Yesterday I watched "Julietta" and today I watched "The Smiling Man". The two works with very different styles both hit my heart to varying degrees, asking the same question over and over again: Do you really know your family?
The murderer in "The Smiling Man" asked the reporter: "Do you know what the people around you are thinking? Even a psychologist can't know what other people think. Even parents, husbands, and children want to see them completely. It's impossible. However, everyone lives like this (in a state where they can't see each other's thoughts clearly)." At the end of the film, the female reporter found out that her husband had cheated on her back and stabbed her husband to death with a knife. At the end of the curtain, she said: "I think I understand others, but in fact I don't understand at all."
Julieta thought that her husband loved her and her daughter wholeheartedly. Unexpectedly, he would go to bed with other women behind his family's back after marriage. She must be thinking why she gave everything for her family and got betrayal instead? She couldn't accept the lover in front of her, whom she had always felt intimate and familiar, to do such filthy things behind her back. Although the man said that he had only a physical relationship with another woman and never had a relationship, this explanation does not make sense in any normal woman's heart, because in the eyes of a woman, love and sex should be one. She didn't know her husband at all. Before Julieta could forgive her husband, he died at sea. If he didn't die, would Julieta really forgive him from the bottom of her heart?
Julieta is a woman who can't forgive betrayal. When she brought her child back to her parents' home to visit her mother with Alzheimer's disease, her careful and sensitive sense of smell told her that her father and maid had an affair, and they were openly in front of her mother. Flirting, for which she has been refusing to visit her father or contact him. She must be thinking, my mother has worked hard for us all her life, why are you doing this to her now, father? Shouldn't you help her and love her when she needs you the most? Why did you betray her and didn't take care of her? But my father said that this arrangement is the best. We also have many difficulties, but I don't want to trouble you. I hope you can understand and be more tolerant of me. Julieta watched her father lose her words, she couldn't understand and she couldn't forgive.
The unfortunate Julieta was betrayed by her daughter again when she was not confused. The daughter lied that she had gone on a spiritual journey, but she never returned. Julieta couldn't figure out why the daughter she gave birth to and raised by herself had suddenly and ruthlessly abandoned her. The most familiar person who I once thought was the most soul-connected person betrayed me again. Julieta had a love-hate relationship, and after years of waiting, she tore up her daughter's picture, erasing all traces of her daughter's existence, she buried love, and resentment made her reinvigorated and strong, and found her again life track. But an encounter with her daughter's best friend reawakened the love in her heart and her desire to find her daughter. As she said: an addict, no matter how many years he has quit drugs, as long as he falls down once, he will lose all his efforts. I quit you for years and then made a mistake that gave rise to hope of finding you again or knowing your news. This unwarranted hope has devoured the fragile defenses of my new life; I have nothing but you, and your absence has taken over my life and destroyed it. Later, she learned that her daughter had been gay since she was a child. Later, she participated in the practice because of her lovelorn, and finally denied her past and gave birth to children. As a mother who lives with her daughter, Julieta doesn't know her daughter at all, just like two strangers living together.
She doesn't know her husband, her father, her daughter, or the thoughts of the people closest to her in her life. In fact, she is not a special case. Each of us really understands the thoughts of our parents, the thoughts of our spouses, and the thoughts of our children. idea?
We are all just strangers living together.
The distance between people looks very close, but in fact it is very, very far.
We are heartbroken by being betrayed by someone we love because we don't understand their inner world, and we may never truly understand others. The end of love is forgiveness.
At the end of the movie, Julieta chooses to forgive her daughter because her love is stronger than hate.
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