Perhaps it is the misleading effect of the introduction that many viewers did not understand the relationship between the characters and thus did not understand the film. The three women alternate, Virginia is the author of Mrs. Dalloway, Laura is the reader of Mrs. Dalloway, and Clarissa is a friend of Laura's son. They live in different worlds, different times, and have different fates, but they affect each other because of the details of their lives.
If it weren't for Virginia's almost morbid spirit, another voice in her head, and her own life that she couldn't stop, she would not have written Mrs. Dalloway. Mrs. Dalloway is her alter ego, Virginia's imaginary self. Mrs. Dalloway said she was going to buy flowers herself. Mrs. Dalloway did not choose to end his life in the end.
Without Mrs. Dalloway, Laura would be an ordinary woman with a loving husband and lovely children. But deep down, Laura was not ordinary, as her husband said, she was a maverick and seemed a little lonely. It was "Mrs. Dalloway" that sparked the desire in her heart, the desire to break free from the cage that bound her. She kissed her female neighbor and drove to the hotel to take medicine to commit suicide. And all this, the boy with his eyes full of sadness has been watching.
That Clarissa, known as Mrs Dalloway, was a difficult person to decipher. Her life seems to be unfettered, and in the novel, she will be envied and despised by many worldly people. People think she's the Mrs Dalloway in the book, who lives with gay people and doesn't seem to care what other people think. She is the only one among the three who can "buy flowers by herself". But she has made her seemingly unruly life into trivialities because of her love for Richard.
Three women's day is tied to death.
At the beginning of the film, Virginia tries to walk into the river. In the middle of the film, she decides not to kill the heroine of her novel. She and the little girl hold a funeral for the dead bird. At the end of the film, she actually walks into the river and chooses to end her own life. life. She was afraid of servants, she hated doctors, and she couldn't stand the peace everyone gave her. But in the end, what she hated should be the mediocrity and triviality that life as a woman brought her. She finally told her husband about her thoughts and despair about life. She told her husband, You cannot find peace by avoiding life. The husband who loved her respected her offer to return to life in London. She saw the light of life and she took her own life. The logic of this is probably as she said in her suicide note to her husband Leonard, to look life in the face, to know it, to love it, and then put it away.
Laura is more like Virginia than Clarissa in Virginia novels Mrs Dalloway. At the end of the book "Every Moment", Mrs Brown, a suicide attempt, lesbian, abandoned child, maniac in Richard's novel, who is not fit to live in this world, is so mediocre to become a librarian , enjoy his old age. Mrs Dalloway doesn't commit suicide in the novel, which seems to be Virginia's hope for her life, which she failed to do and Laura did. She was reading in the hotel, thinking about death, the child in her womb, her birthday husband, son, and the responsibilities she had to fulfill, she gave up the idea of suicide. And all of this sowed the seeds in her life and in the life of her son Richard. Virginia doesn't kill the heroine of the novel, she replaces the poet. Instead of killing herself, Laura ended her son's life in another way. Laura loves her son, but has no choice in her own life.
Clarissa seems to be a continuation of Virginia's life. Historically, Virginia was a married lesbian, and Clarissa was able to live with her female companions for ten years, free from worldly prejudice. Laura said Clarissa was a happy person. She was annoyed at Richard's prejudice against her own life, and she was annoyed at her mediocrity and helplessness. Louis told her that the moment he left Richard, he felt more free than ever. Then maybe it was Richard who had been suppressing Clarissa, more precisely Richard's love for his mother and what Laura had done suppressed Richard and then influenced Clarissa. The moment Richard fell out of the window was a relief for himself as well as for Clarissa. After all these years, Clarissa was finally able to be herself. At the end of the book, Clarissa believes that Richard did not commit suicide but accidentally fell from the window. She believes that Richard loves life.
Virginia Woolf is a famous female writer. Cunningham interprets her understanding of Mrs Woolf's life with three different women's one day. Laura and Clarissa seem to be another Virginia, as if Cunningham herself, and also as if they were Cunningham herself. The hope that Ning An had read in Virginia's novel.
Mrs Dalloway ended up throwing a party for the living.
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