Seeing the subtitles rise at the end of the film, it is estimated that every audience will be full of doubts in their minds to look back on the protagonist’s experience. It is not difficult to find out that the director has left many clues and hints during the whole story process. These hints at first glance Unobtrusive, the details are inserted extremely naturally, without a trace of illusory spatial expression, but after the end is reversed, if you come to taste the setting and arrangement from beginning to end, you will sigh the director's wit, and as a creator, he is sensitive to Sarah. The grasp of the delicate state, the director's visual guidance and output on another level, have a very clever sense of the process of "creating something out of nothing".
In the end, Sarah’s novel Swimming Pool is actually the general story of the Paris period in the film. When creating characters, writers will more or less add senior experience and self-experience, either by friends around them, or by chance encounters. Passers-by, or the former self, personality, temperament and lifestyle will become the material for the characters. In the novel, Julie can be said to be the opposite of Sarah, an exhibitionist, a voyeuristic desire; a day-long licentious play, a whole-day silent conception; one The two people who are not dressed in clothes, but are conservatively dressed and have huge differences in character and personality, will inevitably have conflicts and create a strong dramatic tension, and then through the gradual relationship of contradictions, reconciliation and mutual assistance, in the transitional character's emotions. Sublimation, this is a very standard way of writing drama, and the director deliberately follows this path, in order to show that this is the story of a professional writer.
The film contains a lot of Freudian psychoanalysis and subconscious projections. To a certain extent, this novel is also a self-deconstruction of the writer Sarah, and Julie symbolizes Sarah’s past works and a younger Sarah. Sarah’s intent to externalize, the past tense that currently disgusts Sarah, she has youthful and passionate vitality, beautiful naked body, and extremely seductive sexual attraction. She is very popular in a certain field, but she is still immersed in it all day long. I was squandered in joy, the delicious body and the empty soul (here also alluding to Sarah's view of her previous work) were accidentally involved in a murder.
The murder plot happened without warning, accidentally, deliberately, or even redundantly, just like a commercial element in a best-selling novel, not a necessary condition in the literary sense. The director satirizes today's cultural goods, whether in film or literature. In the above, they all made superficial labeling displays, emphasizing selling points and gimmicks while ignoring the spiritual artistic essence. The essence of the film is of course not murder.
The reason why the film confuses the viewer is that the boundary between fantasy and reality is very blurred. Although the director has interspersed some "no flaws" reality scenes in between, the performance of the scenes in the intersecting virtual and real scenes is very obscure, sometimes even Sarah herself is also lost in the novel and reality. For example, there is a scene where the waiter is watching Julia masturbate by the swimming pool. This section is unconnected and abruptly appearing. In fact, it implies the ambiguity between Sarah and the waiter in reality, and Julie acts as Her own projection of the image in the novel created a certain degree of sexual connection with the waiter. This is just a fantasy. Sarah wrote this fantasy into the following novel as inspiration, so the waiter and Julia are intimate. The relationship occurs, which in turn triggers the development of the next plot. There are many similar clues in the film, including when the old gardener wandered in the hiding place, Sarah turned her attention to protect Julie and suddenly exposed her body to him. This abnormal behavior of opening her clothes to release her body, like Julia, was shown in Sarah and Julie in the novel have formed a real harmonious relationship, which also indicates that Sarah and the past self have reached a reconciliation, integration and unity.
In the conversation between Julie and Sarah after the relationship eased, Julie mentioned her mother. Her mother also wrote novels but was not recognized and was difficult to publish. But Julie herself liked it very much, but Sarah discovered Julie's mother by chance. She has passed away and was puzzled, but she met Julie madly thinking of her as her own mother. In fact, her mother also referred to Sarah in reality. She used to "produce" Julie's work, but now However, she is bored with her previous works and even her before. She is eager to get rid of this relationship, so Sarah let Julie's mother die in the novel, which means that the reality of her now has no entanglement with the past, everything in the past None of them seem to exist anymore. But finally after Julie left, she left her mother's "work" to Sarah. Sarah at this time readily accepted this deepest comfort. She finally confessed her past self. She was relieved from depression and fatigue. Get relief.
This novel is a dialogue with the past, with oneself, with creation, with life’s spirit, and with the collision of memories, just like the last time in the publishing house, John said that he could not understand this novel, although it has sex, murder and violence. , But I can’t understand the expression of feeling, and it also shows from the side that this novel is essentially a spiritual innovation, emotional cleansing, letting myself vomit about time, letting the past face a pilgrimage, and letting everything start again. . When "Once Upon A Time" left, and bid farewell to Julie, there was a novel, a piece of material, a departure, and a dream.
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