显示了她被切掉的乳房。有个房产商来找她聊天，说想买下她的房子，因为整栋就她的没有搞定。说要把这栋房子改建成名叫水瓶座的商场，这时候才带出来，原来这房子就叫水瓶座。合着，本片就是讲钉子户和开发商斗智斗勇的故事啊。克拉拉自然没有答应，然后出去和朋友开各种聚会，还认识了一个帅老头，后面也做了爱做的事情。这时候，一群人进入了他们家楼上开party，而且是尺度很大的party。克拉拉认为这是为了赶走她。在一次回家的时候，来了几个人告诉她去10楼的某个房间，克拉拉还不清楚，进去之后才发现，为了赶走她居然在房间里放了白蚁。克拉拉带领着自己的家人，把白蚁都扔到了开发商的办公室内。全故事完成。

看完后回想一下，还是很有意思的。尤其是对于强拆这个问题上，感觉巴西都做的很不错，相对于某些国家来说。女主的表演很到位，把那种有品位的女性的状态演绎的很到位。算不错的吧。

这个片子看了有几年了，但想起来什么是好的电影（个人的）。这算是非常亮眼的一部好电影。时常会想起那栋海边的房子，这两年也在找一间这样的容纳自己的房间，而这种寻找，这部电影的影像始终在影响我。回想起来为什么喜欢它，是它娓娓道来的抗争吗？是我期待的中老年的自己那股女性的力量，对人生 生活 自我的洞彻跟接纳的那悄无声息内层却汹涌有力的广阔吗？