A Polanski brain fan, a brain hole caused by excitement and inability to fall asleep after filming late at night.
Whether Ella is a character imagined by Daffin is indeed worth discussing. I believe that the screenwriter and director also deliberately left the audience with suspense, but this movie is by no means as simple as the love-hate entanglement between the stupid female writer and the dark girlfriend. story.
This brain hole is based on the figure that Ella is a fantasy figure of Daffin. This setting will make the whole film more interesting. The name of the film is "Adapted from Truth" (Real Game), which has the same name as the novel written by Daifen. We all know that Polanski is very good at playing metaphors, so what does the title of the book mean to the audience? I saw some comments saying that the title is not as good as "elle". I strongly disagree with this point. Not to mention that there are many French films called "elle". This name will inevitably become popular; secondly, this "Adapted from Truth" is A word game played by screenwriters and directors. According to the usual understanding, the new book of the same name is based on the true story between Ella and Daffin. Then, starting from the whole film, will Ella’s story be Daffin’s own story? Is Ella the Daffin when she was young?
Let’s suppose that Daifen has lived in a not-so-harmonious family atmosphere since she was a child. Her father was prone to domestic violence, and her mother committed suicide when she was four. The young Daifen often imagined that she had a family. A good friend named Qiqi. Under the violence of his father, Daifen and Qiqi finally set off a fire and burned everything that caused her pain... After growing up, Daifen got married, but her husband was still there. Suicide in the wooden house, and later Daifen became a writer, and at the same time met a rich boyfriend, but she still had phantasy, and there was still a huge haze hidden deep in her heart, so she was extremely anxious and couldn’t write anything. At that time, she began to fail to distinguish between reality and imagination, and imagined the role of Ella based on her young self.
We can find a lot of evidence to support this hypothesis in the film. First of all, think about when Deffen first met Ella? The first time she saw Ella was in a state of extreme fatigue. The signing meeting was about to end. Daifen was too tired to hold on. At this moment, her spirit was the most tranced, so she began to fantasize; secondly, Dai Fen received many inexplicable letters, and when she saw the huge portrait of her mother in the gallery, her restless look just proved that her previous family life was very painful. Also, in the film, Ella once wanted to replace Daffin to attend a high school book club. She was dressed as Daffin, a young and old. I think Polanski’s urinary sex not only meant to imply that the audience was actually These two people are the same, and they want to show that Ella is the young Daffin. Finally, apart from the heroine, no one knew about the existence of Ella. At the new bookmark sales meeting, Daifen was in a trance again. She seemed to see Ella. All of this was enough to prove that Ella was fantasizing. of. There is also this stalk of elle's name, maybe I want to say that "she" is not real.
Regarding that Ella is the young Daffin, I consider this based on the identity of a female writer. In the film, Daffin and Ella differ in their writing perspectives. Daffin insisted on writing fictional novels, but Ella asked her to write her own story. When watching movies, I always thought that the letter was sent by Ella, but if the letter was also imagined by Daffin, would it be more reasonable? Daifen’s writing inspiration has dried up. She has been writing novels for many years in order to escape her memories, but her novels are always writing her own stories. This puts her in a great contradiction. On the one hand, she does not want to mention her life; on the other hand, her novels are quietly moving closer to her own stories. In a scene in the film, Daifen’s computer smashed into Ella’s window, which happened to confirm this. So Daifen began to hate herself. She felt that a true novelist should not write autobiography to make money. So she fantasized about a lot of vicious letters, and someone from the family was not ashamed of her grandstanding behavior. These letters came from Daffin's inner hatred for himself.
And Daffin once said to her boyfriend that Ella is a person who is good at listening but is unwilling to tell his story. Isn't this just Daffin herself? Daffin didn’t want to think about her past, so in her fantasy, when she pulled out all the stories from Ella’s mouth, she herself was crazy, and finally wanted to end her life by suicide...
Finally, what I want to say is that this film may not have such a high degree of completion, but when you think about it, there are still many interesting things. Polanski is still a director who can tell a story. This kind of small-format indoor drama is exactly what he is good at. If it were filmed in the tune of "Strange Tenants", this drama is still a bit too modern!
The above is my brain, I wrote it in the middle of the night, and it may be a little incoherent.
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