If one day, I can't recognize you, do you still love me?

Alfreda 2022-01-14 08:02:06

The ending of the film is thought-provoking! Many people mistakenly interpret the ending as-the heroine gave birth to a daughter, and the daughter's face finally ceased to change. Will the hostess see her daughter's face really not change? The film doesn't say that. What the film says is that the heroine finally finds a face, one face that she can always read love. Imagine a scene like this. The heroine's daughter is among a group of girls who wear the same clothes and are in good shape. Can the heroine recognize her daughter? If this group of girls cannot speak or act, I believe that the heroine cannot be identified; but if the girls are in a state of free movement, the heroine must be able to identify quickly. What is the basis? Because in the eyes of the daughter, the mother is the only one. Only one's own daughter will lock herself in the crowd for the first time, and only her own daughter will run to her for the first time. Remember the ending credits? The daughter yelled "Mummy" behind the hostess, and the hostess turned and hugged her daughter. The child can recognize her as a mother even if she only sees her mother's back. This is an innate instinct.

After watching a movie, most people always ask: "When my appearance changes, can you still see me and recognize me in the crowd?" But the relationship between people is two-way. While you are watching you, you are also looking at me, and the opposite question is, "If I can’t recognize you in the crowd, would you still love me?" Just like the heroine’s ex-boyfriend in the movie, Like the police, when the hostess can’t recognize them, they will be hit hard—the ex-boyfriend broke up with his girlfriend in the bar. He couldn’t bear this kind of life; when the police heard the hostess’s confession, they said, no, you don’t love me. , I'm just another face in the crowd... Maybe this is the weakness of human nature, we always need to confirm the particularity of ourselves.

For "face-blind" people, life is difficult, and being loved is even more difficult. They are susceptible to complaints and accusations, when they occasionally accidentally fail to recognize you. Of course, after training, they can memorize people's various non-facial features, so that their lives are no different from ordinary people. But there are always unexpected times, even the psychologist in the film, when people do not speak to her, she cannot read the lips. It is not her fault that the heroine suffers from facial blindness, nor can she change it. Regarding her emotional turn in the film (from ex-boyfriend to policeman, then from policeman to daughter), in my opinion, it is a process of searching for love, which is understandable. It's a pity that when the two male protagonists knew that the female lead couldn't recognize themselves, they couldn't say a single sentence, "It's okay, I can recognize you." We don't want to admit that we are not much different from the tens of thousands of people in the world, and we are not very special. But this movie tells us that the biggest difference between me and others is that I love you.


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  • Justina 2022-03-26 09:01:11

    This disease is quite scary, and I don't even know how to make this movie.

  • Ivy 2022-03-27 09:01:15

    Aunt Milla, why don't you go to an action movie?

Faces in the Crowd quotes

  • Dr. Langenkamp: Everyone always goes on about sight, hearing, smelling. But there's another sense. A hidden one. The Japanese call it mooka. It's the sense that allows you to walk without having to thinking about putting one foot in front of the other. You loose this sense and you will become like some of my other patients. Socially paralyzed, withdrawing from the world into the safety of isolation. That's a tempting option.

    Anna Marchant: I don't want that. I want to live normally.

    Dr. Langenkamp: Every day people are going to resent you for not recognizing who they are. They'll call you rude, forgetful, stupid, liar. Now, are you willing to fight back? With all your might?

    Anna Marchant: Yeah.

    Dr. Langenkamp: To try and try again without loosing heart. Without giving an inch!

    Anna Marchant: Yes.

    Dr. Langenkamp: Good. then lets get to work.

  • Dr. Langenkamp: What's the first thing you look at in a man after his face?

    Anna Marchant: My friends and I look at his butt.

    Dr. Langenkamp: [laughs] Well what else is there to look at.