Mr. Lu Xun once said that poor people must have something to hate. Queen Fan's Cate Blanchett plays a poor and ridiculous socialite in this film.
She is vulnerable and pathetic. Her husband cheated for many years, but she was kept in the dark. After learning the truth, she was hysterical and even needed drugs to calm down. She repeatedly tried to use her good communication skills to return to the upper class, but because of the ridiculous lies she weaved, she fell back to the bottom again. After experiencing the ups and downs of fate, she was on the verge of collapse.
At the beginning of the film, the heroine talks to the woman next to her on the plane about how much she loved her husband before, making people mistakenly think that they are friends who have known each other for many years. But when the plane landed, the woman found her husband who came to pick her up, only to tell the truth that she didn't know the heroine at all. This contrast is surprising.
At the end of the film, the heroine kept chanting about the song "Blue Moon" that was played when she met her husband, but when she tried to hum it, she didn't seem to remember the lyrics. Those things that we thought we would never forget are forgotten by us in the process of our unforgettable memories.
While she hated her husband who caused her harm, she was reluctant to part with her once beautiful life as a drunken lover. She frequently recounts her past to strangers, whether or not she has a loyal audience. So much so that people can't help but think of Mrs. Xianglin's wife written by Mr. Lu Xun. Tragedy in the world is often the same.
She is also proud and hypocritical. Proud people are most afraid of being lost. If pride loses its reason, then the meaning of life is turned upside down. After her husband was taken away by the police, her stepson also left her. Since then, she has betrayed her relatives and left her with nothing. But even so, she still wears the only luxury clothes left, and lives in an ordinary town in the state of a former lady. She mocked and sarcastic everyone around her, boasted a sense of superiority, and always felt that she was always superior to others.
She had been proud of her husband and stepson, proud of her grace, proud of her life; she was a bit snarky, but not vain. She looks disgusting at first glance, but she also has a sense of tragic joy and straightforward hypocrisy that you can't hate.
The film's greatest drama comes from the heroine's stepson revealing the truth about her husband's arrest. It turned out that this matter was not accidental, but because she learned that her husband had cheated and was jealous, and she took revenge in a hurry. Harming others will always harm oneself. In the end, the fame, money, status, and family that she was once proud of had nothing left but herself. Without her husband, she is just a pale body with a ladylike style.
Just imagine, if she hadn't dropped out of school for her husband and her husband's marriage, and was willing to become a full-time wife with her husband and children; if she hadn't been immersed in the extravagant upper class life and couldn't extricate herself, all day banquets and banquets were staggered. If she comes back from her studies, talented and good-looking, will she still be able to rely on her own strength to live the life she wants after losing her husband?
But life is so real and so cruel. She adhered to the uncompromising altruism, wiped out everything about herself, and pinned all her hopes for life on her husband. So when she learned that her husband had cheated on her many times and fell in love with other people, such a blow was devastating to her. The life of attaching yourself to others is naturally sad. A woman should at least have her own independent career, independent personality, and independent economic ability. In this way, their lives as individuals are full of meaning.
Perhaps, at the very beginning, none of them expected that the original affection would turn into the resentment of your death and my death today. The happiness and beauty of the past have long since collapsed so that the original appearance can no longer be seen. The constantly shaking past, intertwined with tragic fate, led the heroine to the grave of marriage and entered a bleak end.
Happiness has not been remembered, pain, we should forget it.
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