西尔维娅传

亨利（埃德蒙·格温饰）和女儿西尔维娅（凯瑟琳·赫本饰）生活在一起，相互依存，相互依存，谁也离不开谁。迫于生活，亨利挪用公款，无法偿还债务。阴谋曝光后，他和女儿一起隐瞒了真名，不让任何人知道他们已经踏上了逃亡之旅。路上，叶云舒为了掩饰自己的身份，伪装成女人。男装，更名为Selvester。在逃跑的路上，亨利和西尔维娅遇到了一个叫吉米（加里格兰特饰）的男人，吉米也是个骗子，两人相处得很好。有一种兴趣，一下子说一群人在一起或合体成为旅伴。后来，Tilt (Natalie Paley) 也加入了他们的行列。好笑的是，虽然他们从早到晚住在一起，关系也很密切，但没人能看透西尔。维亚的伪装，直到一位名叫迈克尔（布莱恩·阿赫恩饰）的艺术家出现。

Everything went downhill when that obnoxiously loud servant girl join in.

My queer self was expecting some gay sub-narrative but everything turned out to be perfectly cliche (and freaking damn heterosexual). However, I don’t think me being queer really was the problem, because the punchlines are as glib and shallow as an expired cream cake. This movie showed perfectly how structurally oppressed females were during that time - they are expected to fit into certain dress and behavioural codes, and only for male’s pleasure; their lives are terribly limited. And the filmmaker never thought of challenging it even a tiny bit in the film. He certainly had NO feminist thinking at all when he established so many binary gender dynamics. The female characters were coy and shallow, while the male characters were vulgar, impolite and greasy.

In a word - the concept of all the “disguised as male” idea is indeed fascinating and, with certain mindset, it could have turned out to be deep and meaningful. But the filmmaker ruined the beautiful potential of exploring/revealing gender norms, let alone surpass it.

The plot was rubbish too. Don’t even make me start. Skip this film and you won’t miss a thing - I recommend Notorious, even The Philadelphia Story if you’re into comedies.