Plot Analysis "Don't Look Back"

Jaylen 2022-01-24 08:04:36

The promotional posters in the theater were branded "Thriller", and I went to see this movie on Friday evening when I felt a little depressed. At first it was to release the pressure, and it was true that she still had the expectation of seeing beautiful women. The corners of Sophie Marceau's mouth and eyes are too ecstatic, and the beauty can always show her different charms and styles at different ages. It was released earlier in foreign countries, and most of the film reviews I saw were vague and negative. The people in the theater were also very sparse. There were only about six or seven people in the entire hall.


The female writer fell into a memory lost in a car accident while doing documentary memoirs of her childhood. The whole film can be understood as looking for love and memory. The human brain is a meticulous and complex organization. A memory is lost due to external forces, and it can also be awakened unconsciously.



Maria, a girl born in Italy, was her mother's illegitimate child. She was not accepted by her stepfather when her mother remarried, so she was adopted by a French family. The new French mother took the whole family, her husband and a pair of children, to Italy to pick her up, and left a group photo. In the photo there are French mother, French sister, herself and the biological mother in Italy. The French family showed great kindness and love to her, especially the friendship with her French sister during the pre-adoption contact, which had a great impact on her. She thought she was about to have a new and beautiful life, but unfortunately They were in a car accident on their way back to France. Only her and her French mother survived. At the same time, she lost her memory. But the desire for love is still and becoming very strong. The sequelae of the car accident caused her to see all the pictures she thinks. The love of French mothers plus the face of Italian mothers, the love of adult husbands plus the face of childhood Italian brothers , The love for her children plus the face of her and her brother in her childhood memories. She lived like this after the car accident. Perhaps it was her strong desire for love that made her expect that she could be loved by her mother like Jenny in a coma, while the French Mom couldn't get rid of the pain of losing all of her family, so Maria's biological body was injected into Jenny's memories, all the details and experiences, she lived like Jenny, and French mother treated her like Jenny. This filling of the missing satisfies the unrelated mother and daughter who have also been injured. Jenny’s writing talent is extended in Maria’s body under the influence of psychological cues. Maria sees herself as Jenny-long blond hair, brown eyes, delicate face and natural sensitivity to writing and wanting to do this for life Pursuit. Until recently, she was in the process of reminiscing about the details of her childhood. The fragmentary and broken memories seemed to be inspired. She stumbled and wanted to return to her correct position, and some of the mess in the process of returning became the film’s The selling point-horror-everything in her eyes began to change. First, her daughter's unconscious movements triggered the images buried deep in her childhood memory, and then her husband's black pupils, which were originally young brothers, began to turn light blue, even her son. The daughter's own face began to change, and these changes made her terrified. The childhood self called to her in the middle of the night, she burst into tears because of grief, but she didn't realize it. She saw her blond hair turn black, her light brown gentle eyes gradually turned into big black eyes inherited from the Italian family, the location of the furniture, the pictures on the wall, the dislocation of old memories and real pictures. The appearance of Xing began to subvert all of her logic-seeing her husband’s calm face, she believed that she had a problem, but the doctor’s examination report showed that the biological and neurological reactions were normal. Therefore, she believed that everything was because of her recently. The pressure of a novel is too great, so I started taking medicine, rather than admitting others’ doubts about her writing talent. At this time, “she is a stubborn and persistent writing genius Jenny”, anti-depressant and stable. The pills made her hallucinate: Maluwan, who couldn't get out anyway, the birthmark of her son who suddenly shifted... The pills could not withstand the Italian Maria who grew and revived from the body of "Jenny" like a spring dynamic bud; she She wants to resolve her fear and anxiety. She wants to return to her mother's side-it is the picture her mother remembered for her, and her mother's face is the only safest thing that hasn't changed in any way. But when she returned to her mother’s house, she caught her mother’s flustered expression during breakfast (it can be understood as the break of the love and beauty carefully maintained by the French mother), and then her mother’s face changed (from the previous Italian mother) Became a French mother), her mother became a stranger-she finally broke down, and the photo taken during the adoption accidentally turned out to make her obsessed with going to Italy, to the French mother with a strange face told "Jenny "I have always "seen" and identified the place where the Italian face mother lives, to find the root. Pills can’t resist the Italian Maria who grows and recovers from "Jenny"'s body like a spring dynamic bud; her fear and anxiety want to be resolved, and she wants to return to her mother-it is her mother who remembers her. The picture, and the mother's face is the only thing that has not changed in any way is the safest. But when she returned to her mother’s house, she caught her mother’s flustered expression during breakfast (it can be understood as the break of the love and beauty carefully maintained by the French mother), and then her mother’s face changed (from the previous Italian mother) Became a French mother), her mother became a stranger-she finally broke down, and the photo taken during the adoption accidentally turned out to make her obsessed with going to Italy, to the French mother with a strange face told "Jenny "I have always "seen" and identified the place where the Italian face mother lives, to find the root. Pills can’t resist the Italian Maria who grows and recovers from "Jenny"'s body like a spring dynamic bud; her fear and anxiety want to be resolved, and she wants to return to her mother-it is her mother who remembers her. The picture, and the mother's face is the only thing that has not changed in any way is the safest. But when she returned to her mother’s house, she caught her mother’s flustered expression during breakfast (it can be understood as the break of the love and beauty carefully maintained by the French mother), and then her mother’s face changed (from the previous Italian mother) Became a French mother), her mother became a stranger-she finally broke down, and the photo taken during the adoption accidentally turned out to make her obsessed with going to Italy, to the French mother with a strange face told "Jenny "I have always "seen" and identified the place where the Italian face mother lives, to find the root.



"Jenny" was on the train to Italy. The self reflected in the window glass was still her own consciousness. It was the author Jenny as an adult, but Maria who was sitting in adulthood wanted to know the truth. She let the Buddha go to Italy and lived for a long time, the streets and routes, she was guided by the image of the little girl produced by her childhood consciousness. At this time, "Jenny" did not recognize her childhood face. She was very excited to see her mother in the restaurant, but her mother was nervous, indifferent and resistant to her arrival, because she was an unbearable memory of her own, she should not appear in her life, she could not face the sudden emergence of this inability The daughter exposed to the sun, she didn't like her, she chose to escape. In the consciousness of "Jenny", this mother grew up with her. This mother was the closest person to her, and she didn't know what happened. Her biological brother was very surprised by her appearance in the restaurant, but "Jenny" thought it was her husband. In the world of "Jenny", there are two living relatives, the love of her husband and the face of her brother. My brother is interested in that she looks too much like his sister, so he came to the hotel to see her, and "Jenny" thought it was Hubby who came to see her. He was full of joy, but he still couldn't be in sex. Unity, she wondered and frightened that he was both a husband and not a husband. She came to the party in the Italian house with her childhood, furniture, wall paintings, everything made her suddenly realize that all the time before the age of eight began to recover, the reality of herself is an adult, she drags Jenny, Maria and Little Maria's steps are heavy, she can't stop the pace she is pursuing, and the memory still can't be fully displayed. She is approaching step by step, like a jigsaw puzzle, always thrilling in the final perfection! When she was a child, looking up at the glazed glass vessels on the high platform, she became young, and her burns began to live. She slowly stood up and looked at herself in the mirror as the face of the strange childhood little girl. The Italian mother was light. Holding her lightly, telling her helplessness, and at the same time revealing the truth of everything, she finally knew that she was Rosa Maria! Crazy! Horrified! Running out the door, it seemed to be a repeat, that familiar scene, coming to pick up her French mother, just like when she was eight years old! She finally remembered the car accident and all the things before the car accident. She was immersed in the memories, young and helpless, just like the eight-year-old Maria, who hallucinated that the young French mother held her and told her that everything was over. Asked if she had a nightmare again? Warm, loving, and compassionate, just like her Jenny career, she angrily pushed away the young French mother who she didn't know at this time, but her mother was not angry and said that she would wait outside for her to return home. Dressed and walked out the door, she was covered with silver hair and took care of all her life after the age of eight, containing her countless nightmares and bad-tempered old mother smiling and waiting for her in the sun.



Going back to France, getting dressed, and returning to Jenny’s life, the memory has been retrieved, and the love of the family is still there. She already understands that Jenny is not her, and her sister Jenny is standing at the door watching her and the children affectionately and warmly. Encourage and laugh. Rosa Maria continued to write and continued what Jenny was good at. However, this time, with the strong spiritual support of her sister, she wrote their common childhood memories...Have a family and love-They are one...

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