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Elmira 2022-03-28 09:01:13
Narrative structure. . .
The plot is good, but it must be admitted that the director's narrative method is novel, but the structure is a bit too disorganized.
Diana died, but her friend Mei Lin was still alive. Mei Lin replaced her life and imagined herself to be Diana, which is also in line with the theme of this movie.... -
Summer 2022-03-28 09:01:13
I know what I want
The movie started as a normal ordinary one about the woman who lived with gilt. But it ended with a lot more. I can't help rewinding the DVD and watched it again.
Imaginative impetuous Diana had been experiencing different ways of living her life. Deeply in her heart, she wanted a happy family. She...
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The Life Before Her Eyes quotes
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Young Diana: Maureen, what did I do to deserve a friend like you?
Maureen: Um, something in a past life?
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Paul McFee: William James, that most American philosopher, once advised: "begin to be now what you will be hereafter". One might ask how? Our deepest guide in our beginning to be, is our imagination. Our ability to project, and mold our future selves from the myriad possibilities before us. And to imagine takes courage and effort. But it gives us hope too, hope that we can author our own destinies, hope that rightness of the decisions we make now will be borne out in the future. As much as we can be overwhelmed by the world, we can also draw hope from it. From beauty, from promise, from the simple fact that we have the talent to imagine our future selves from all the possible lives that pass before our eyes. We must imagine our lives well. We must engage our conscience. Conscience is the voice of God in the nature and heart of man.
