My Unemployed Diary 0127.
Before opening this article, I would like to recommend everyone to listen to the original soundtrack of this movie-"The Engagement" performed by the famous Hollywood soundtracker Alexandre Desplat. I fell in love with this song when the first sound popped up in the first ten minutes of watching the movie. It gave me a sense of sadness in a very soothing situation, as if the sad Nicole in the play was crying silently behind a veil.
I learned about this film from the recommendation of a movie “up” at station B (I watched an average of two movies a day these days, and it is estimated that this year’s 100 movie plan can easily achieve progress). At that time, the host of UP analyzed the emotions expressed in the language of the film from the use of film lenses, and said that this is a good film like a bead from the sea, so it aroused my interest.
The content of the film is very simple, and there are not many big names among the actors (except for the famous Nicole Kidman), but the language of the lens is very smooth and the color tones are very soft. The story is considered to be gradually unfolding in the same foggy and white weather. . The main story is that a 10-year-old boy finds Anna, played by Nicole, and tells her that he is the reincarnation of her dead husband Shawn, which has brought changes to Anna and her family.
In fact, if you take a serious look at the beginning, you can easily recognize from the beginning that the little boy is just a fake. Ten years after her ex-husband died suddenly in the park while running, Anna still couldn't let go of this emotion. However, she was getting engaged today, so she came to the cemetery with her fiance, and then stood alone in front of the tombstone crying. Ten years later, she still loves him as much as ever. Among the guests at the engagement banquet was a couple, a mutual friend of Anna and her ex-husband. Claire of the couple took a gift box in her hand, found an excuse to delay the time going upstairs, and ran to a nearby park to panic bury the box that was supposed to be given as a gift in the ground. Needless to say, this box must be related to Anna. The little boy was waiting for his father who was a tutor in another family's house. He was sitting in the lobby of the building and witnessed Claire's panic. And we also confirmed in the plot at the back of the movie that the little boy got all the secrets in this box by following Claire...
The content of this box turned out to be the love letter Anna wrote to Shawn who was still alive in those years. How private and detailed is the content of these love letters? They are so delicate that a 10-year-old boy can give birth to an infinite love for Anna, the writer, and have successfully shaped the identity of a reincarnated Shawn who has been questioned by many relatives and friends. It is precisely because of this privacy that Anna gradually fell, and she extremely believed that her dead lover was reincarnated and returned to her again, preventing her from marrying someone else.
When no one can identify the true identity of this little boy, and at the same time, Anna vacillates between the two choices of marriage and elopement, the director has pried the reality for us. Claire, who gave the gift, had always held a grudge against Anna, because Claire was Shawn's only love when he was alive. Claire said to the little boy, "I am his lover. Anna is his wife." Shawn, who cheated on Anna, couldn't divorce her because of his affection for Anna, but Claire, the wife of his true friend, whom he really loved. So Shawn forwarded every handwritten love letter from Anna to Claire as a guarantee of his sincerity to her. Claire originally wanted to give Anna at the engagement banquet to vent her anger, but at the last minute she changed her mind and then ran to the park to bury the box. After learning of all this, the little boy instantly lost the firm belief in his eyes. He picked up his schoolbag and wanted to escape Claire's house, but was intercepted and returned. As a result, he lost all the letters he got.
The boy finally returned to Anna's house and told the truth that he was not her husband who had been dead for many years. When an angry Anna grabbed him in the bathtub, he looked at Anna directly and said, "I am not Shawn, because I love you." However, he did not say how he learned about the privacy, nor did he say Claire and Shawn's extramarital affair. In the end, he chose to keep Anna from waking up in a dream that Shawn still loved him deeply, and continued his understanding of love in a different way.
Is the little boy Shawn reincarnated? There are different opinions. I am more inclined to one of the more romantic terms. That is, the little boy is indeed a reincarnation, a reincarnation without the memory of previous lives. Buddhism always says that time has karma, and the people who appear next to me in this life are people who have had entanglements with me in previous lives. This is a continuation of a certain emotion. Shawn from the previous life died suddenly, and after clearing his memory, he was born as the little boy Shawn in this life. His father was a tutor, and he came to play at his father's work place that day and saw Claire walking out in a panic, so he followed her and discovered the secret in the box. He was surprised at Anna's love and fell into this love, blindly thinking that he was the beloved Shawn who died young, and then launched his pursuit of Anna. As everyone knows, maybe fate is so jokes, from the so-called God's vision/past and present, he is the Shawn. It's just that he came too late in this life or he came a whole life earlier, so he can neither be with Anna nor love Claire, who has been in love for a lifetime.
Anna vs. Shawn, Shawn vs. Claire, who loved from the last life, transformed into Shawn vs. Anna in this life, across a single life and completed a reasonable closed loop. We have no way of knowing how love ever flowed, and a lot of love eventually lost to a thing called timing. At the end of the movie, Anna returns to the right way and marries her fiance. By the sea, Anna, wearing a white gauze, screamed vigorously, walked into the May waves mourning and looked around blankly, and finally she was helped by her husband and left the beach. Perhaps this time, the flow of her love for Shawn was finally able to stop.
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