The Best Offer--Old Man's Love Scam

Albertha 2022-08-03 10:18:51

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I read it two years ago. If it weren't for this special spring festival, I wouldn't have had the chance to revisit it. This is an inning. Someone was eyeing Oldman's portraits of women, the real ones that he took advantage of his position to shoot at imitation prices. The old man was shrewd and eccentric, admiring the woman on the wall of the secret room, but he had never touched a woman.

An old man with no actual combat experience received a phone call from a mysterious woman one day. From then on, he couldn't stop it. From curiosity to peeping to infatuation and falling in love, the old man experienced a complete set of love: caring, lost soul, fear, jealousy, sweetness , madness, obsession, possessiveness, pain. He washed and dyed her hair, took off her gloves, and he thought she had also walked out of the secret room for him and into the world for him.

This game switches between the three spaces where Oldman frequently appears. Billy took the famous paintings for him, Robert helped him identify and repair the antique robot and love consultant, and Claire lured him into the game. In fact, many people guessed the ending, and they also joked that the old man's life savings were destroyed by an inexplicable woman, and they felt sorry for him and sighed that it was not worth it. I wrote about it two years ago: cause and effect. He was designed to be used, and in the end, both people and money were empty.

But looking at the ending today, it is not fixed in an empty secret room but in the restaurant in Prague, which is decorated with precision gears like robots. When the waiter asks: "Are you alone?" He said no, I was waiting for someone. At that moment, he suddenly felt that the old man was not at a loss. He had obtained a real woman and an unforgettable love, even though it was exchanged with the collection of his life.

There is a line in the movie: human emotions, like works of art, can be faked. What looks like the real thing is actually a fake. The assembled robot at the end of the film is also repeating a sentence: There is always something authentic concealed in every forgery (every fake hides part of the truth). True and false, false and true, it is the impermanent real world. Just like Oldman was originally a man without love, are those paintings, or is the woman more real to the touch? The benevolent see benevolence, and the wise see wisdom. Just like the desire for wealth and love, both parties will never be able to convince each other.

One game. One play. Finally, the director, Giuseppe Tonadore, is also naughty. Oldman means old man, and Billy means partner. The handsome guy who assembled the robot is simply called "Robot," and the dwarf is the real hostess of the ancient house. Her name is Claire. A treasure called "love" was finally clapped by an old virgin with everything he could. This is the best offer.


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The Best Offer quotes

  • Robert: [his voice through the robot] There is always something authentic concealed in every forgery. I couldn't agree more. That's why I'll miss you, Mr. Oldman.

  • [last lines]

    Waiter: Are you on your own, sir?

    Virgil Oldman: No, I'm waiting for someone.