Summary of the story: The mystery novelist Sarah has no new writing inspiration for the time being after selling several works. Frustrated, she went to talk to her novel publisher, John, but it was clear that they were in a lover relationship in addition to their work relationship. The naked lines of John's businessman's egoism are under the camera. He has no concern for Sarah's low mood, but instead sends her to a villa in France to "recuperate".
Sarah embarks on a trip to France after saying goodbye to her old father in London.
In the movie, the scenery of France is very bright, the leaves swaying in the wind in the sun, the gentle wind blowing the soft feeling of the hair, the French sky is so clear under the lens, and its summer is so refreshing. The villa has gardener Matthew's daily weeding, delicious food in the coffee shop not far from the villa, and attractive waiter Frank. The initial sabbatical allowed Sarah's writing work to go smoothly.
However, one night, a strange woman, Julie, broke into Sarah's peaceful life. Julie was John's illegitimate daughter in France. She was unemployed. She was young, hot, and bohemian. Pity for the abandonment of my biological father and the death of my biological mother.
She didn't get along well with Sarah in the early days. She disturbed Sarah's work every night by singing with different men. They quarreled and laughed at each other. Sarah, by contrast, is old, conservative, step-by-step, bound by invisible rules. If anything, they were all victims of John's sowing.
The change is that one day, Sarah suddenly felt that she could use Julie as the protagonist of her novel, so as to get closer to Julie, and wanted to extract more materials to write the novel, which was also discovered by Julie, and she wanted to. revenge. Julie's revenge was that she deliberately seduced Sarah's daily patrons to the restaurant's waiter, took it home, swaggered in front of Sarah, and instigated Sarah and Frank to dance together. Sarah and Frank released themselves in the swimming pool, and were interrupted by a stone thrown by Sarah from the sky. Frank regained consciousness and wanted to leave Julie, but he did not want to be stoned to death by the angry Julie.
Sarah knew the incident with her keen awareness, and helped Julie deal with the body, becoming an accomplice.
In the end, Julie has to leave the villa to work in another country, and Sarah also completes the new publication.
In the last shot of the film, Sarah of the French villa waves to Julie, but Julie in the shot is the face of another woman, which means that the hour-long narrative in the front is Sarah's imagination.
Parse:
I didn't understand much either, so I'll bite the bullet and say it, otherwise I'll see it in vain.
Although I have a background in psychology, I am not from the Freudian psychoanalysis school.
In fact, when Sarah appeared on the stage, the pressure was very low. It was indeed because she had no inspiration for writing at the time, but it was her lover John who ignored her. In the first 10 minutes, Sarah kept asking for John's attention, but John only paid attention to her. Placing businessman interests, publishing profits, did not respond to Sarah's emotional needs. Therefore, the pretended Julie who appears next may be a projection of Sarah's inner self.
Julie, abandoned by John, her biological mother died, a strong sex addiction, fragile and crazy, pungent and innocent, young and adventurous.
Sarah, ignored by John, has no fixed partner (only John is a lover), and lives with her old father. Elegant and dignified, conservative and outdated, suppressing inner loneliness, showing depressive temperament.
Julie is the poor shadow of Sarah herself. Her hostility to John is all projected on the chaotic relationship with the opposite sex. This is the flaw of Julie's personality when she grew up without her father, and it is also Sarah's revenge against John in her heart.
Julie and Sarah were hostile at the beginning, maybe the two inner selves of Sarah were in conflict. Julie was the ego, Sarah was the id, and the id had been accusing the sloppy and presumptuous of the ego. But as the movie progresses, Sarah slowly "degenerates". For example, she no longer wears earplugs when she hears the "voice" of Julie and other men; she begins to swim in the pool, which can be interpreted as approaching Julie imagery.
An important part of the film is that Julie was very angry when she knew that Sarah used herself as a writing material. I guessed that maybe Sarah wrote Julie in the book very slutty. Julie wanted to prove that this is the nature of a woman, so that night Bringing Frank, whom Sarah has always had a crush on, to bring Sarah and Frank together. But there is some contradiction between this explanation and the fact that Julie wants to have further intimacy with Frank, only to be rejected and killed in a fit of rage. In the movie, Sarah was jealous and deliberately disturbed the flirting between Julie and Frank, but back to the perspective of the ego, it can be seen that Frank is Sarah's yearning for a good love, but Julie wants to dye it sexually, not to be Sarah allows. So, Sarah deliberately wrote Frank to death (after all, he was a screenwriter), it's been a hundred times, there's never been one, what about BE and HE?
In the end, Sarah helped Julie to bury the corpse together, and even sold herself to keep the secret of hiding the corpse. This link can be seen as the expansion of Sarah's self-sexuality. Even in the virtual world, Sarah began to move forward. one step.
At the end of the film, Sarah watches John and the daughter of London's main wife hug each other and fall into contemplation. Does Julie really exist? I don't think it exists. Julie is just a character in the book created by the lonely Sarah to relieve the depression in her heart. She and Sarah have a similar experience. Sarah sympathizes with Julie and wants to hug Julie, like She wants to reconcile with herself in her heart. She changed the gloomy image at the beginning of the story, and started preparing for a new book. It can be seen that this vacation has made her awake, and she no longer needs John's charity to complete her self-redemption.
I just wrote it blindly, please don't delve into it, thank you.
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