APRIL has a strong tendency to idealism, so strong that it is almost paranoid. A casualty of romanticism, dying for lack of strong wings. In fact, continuing to be an actor should be a good choice for her, but unfortunately she gave up at the beginning of the film. She needs a different kind of life, but this has remained in her fantasy. So she pinned her fantasy on her husband in order to realize it. Her heart is still relatively vague and childish. The emptiness of reality is completely dependent on her senses. The so-called thinking is also based on illusoryness. The way to deal with reality is to escape by migration. Leaving a place doesn't mean starting over, the key is to know what you really want, otherwise leaving is just a change in the formal sense, and the film doesn't explain what APRIL wants, maybe she doesn't know it herself, she just feels Worldly life is empty and meaningless. The reason why APRIL hates the secular is to make himself special, and special cannot be the goal of full life, which is doomed to fail in APRIL's revolutionary road. Of course, APRIL is still charming, childlike seriousness, pure and innocent, who dares to expose the empty life.
Like APRIL, FRANK has romantic and idealistic feelings, and is also a relatively weak person. When APRIL used some poetic fantasies and words to describe the bright future of the two people, he was moved, and when the boss tempted him with a high salary and a stable life, he compromised. Compared with APRIL, he is more complex and contradictory. As a man, he has to bear more realistic pressure, so he is not as unrealistic as APRIL, but his gentle and repressive personality makes him sway at the same time. If Frank could be more rational and firm, the tragedy would not have happened.
Ideal and romantic innocence, two people are attracted by the same breath in each other, two individuals in confusion recognize each other because of confusion. However, the chaos is the chaos of the two people. Due to the lack of a clear understanding of self and reality, it is also the chaos that kills the relationship between the two people in the end.
So I feel that the two went astray at the very beginning of their preparations to embark on the road of revolution. .
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