-Comment on the movie "The Lost Lover"
If mutual trust cannot be maintained, then the relationship cannot be maintained, and love is no exception. Maybe mutual companionship is the ultimate destination of love. As time goes by bit by bit, we all hope that the feelings between the people we love will slowly accumulate and settle, but time will also make emotions become frivolous and become Erratic. .
Nick and Amy are a couple, Nick is a college teacher, and Amy is the author of a best-selling novel. On their 5th wedding anniversary, Nick discovered that Amy was missing, so he called the police. During the search, the police found a lot of suspicious points proving that Nick was the culprit who caused his wife’s disappearance. Nick denied this all the time. In the "treasure hunt" Amy left him, Nick found Amy Liu. The purpose of his action: Originally from the five years after he married Nick, Amy found that the gap between Nick and Nick was getting deeper and deeper, and the two gradually alienated from their close lover, and Amy became more fragile and more vulnerable. Suspicious, after discovering the adultery between Nick and his students, Amy fell into the great pain and anger of being betrayed by her lover. In order to avenge Nick’s derailment, Amy decided to fake it on the 5th anniversary of Nick’s derailment. The illusion that she was killed by Nick, and used all the methods she could think of to make Nick fall into the situation pointed out by Qianfu, while she hid in the dark to see how Nick reacted. Unexpectedly, she was robbed by a neighbor in the hiding place, with only a few dollars left on her body, so she found her boyfriend Desi from high school and continued to hide in his isolated villa. Nick is under pressure from the police, the media, and the people who don’t know the truth. His lawyer suggested that he should be allowed to take a TV interview to change his shaky public image. In the TV interview, Nick confessed affectionately to Amy on TV, showing the image of an honest, frank and empathetic husband, making him stand up, not only saving himself from a dangerous situation, but also making Amy on the other side of the TV treat him He rekindled his love, and Amy asked Desi to leave the villa, but was rejected by Desi, so Amy designed to kill Desi and fake the illusion of being kidnapped and raped by him, and drove back to Nick's side. . The police listened to Amy's statement, so Nick and Amy reunited, but after experiencing all this, the two people who once loved each other can't go back to what they used to be. .
This movie should be divided into three parts, the first part where the mystery of Amy's disappearance has not yet been revealed, the second part of the wrestling between Amy and Nick and the third part where the two get together after returning home.
In the first part, the director did not reveal all the contradictions between the two and the truth of the mystery of Amy’s disappearance directly at the beginning. With the development of the film, the director made Nick continue to expose his weaknesses and doubts, and used The diary style narrates Amy and Nick’s previous marriage life, and shows her various views and changes in her emotional attitude. Amy’s diary goes from the appearance of the two people’s lives to what Amy disguised. The content that is inherently unfavorable to Nick and the problems exposed by Nick have made the audience and the people in the film gradually strengthen their suspicion of Nick. In Amy’s diary, there is a section of Nick pushing Amy. This section was later proved to be false, but in the first part, we will all believe this because the diary is used to record in life. We are secret and private, and everyone will be honest with themselves, so we will not doubt the falsity of the contents of the diary. Before revealing the truth, the audience's views on Amy were the same as those of the police investigating the case later. The director used the same kind of scam to deceive people on and off the screen, making the audience feel uneasy about this femme-hearted woman. In Amy's memories, the tone is yellow, giving people a feeling of memory and haziness, while the soundtrack gives people a sense of suspense and mystery, giving the audience a sense of disengagement. This reflects Amy’s fascination with this relationship, and also reflects the illusory sense of anxiety in this relationship. This is Amy’s suspicion of Nick and the sense of loss caused by the bursting of the love bubble, buried because of love and hatred. Foreshadowed.
In the second part, the director continued the previous sub-narration of Amy and Nick. With the end of the content in Amy's diary, the director switched his perspective directly to the entity of Amy on the day of the disappearance, which surprised the audience. , We also learned the truth about her disappearance with Amy's deity. In this paragraph explaining Amy’s disappearance, an inner monologue is used to explain to the audience Amy’s full revelation of the truth. In this paragraph, the editing is sharp and the rhythm is bright, so that the audience’s eyes are constantly and fully. Enjoy the thrill of understanding the mystery. At the same time, her attitude towards this mysterious woman has undergone a sudden change, but because of her thoughts and thoughts recorded in Amy’s diary, her character and thinking have also been shown. It seems reasonable. However, poor Nick had already fallen into Amy’s tricks, and was under pressure from the police and the masses. After learning the truth about Amy left him, Nick quickly took action and passed a series of personal investigations and countermeasures. With a series of judgments about his current situation, Nick decided to personally participate in a talk show to change the situation and save his lover’s heart. In the interview, he generously admitted the extramarital affairs that had just been exposed and perfectly showed what a wife seeking husband should have. The image, this move turned out to completely overturn the public's impression of him. It is worth mentioning that the public media occupies a lot of space in the film, and the director takes a critical attitude. Due to the irresponsible reports of the media for the audience rating, the people and the police made Nick’s situation more difficult. This not only satirizes the media, but also satirizes the people who are vulnerable to the media, and also reveals the media’s influence on the public. This terrible phenomenon has a huge impact. And Amy is now in the hidden villa of her ex-boyfriend Desi who is still crazy about her. When she saw this, she was reconquered by Nick and changed her purpose of action to return to Nick’s By her side, the Desi who had waited for her for twenty years certainly wouldn't let her leave him, so Amy set up a strategy again, creating the illusion that Desi was violent against her and killed her. This passage caused an extreme visual impact. Plasma spewed out in large quantities, black screens were added between camera positions, and chaotic music all made people feel dizzy and out of control, which made the audience feel uncomfortable and made Amy cold. The character side of the show to the extreme. In the passage where she drove Desi home and met Nick, the picture became brighter, and the dramatic effect created by the interaction between Amy and Nick had a sense of absurdity and humor. The audience's nerves that had just been frightened were alleviated, and the serious atmosphere before the movie was gradually infused with a little warmth. During Amy’s investigations into the hospital and the police, she told herself The seamless explanation of the action and the tit-for-tat confrontation with the female police officer gave the audience a sense of wonder and fear for her. After Nick took her home, the two closed the door to be alone after waving goodbye to the media. This is also the scene that the entire movie audience most want to see. The director used a very ritual scene when dealing with this passage—— Amy was afraid of Nick hiding the bug, so she asked Nick to talk in the bathroom, washing her blood and telling the truth to Nick. In this passage, Nick is always in a weak position, and Amy defends her actions like a goddess and plausibly, and tells Nick an objective reason for not leaving her, and this reason is because the public will not Nick was also speechless when he accepted his husband's betrayal of his wife who had been raped. The director intended to make the audience aware that the balance of status between the two had been broken at this time, and made the audience feel deep sympathy for Nick. .
Although the third paragraph of the film is the shortest paragraph, it is actually the most important part of the film. The content of this part is: After experiencing all this, how should the two continue to live under the same roof. Obviously, Nick can't accept a wife who once thought he was familiar but now completely stranger lives by his side, while Amy still controls her relationship with Nick as she planned. She used Nick's frozen sperm to get herself pregnant. Before Amy’s disappearance, the issue of having a child was mentioned several times. From Nick’s caliber, we learned that he always wanted a child but Amy refused. At this time, Amy took the initiative to ask for a child. Refusing, the change in the relationship between the two also reflects the change in their emotions. And until the end of the film, the two are still living together, and Nick seems to be unable to do anything about his situation. The ending shots echo the shots at the beginning of the movie. Both are shots in which Nick strokes his wife’s head from a subjective perspective. Because of the subjective perspective, coupled with the wife looking directly at the camera, it gives the audience a strong sense of substitution, as if they are in a relationship with The wife on the screen makes eye contact. From the very beginning, the phrase "I want to knock on your head and see what you are thinking in your head." Only then did the audience get the answer. This response strengthened the audience’s impression of this shot, and also The audience feels lingering fears due to the sense of substitution.
In terms of character creation, both Nick and Amy are very plump. We can get a very comprehensive understanding of their character from Amy's description of their pre-marital life and the plot that happened in the movie. Nick is a seemingly reliable person but in fact very indecisive. He and his sister Margot are extremely good at showing his emotional independence. Moreover, he is easily influenced and cowardly. For example, reporters made him laugh when he laughed, fans asked him to take selfies and he could not delete photos, and he was "humiliated" by black lawyers with gummy bears. . These all reflect his character in this respect, and his cowardly character also reflects his innocence, because he believes that those people will not be evil to him, just as he believes in Amy. Just like a normal man, he is lazy, lustful, and clever, but he is actually full of loopholes. But he is indeed a person who values feelings, and he also values this marriage. Although he cheated, he actually cares about each other very much. This is actually what he and Amy have in common.
Amy is a very thoughtful person. As a successful writer with high academic qualifications and high reputation, her IQ and EQ are significantly higher than her husband in her career. She can easily incite people's emotions and control them. , And creating perjury to make oneself successful with impunity, this is by no means something ordinary people can do. In the film, Nick used the assistance of top lawyers and younger sisters to barely tie her, which also reflects how powerful this woman is in this regard. But this cruel character has an extreme obsession with love, and she is extremely insecure, which is in contrast to her arrogant and cold personality. This is also one of the reasons why the audience has empathy for this woman. The reason she made all this was because her arrogant personality did not allow her love to be betrayed so much, so she used her cold and wise side to make her husband die, but the funny thing was that she even left Nick a clue to let her He knows the truth, and although she has been saying that she is going to commit suicide, we can all see that she is actually waiting for her husband's response. In fact, what she needs is nothing more than an expression of her husband’s love for her, and Nick understands this, so this peak relative competition was resolved by a gentle confession, which also reflects the woman’s character. The drama side. After all, women are made of water. How can every woman caught in the whirlpool of love resist such sugar-coated cannonballs?
So, since the two of them actually love each other, who is responsible for this love farce? Maybe the audience will tend to Amy, but in fact, Amy is the person who takes care of this marriage most seriously: when her husband is frustrated, she encourages her like a real wife, and gives him financial support, even staying away She moved to the small town of her husband’s hometown in her network of contacts. She maintained the maximum tolerance for her husband while being financially strangled. In a sense, what she did was just an explosive catharsis, not to mention her. Finally returned to her husband. So if you look at it this way, the person who really should bear this responsibility is Nick. He is actually very selfish. He once explained to his sister that the reason for his cheating was because he could not stand the depressive atmosphere of his wife at home after returning home. But he couldn't think of the reason for his wife's state. Perhaps it was because of the man's face. He had never talked to his wife and tried to ease her emotions. Instead, he chose a crooked road-extramarital affairs to release the pressure. In fact, he didn't consider the sacrifices his wife had made for him, but kept shirking his own responsibility. No wonder Amy chose to make the public hate him to retaliate against him, because she really knew her husband too well.
On the surface, this film is about a wife's revenge story, but in fact the main thrust of the film is still emotional issues. There is a dialogue in the film that can be called a "perfect"-Nick said to Amy, "Yes, I loved you, but then all we did was resent and control each other." And Amy replied, "This is Marriage. "Yeah, in order to hold onto this marriage that made her invest too much but was mixed with too much pain, Amy chose the most extreme way to make this already deteriorating relationship even more alienated, but As a result, she became stable, and she found a complete sense of security. But how can the two who have lost their trust return to the past?
Maybe from the day when you decide to live together, love has gradually slipped to death. Just as the saying goes, marriage is the tomb of love. In marriage, all people who love each other will understand the nature of each other and become disillusioned. Time is consuming the patience of both parties bit by bit. The disguise of the two is removed bit by bit, and the lover who once maintained a mysterious and dreamy Being gradually pulled into reality is a very sad thing. Maybe falling in love itself is just a process in which we hesitate to deny the essence of the other party, but when we decide to uncover the veil of the opposite side, maybe everything will be quite different from what we expected. .
How should we treat love, how should we face that, once so dreamy, but now so real you. How to face that lost lover-that disappeared you.
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