I don't know why I'm taking the role of this poor and pathetic man's wife. I'm about to start incoherent.
The role of Anna is unpleasant. On the one hand, it is because of Juliet Binoche's performance. She is too heroic. She can also be like a summer fan and a winter charcoal. Abundance, everything that will be destroyed by her will reach the peak of her life, and then turn sharply, without complaint. Facing Anna is like facing Snow Lotus on the edge of a cliff.
Steven is even more irresistible, not only because of Jeremy Eynes' performance (gosh, I forgot how much I love Jeremy), but the point is that his madness for true love is the same as his love for his loved ones. The stark contrast created by alienation. If he hadn't met Anna, he would have continued to spend the rest of his life without any trouble and life, but if he did, it was his doom. His frenzy, his euphoria, his unease, all weighed on him to the point of suffocation, he was curled up in a Paris hotel twitching in his clothes, he was waiting by the bushes outside the gate of Anna, it was just him constantly recourse. Because he was the one who gave, and Anna's response was more like pity and reward for him. Anna's love is far less deep than his, where can there be fair love? For Anna's sake, he could abandon his family and his career, but Anna just followed her inner desires and redeemed herself.
Everything seems to be explained when Anna's mom says Martin looks like Anna's dead brother. Anna is just atonement, she wants to marry Martin and soothe her brother's undead. But Steven's strong intervention made her unable to stop.
Later, the dust settled, the male protagonist was ruined, and the female protagonist was physically and mentally exhausted.
Anna finally returned to Peter, who appeared only once in the entire film, to heal.
At the end of the movie, Steven opened the window to let the sunlight penetrate. He sat in a chair and faced the black and white photo that covered the entire wall. The people in the photo were different, and everything seemed to be predestined. It is conceivable that when Steven met Anna holding the child with Peter and looked no different from other women, his fanaticism and anxiety had already died, and his whole body seemed to be hollowed out in an instant, and he continued to live like a walking corpse.
Finally, take a sentence from Haruki Murakami's description of Ayumi in 1Q84:
Ayumi has a huge gap in her heart. It's like a desert at the end of the earth. No matter how much water you pour, it will be sucked into the ground in an instant, leaving no trace of moisture. No life can take root there. Not even a bird flew over.
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