Polanski is too fond of digging and filming stories about human nature, from "Venus Wearing Fur" to "Adapted from Truth", the heroine Emmanuel Senier plays the role and is also the director's second wife. It is the best candidate for complex role-playing. The combination of the two is both a partner in reality, and the perfect partner in the movie. They make each other a reality.
Many people did not understand the two films, especially the adaptation of the real story. If they were only understood as the story of two girlfriends controlling and being controlled, it would not only misunderstand the director’s meaning, but also superficially show the characteristics of the two female characters in the film. In the film, the heroine Dai Fen is an extremely manic and depressed writer who is in trouble. She is by no means a stupid elder sister, but a frail person who is caught in a mental dilemma. She willingly surrenders her decision to another one person.
Another character she imagined, Ella, is a shadow writer who writes biographies for others. Ella symbolizes another layer of personality of the writer. It is another stronger personality when the writer himself is weak. She is violent at critical moments. Dealing with the relationship between the writer and the outside world, cutting the hustle and bustle brought by the writer's reputation, allowing the writer to focus on his own creation, even at the expense of killing this weak personality.
The closeness of the two personalities in the film, the gradual exchange of identities and roles, and the terrifying poisonous struggle in the second half of the film are all too Polanski, the writer of Dafen, finally from the split of personality, Finding a way of writing is to let Ella tell the story in the form of others, and the creation of this story finally finds a balance in the contradiction between writing herself and fictional stories.
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