In the movie, a line from Rosamund Parker, that's marrige, limits the movie to the upgraded story of the husband and wife. This is also pretty good. After all, the movie has a small capacity and simple is more complete. But in my opinion, the original book actually discusses things more deeply than the nature of marriage. The original book tries to explore what love is and whether there is so-called unconditional love.
The villain of the story, amazing amy's answer is no. But we can fight for it, and we need a discipline to fight for it. The reason why Amy feels so evil, so fucking insane, is because she has a particularly anti-human part of her body, and she has a special discipline, and implements it seriously, never give up trying, so she always Can get what she wants. But what she wants is actually everyone, like me. What she wants deep down in her heart is to hope that no matter how boring and pale and cold, she can be appreciated and desired to be loved. This is the so-called unconditional love.
But ordinary people know that this is impossible. Our id is imperfect and very fragile. Therefore, each of us will pretend to be more or less in front of others, wrap up the imperfect self, and try to put on a suitable mask according to the law of social relations, so that we can become desireble, so that we can desire ourselves from others. In desire, I feel cute. Just like the kind of cool girl criticized by Amy, an object of male social desire, girls are more or less pretending to be this.
But Amazing Amy is not. She feels that she should be appreciated unconditionally. For this unconditional love, she can pretend to be any specimen of desire that others desire, so that others can fall in love with herself. Once this loving relationship is established, Amy does not allow anyone to let go, even if she puts down her pretense, those who retreat due to it will be ruthlessly punished. This is where Amy is perverted, but isn't this actually an exaggeration of our inner self who desires to be unconditionally appreciated but frustrated and disappointed. anyway, it speaks to me.
Even the love between parents, children, brothers and sisters, is not unconditionally. In the book, nick and his twin sister and mother will play a game called what if, which is to test the bottom line of mutual love. What exactly did your relatives do that will make you stop loving him/her. In the novel, the moment when the unconditional affection between nick and Go is broken is when Go is dragged into the water due to nick's murder, and when Go sees the pile of credit card consumer goods that Amy framed Nick in his backyard. , Even if it is twins, the relationship always has its tipping point.
Not to mention the relationship between Amy and her parents of elite New York intellectuals. Before Amy, it is written that her mother had aborted many children and had habitual abortions. Amy hates his parents and thinks that he is an object they use to write books and make money to show off. When Amazing Amy is no longer selling well, Amy is treated as an object by them and thrown to the small town of Missouri along with Nick. Amy’s disappearance is not only to punish Nick, but also to punish his parents. But in fact, the love of parents for their children has never been unconditional.
It is Amy's paranoid pursuit of unconditional love that makes her an anti-social pervert. Ironically, at the end of the story, the two people still reached a compromise through pretended love. If you are looking for unconditional love, you can only act, you can only pretend. Because there is no unconditional love, just as there is no perfect person, if you don't pretend.
The end of the story, not like a movie, stays at Nick's questioning of Amy's inner thoughts. In fact, in the original book, the two have long seen each other clearly. Both of them are selfish shells in essence, but they desire to be loved by others. Nick faced the fear that he was unwilling to face. (Admitting that he is a bastard and misogynistic like his father) I have clearly understood Amy.
So the end of the original book is nick stroking Amy and saying, I feel sorry for you.
This is irony and despair.
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