Woody has created a perfect romantic heroine, beautiful in appearance, unhappy in life, indulging in fantasies - stepping on the mud and looking up at the stars.
The god of luck favors her, giving her the opportunity to realize the romantic life she has long dreamed of, making a handsome, innocent and loyal man fall in love with her with all his heart. She can choose to live with him in the real world from scratch, or she can choose to enter his screen world, with no worries about food and clothing, and live happily ever after like a prince and a princess - this is her in that cramped restaurant. Everything you fantasize about wiping dishes!
But she still left him, perhaps because of another man's sweet words, or because she could never accept his "virtual" identity. Most ironically, she advised him to "see the reality clearly".
When they could choose a better "reality", the once so-called romanticists abandoned everything about romance without hesitation and became the one who killed the romance with the knife.
The film pierces the essence of many contemporary so-called "romanticists": their "romanticism" is just an invisibility cloak to escape from reality.
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