I don't think that the encounter between the heroine and another herself represents a kind of fateful despair. On the contrary, this scene expresses another possibility and is the warmest stroke in the whole film.
The whole film tells all the stories that took place on Earth 1 (in fact, both earths are Earth 1, but for the sake of distinction, we call the earth in the film Earth 1 and the other earth as Earth 2).
On Earth 1, the heroine caused the death of the hero’s wife and children. In order to redeem her sins, she gave up the quota for Earth 2 to the hero, because she hopes that in the parallel world of Earth 2, the hero’s family is still happily Life.
On Earth 2, the heroine did not kill the hero’s family, so the hero’s family lived happily, while the heroine went to MIT and became a young astronomer. The hostess successfully applied for a place to go to Earth 1 as a scientific research expert. Interestingly, the person responsible for reviewing applicants on Earth 1 said that his teacher once told him that you must either go to jail or become a millionaire. It may be understood that everyone has these two possibilities in life, and they often end up in different ways. Therefore, the heroine on Earth 1 (the loser) and the heroine on Earth 2 (the winner of life) have completely different or even opposite fates. , But in the end all applied for a place to go to another earth. The difference is that the heroine on Earth 1 surrendered the quota to the heroine on Earth 1 for atonement. But on Earth 2, the male lead and the female lead did not have any intersection at all, so it was the female lead herself that landed on another earth, and she realized her dream of space since she was a child. The poor one is the heroine on Earth 1. Because of that accident, she will never have the chance of her dream life.
I don’t think that the accident happened on Earth 2, because if it happened, the heroine on Earth 2 would do exactly the same thing as the heroine on Earth 1-give the place to the hero, because Their thinking patterns are exactly the same (referring to the movie mentioned, if the people on Earth 1 want to kill the people on Earth 2, then the people on Earth 2 must also want to kill the people on Earth 1). But the person who went to another earth was the heroine of Earth 2, which showed that the accident did not happen at all on Earth 2, and there was no such thing as a quota.
Some people say that it is possible that on Earth 2, the male lead's family all died in that accident, so the female lead did not give the male lead a place because the male lead was already dead. This is not impossible, but in the last scene, the heroine on Earth 2 looks completely different from the heroine on Earth 1.
From the perspective of dressing, the heroine on Earth 2 has a different life. She has not been tortured by sins, so she does not always wear a woolen hat like the heroine on Earth 1. Hide yourself.
Another reason is that if the male lead died on Earth 2, then the female lead should feel more guilty and more painful, and even have no desire to apply for that place and completely give up her dream. The heroine on Earth 1 applied after knowing that the hero was still alive, indicating that the fact that the hero was alive gave her a glimmer of hope of redemption, which gave her the courage to pick up her dream again.
To sum up, the end should be that the heroine of Earth 2 came to Earth 1, and she was probably in pain when she saw her desolate herself. And the heroine of Earth 1 may be pleased to see another herself living the life she wants on Earth 2? Will let go? Will you see hope and renew the courage to live this life? What is certain is that the heroine on Earth 1 will not kill and replace another herself, because her weak and kind nature cannot make her do such a thing.
But the male lead is not necessarily the case. The Earth 1 male lead came to Earth 2 and saw that he and his family lived a happy life. He was very likely to have killing intent and intended to replace his happy self. But after four years of life as a walking dead, he may have been unable to return to the light and bring happiness to his family. Therefore, for him, it is still a tragedy no matter what, he can't change it, because the pain has completely changed him.
The most fearful thing is that if we meet another self, who has a happier or more unfortunate life than us, how would we feel? Will we be jealous, disgusted, and pity the other self? It's not impossible to kill yourself even as in The Night When The Comet Comes. What is certain is that after knowing the existence of another self, our inner peace can no longer be restored.
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