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If you are not in love, it is best not to watch this movie; if you are in love, please don't watch this movie; if you have experienced emotional setbacks or are struggling for If you love troubles, you can use this movie as a mirror for reference; if you think you understand this movie, you have two choices: either not love it, or love it well.
It seems that a movie should not be described as so serious and terrifying, but the truth is, "Heart Stealing" is a movie that has really made people shudder and shudder for a long time, so it is better to give a warning first, or maybe you have finished watching it. After this movie, it's going to hit me like a brick.
Hypocrisy • Pretend
First of all, this movie is likely to arouse a considerable number of people's disgust, anger and even protest. Especially if you are a young man who still has infinite fantasies about love, the reaction may be stronger, maybe roaring, maybe vomiting, the specific situation depends on your psychological endurance.
This is the first time I have seen a film tearing love apart so nakedly, presenting its fragility and dark side to the audience naked. So allow me to pay tribute to the courage of the director. The film is actually about the sex/love between four men and women, but because of the intricate and ambiguous entanglement between them, it seems that it is not easy to express their relationship logically. I can only try-
Jude Law likes Natalie Portman, then he likes Julia Roberts, Roberts likes him too, but because he already has a girlfriend, out of respect for another girl she has to Rejecting his teasing, Jude Law couldn't love it, so he took revenge on her as a prank, but by accident, she facilitated her marriage to Clive Owen. After the marriage, Roberts couldn't resist Jude Law's death. Stalking, the two frequently cheat, and in order to get together, they are determined to break up with their respective lovers. The sad Portman sinks into the nightclub and dances striptease, and finally meets Owen who is also hit by the same blow. The rogue Owen also coerced Roberts to have the last love with him, which caused Jude Law to give up Roberts. When Jude Law turned around to find Portman, Portman could no longer bear his suspicions. And distrust, and finally said to him that I don't love him anymore. And Roberts and Owen, on the contrary, continue to live together with peace of mind.
Interestingly, in such a story full of betrayal, suspicion, revenge and mutual harm, the protagonist in the film always keeps saying "I love you". Jude Law said to Portman, and later to Roberts, that no matter who he was speaking to, he could say it with swearing affection; Owen said it to Roberts, and then to Portman in a nightclub and in a dazed state. Said, no matter who he is speaking to, he can also blurt it out unequivocally. Ironically, just when they got used to saying "love" and said "love" without thinking, "love" has also become devalued. They may even be "love" or "don't love". Probably don't understand. And as an audience, I was indeed dizzy and confused, and I couldn't find any trace of the warmth and sweetness of love in the whole film. Speaking of "love" in a serious manner, but there is no unchanging love, this is also a place worth pondering about.
Therefore, this film is a story full of lies. Jude Law at first tricked Owen into saying he was a woman in an online sex chat room, and made him feel unbearable; later, he made it clear that he wanted to get rid of Portman, but he pretended to comfort Porter for fear of being irresponsible. Mann said he would not leave her. Portman knew that Jude Law had changed his mind, but he reluctantly told Roberts that at least he still loved her, and he was handsome; the most important thing was that her name was Jane, but she had to lie to everyone that she was called Alice. And Roberts obviously likes Jude Law, but he wants to say he doesn't like it in the photo studio; he obviously doesn't like Owen, but he wants to marry him. Owen is a good liar. He often slaps people first and then pretends to be concerned and asks if it hurts: for example, he married Roberts only to sleep with a New York woman, and he told her that he was married. The truth is because he "loved" her and didn't want to hurt her; when Jude Law came to him, he told Jude Law that he didn't sleep with Portman, and when Jude Law was about to go out, he said In fact, he had already had a relationship with Portman, and the reason why he didn't want to lie to him was that he had just discovered his serious attitude. What are you talking about, turning your hands into clouds and covering your hands into rain, and it seems that his conscience can relieve his sin of lying before God, but in fact, the more I do this, the more I hate him.
Saying "love" and lying (excluding sex, of course) are the most distinctive character traits and most common speech behaviors of the characters in the film. In fact, no matter whether they lied out of good intentions or malicious intent, in what name they lied, the objective facts are that they are all deceiving people, all to achieve their own ulterior motives or unwillingness to tell others. There are so many lies in this film, which are shocking and overwhelming. It can be summed up with a lyric from Brother Xueyou, that is, "Everything you gave me, you are just perfunctory." The characters in the film are perfunctory others, perfunctory themselves, and perfunctory love. Some pure and kind audiences are difficult to accept, and it must be a reasonable thing.
Women • men
certainly can not say that there is no true love in the film. Maybe there was, but it was destroyed by play and repetition.
Like Portman. The girl was fresh and sweet when she first came out, and she loved Jude Law with all her heart and soul. It's a pity that Jude Law doesn't know how to cherish, thinks she is "not mature enough", and insists on pestering Roberts, who still has charm. Abandoned, she became cynical, went to nightclubs as a dancer, and said she wanted to "be the focus of men." But when Jude Law disliked Roberts and went back to eating, she was rejoicing and heartfelt. This shows that she is always weak and tolerant and dependent on men (we can re-associate her identity, always engaged in relatively low jobs, such as waiters and strip girls). However, the selfish Jude Law had to stubbornly verify whether there was any physical relationship between her and Owen at this moment. She finally couldn't stand it anymore and left him. Jude Law also ended up killing the most hopeful and precious relationship with his own hands.
Seeing this, I believe other viewers will be as embarrassed as I am. Portman could not mind Jude Law's frequent infidelity, but he could not tolerate his distrust. The tolerance and principle of women are deliberately displayed and amplified by the director here.
Back to Roberts. A successful photographer, but also a divorced woman - her husband ran off with a woman younger than her. The setbacks in her marriage taught her that she couldn't hurt another woman when her relationship came again, so she initially resolutely resisted Jude Law's temptation. But unfortunately, the failure of her previous marriage did not make her more prudent or smart. She hastily married Owen and fell into a conspiracy trap. She wanted to get rid of it, and she wanted to bond with Jude Law. Unexpectedly, she would be so kind to stupid that she fell into Owen's trap again, so that Jude Law finally gave up on her because of a mental disorder. So she had to go back to Owen and continue her life without love. She was exhausted and busy for a while, but in the end she found nothing.
Roberts is the most sympathetic person in the film. She has been hurt by love, but still longs for the comfort of love, but her impulse and artist's sensibility (why she can marry this rash and lecherous man if she doesn't love Owen, isn't it because she is temporarily bewitched by the desire of the flesh), doomed her The inability to have a rational mind also led to her many twists and turns on the road of love and even futile efforts. In the end, Roberts was still lying on the same bed with Owen, and she also covered the sleeping Owen with a quilt, showing that she reluctantly accepted the tricks of life; but when she lay down, she did not fall asleep immediately, but kept her eyes open. His eyes were bright and confused in the dark night.
Critics say that Patrick Marber (writer of the film and the original play) has a heartbreaking sadness in addition to wit and wit. I don't know if it's an adaptation issue or something else, but I don't feel the humor, and the sadness of the heartbreak is tight—for Portman and Roberts, two kind and poor women. In the film, they had a separate meeting in the photo studio, which was a precious exchange of sympathy between the two women. By then Jude Law had changed his mind, and Portman was far-fetched defending their love that was about to collapse. Later, the more she thought about it, the more aggrieved and helpless, she walked to the window alone and shed tears. Seeing this, Roberts snapped a photo, freezing the tears that fell on his cheeks. That silent tear is the sadness of a broken heart.
I'm a man, but feel sorry for them too.
Let's take a look at the two men in the film. Apparently they are typical objects of criticism, ridicule or ridicule. Jude Law and Owen have a lot in common, they are both romantic, they think they are handsome and attractive, they are full of confidence, they love each other when they meet each other, they are people who have no principle at all and are unwilling to take responsibility. And most importantly, it is a strong possessiveness and selfishness. They are like two predatory perverts. They first involve women as lambs in the game of love, but the rules are set by them. They are free to search for other prey, but when women want to quit the game, they But he refused to live or die. For example, the marriage between Owen and Roberts was originally a sexual purpose, and he still went to find flowers and ask willows after they got married; but when Roberts proposed to leave him, he was so violent that he could not control himself, shamelessly and constantly pressed her about her relationship with Jude Law. The details of making love, including when, where, how, and how it feels. And Jude Law's narrow-mindedness is reflected in the fact that he can step on two boats, but he can't face Portman's relationship with Owen and Roberts and Owen's last love.
If there's one difference between these two men, it's that Owen is more sexual, more mean, and more savage. Not only did he play hurt the two women in the film, but even the weak Jude Law was played by him in the palm of his hand. This sanctimonious doctor is constantly hunting for sex, and he is always proud of possessing women, and the most unique trick is that when Jude Law is about to take away Roberts' victory, he holds his arms that he would rather be jade than broken. Wa Quan's dark psychology successfully coerced Roberts into having a last relationship with him; and when he met Portman in a nightclub, he even bought a one-night stand between the two with money, which made the sensitive Jude Law unable to achieve success. to retreat all over. As a result, everyone is no longer innocent, and the already messy four-corner relationship has been pushed to a more contradictory and complex level.
Sorry, I'm afraid I can't comment objectively at this point. To be honest, I can't help but feel indignant and depressed when I see the editor and director ruining the image of a man so badly. All men in the world are lustful, but not all of them are so unlucky, but this film was completely denied and wiped out. Alas, I believe that feminist advocates will be very happy, because they have found a perfect model, and they can be deeply happy and criticized.
Stranger • Lover sobers up
after watching a thrilling, dirty and chaotic emotional battle, looking back at the opening sequence.
It was the romantic scene where Jude Law and Portman met. Through the use of soothing slow motion, and accompanied by soft off-screen singing, the two of them are very different in the crowd. They look at each other, fall in love at first sight, and gradually smile knowingly.
Before that, they didn't know each other.
This is the most heartwarming and touching scene the film has deliberately provided. Other than that, there's only melee. If the two are compared, you can observe the intentions behind the director. We may meet countless strangers every day, and at any time, we may have love or cremation with a stranger. That moment of love at first sight, or the moment of falling into the river of love/lust, is so wonderfully exciting, as if the whole world has become infinitely tender and affectionate. In fact, every pair of lovers starts out as strangers, and because of some chance, they become familiar and passionately in love, and they end up either forever or separated. If you like someone, you will passionately attract each other, and hope to possess each other or have each other. In the film Jude Law wants to get close to Roberts, so she keeps asking her if he is still a stranger, because he doesn't want to be turned away by Roberts. And his relationship with Portman clearly and completely reproduces the trajectory of the two from strangers to lovers, and then strangers again.
Returning from a stranger to a stranger is not as simple as returning from the starting point to the origin. Because in such a process, wrong love has happened, and more people are hurt.
At the end of the film, there is still a surging flow of people on the street, but there is only one one-way shot. I see Portman still walking gradually from a distance, but her dress has changed. It is no longer the pure image in the title, but mature. Sexy suspenders, all the men's eyes are fixed on her (note that only Jude Law is looking at her at the beginning of the film). But she walked away in a state of indifference, solitary and reserved, only to hurry forward. From her dress and appearance, it can be seen that after the repeated torture of love, her heart has also undergone tremendous psychological changes.
She no longer loves, or is more independent and strong.
It is quite interesting that when Jude Law walked into the cemetery again, he found that Alice was just a name that Portman casually quoted from an epitaph. Portman had a close-up of her passport on her way out, and it turned out her real name was Jane (the one she told Owen at the nightclub). Jude Law must have mixed feelings at that moment. The stranger who used to be his lover, is now a complete stranger. He doesn't even know her real name, and he can never look back. Therefore, Jude Law is also pathetic and pitiful, not to mention that at first he would not have thought that his usual job was to write obituaries for dead strangers, but at the end of the day, because of his selfishness and greed, he also wrote for his love with his own hands. an elegy.
Let's end this article with a lyric from Brother Xueyou - "In a blink of an eye, I found your face, which is already unfamiliar and will no longer be like before".
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