The conflict between loving and being loved

Clair 2022-04-23 07:01:26

Sensitive, fragile and sophisticated queen-level rich woman, her identity is the forgotten old Hollywood superstar, living in an ivory tower-like prison created by servants, from the outside it looks like a barren and dilapidated cage, with exquisite The elegant interior environment is in stark contrast, in contrast to "Besieged City", the people inside do not want to come out, and those outside do not want to go in. The male protagonist is an unwilling young screenwriter. As far as I know, male screenwriters in this age group should be very showy indeed. The heroine spends all her energy to instill such morbid love, just like the current trend: I can buy you a lot of delicious food, buy beautiful clothes, take you out to play, and only give you sweet love alone, but dare If you break up and kill yourself or shoot you with a pistol, young man, can you stand it? For the male protagonist, this may not be a good choice. Although the rich woman has some mental problems, she only slapped him when she hurt the male protagonist. After the male protagonist proposed to leave, she even cut her wrists to commit suicide. It is also love to the point of a terminal illness.

If it were in real life, it could have developed like this - the male protagonist and the rich woman lived a happy life without shame and shame, but the art of film will tear off this layer of hypocrisy, and the climax will come at this time, the plot twist is the heart The hot young female screenwriter confessed to the male protagonist, and then the male protagonist began to make a big death. She took the female screenwriter to the ivory tower, thinking that she was going to leave with her, but he did not. After driving the girl away, he thought he chose a rich woman to stay. When he got down, he still didn't have it. He was about to leave after packing his luggage. The rich woman tried her best to keep him. In the end, only the male protagonist's body was left. The male protagonist was killed, and his soul was freed. The rich woman went crazy. It's scary, and it's also cured my years of thinking about rich women. In fact, what this movie gives me more is not madness, but real sadness and pain. Men and women, their souls have been squeezed and infiltrated by all kinds of things and become deformed. In any crowd, who is not?

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  • Joe Gillis: [Betty is softly crying, facing away from Joe] Stop crying, will you? You're getting married. That's what you wanted.

    Betty Schaefer: I don't want it now.

    Joe Gillis: Why not? Don't you love Artie?

    Betty Schaefer: Of course I love him. I always will. I... I'm not in love with him anymore, that's all.

    Joe Gillis: What happened?

    Betty Schaefer: [She turns and meets his eyes] You did.

    [They kiss]

  • Joe Gillis: A very simple setup. An older woman who's well-to-do. A younger man who's not doing too well.