The female protagonist is a rich family daughter who has always dreamed of being an Artist. She didn't want to be a woman who was in the upper class and secular like her mother, so she fell in love with the emotionally rich male protagonist who also had a dream of being a writer. But the female protagonist's heart is anxious and uncertain, and she has no confidence in the male protagonist when she reads his works. The turbulence of life eventually led the two to become strangers. The heroine is still like a mother. She threw herself into the arms of her "handsome" current husband - of course, this is a Liar who is not single-minded and opens a room with another woman on the grounds of a business trip.
When the male protagonist sent the novel, the female protagonist seemed to re-see the sensitive, vulnerable but passionate and firm former lover. But, you know what? When you have deeply hurt a person, how can you expect him to still be waiting for you?
The plot of the novel is the projection of the real male protagonist's loss of his lover and child (the female protagonist has an abortion). The proposed wife and daughter are the embodiment of his love. Losing his beloved, the brand mark in his heart is like watching his wife and daughter raped and murdered by thugs with his own eyes!
He struggled and survived with the emotion of revenge in his fragility. He hated himself all the time. Why didn't he have the courage and ability to save them in time! Yes, this is probably the main reason why the heroine turned away from him many years ago. She is fragile, sensitive and even incompetent, which probably became the image of the heroine's lover in her heart at that time.
In the novel, the male protagonist finally killed the perpetrator in pain, but he was also scarred, and even ended his life with a shot.
The plot is virtual, but the pain is so real. Therefore, when the heroine turned around, he would not look back.
I can understand the heroine's choice back then. Because a woman is a wobbly animal, anxious and uneasy in a world full of desires, wanting to be the ideal self, but cowardly telling herself that it is impossible, and this harsh vision is also used to look at the lover , the lover's insistence on ideals probably reflects her more cowardly and realistic - the kind of people she hates the most. So she chooses reality, and she also chooses someone who is more in line with her reality life as her partner. I can understand.
It's reminiscent of La La Land, two films that explore two possible modes of love as ideals collide with reality. In La, two people love each other deeply and immerse each other in the quagmire of dreams. But when the male protagonist is running for reality, in the opinion of the female protagonist, this is a betrayal of the old dream. The female protagonist played by Emma Stone and the female protagonist played by Amy Adams in "Nocturnal Animals" have opposite thinking. Tong has always insisted on ideals, and has always loved the male protagonist with ideals; but Amy gave up her ideals in the middle of her choice, and she also gave up on the male protagonist with a dream-chasing complex.
An ideal, a reality, probably represents two kinds of women in difficult love. I think, will there be more women like AA around us?
Because it's hard to hold on to your dreams.
But I think that the two films are based on this, and the ultimate discussion is, in the face of reality - trivial, material, and complicated life, how should we choose to deal with true love? Losing the love of once in life, its pain and regret are undoubtedly similar in the two films - looking back suddenly, the vicissitudes of life, at that time, I was lost and forgotten.
If you have a loved one, if you can reconcile love and reality, be sure to cherish it.
PS: As far as the movie is concerned, the first half is too protracted, especially the filmic pace of the plot in the novel is too slow, resulting in no space for detailed descriptions in the second half. The shock and the coolness of the revenge are greatly reduced. This is the reason for not giving too high marks. I like the heroine's makeup and delicacy very much. Women, must have this side, right?
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