It's not the reason why I want to write this essay about how the film, made in 2010, really is. For a part of the audience, the script of the film is plain old, the director's editing makes the whole film look fragmented, and several of the protagonists have lost their brilliance and importance; but to another part of the audience, they are I like such a movie very much, why? I think it must be different from person to person, but there is one thing, I think it is the common feeling of many audiences who like this movie, that is, the movie's effect on cheating and modern times. Marriage in society and love in marriage have been described once and not very deeply. If I say "there are a thousand Hamlets in a thousand eyes," you know what I'm going to say next. The main reason why I wanted to write this essay after watching the movie was that I was interested in the problem presented in the movie - cheating.
In my opinion, cheating has become a very "modern" issue in today's society. It has always existed like marriage, and still maintains a traditional and modern relationship with each other, which has not changed due to changing times or any social development. Infidelity has also been a topic of marriage since ancient times, and it is an interesting topic. Just like in the movie, the director tells us about an ordinary middle-class married life in the United States, and the reason why it is ordinary is that it can happen in almost any house on any street, in any family, in any in a marriage. The marriage of Joanna and Mike is a typical modern marriage. The problems they encountered are actually the problems that each of us will encounter in a modern social metropolis. Perhaps in the past, you have experienced it, or in the not-too-distant future, you are about to face it. This is an unavoidable hurdle in almost every modern marriage, which needs to be overcome by both parties in the marriage.
The beginning of the movie made me uneasy, with the patter of rain falling on the windowpane of the taxi. In the background of the quiet and leisurely piano music, Joanna's face full of doubt and anxiety appears in the picture, and the next shot is Mike, who seems to be expressionless. They were sitting together in a taxi heading to a friend's party. There is a distance between them, leaning against each other by the window. It seems that everyone is thinking about the secrets in their hearts at the moment. Although they are in the same space, their thoughts are already far away. With two shots, I can't help but think of the 2001 movie called "All the time". At the beginning of the movie, Woolf, who is about to commit suicide, is holding a pen and shaking his hand, and the background music is also quiet. 's piano piece. Such a simple two scenes will make the audience speculate whether there is something wrong in their marriage, but the director did not explain what happened between them before that. Like Joanna's anxious look, we get the sense that this movie is going to make us fidget.
At a friend's banquet, Joanna keenly captures the intimacy of her husband's company's new female employee, Lola. This is almost a woman's sharpest intuition in marriage, and often they are surprisingly accurate. Although Mike has always denied it, Joanna is very sure in her heart that Lola has a good impression of her husband. Because of this, they had an argument, but the cold war didn't last long, and Mike promised that he would never do anything to hurt her. The next day, he'll be on a business trip to Philadelphia with Lola and one other person from the company. Joanna's unease lies in this, but since her husband firmly denied it, she also feels that she is too suspicious, so she apologizes to Mike.
In marriage, we can say that such disputes are nothing, and it will be over if we make it clear, but there is one thing that is often overlooked in marriage, and that is the cause or source of these disputes. Joanna questioned Mike because she suspected, she suspected that there was an affair between Mike and Lola. In fact, this has caused some kind of inconspicuous crack to appear in the marriage, and it is suspected that many times it is the culprit. Of course, both parties can eliminate these doubts by explaining, but when the other party's doubts come from their own very positive feelings, or some kind of affirmation obtained by their own methods, it is difficult to completely and truly eliminate doubts by explanation. . Because that was no longer just a suspicion, it had actually become a determination in the other party's heart. And this certainty will be temporarily eliminated in the other party's explanation, but it is always there, it is just hidden at the moment. That's what happened to Joanna and Mike. We can learn from the chat between Joanna and Alex that even though Mike has denied and made a promise, she still has doubts in her heart. Those doubts that Lola had when they were together, as I said, it's always there.
The sudden encounter with Alex was something that Joanna would never have thought of, and such an unexpected encounter also brought back the feeling with Alex that she had always kept in her heart from now on. As she had told Alex, she had never forgotten him, and every now and then her mind would flash back to the time they used to be together in Paris, France. Joanna's obsession with Alex led to the development of the story later. During the meal and chat with Alex, all her memories related to him were mobilized and surged. It also followed. In Joanna's twinkling eyes and hesitant words, we can clearly feel the beauty and sweetness of their relationship. This is quite dangerous to Joanna, who is now someone else's wife. It's like playing with fire, and at any moment it is possible to cross the limit and get burned, or even burn each other. So did Alex and Joanna, and so did Mike and Laura.
In fact, the director's arrangement still took some thought into the plot of Joanna and Mike's derailment. What these thoughts created was to leave the audience with a discussion about the couple's affair with each other, Joanna and Mike. In the traditional narrow definition of cheating, Mike and Lola having sex is a typical example. However, many people tend to be more interested in Joanna's behavior. Joanna and Alex never had sex, they kissed, shared a room, and slept in the same bed. We ask, "Did Joanna cheat?" And most people will probably answer yes, why? Spiritual derailment, someone will mention the term. Although Joanna did not have a physical relationship with Alex, in her heart and spirit, her love for Alex was the line she had crossed as a wife. For the love she had with Alex, the fond memories and the feeling of being back in her body again, made her betray her husband. She told Alex that if she had sex with him, she would never meet Mike's eyes again. Maybe when the movie came to an end and Mike suddenly went home early, she realized that even if she didn't sleep with Alex, it was very difficult to face Mike's eyes now. She felt that as long as there was no physical relationship, it was not a derailment, and it was not a betrayal of Mike, so she naturally ignored her own infatuation and love for Alex in her heart.
In fact, I don't think we have enough reasons to judge Mike and Joanna who's cheating is more serious. Some people think that Joanna's spiritual derailment is more serious, but in fact they ignore one point, whether it is Mike or Joanna, what they do is derailment, which must have caused a huge change in their trust, marriage and life. changed. In my opinion, cheating doesn't measure which one is more serious on a percentage basis. As long as it is cheating, when one party in the marriage cheats, even if it is only ambiguous, it has already caused some kind of damage to the marriage. In Joanna and Mike's marriage, suspicion begins first. The consequences of derailment are bound to be serious, but the suspicion it caused in the early stage is actually a more serious problem. Once it is created, it does not disappear easily. It becomes an inexorable crack in the marriage and the most destructive weapon in mutual trust.
Regarding cheating, psychologists may give meticulous and methodical scientific answers, but in this film, there are not many background reasons for cheating. It seems that the occurrence of things is inevitable and happens naturally. , a lot of times we almost forget that this is a story about cheating. The director of this film has maintained a steady neutrality from beginning to end, and has not made any comments on any of them. Maybe he wants the audience to make judgments based on their own thoughts, and countless possibilities are born according to each person's different circumstances. At the end of the movie, Mike came back from Philadelphia early, and Joanna was sitting on the windowsill smoking a cigarette, with a sad face and tears in her eyes. We all know that it is impossible for their marriage to return to the past, and I always feel that their marriage may not have been so happy in the past.
The director leaves the audience with an open ending, where Mike says "I love you" to Joanna, and the movie stops abruptly when Joanna opens her mouth to speak. We don't know what Joanna will say, and everyone in the audience will have their own guesses. In the beginning, Joanna's suspicions will reside in their marriage from this moment on. The possibility of being honest with each other exists, but what about after being honest? How will their marriage be? Of course, both Mike and Joanna can hide their last night, but what they can't hide will be the countless eye-to-eye encounters in their lives together. The candor and trust have disappeared, and what's left in the end may be the same. It is the same bed dream that we are all familiar with. Maybe there will be another solution, Joanna proposed to break up, but after the breakup? Is she with Alex? This series of problems caused by a single night will fall like dominoes all the way, and there is really very little they can do at that time.
In a modern marriage, cheating is almost inevitable. The so-called absolute loyalty to each other is only the language of good wishes and marriage vows from beginning to end. To investigate the reason, in fact, many of them are not in marriage but in human nature and the characteristics that people have always had. Among them, the first thing we should realize is that people are independent of each other, each is just an individual, nothing more, even the connection of blood or the form of marriage formed by social customs or traditions cannot be changed. This basic reality of the individual human being. Communication is limited and deceptive throughout, and honesty is an impossible temporary comfort. In the movie, Alex's friend asks Joanna if she will tell Mike about her and the former. Joanna says, "There are some things that you don't know, and once you know, you will be bitter!" she said In fact, it shows the limitations and instability of communication and honesty in married life. People often think that it's good to talk about things, and to understand each other will eliminate the knot in their hearts, but such an ideal state is difficult to exist in a marriage. Even if it is clear to each other, that "pimple" will always be there, and it is inevitable to be "brooding". In this case, derailment is actually understandable to a certain extent. Of course there are thousands of reasons why people cheat, but the commonality in this inner marriage is always there.
2014 4. 19 nights
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