beautiful but boring

The cinematography and soundtrack are gorgeous, and the performances of all three lead actors are outstanding, especially Evan Rachel Wood, who is the soul of the film. It's a pity that the plot unfolded too slowly, the director focused too much on details and neglected the emotional connection between the audience and the protagonist. As for the final ending, it seems ingenious, but it is not new. There are many similar movies.


Love the camaraderie between these two girls, I think female audiences will be more likely to like this movie. Compared with the "guilt" that the film mainly shows, I prefer the lives of the two girls shown in the film. Before the tragedy, it doesn't matter if I wasted my life... Life is too short.

Here is a little opinion on the ending: ( Serious spoilers!!!)


1. Dianna died. The part of Uma Thurman is completely her imagination before her death: from bouncing to closing her eyes;

2. She imagines that she has a daughter named Emma, ​​because of her regret for her abortion. Remember when Diana and Maureen discussed their future child's name together? Diana chose Emma. The cross in front of the church was the last hint;

3. She imagined that the professor became her husband, because that was the last thing she was interested in. Before entering the bathroom, she was still talking about how she was leaving a message for him. The speech her husband was studying was the exact same one that young Dianna was listening to. She imagines her younger self as a third person because Maurene just suggested she should date the professor again;

4. His husband doesn't drive because in real life she is learning to drive;

5. She imagines herself as a teacher, and noticed that one of her students had an unusual potential because that's exactly what her own teacher did to her, which was important to her;

6. Her mother was yelling outside before she was hit... … In the imagination, her relationship with her daughter is like her relationship with her mother, and she says a lot of the same things her mother does about educating her children. It shows that she understands how much her mother loves her and how disobedient she herself is;

7. In the beginning, we see Diana hesitate and let go of Maurene's hand, which is something "she's grown up" really feels guilty about. At the end of the movie, we see her holding Maurene's hand tightly, while the adult Diana tells the receptionist at the school gate that she is not one of the survivors.

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