These words, as the last words of the heroine Woolf, are an explanation to her husband, and they are exchanging each other’s inner positions. passed. When a person leaves the dust, those who stay in this world must face the blank position and the pain that comes with it, and those who are alive need comfort even more. Maybe based on that. That's how she defines happiness so mediocrely. The real situation is that under the surface of her peaceful and comfortable life, the inability to answer the deeper understanding of life, the greater confusion, and the shackles of life that she cannot get rid of, these are the price she pays for the so-called happiness. At first, I was also confused by this film, thinking it was a romance, but as the storyline progressed, I found out that it wasn't.
The way the film is told is very distinctive. It's a parallel storyline that revolves around the day of three women. It is their respective day, a crucial day in a person's life, and a day that must be faced. These three women have their own living backgrounds, living spaces, and lifestyles, and they are also women with different occupations and identities. Moreover, the age span of the three women's lives is very large. But the film magically ties their fateful day together through a book, Mrs. Dalloway, by author Woolf.
Mrs. Dalloway decided to buy flowers herself, and the female writer Woolf got up one morning and finally got down to writing this sentence. And one morning many years later, a housewife named Laura read this sentence in the novel. It was obvious that she had integrated into the novel, found the point of harmony between the characters in the book and her heart, and made a connection with her. The characters in the book are connected. And then, a female editor of Clarissa, whose life also began one morning, said the same words as Mrs. Dalloway, and she was going to buy a bouquet of flowers herself for the upcoming party. At the beginning of watching the film, it is important to distinguish the time and space of the three women's lives. This seems to be some kind of entangled emotions. They attract each other, cohesion, like a mess, but they are separate and exist independently. It is necessary to separate and analyze as soon as possible, rather than being too addicted to the mystery itself. captured by it.
In life, we have to face many problems. A sentimental person is more likely to be hurt by it. All kinds of difficulties in life will make us stop, condense at a certain point, and find ways to face and solve them, which may exhaust our life, and thus make us unable to seek deeper and pursuit. It may not be exactly like this, there will still be people jumping forward. With a warm false gesture, he opened his door. But the problems faced by the three women in the film are obviously not from the insufficiency of simple material life. Not even in an emotional life. There is no lack of love around them. Fundamentally speaking, it should be the unknown and dissatisfaction with the spiritual world. It is a strong sense of self-mission.
Human life must be attached, which itself is both a barrier and a constraint. I remember Zhang Ailing once said that the marriage system itself is unreasonable. But this woman has been married twice in her life, and neither of her marriages was a happy one, but she was tempted by it, but she was not reconciled, but she had no choice but to stand by. A woman with an attitude also has unrealistic fantasies about married life. Speaking of which, the fate of these women is much luckier. There are two men in this film who are good husbands who are considerate and caring for their women. But maybe it's because the movie only captures a small slice of life, and for this reason we don't see the whole of their lives. The other is a poet. Although terminally ill, he is the spiritual pillar of the female editor's heart. Especially the two men in their married life, the family life they built for their women felt almost perfect and warm. Although they don't know the women around them, and women are deliberately hiding their hearts, it is clear that they are all good men and good husbands in the general sense. What separates them is their hearts. Hearts are the hardest to communicate.
It is almost impossible to solve the problem fundamentally. Therefore, these two women, almost at the same time (the actual situation is after many years), separately thought of using their own death to solve all this. In life, we have to face and solve problems, but in the end we still have to give up. There will always be people who are going to die, who must die, and use death to contrast our lives. This is what Woolf, the female writer in the story, said, she really had to die to end everything she couldn't face in her heart. And Laura, a seemingly gentle and demure little woman, chose to come back at the moment of her death. She was a compromise, not thorough, she chose to escape. She abandoned her family and two young children, went to a completely unfamiliar city, and had a so-called life of her own. This kind of behavior is due to the exile of self, but it is extremely irresponsible and selfish. What Clarissa experienced on this day was the death of her boyfriend, a poet and a patient in need, whose life she had taken care of for many years. One day when she happily prepared a celebratory dinner for him, the man finally chose this day to commit suicide. This makes the day remembered more like a holiday worth celebrating. She has experienced a person's death, but she is still alive. He has his own life, his own same-sex girlfriend and daughter.
In fact, everyone has mood swings every day. Life is full of such fluctuations. Some small emotions for no reason, some small feelings that touch our sensitive nerves. Sometimes, they swarm and disappear silently; sometimes, they collide with each other, derive, and converge into huge waves. Sometimes they reach the depths of the heart and become self-obsessions and hallucinations. Woolf is more like a woman of obsession, obsession and self-illusion. Similar women will inadvertently walk into her life, into the dead end of life, into a strange circle of confusion that is difficult to determine their own identity. The pain and sorrow of life are almost innate in life. While the female consciousness in this film makes it unique, it also has a kind of narrow self-restraint.
Because of this movie, I searched the life of the female writer Woolf on the Internet. On the side of the text introduction, there is a portrait of a beautiful woman. Turning her face to the world, it can be seen that her nose is very narrow. Gao (it is said that Woolf's actor also raised his nose for this purpose) is a woman with a beautiful and serene face. This is very different from Woolf's somber and deep face style in the film. A moment can be condensed into eternity. But nothing is more eternal than truth. This is the Woolf we imagined. A talented woman who finally chooses Woolf, who decides herself in the world. She, or they were gently waving away at us.
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