The film begins with a close-up of a trophy at the venue of the Sarah Schiffer Special Achievement Award ceremony, where the presenter is impassionedly praising the young winner, Eve Herrington. At this time, the camera swept across the audience one by one: the critic Addison, the famous playwright's wife Karen, the theater producer Max and the famous theater actor Margot, their expressions were different, and they seemed to know that the young award-winning actor some unknown things.
The moment Eve took the stage to accept the award, the camera turned to Karen, she fell into the memory, the memory was the beginning of October last year, and the story began.
On a drizzly night, Karen saw again the girl who had been here for weeks watching Margo walk into the theater and leave, six nights a week. The girl claimed to be a fan of Margot and watched every scene. Karen, who was moved, took the girl into Margot's dressing room.
In the dressing room, the girl told about her tragic background and her love for acting under her poor life. In addition, she also had her sighing love story. It was this persistence in love after losing her husband that moved Margo, and the girl was able to stay by Margo's side. It is also from this moment that the girl's life has changed. And this girl is Eve.
Margot's boyfriend, director Bill, is about to go to Hollywood for development. Margot brings Eve to see her boyfriend off. Eve then becomes Margot's right-hand man in life, taking care of everything for her. But slowly, Margot began to realize that something was wrong.
Finally, after the curtain call of a performance, Margot saw Eve gesturing with her clothes on her body and pretending to be on stage to thank the audience, and she began to feel the threat from Eve. Many people say that the scene of taking the clothes has a strong metaphor. For a woman, what it means when another woman tries to put on your clothes is self-evident. It is also this scene that makes us outside the camera begin to realize that Eve is not simple.
Speaking of which, there was another scene that made me suspicious before I got the clothes. That was the way Eve looked at Margot and Bill before they parted. It was clearly written in his eyes: replaced by four characters.
It seems that I was not wrong.
This subtle atmosphere permeates further, and after Eve puts on Margot's clothes to call Bill and plays a scene in Margot's place, Margot finally explodes. She begins to feel restless, fearful, emotionally out of control, and at odds with the friends around her because of Eve's threats. It all came to a head at Bill's birthday party.
That night, Margo told Roy about her fear of age, not twenty, not thirty, but forty. She walked into forty like this, and she hadn't even done it yet. Prepare. Although she has a brilliant career and a loving partner, facing Bill who is eight years younger, she is worried that Bill will be thirty-two at the moment, but he will be like this in ten years, she even growls: I hate man. What's more, there is such a young Eve eyeing, she finally said: I'm fed up with her being young and having many qualities.
This night, Bill expressed his views on the theater industry. He agreed that if you want to be a good actor, you must have a strong ambition. This industry needs more ambition and more sacrifice. He also agrees that accepting These test people are not idle. However, the most important thing in his heart is still hard work, blood, sweat, hard work and talent, which account for 90%.
That night, Eve revealed her yearning for the stage. She described the audience's applause as if waves of love poured out from under her feet and surrounded her. Every night, there are thousands of people who love her. The light from their smiling eyes proves that they need her, and for this, it is worth everything. sacrifice.
But that night, everyone only felt Margot's vexatiousness and Eve's love for drama and pursuit of ideals. This makes Karen feel more sympathetic to Eve and wants to help her fulfill her dream of being an actress. Then Karen made a move in the car, causing Margo to miss the performance, and Eve successfully performed in place of Margo, making the first shot.
After the show, and in the dressing room again, Eve finally reveals her true intentions as she tries to seduce Bill. Unexpectedly, Bill was unmoved and said: I only pursue what I want to pursue, and I don't want it to pursue me, making Eve take off her kindness disguise for the first time and become angry.
And all this was quietly watched by Addison outside the door. He proposed that Eve do an interview with him, write a column for her, and tell her about another way to replace Margot: self-promotion. The two hit it off and started working together.
Karen, who saw the newspaper column, finally understood that Eve was not as innocent as she thought, she understood that she had misunderstood Margot, and the three finally saw Eve's true face. At this time, Margo was not reluctant to fight, and there was no expected torn battle. In the car, Margot tells Karen that she ditched things on the stairs in order to climb faster, forgetting that she would need them again when she became a woman. Like it or not, every woman has an important career to be a woman. Sooner or later we all have to work hard to be a woman, no matter how many other careers we have or how many things we want to do, in the end nothing compares to having him by your side when you're looking at the dinner table or rolling over in bed. . So Margot decides to return to the family and marry Bill.
And Eve's journey continues.
This time it was Karen's turn, and Eve took aim at Lowy. In order to become the heroine of Lowy's script, she threatened Karen with her previous actions, asking her to persuade Lowy to choose her for the new play. Not only that, but she also tried to take Loy away. A phone call late at night called Roy away from her home with Karen. Karen lay on the bed, realizing that she might be about to lose Roy, and surrounded her helplessly.
Unfortunately, Eve failed again. Unexpectedly, Addison, who was always by her side and helped her become famous, shattered her dream. This is also the climax of the climax of the whole film. One sentence: I, Addison Dewey, opened the prelude to the truth by not taking advantage of it. It turns out that Eve is not alone. Her parents in the countryside have lost news of her and are struggling to find her. The so-called deceased husband is nothing but a lie, there is no such person at all, and Eve is not married. The reason she came to New York was only because she had an affair with the owner of the brewery and had to leave. And seducing Bill and threatening Karen is no longer a secret, all of which could not escape Addison's eyes. At this moment, I suddenly remembered what Margot's servant Bertie said when he heard Eve's experience at the beginning: It's very touching, and the house leaks when it rains overnight. Sure enough, the old man's eyes are sharp, and we take such a perfect story as a reality.
In general stories, when the truth is revealed, it should be Eve's ruin and disrepute, and everyone is unhappy, Happy Ending. However, real life has never been such a simple matter that good is rewarded with good and evil is rewarded with evil. This is exactly why "The Comet Beauty" can become a classic.
Addison is not the personification of justice, he and Eve are the same kind of people. Looking down on all beings, unable to love and be loved, unfulfilled desires, and inexhaustible talents, Addison shared the common ground between the two and expressed his true purpose: You can only belong to me. Watching Addison say with certainty: There is a force telling you to obey me, and I have to sigh that the two of them are a perfect match.
Afterwards, Eve successfully starred in Roy's new play, and received flowers, applause and honor. The picture goes back to the beginning of the film, Eve received the trophy, with tears in her eyes on the stage, proudly and humbly said her acceptance speech, thanking Margot, Karen, Max, etc., the camera swept their expressions, How ironic.
At the end of the story, another girl named Phoebe appeared in Eve's lounge, put on Eve's clothes, held her trophy, stood in front of the mirror, and imagined the scene of thanking the audience. There are countless girls in the mirror, full of ambitious eyes, one after another, endlessly.
Margot's fame is briefly mentioned in the movie, but there is only one sentence: she participated in a Midsummer Night's Dream when she was four years old, and she appeared naked, and she has grown steadily since then. It is conceivable that this is just another upper history. There is no explanation for Eve in the future. Maybe when she is no longer young, she will be like Margot, and she will become a woman who returns to the family no matter how unwilling she is to let go.
As Karen said to Eve: There is no eternity in drama, it ignites, burns, and disappears. Perhaps this is also the meaning of the title of "Comet Beauty", no matter how magnificent it is, it is just a meteor passing by and shining for a moment.
All we can see is the applause and compliments of flowers in front of the curtain, and the secret behind the curtain is just a secret. Whether it's the Hollywood Dream, the American Dream, or the Chinese Dream, it's probably nothing more than that, like a beautiful bubble that bursts at a touch.
It's just a cliché story of a young girl who uses lies, scheming, and painstaking efforts to step up to the top of everyone around her, but she tells the simplest truth: all choices are made by yourself, and you want to get what you want. Must pay the same price, this is the real life.
With a kind heart, there will naturally be a hero who loves you and is willing to be a knight, sheltering you from the wind and rain, and giving you everything you want. If you work silently, you will naturally be appreciated by Bole, giving you the opportunity to be yourself at ease. Please, do you really believe the scenes in these romance novels? Maybe there is such a case, but it is just an accidental event with a very small probability. In the real world, you must constantly choose, constantly sacrifice, and sacrifice your life for what you want.
It must be emphasized that the combination of desire and desire can help you climb to the top. Talent without desire can make people flat, and desire and talent can make people fall into the abyss.
And we all must understand that the gift of fate has already been marked with a price, and what we want must be exchanged for the same thing. The choices you make, and all the consequences, can only be borne by yourself.
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