I watched this movie for the third time, but I still dare not say that I fully understood it, but it is also what taught that for any thing, feeling is far more important than cognition. Nevertheless, I still have to talk about the new understanding of it~ ①Mourning and letting go. Maureen suddenly lost his twin brother and stayed in Paris in order to wait for the sigh from his brother. She is so persistent that many people next to her, such as her brother's girlfriends and close friends, have already started a new life, but she is the only one who refuses to let go. The various subjective shots in the film (possibly) show us that the ghost of the brother does exist. He follows his sister and sends a minimal signal to her, which is to tell her it's time to let go. ②Electronic media, self-mapping and communication. In the movie, the electronic products such as mobile phones and laptops are complete "characters", such as the scene where Maureen uses the mobile phone to send messages and video chats with her boyfriend. Maureen watching videos on mobile phones is what we do in our daily life. Several shots were shown to crowded people during the voice-over of the video, indicating that people have unknowingly lost the ability to "communication" under the images of electronic products. The product isolates itself from others. The emotional alienation of modern people is also reflected in Morin's ease of revealing his heart to strangers who have never known him. As for psychic, I think it just expresses the confusion of modern people, so the authors of abstract paintings will say that her work will be understood at least 20 years later. Electronic products are also a reflection of everyone’s heart. I have a bold idea that Maureen’s boyfriend Gary does not exist at all... This character only appears on the computer screen and the picture is very blurry. When Maureen is busy, he will not think of him. When she needs guidance, her boyfriend will appear under her own choice, including finally going to the cave to meet the ghost of her brother. "Boyfriend" Gary is a reflection of Morin's heart, and he represents another possibility for himself. ③What you think is just what you think. Maureen always claimed to be a psychic, but apart from the appearance of a ghost entity, we could not feel her psychic ability at other times. The dead brother kept passing messages to her, but Maureen never noticed it. But her brother's friend, who firmly believed that his ghost was right beside her, just laughed at it. At this time, the brother showed up directly and told his sister by breaking the water glass-"I am here", but Maureen's reaction was that the water glass was only accidentally touched. In the end in the cave, Molin refused to believe that it was his brother who was talking to her. What she thinks is nothing from start to finish, which is the most sighing. ④ Awakening of female self-awareness. As a woman and as a private buyer, Maureen is ashamed to talk about her desires, especially material matters. In the early part of the film, when Maureen was shopping for clothes, Everyone asked her if she wanted to try it on, but she refused and then hesitated to accept the proposal. She would stop when she saw the luxurious jewellery and her favorite costume, but she kept suppressing her desire. This was the fundamental reason why she would be used by strangers in text messages. The dialogue at the end of the film is the key to the interpretation of the whole film, and the amount of information is huge. Maureen said that she always followed in his brother's footsteps—whether it was a psychic or a private buyer, she took over from his brother. From here, we can feel another reason Maureen is waiting, and that is that she is not ready to be "alone". She is confused about her future. She doesn't know where she is, so she clings to the signal from her brother that seems hopeless to others. From this point of view, the signals her brother gave her also told her sister to awaken himself. The reason why he didn’t send a clear signal was to let Maolin figure it out by himself, but unfortunately, he had to let Maolin understand through the conversation in the cave in the end." This is just me.” It can be said that Asayas did not give any answer in the film: Does the ghost of the brother really exist? What was the light at the murder scene? Why did her boyfriend never show up? We may not know all of these, but the only thing that is sure and the only important thing is that all of this is related to Maureen's "self".
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