Seven is a magic number.
"Seven Deadly Sins", "The Seven Year Itch"... Many works in the history of film are named after it, as if as long as seven is used as a number, no matter how short the quantifier can be a complete narrative, enough to support a marriage, a love, As short as seven years, seven months, or even seven days... Seven days, it is enough to tell a story that has been inherited and turned...
This film inherits many similar narratives, male perspective and goddess complex:
young admirers first have feelings in their hearts, and then They approached carefully, and then the two were intimately alone, ambiguous and secretive, and they were infinitely close to each other, but during the approach, they found a woman who had lost the aura of a goddess. She was in pain and unable to extricate herself from the conflict between the inner and outer... The usual salvation of men Consciousness recovered, and the perspective gradually approached from looking up. However, it was discovered that this was the cage of Monroe's inner self, or a deep contradiction that she was clearly aware of but was unwilling to escape. Powerless to save, only braking in time, a heart-wrenching experience has come to an end.
Saw someone in the comments saying the film lacks ups and downs, and it does. Perhaps it is a sacrifice that has to be made in order to create a sense of documentary. In fact, when the teenager actually saw Monroe for the first time, and even shared a pool of water with her, the plot had reached its peak unconsciously. After all, there are very few people in the world who can meet their dream lover face to face, or even have such intimate contact. And until the end, the male protagonist is only the protagonist of the play, but he does not play an equal role in such a relationship. Monroe's frowns, smiles, joys and sorrows are still only affected by the people and things in her inner world. , the traction of things (except for her new husband)...
and what this drama brings me to think about Monroe: she is a child who has not grown up, maintaining the innocence and emotional needs of a girl. Perhaps in the end, the husband she was looking for was the man who could tolerate and accept her unconditionally like a father. In her childhood, the absence of this emotion brought a black hole in her heart that could never be filled. If an ordinary woman is an ordinary woman, she may only realize this lack in marriage, cry, parting, sad and die, or one day she is fortunate enough to realize this lack and begin to transform this need; but she is too qualified to continue to pursue this way... There will always be someone who will Attracted by the sexy and innocent she, it is sad that the arrival of this attraction and love still cannot make up for the lack of deep heart.
There are also some interesting little details in the movie, here is a brief description:
Detail 1: Monroe NG again, her private acting tutor comforted her as always, the male protagonist stood behind the two, carefully waiting for a person who spoke to the goddess. When I had the opportunity, I took the opportunity to help me while the instructor was not paying attention, and took the opportunity to offer my appreciation, which attracted Monroe's attention. ——Such details combine the male protagonist 's cautiousness, with the alertness of young people, and even the wisdom of an old-fashioned British gentleman: deliberately approaching but not abrupt...
Detail 2: The male protagonist enters Monroe's bedroom through the window , and occasionally found a portrait of Lincoln at the bedside during the conversation. Monroe joked that she had regarded Lincoln as her father since she was a child. I laughed when I saw this. I still remember seeing this passage in Monroe's story. I didn't expect it to come out at this time
. Less witty response: When I woke up in the UK, there was only Yardley's lavender scent...
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