In and out of the play

Chaim 2022-09-18 10:25:20

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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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The French Lieutenant's Woman quotes

  • Montague: My guess is we will be asked to make a 'confessio delicti'.

  • Davide: Have they decided how they are going to end the movie?

    Mike: End it?

    Davide: I hear they keep changing the script.

    Mike: No, not at all. Where did you hear that?

    Davide: Well, there are two endings in the book. A happy ending and an unhappy ending, no?

    Mike: We're going for the first ending. I mean the second ending.

    Davide: Which one is that?