After watching the movie, the whole person was empty, and I felt a little unwilling. I thought about some of the intentions in the movie, and I felt that it was still a bit of a head-scratcher.
The young Julieta is the kind of foolish white sweet who is unreserved and desperate when she meets someone she loves. The more beautiful, the easier it is to be captured. She was seduced by a man on the train. The man's wife died and gave her a letter, and she sent her to her immediately. She didn't dare to tell him when she was pregnant. She said it only after being encouraged by a female artist who had an affair with her husband. Get married and have a child, live happily, as long as she's not with a man, she'll be rude. She had to pretend she didn't know, and could only take out her anger at her equally unfaithful father. But his father found another woman to take care of her mentally ill mother. When her daughter went to summer camp, she finally had a showdown with her husband. There was a quiet argument, she went out for a walk, and his husband went out to fish. As a result, there was a storm while fishing and hung up.
This began Julieta's long life of depression and guilt. She felt she was responsible for her husband's death. Even if she doesn't say that to her daughter, emotions are contagious. Later in the film, it was revealed that his husband's lover, as well as her daughter, felt that they were responsible for the man's death, so these three women lived in a sense of guilt. I don't want to argue the justification of this feeling of guilt. I just thought of a question, if the story is reversed and Julieta is in a car accident, will the remaining three live with guilt? I don't think so. Because of her "grief", her husband must have sex with his lover like crazy. Her daughter obviously admires her father more than her mother. I don't know if she'll want to treat her father like her mother after knowing the truth, but she definitely won't get the "guilt" virus from his father.
So I thought of the very symbolic figure at the beginning of the film, the villain pinched by his husband's sculptor lover, a very heavy and sturdy male with a huge genitalia in the shape of a faucet, named "The Fountain" . This is naked penis worship. All three women believe that the source of their happiness comes from this man. The source of guilt also comes from this.
When Julieta's daughter couldn't bear the anger towards her mother, her father's lover, and the blame for herself, she ran away, escaped from the negative energy her mother brought her, and lived for herself once.
And Julieta waited for her daughter's return year after year, smashing her daughter's birthday cake into the trash again and again. Finally one day she got angry, stopped waiting, moved house, and started a new life. This angry she is so different from the warm and submissive young Julieta with big innocent eyes. The man she loved the most couldn't make her angry, but the daughter she loved the most made her angry. When she has a daughter by her side to take care of her, her fragile heart always relies on her, so she is always like a helpless fish struggling in a net, waiting to be irrigated and redeemed. Your own flesh and blood will never abandon yourself. But even such thoughts were ruthlessly smashed by reality, and anger finally raised her strong determination to no longer wait for anyone who didn't care about her.
Such a Julieta has a fatal attraction to Lorenzo. Julieta's relationship with Lorenzo is like a reversal of her relationship with her dead husband. But with Julieta's car accident, they develop a deeper empathy. At this time, Julieta found true love.
By the end, Julieta's daughter wrote to her. Because her daughter lost her son, she realized how painful it was for her mother to lose herself. But she doesn't have to apologize for it. Because of her heartlessness, her mother could find herself. And time, at the right time, reunites long-lost people.
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