My story goes like this: a writer is about to write an exotic love story of a young couple. The story takes place in the Czech Republic, so the American writer decided to go to the Czech Republic to really write about the scenery there. In the Czech Republic, he meets and falls in love with a woman who is the inspiration for his story. In the Czech Republic, he began to write his story, and when he was satisfied with a dramatic and tragic ending, his life changed. In the end, he found that he was the hero, and the heroine was the woman he met. In fact, when he started to conceive the story, his encounter with the Czech woman was already brewing, and he himself ended his love. However, it was only when he returned to the United States that he discovered all this.
When I was thinking about this novel, I thought about time and space for a while, so when I watched the movie it was natural to find some loopholes in it. In fact, the imaginary world and the real world are not so easy to blend, because the logic in the middle is very complicated to explain. Logic is also a fuzzy point that the director deals with, and is the only thing I'm not happy with about it.
Near the end, I was worried about whether the protagonist will die or not, and it seems that this is also a personal problem for me. I think one of the most painful times for a person is knowing when they're going to die, like a death row prisoner, but not being able to do anything about it. I'm glad the protagonist didn't die, as if he had escaped himself. Maybe it's because the writer in the film is human after all, and it's hard to tell if she's a god.
In the end, the hero was injured but saved his life, which strikes a balance in my opinion, satisfying both the hearts of the cruel audience and the hearts of the sympathetic ones.
One of the most eccentric episodes is the moment the phone rings at the writer's house. She was typing on the typewriter, and the moment she typed the telephone rang again, the phone rang again. The most amazing here. But here's the question: When she goes to answer the phone, is there someone in her novel who is also answering the phone? What is the reason for the male protagonist to call in her novel? Such ambiguity makes me think the director's idea may be that the fictional world is as full of latent, unexpressed lines as the real world. However, I believe that the plot expressed in words is the truth in the world of fiction.
Qian Zhongshu's "Man, Beast and Ghost" also contains similar short essays related to the writer and his characters. After his death, the writer actually met characters he wrote about (who were sentenced to death by him). It seems that many literati in the world have a hobby of entertaining themselves.
In the end, I think this film, or such a theme, is not only a self-fantasy of the writer, but also an exploration of the insignificance of human beings, the existence of God, the origin of the universe, and the transformation of time and space. If you think about it carefully, maybe someone will write another great work, such as "One Hundred Years of Solitude", such as "Pedro Balamo", such as "The Garden of Forking Paths", which is meaningful and imaginative s work.
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