This is a reflexive film. The history of female stars, the fate of eternal reincarnation, and the implied battle between drama and film (directors and actors who succeed in drama all go to Hollywood, and their attitudes are full of contradictions)
And perhaps the interesting part of this movie is not "everything about Eve". If the story of Eve's "upper position" is narrated linearly, like "now", the movie will undoubtedly be greatly reduced.
This is a "memories" movie. (Interestingly, in Eve's story, the first Margot play she saw was "Memories")
The "now" of the image is only the period from the awards ceremony to the time after the ceremony. The narration of several main characters at the ceremony constituted "Memories of Eve".
If we take the "truth of the supremacy of Eve" as the secret whole of "memory". The entire film is then a narration of memory composed of multiple flashbacks accompanied by voiceovers. These flashback shots are so spread out that clear loops are almost impossible to find. This "past" plays out just like the "present". It is only when another character narrates that we realize that this is a fork in time.
Although they shared this historical period of Eve, time will no longer truly manifest as a linear process due to the change in the pronouns, but will continue to fork. And the images often go beyond the narration of the characters to achieve a free direct quotation.
Deleuze says of Mankiewicz's time that "the past is still present, and therefore it has a future purpose. And because of this, it is an act: memory is formed in the present, so that when the present becomes the past, use."
That knowing smile when we see another girl in Eve's room in the mirror is what the future is for. Even if it doesn't happen, we can imagine the director's suggestion of this reincarnation. Just can this girl be as lucky as Eve? This is not important, what matters is not the story, but the reincarnation and bifurcation of time.
"Memory" constructs "everything about Eve". In fact, it is not "everything". If we take Eve as the protagonist, we will find that we have never really entered her, and this "everything" is just an external image. We might catch a glimpse of her exhaustion at the end of the awards show, but another girl showed up in the blink of an eye.
The girl's excited face was reflected in countless images by the mirror, which were countless potential Eves.
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