duplicity

Jacinto 2022-03-22 09:02:11

What is duplicity?
How can you trust someone?
I remember an elder once said to me something that was very unkind to me at that time: Friends are used to make use of each other, and there are no interests in the world without friends.
I have to admit that at one point in the past I totally rejected this statement and stuck to the simplicity of my friend in my heart; for the next two years, the chemistry of various things on me made me constantly re-examine this. The world, looking at the meaning of this sentence, I have to say that I am no longer so simple towards my friends. Utility, doubt, smoothness, and sophistication have gradually become the barriers between me and my friends. More precisely, it is our protection for ourselves.
I have to admit that when I watch this kind of film, I really enjoy the feeling of never knowing what other surprises are waiting in front of me, and the ending is also very satisfying. Zhou Quan thought that he could retreat completely, but it was the mantis catching the cicada and the oriole behind.
The ending is more or less dark and humorous, but it is also relieved in helplessness, and self-deprecating in loss.
Maybe we haven't been suspicious of each other in our lives, but this kind of life is also the normal behavior of people's desire to be highlighted in a specific job and a specific environment. It's full of interest.
Perhaps it is my own hindsight in this regard that makes me more inclined to such films that reveal human nature and wit EQ. I don't think I can become such a person, but I always believe that people are like this. In a species so adaptable, the environment creates character, and character changes destiny.

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  • Claire Stenwick: If I told you I loved you, would it make any difference?

    Ray Koval: If you told me or if I believed you?

    Claire Stenwick: I love you. I really do. I don't know why you would believe me. I don't know why we'd believe anything anymore. I just keep having this fantasy that we suddenly snap out of it, that we come out of this and be like people are supposed to be, like, trusting and honest.

    Ray Koval: We're not like other people.

    Claire Stenwick: I know that. Don't you think I know that? Do you have any idea how frustrating it is to know that you are the only man who could ever possibly understand me? Look, I know who you are. And I love you anyway.

  • Claire Stenwick: How do I know you?

    Ray Koval: How do you know me? Wow! That's a strong play. Believe me, I spent a lot of time thinking what this would be like. Where it'd be, what I'd say, what you'd say, but I never thought it...

    Claire Stenwick: I'm sorry, I just...

    Ray Koval: You really wanna go this way?

    Claire Stenwick: Look you clearly have me confused with someone else.

    Ray Koval: I don't know. I'm not great on names. I should be. I try. Faces I'm definitely better. I'm like a B, B-. Where I'm good, where I really excel, people I have slept with. That's been a traditional area of strength of me.