Ana who switches between virtual and real roles

Dayne 2022-10-30 22:13:07



The French Lieutenant's Woman

is a time-staggered 'piece-in-piece', and the story of Charlie and Sarah has another clue, the same people love each other, but in different eras.
In the first scene, when Anna looks in the mirror, she is a 'virtual image', using the language of mirror images to virtualize the mentalization of the image person.
Sarah is like a mysterious woman, and her lies make people more vividly show their discriminatory attitude towards people who view this type of people with a deadly check on life, especially women.
When Sara stood on the cliff and looked at the sea, she expressed her yearning for freedom. An independent person, she did not need the mercy of others. When Sara heard someone called her, her gaze turned back with a glimmer of hope and then turned to disappointment. There was some surprise and pity in Charlie's eyes.
The conversation between the two of Anna's family, talking about the low status of women in the past, is also a kind of helpless choice that way.
When Mike stood by the window, showing that in the present tense, some men have begun to realize that there is an invisible threat to women, both personally and socially. In the past tense, women were inferior because they had to depend on men, and the superiority of men was based on the inferiority of women.
Charlie found Sara in the woods and quickly caught up, but when Sara told Charlie to let her walk alone, which made Charlie curious, he explained to Charlie again that he had never seen her. When Charlie was drinking milk in the cabin, the owner mentioned the salad for the second time as 'the French lieutenant's woman', again explaining her low status.
Tiana's maid was elated when she mentioned Charlie's butler, and Tiana said 'you have to remember he's a Londoner'.
Mike and Anna are at home in the present tense, Mike is standing by the window, while Anna is reciting the name of 'Charlie' played by Mike in the past tense. It is shown that the role of Anna Carved is not simply performed, but has been completely immersed in the role, unable to distinguish between reality and fiction.
In reality, when the two of them were lying on the beach, Anna suddenly sat up and found that she seemed to have forgotten who she was, recalling the salad in the past. Shows Anna's psychological changes.
Sarah came out of the woods, deliberately let Mrs. Pu's servant see, and plunged Charlie into the mud, if Charlie didn't help her, he would also lose his reputation. Then the next shot is of a large, eerie room with only one light on. The camera immediately cuts to the room and looks at the salad from the perspective of the mirror, which is a profound expressionism of the whole person. Shows the character's inner, complex and intense emotions. When Sarah looked in the mirror, her expression was very strong, which made people look horrified, but also kind of fear and sadness. At this time, she used mirrors and paintings to perform Sarah's inner introspection and panic at that time, and when she repeatedly looked at her portrait, she felt more and more frightened. Then there was a hurried knock on the door, the camera pushed up, and Sarah was really afraid of despair.
When Charlie received the letter, he was very scared, and his inner entanglement made him a little impatient, so he went to find Dr. Sen. Dr. Sen finally came to the conclusion that he fell in love with Sara, and Sara kept trying to trick Charlie to make Charlie so unwilling to extricate himself from it. Even because everyone around him looked at Sara in such a different way, Charlie had a bit of a rebellious heart. Even though I choose a salad desperately, but at the same time a bit shrinking, I am afraid that I have made the wrong choice.
When the street scene reappeared, it was very quiet, and Charlie recalled the longing look in his eyes when he first saw Sarah on the cliff, even if he decided to find her.
In the woods Charlie and Sarah were just seen by the servant, even though the servant was behind because he grabbed Charlie's handle.
When Charlie to Salad 'You're an unusual person' Salad' yes, that's who I am'. Sara knew that what she had done before was deeply attracted to this man, and this man was also moved by it, which was what Sara expected.
When Charlie and the servants returned to London, Charlie went to Sara, had a relationship with Sara and found out that everything she had told before was a lie, it was the first time for him and Charlie. However, Charlie's male servant secretly followed the master to know where Sarah was, and saw the shadows of the two in the room from outside, which made him have a bad heart.
At first, Charlie thought it wasn't the first time that Sara had sex with her, but he didn't expect that it was the first time. . If the salad wasn't the first time Charlie just took the salad as a small mistake made by curiosity. But Sarah thought that Charlie would not come back, as long as Charlie could remember her, and she didn't expect him to give up everything to find her. She became more and more lonely and had to choose to leave.
Charlie went to Tianna and said that she was going to break the engagement. Tianna no longer pretended to show her true colors, which caused Charlie to be disgraced. Charlie still had to choose a salad.
But when Sara disappeared, Charlie felt abandoned by Sara. Completely lost the self that I had.
In the end, the lawyer informed Charlie that when Sarah found it, he couldn't wait to run. Seeing that Sara had a good time, but he was so embarrassed, he hit himself deeply, and felt that he had been played by Sara. His emotions towards Sara continued to rise little by little, and he pushed Sara down. At this time, Charlie couldn't bear it anymore. He turned around to support Sara. Sara looked at Charlie with pleading forgiveness. Reunited with her once. Seeing that Charlie had already fallen into the trap of Sara's love, he repeatedly shouted at Sara just to understand that he didn't really hate Sara for a while, and he couldn't resist a woman like Sara at all. Sarah also knew that Charlie would not be reckless, and everything was within her expectations.
After filming the end of the party, Anna knew that Mike couldn't let her go, and it was okay to have a good result with her in the filming, but Anna pulled herself out of the role of salad at this time, even though she chose her husband. However, Mike kept having fantasies about Anna, hoping that it would be the same as the result in the filming. At this time, Anna left, but when Mike finally called Anna by the window, it was called 'Sarah'. At this time, Mike couldn't distinguish himself from the character and himself, and was completely immersed in the character, while Anna slowly woke up from being immersed in the character and returned to reality to find her true self.
Another reason why Anna chose to leave was that when Anna was a guest at Mike's house, she found that such a perfect family was not what Anna could give, and she couldn't be like Mike's wife. , She has to look after her husband and teach her children at home every day, which is completely unacceptable to her. This is also one of the reasons why Anna decided to leave Mike.



I think the director fully expressed the original outline of the whole story, and even transformed the era and identity of the four characters in the 'film-within-film' structure. The psychologically carved truth reflects the inferiority of women in the past and the autonomy of women in the present time and space. Victorian social morality reflected a prejudice against women who were out of order.

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The French Lieutenant's Woman quotes

  • Sarah: He was handsome. No man had ever paid me the kind of attentions he did as he was - recovering. He told me I was beautiful - and that he could not understand why I was not married. Such things. He would mock me - lightly. I took *pleasure* in it.

  • Dr. Grogan: I am a young woman of superior intelligence and some education. I am not in full command of my emotions. What is worse, I have fallen in love with being a victim of fate. Enter a young god. Intelligent, good-looking. Kind. My one weapon is the pity I inspire in him.