In 1885, Lisa Bernd, who was 14 years old, had an unrequited love with Stephen Brand, a pianist who lived next door. The romantic Stephen Brand often brought women into his apartment, while the young Lisa was envious of the mysterious world she could not enter. When her mother remarried and moved away, she still remembered the young pianist. Lisa became a beautiful girl. She returned to Vienna to find a pianist and had a relationship with him. The pianist treats Lisa like any other woman he meets, always forgetting them afterwards. Lisa gave birth to their son and later married an Austrian nobleman. After 15 years, they met again. She left her husband for the last time and dedicated herself to the only man she always loved. Her son died of typhoid fever, so exhausted Lisa wrote a long letter to the pianist, telling her love for him that she had never stopped for 15 years. After Lisa's death, her grieving husband demanded a duel with the pianist. After reading Lisa's touching letter, he was about to escape and boarded the carriage that drove to the duel.
Letter from an Unknown Woman movie plot
2022-01-20 08:01
Extended Reading
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Dane 2022-03-28 09:01:11
If "a well-constructed love story is society's way of compromising lovers and society with alien language (Roland Barthes), then in this story, Lisa never stops fighting, and Stefan never dares to step into it. Therefore, From youth to middle age, between every escape and return, Lisa gained the most complete love experience among all the moments she fought for herself—even if the love was fragmented, whispered, and alone. . And the same detachment from reality (and an important motivation for their brief connection; "I like winter because I can imagine spring"), Stefan is a cocoon, saying that "it's easier to please others than to please yourself", and then for Putting on the shackles, love and art are both. What the letter touched him was not love, but a woman's intimidating tenacity and faith. On the basis of the original book, the good time of two people getting along was added, and the love was manually frozen. In the music and the imagination of the distance, but prolonging the sigh after the end. Fontaine's performance is excellent, and the camera language is a master.
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Mortimer 2022-03-28 09:01:11
The fun of unrequited love mostly lies in psychological activities, but only adopts the narrative structure and audio-visual language of traditional Hollywood melodrama (the three-act drama structure that starts and turns together, the classic lighting, especially the hallucinogenic-oriented depth of field design, the hero and heroine ride in a panoramic view. The indoor train scene pictured in the background is somewhat self-referential) to present such a theme, and it is inevitable to be discouraged. Even if it is a complete tragedy, but due to the melodramatic style, the ending is accompanied by a symphony that gradually moves towards grandeur, and it is fixed in the hero's awakening, as if the heroine's moment of awakening and repentance in exchange for a man's life is enough to afford it. An ending that can be regarded as a "big reunion" - in the face of masochistic self-destructive love, but using sadistic methods in audio-visual language, in a certain sense, it constitutes a contradiction between form and content.
Letter from an Unknown Woman quotes
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Lisa Berndl: Now I'm alone. My head throbs and my temples are burning. Perhaps God has been kind, and I too have caught the fever. If this letter reaches you, believe this - that I love you now as I've always loved you. My life can be measured by the moments I've had with you and our child. If only you could have shared those moments, if only you could have recognized what was always yours, could have found what was never lost. If only...
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Lisa Berndl: Suddenly in that one moment, everything was in danger, everything I thought was safe. Somewhere out there were your eyes... and I knew I couldn't escape them. It was like the first time I saw you. The years between were melting away.