Director François Ozonso played a trick at the end of the film, which turned out to be such a deception. The handling at the end seems to be showing off the cleverness, but in fact, the logical structure is very unreasonable. Viewers are looking for a lot of explanations to round up such an unreasonable explanation. If that illegitimate daughter Julie was just the imagination of female author Sarah Morton when she was writing her latest mystery novel, but it always seemed untenable in many details. In order to keep this film from being unstoppable, I think I'd better understand it in a sloppy way.
British mystery novelist Sarah Morton (who seems to be mirroring Agatha Christie) lost her inspiration for writing, and when she went to meet the publishing house owner John, she saw that he was cultivating new writers, so she was very impressed. Lost and a little jealous. But the boss, John, soothed her and invited her to relax at his villa in the south of France. We can find that Sarah's relationship with John is not limited to work, and there seems to be a different relationship, which is vaguely hinted by the imaginary Julie's words.
What kind of person is the writer Sarah Morton? A lonely and surly old woman who lives with her elderly father, living a conservative life like a British aristocrat. What seems to be missing in life for such a famous female writer? As she herself said: "It's not about money and fame? You know I don't care about those?"
So what does this woman really want?
When Sarah Morton came to the villa in the south of France, the country life seemed to be rare and peaceful, away from the noise of the city and able to enjoy the sun and breathe the fresh air of the country, all of which made Sarah Morton's state of mind Surprisingly good. So under the camera, the rhythm shows a kind of idyllic leisure life, and it is difficult for us to perceive what the movie will tell next, until Sarah Morton stumbled upon the temporarily idle swimming pool while wandering around the villa. The appearance seems to be a metaphor for something, and then the peaceful and comfortable life is interrupted by the arrival of Julie, the illegitimate daughter of the publishing house owner John. As a result, the two paragraphs before and after the film have completely different changes.
Julie's sexy and uninhibited lifestyle had a huge impact on Sarah Morton's traditional life, Julie's exposed youthful body and daily debauchery life, everything made Sarah Morton Envy and jealousy. In fact, in the end, we realized that this Julie did not exist, and everything was imagined by the female writer. So what happened to Julie's slutty life? According to Freud's psychology, we can understand that all this comes from the most primitive desires that have been suppressed in Sarah Morton's heart, all of which are the true reflection of the human subconscious.
The swimming pool is like a symbol of desire, and all the stories revolve around it. And when writer Sarah Morton finally jumped into the pool, the desire began to unleash. When the story of the movie slowly starts to develop into a murder case, everything is just a gimmick, and we can even understand that this is an event that does not exist at all based on the ending of the movie. The whole movie is like a hoax, the boundary between real space and imaginary space is blurred, and it is difficult to clearly distinguish what is real and what is virtual. But according to my personal understanding, the film gradually mixes Sarah Morton's lustful imagination with the mystery novel she is writing, without giving any hints to the spear, resulting in a bizarre and absurd Unwanted effect.
In the end, I don't know how to evaluate this movie. I can only say that it's best to watch such a movie in a vague way, and don't pay too much attention to every detail, and don't let yourself find an answer for this movie, because everything will appear In vain.
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