This is a highly symmetrical time-travel movie, depending on the time span is not large (less than 150 years), so the contrast between ancient and modern can be used as a clue to develop the plot. The development of this conflict to the final climax is the two choices thrown in the title.
At first glance, these two options are very good choices. A goal that a modern woman has been fighting for for so many years is about to be within reach. Why should she give up for love? This even ironically implies that there is no suitable male in this world. Objects that do not travel through time and space.
But in fact, the movie qualifies these two options by foreshadowing: the senior vice president who makes a living by swashbuckling, or the duchess who can undress with true love. We know that in romantic films, there must be origins, love, quarrels, reconciliation, succession and reconciliation. The reason why the protagonists in this film quarrel after a long, quiet and affectionate Saturday is that Leopold found out that Kate let him shoot and promote The product is unpalatable and suspected of false propaganda, but what can Kate do? She lives by "false propaganda". At the end, before Kate made up her mind to travel through, the men and women she passed by at her promotion banquet were discussing the latest hair transplant technology ("None of them will curl!") and medical beauty topics - staying up late to work leads to baldness, and then use Salary to buy hair transplant services, this is a cycle of creating benefits, but it also highlights the environment, the fast-paced life in New York, and the fatigue of New Yorkers. From this point of view, the film aims to appeal to a retro, idyllic life and love back to nature.
However, I think we should try to believe that there may not be a just cause in this world. Kate left the modern society of mutual exploitation and returned to the 19th century, and the development of the developed areas in the 19th century was based on the enslavement of the less developed areas. With regard to exploitation, perhaps there is a law of conservation of exploitation in the world.
Closer to home, there is a doubt in this film, which is why the male protagonist falls in love with the female protagonist. First of all, about when the male protagonist fell in love with the female protagonist, it is estimated that when Kate rushed into Stuart's house to get the touch screen pen, Leopold started to have a good impression when he talked about pursuing a librarian in Sussex. This may be a kind of rebellious psychology. After all, Kate doesn't stare at him like other women. Maybe the male protagonist has an idea like "Very good, woman, you have successfully attracted my attention" . Otherwise, it can only be explained by destiny. Stuart himself, as a descendant of Leopold, actually symbolizes an established fact that Leopold married someone and had children, and this "someone", the answer in the screenwriter's mind is Kate. In other words, the existence of Stuart proves the fate of Leopold and Kate.
The setting of this film is based on a space-time theory, although it is a bit far-fetched, but what kind of science fiction logic is forced in a love movie?
I personally like to sit on the sofa of the fire elevator for two on Saturdays and watch the person on the opposite floor play "Morning at Tiffany's" to the melody of Moon River. I think this scene is clever:
On the one hand, it points out Kate's loneliness and her longing for love. Before that, there must have been countless nights where she sat alone on the fire escape, otherwise who would know that the people on the opposite floor would play "Tiny" every night. "Fanny's Morning", what time do you put the lights out and go to bed on time?
On the other hand, it draws on classic love movies, which instantly enhances the texture of this clip, which is very emotional. In addition, Moon River originally sang the melancholy of going out to see the world but the world was not as expected, and it was the sadness passed from one New Yorker Holly Golightly to another New Yorker Kate McKay, this reference can be said to be very effective with half the effort.
Finally, I sighed casually: Hugh Jackman is really suitable for sibling love. I didn't search Uncle Hugh's encyclopedia until today. It turns out that Uncle's famous work is "Sunset Boulevard". Uncle Hugh is tall and handsome, so she looks very good in modern and ancient clothes. Meg's ancient clothes are not too imaginable, but she doesn't have to put much effort. In my heart, Meg Ryan and New York are The king fried collocation of rom-com.
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