real or fantasy

Gerard 2022-03-25 09:01:18

I liked this movie a lot, and after reading a few reviews, I don't think it's necessary to repeat what other people have already written. Just write about your own experience.
The stories created by the writers who are between the pen and paper are very subtle. The stories of the writer, wife, lover, son, each character are intertwined, and the right and wrong of each character are explained in different stories.

The music at the beginning hints at the tone of the story, the melancholy man in front of the computer and the glass of water with the ethereal voice echoing all confuse my mind, and the story the writer wrote begins is staged. The writer said to the lover that "this is a story of a bad man who perceives and repents through a character he created". The constant, continuous background music always gives people an illusory feeling, mixed with deep grief.

The story of the writer and his lover is half-truth, and their dialogue reveals the writer's writing thread, which is the main thread of the story.
I don't like the gypsy woman's story, and that's exactly the writer's interpretation of his own past redemption.
The story of the painter and his ex-wife, co-authoring the call between the writer and his wife, and stealing the phone recording of the designer, completely recounts the bad father-son relationship between the writer and his son.

There are several details:
the white dress of the woman on the poster turns into a manuscript paper and flutters in the wind, indicating a parallel story between fantasy and reality.
Every once in a while in the movie, "watch me!" comes out of the mouth of the son and lover.
Women with strong personalities in the film include: a lover, a gypsy woman, and the painter's ex-wife.
The dialogue between the writer and the publisher is almost the writer deliberately let the other side scold him like this and let himself face the reality. The publisher said "I don't know how she can bear it" and "Women have the ability to deceive themselves". The painter said to his ex-wife, "To tell the truth, only if you can face the reality can you face the future", probably all he wants to say to himself Bar.
There is a dialogue between the writer and the lover in front of the elevator, the writer asks "who are you in a hurry to meet" The lover says "I have my own life" The writer says "Don't do things that hurt yourself" The lover says "I'm not your child" The writer said, "Then don't act like a child." The lover said, "It's great, you can really comfort yourself if you talk more." This seems to be a dialogue arranged by the writer. At the same time, he humiliated his own redemption. At the end, when his wife asked him to go back, the writer also said "how to go back". No matter how much he wrote, it was nothing but self-deception and consolation, obviously not a pious confession.
Every story has a tragic story of children and parents. It can be seen that the writer has been hurt very deeply, and the protagonists in each story have made mistakes, but there are also places that deserve forgiveness. In real life, there is no complete right and wrong. wrong.
I just watched it once and there are still many things I don’t understand, I will watch it several times again, good movie!



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