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Standing on the back of Potty, I don't know if it's Anna or Sarah
If understood from the framework of a composite structure/sleeve structure/shadow within a play, Sarah is the prototype of Anna, and Anna is the reflection of Sarah
If it is said that because of the influence of the times and the expectations of readers, the happy ending of the original work has no deep meaning, so that screenwriter Pinter and director Reiz have to arrange the structure of the play within the play to express multiple meanings.
Then, Anna may be Sarah, Sarah or Anna, knowing that she can't do it and abandoning it, and jointly tell the intertwining of illusion and reality, the fate of love and the destined reincarnation
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