Anna's gaze tells everything
Most movies are color reality with black and white memories, this film is just the opposite, with reality in black and white, and memories in color. In this way, it can be said that it perfectly interprets the theme of the film. Intriguing suffering under the poignant gray. Franz's death made Anna escape into darkness, and the endless black and gray were oppressed and tortured, and her life was nothing but pale.
The memories that Adrian brought are only short and empty colors.
Adrian is a complete coward. At night, he came to the door to ask for forgiveness, but he flinched in fear. Several times I wanted to open my mouth to tell and just let lies to cover up my poor self-esteem.
In contrast, the pain Anna endured was unimaginable. Adrian's lie almost made Anna collapse. Anna, a single woman, her lies freed Adrian and the Hans couple, but she could not be freed by herself. How courageous it is to make such a decision, why not make people feel cold. Why does fate have to let a woman suffer alone...
Adrian clearly made Anna and the Hans happy. But the night she really wanted to reveal it, she was in great pain. She decides to lie. The lie was worth it to Adrian and the Hans, but to herself she didn't know it. She begged the priest for forgiveness, and when the priest asked her how she felt about Adrian, Anna said she didn't know. She fell in love with Adrian who killed her fiancé, and felt pitiful that Adrian begged for forgiveness for this confession. She doesn't know, doesn't know if it's worth it for him.
Manet's masterpiece "Suicide" that runs through the whole film shocked me several times. First, Adrian lay down at Franz's house, acting like a suicide.
His heart was also tormented, and he didn't know whether he would reach that point. Then Anna went to France to look for Adrian. When I saw this painting in the Louvre, I was afraid...
The French people I saw in the hotel sang the national anthem before, it was just a novelty for Anna, she knew that she also had Adrian. But knowing that Adrian's fiancee was the first time she felt left out in a foreign land.
She couldn't stay any longer, she loved him, but he cowardly pretended not to love her. She decided to go. The station said goodbye, Adrian finally expressed himself, and Anna tearfully accepted his kiss.
She said it was too late.
After all, it was too late, Adrian understood too late, Anna waited too late. Only regret and goodbye will not come later...
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