Parallel worlds reach the same goal by different routes

Although this is a film adapted from the British novel "I Don't Know How She Does It" of the same name, the scene is changed from London to Boston, and Kate's identity has changed from a hedge fund expert in 2002 to an investment manager in 2011 , But attentive audiences will surely find that the female voice of the film's narration is familiar, and even the shooting technique and inner monologue will allow you to travel back to "Sex and the City" performed by Sara Jessica Parker. Sarah Jessica Parker is so successful that she played the columnist Kelly in "Sex and the City" so well that any other role bears Kelly's shadow, and "Affair Diary" is no exception. Maybe in a parallel world, this is the story of Kelly and the carpenter boyfriend Aiden. Kate, Kelly, are stupidly unclear.
In the movie "Sex and the City 2", when the relationship between Kelly and "Mr. Big" is getting flat after marriage, they reunite with her former boyfriend and furniture designer Aiden in the Middle East and leave a deep affection. It’s worth intriguing that in "Affair Diary", the career elite Kate’s husband Richard is an architect whose job is unstable and almost becomes a home cook, and her "affair" turned out to be a "big man." Style characters, success, decent, single... Two parallel worlds of different choices meet here.
Kate (or Kelly) is no longer an easy-going columnist, but a double-faced person who is constantly dragged by family trivialities and workplace disputes. Most of the others think that Kelly has a smooth job and a happy family. They all envy and hate to say "I really don't know how you did it", although it is difficult to tell whether they are false or sincere. This is also a true portrayal of many women in the workplace today: If you want to be in the workplace, you will inevitably pay the price of being alienated from your family. Kelly often suffers from insomnia at night because she keeps a list of "what do I need to do tomorrow" in her head; while looking forward to a long-lost romantic night with her husband, she accidentally falls asleep; two years old The first sentence the son learned was "goodbye mom"...
Humans are the best animals to escape. In such a situation, it is inevitable to be curious about another possibility: "If it was that way, what will it be now?" "If tomorrow changes, what will be the consequences?" For Kate, played by Pierce Brosnan "Affair" Jack appeared as a possibility full of temptation like a mandolin. If she chooses this possibility, then the ending cannot be called the ending.
Similar to the ending of "Sex and the City" 2, the family irresistibly defeated all other possibilities: Kelly returned to Mr. Big, and Kate returned to Richard. This is not a discovery of conscience, nor a blind compromise, but a kind of persistence, as it said at the end: "I don't know how I can do it about happiness, but we will do it."

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