begins in Damien Rice's hoarse, gloomy male voice, which I hadn't seen when I heard "The Blower's Daughter". Within a week, I watched the film twice. If after reading it for the first time, the title of today's text is "Look, How Love at First Sight Dies". But after reading it for the second time, I plan to change it to "Stranger • Lover".
The first shot was beautiful, at least it helped me, who doesn't watch a lot of foreign films, to calm down. Dan (Jude Law) and Alice (Natalie Portman) met in the crowd, in the gray crowd, Alice with short fiery red hair, white and clear face, walked into Dan like a pixie Sight. Dan is an aspiring novelist, but currently only makes a living by writing obituaries for people. For novelists, this kind of romance may be encountered every day in sensitive cells. The kind Dan took Alice, who was hit by a car, into the hospital, they chatted, took the bus, and it started.
This may not be a special beginning, but it is love at first sight. Dan is attracted by Alice's fresh and natural temperament, and Alice, who has been adrift, also needs Dan's safe embrace. This is what I understand and what I can accept. But that's not how the story happened.
Dan meets Anna (Julia Roberts), an accomplished photographer, while taking portraits for his new book. Anna has a noble temperament and is full of the independence of a mature woman, which is different from the cuteness of Alice's little girl, and once again attracted Dan. It was love at first sight again and they couldn't help kissing in front of the camera. For Anna, who had just divorced, of course she would not agree to Dan's request for a good relationship because of this, she had been refusing.
After waiting downstairs for Dan's Alice to enter the studio, she noticed something strange. If it is you? Your boyfriend is betraying you, what will you do? Poor Alice asked Anna to take a picture of her, with tearful eyes in the camera, full of grievances and seemingly indifferent. She didn't make a fuss with her boyfriend, she was weak in life, or she still had low self-esteem. She worked as a waiter in a coffee shop, which is the lowest job, and she told Anna generously, I don't think it was to win sympathy.
Like a wayward kid who just wants to do what he wants, Dan seduces Larry (Clive Owen), a confident dermatologist online, by the name of Anna. They made an appointment to meet in the aquarium, and of course Dan left Anna's appearance.
Anna sits quietly in the aquarium, which is part of her life. She's independent, and I think she's lonely too. For love, or sudden love like Dan, she needs to think, or maybe because of her own experience, she is afraid to try it easily, and more importantly, she knows the existence of Alice, and she does not want to hurt anyone. Who knew that after Larry and Anna met, Larry's humor and candor won Anna's smile and started dating. Anna's art exhibition is very special, maybe I have seen too few of them. Each portrait is magnified into a wall of light boxes. All ages, all expressions, all kinds of life. The four people in the exhibition have their own concerns, because each of them knows the existence of the other. Dan still doesn't give up on his pursuit of Anna, and Larry seems to have feelings for Alice. What a messy life.
Desire is a stranger, always knocking on the door when unprepared. We always pamper ourselves, because we are unwilling to give up the sweetness of the moment. After that, the story is vulgar, Alice and Dan broke up and went to a nightclub as a strip girl. Larry is furious when he learns that Anna is in love with Dan, and meets Alice in a nightclub. Anna slept with Larry again for freedom, and Dan went to find Alice after learning about it... It was messy, absurd, betrayal, and self-willed. What did these four bring out of them?
Love at first sight is long dead. Every day someone comes to you and every day someone leaves you. We always seem to just enjoy the process, good or bad. A stranger becomes a lover, and he gives up his lover, and he never tires of discovering something newer. Neither fully acquired nor possessed, what is it like? What is this film telling us?
The story had already ended, and then the biggest fun appeared at this time: Dan walked alone in the cemetery he and Alice visited together, and found Alice's secret on a tombstone. The so-called Alice was just a girl who saw it on the inscription. , and casually told the man's name. Rewinding the camera, Alice showed her real name JANE JONES on the passport she took out at the airport.
Alice is the most terrifying character in the film. Natalie Portman's angelic face and pole dancer's sexy and sultry body, inadvertently appear on the face of mockery, at the end of the film she walks the streets of New York in a sexy suit , when he unscrupulously accepts the malicious gaze of the man around him, he fully deduces it.
Worrying thoughts, chaotic sexual relationships, low-level suspicions, easy abandonment, aimless unions, indifferent separations,
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