Discussion on the value of counterfeiting and imitation

Renee 2022-03-28 09:01:14

I began to like this kind of "talking talk" movie theme with pure opinion output type.

It's interesting what the film discusses - a replica has value, it brings the viewer closer to the real thing. When people are viewing an object, the focus is on what kind of feeling the object gives the viewer, rather than a bunch of theoretical analysis or aesthetic analysis behind it. How you view an object, what kind of value it has.

This point of view is extended to people's lives. The film expresses many times through the actor's lines that people should rely on feelings to simply look at things and live a simple life. The purpose of man is very simple, just to be happy. If someone finds a way to be happy, then others should not judge him by their way of life.

But the heroine does not agree. As the hero said, it is not easy to look at things in a simple way. When faced with the trivial matters of life, how should we use this theory to deal with it?

The son stood in the rain, the mistress of the mother stopped it, but the son said, so what?

The hostess said that the rain will cause a cold.

The son said again, so what?

The hostess said, you will die.

The son still said, so what?

The heroine is angry. How to look at this kind of thing simply?

And the male protagonist said with his theory: The child is right, everyone is going to die, and the final destination is the same. This idea is great, but we criticized him for it.

The heroine believes that as a philosophical point of view, this is really great, but back to reality, from an ethical and emotional point of view, most mothers cannot accept that their children are so pessimistic about life and death, right?

The film is narrated here, it seems that the male protagonist's point of view is a bit untenable here.

Then, the man and woman go to the cafe, they are mistaken for a couple, so the two will be wrong, pretending to be a couple who have been married for fifteen years.

The pretended couple is obviously a replica of the real relationship, so the argument of this paragraph is whether it is possible to understand what a real marriage looks like by pretending to be a marriage?

The two were arguing in a restaurant.

The first play showed their respective attitudes.

When a man drank unpleasant red wine, he directly said that it was unpalatable and needed to be changed. But this behavior is not in line with the custom here, so the waiter ignores him.

Although women also feel that it is not good to drink, they think that they should follow the local customs and praise it politely.

Obviously, men's point of view is to keep things simple and not to complicate things. Women, on the other hand, believe that secular etiquette should be observed.

Then, the next argument.

Women believe that for men and women who have entered into marriage, love continues and remains unchanged.

Men believe that nothing is eternal, including love, and fifteen years of marriage will make love look different.

A woman thinks a man doesn't love her if he falls asleep and snores on the wedding anniversary night.

Men think women should think simple, men are just tired. He said that the woman fell asleep while driving and almost killed the son in the car. Is this evidence that the woman does not love her son and her husband?

The woman denied that she was just tired and took a nap.

The argument between the two led to the woman crying.

This is not only an argument between two people who have nothing to do with things, but also seems to be an insinuation of a real marriage. Marriage is a constant quarrel, and both men and women want to persuade each other, resulting in exhaustion for both parties.

At the end of the film, the man's closing line is that he will be back at the train station by nine o'clock.

This seems to be a hint that because the woman is a single mother, her former husband left him, and now this fake husband will still leave him.

Therefore, the behavior of pretending to be a husband and wife, which seems to be behaviorism, can make people see the end of the real marriage, and the husband and wife will eventually separate in various forms.

This ending, through an experimental act, confirms the core point of the film: the value of replicas is to lead people to understand the authentic, closer to the authentic.

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  • James Miller: I didn't mean to sound so cynical, but when I saw all their hopes and dreams in their eyes, I just couldn't support their illusion.

  • Elle: I know you hate me. There's nothing I can do about that. But at least try to be a little consistent.