The first clue is a woman, French journalist Marie, who encountered a tsunami, escaped from the dead and saw the vision after her death; the second clue is a man, American worker George, who suffered from a disease when he was young, and obtained it after he recovered. The ability to psychic; the third clue is a boy, Marx, who lives in London with his brother Jason and his alcoholic mother. A car accident took his brother's life, and Marx was still unable to let go.
There are many psychic clubs in the psychic industry, and the young Marx has seen a lot, but he has always been tirelessly looking for a medium to see his brother again. He browsed the homepage where George used to provide psychic services on the Internet, so he ran into George at the London Book Club and recognized him at a glance; George was always running away. He felt that the ability of psychic was a curse and prevented him from living. In the life of normal people, the film shows this "curse" through two channellings.
The first time was entrusted by the Greeks brought by her brother to get in touch with her deceased wife through psychics; the second time was to help the woman in the cooking class to uncover her hidden obsession with her dead father. read. Successful channeling may bring comfort to the parties or cause pain. What remains the same is that they leave in a hurry after the channeling, far away from George's life. In the first psychic, George revealed the secrets of the Greeks, but the Greeks preferred to tell his brother the secret instead of revealing it to George. In the second psychic, the woman flees in fear and is in the stairwell. Can't help crying.
This may really be a “cursed” profession. People use it to get in touch with the deceased, but they don’t want this “middleman” to intervene, so the embarrassing situation is inevitable. Listening, communicating, disappearing, and staying away may be the most basic professional ethics of this job, just like a psychologist, but the kind of personal touch with the soul of the deceased may far exceed the psychologist’s staying out of the matter. This may be George’s sorrow and The reason why he is reluctant to continue this job.
Another barrier should also come from contact. George's abilities are so powerful that he doesn't need to go through professional rituals, and he can perceive it with just a light touch. Whether it is the favorite object in the cooking class, or any woman he hopes to have a further relationship in life, the closer you get, the harder it will be to stop it. Just imagine, what can George experience in the closeness of the two? It is the existence of a "third party" (or more) over time. This kind of pressure is difficult to maintain for a long time even if you do not reveal your career to the other party.
So what is the best happy ending? Naturally, it is the combination of George and Mary arranged by the director now. George took off his black woolen gloves, just like he had removed the shackles brought to him by the psychic, and clasped his other hand tightly. At this time, he experienced intimacy that he had never experienced before. It belonged only to the two people, and there was no other space. Interference from foreign objects. Regarding the scene when the two were in contact, there was a picture display at the London Book Conference-George saw Mary sinking quietly in the sea during the tsunami disaster. In many years, he only saw each other when he first came into contact with people, and it was so quiet and peaceful.
Happy ending is classical, just like those "tragic" stories of Dickens always have a happy ending. Every night before going to bed, George listens to a recitation of a Dickens story. He likes Dickens and his works, and everything he knows about him includes the "Dickens' Dream" painted by the painter, in which Dickens talks with the souls of the characters in his works. George got the same solace that he provided to others in the channeling from Dickens, and the accident of fate (as the accident of the story) made him meet Mary at the book club.
Mary represents the perception of death that the public has acquired through their own experience and the exploration and explanations carried out from it. People seem to have been curious and evasive, but usually people choose to forget or avoid it. As a journalist, Mary has no hesitation in her innate nature of inquiry.
Happy ending is not only Dickens’s classical style, but not only a dream-like dream for humans, but also a vision, representing the director’s (or me as a interpreter) view: facing death and living closely with death, It is like a writer, coexisting with the looks of the souls of the characters in his own works.
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