The plot line seems to be about a woman who is trapped in a dull marriage and a mediocre life, and an emotional entanglement with a handsome man across the window; while another seemingly unrelated clue is about a woman who accidentally walked into a woman's life. An old man with amnesia, a lifelong reminiscence of gay people. Because the recurring windows facing each other directly lead out the woman's extramarital relationship, this movie seems to have become a love movie.
However, if you look closely, the man in the opposite window is surprisingly gentle and elegant (foreign film critics said that he is a "living advertisement for Armani glasses"), and miraculously, he also develops feelings for the woman who secretly loves him through the window. This is actually a superficial and very suspicious character. His secret love with a woman through the window is actually illusory and unreal; on the contrary, the role of the old man is portrayed in flesh and blood, which is moving. A film with plain narrative, leaving only a little bit of surrealism to the clear and unforgettable same-sex love in the old man's chaotic mind.
I believe it's not that the director can't tell a convincing story of an extramarital affair with a crush on each other. The reason is that the focus of the film is to absorb the characters, stories and narratives, and it should not be the deviant love between the two surnames. What the film wants to talk about is the isolation of time and space in a general sense, like two opposite windows. People in the window can always see each other, but can't really walk into another window.
The love seen by a woman and a handsome man through the window eventually died out: when a woman went to that window, she found that she actually belonged to the world in her own window; and the separation between the old man and his deceased lover, It's decades. Time, let the memory completely fade away, leaving only the name and the vague figure, across time, forever into memory.
The opposite window is a reference to the insurmountable distance between time and space in the world, and this isolation seems to be the source of pain in life.
However, the woman finally returned to her own life, and she found that her rude and boring husband was the real life; and the old man eventually became the woman's cake chef. The cakes on the table described the lonely soul's sustenance for reality.
At this time, can it be said that the opposite window represents the insurmountable gap between the real existence of human beings and the spiritual world formed by imagination and recollection. This gap is not only the source of spiritual pain, but also the source of reality. Opposite the window, let the soul suffer from the torment of falsehood, but also make life full of the texture of reality.
Such a film gives a calm and warm feeling. If you understand something, you don't necessarily have to understand something. I like this movie precisely because it has a calm and eloquent tone, without exaggeration or pretentiousness. It calmly says some feelings that ordinary people may have. It is very homely but not boring. It is a European film culture. An excellent manifestation of the spirit.
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