The story is still great, except when Colin Firth is proposing, I can't help but get into the scene where Mark Darcy proposes to Elizabeth Bennett, or the scene where Bridget Jones is confessed. The character creation is so similar.
It is also interesting to discuss rationality and emotion. This is the center of the story's inconsistency, and perhaps what Woody Allen has been exploring in this series of stories. How fun it is sometimes to let go of the constraints of reason and have a dream. What's more interesting is that when Colin Firth wakes up from a dream or Ms. Baker's lies, reason declares victory, but he can't get happiness. The irrational and absurd person in his eyes completely made him feel a world of optimism for the first time, but just denying the absurdity itself could not eliminate his first real sense of joy. The ending of the story is completely unexpected, like a dream. It seems that sensibility is the final winner. True or false, a dream, why not.
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