Delicate and moving two-line narrative

Deanna 2022-11-04 11:44:05

"The French Lieutenant's Woman" uses a double-line structure, in the form of a play within a play, to cross edit the stories that happened in two different time and space. The back and forth switching between the play and reality makes the whole film more meaningful. The emotional entanglements experienced by the women are intertwined, and people can't help but explore the feelings in them. They seem to live two completely different lives, but they seem to be integrated into each other's feelings, deeply in love with a person, But they also made themselves into a desperate situation, and they were unable to redeem their souls. And they were all abandoned by the times in pursuit of the freedom of the soul, and they all expected someone to save her. The two pairs of protagonists in different time and space cannot be together because of their own last resort. The mutual switching between the two narratives is more like two ropes tugging at the audience. The invisible shackles of society, morality, ethics, and family bind them. . The two-line narrative presents the entanglement and pain of two people who cannot be together in different time and space due to all moral constraints.

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  • Sarah: He was handsome. No man had ever paid me the kind of attentions he did as he was - recovering. He told me I was beautiful - and that he could not understand why I was not married. Such things. He would mock me - lightly. I took *pleasure* in it.

  • Dr. Grogan: I am a young woman of superior intelligence and some education. I am not in full command of my emotions. What is worse, I have fallen in love with being a victim of fate. Enter a young god. Intelligent, good-looking. Kind. My one weapon is the pity I inspire in him.