The film is composed of three stories, which seem to be parallel, but are actually true and false. Let’s start with the one with the most intriguing director’s attention, the longest narrative time, and the most complete plot. The film begins with writer Michael hearing a "watch me" echoing in the hollow as he writes. Michael and Anna are a pair of underground lovers. Their relationship is like the Sex of the two at the beginning of the movie. They long for each other but hurt each other. Both of them are writers with extremely abnormal love lives. Michael drowned his young child because he was about to answer a phone call from his lover Anna (this scene is also explained at the end of the movie), and his wife has not yet divorced, but there is no love between the two, Michael After writing his love history with Anna into a novel, he even asked his wife to be the first reader, which shows that the degree of psychopathy is average. But Anna and her father have always maintained a relationship like a lover, and have sex. Both of them have unsightly and outrageous realistic backgrounds. It is no wonder that their love affair is sometimes as passionate as flames, and sometimes as cold as icebergs, making people unpredictable.
The second story, set in New York, is about a misunderstood abusive mother, Juliet, who tries everything she can to meet her son, but it always backfires. The double oppression of life and emotion made Juliet almost collapse. Finally, with the help of his ex-husband's girlfriend, he had a very short meeting with his son in the elevator. Finally, when Juliet moved out of her house, her ex-husband called to say she could see her son. The story doesn't cover much, but it does a great job of portraying a young mother who wants to protect her child but is misunderstood.
The third story is the hardest to bring people into. Sean, an American businessman who counterfeited big-name Italian suits, met a Romanian woman at an "Amercian Bar" in Rome, so he was willing to pay for the woman's daughter from a pimp and give the prostitute 100,000 euros for free. Although later in the film our director told us that Sean drowned his daughter because of a business phone call, and divorced his wife, Juliet's lawyer in the second story. Maybe he wanted to accomplish his own redemption by helping that Romanian woman redeem her daughter.
After sorting out the general plot of the entire film, let's analyze how the three stories are related? The first story gives people a strong sense of independence, and the connection with the second and third stories seems to be less obvious. The only similarity is that the first and third stories both drown their own young children because of a phone call from a man. The first and second stories are also because the hotel where Juliet works is officially the hotel where Micheal and Anna are staying. But attentive viewers may have found two loopholes: First, michal and Anna met in France, while Juliet lives in New York. How could these two groups of people meet? 2. When Juliet was cleaning Micheal's room, there were still many notes in the note book, but when Micheal was recording his wife's phone, there was not a single note in the note book. But these two events happened on the same day. This leads me to a question: who is the second story and the first story? Who is fictitious? The second and third stories are because Juliet's lawyer is Sean's ex-wife, the connection is relatively simple and clear.
I don't know if you have noticed this sentence from Micheal's book agent when you were watching the movie: Your first story is cruel and inhuman, but the stories after that are going to get worse and worse. Everyone should pay attention to this point, Micheal has been writing in this film, so are the second and third stories just one of the works created by Micheal? From my analysis in the last paragraph, the second and third stories have Micheal's own personal experience, and if the second story is interpreted as Micheal's creation, the time and space confusion and errors in it will be very good. explanation of.
After the director's narrative structure and framework are clarified, let's take a look at what the director wants to express through this complex, nested structural narrative? All three stories deal with marital crises and children. The third person in the name of the movie "third person" may be a child in a marriage relationship, or a third person. Both aspects are included in each of these three stories. In the first story, because of the appearance of the third party, the couple had an emotional crisis, and the appearance of the third party also led to the last connection between the husband and wife - the death of the child. The death of the child has become a constant emotional connection between the husband and wife, so that the two of them can no longer be truly separated. In the second story, we don't know whether it was because of the emergence of a third party that the couple had a crisis, or because of other reasons. But in the end, it was because of the help of her ex-husband's girlfriend that Juliet's ex-husband made a concession and agreed to Juliet to see the child. The child and ex-husband's girlfriend simultaneously became the bond between the two of them. The third story is also because of the children, the ex-husband's mistakes become the reason why the ex-wife can never forgive Sean.
Marriage is never a 1:1 fair competition, and the shadow of the third person will always hover in the emotional life of two people. It could be a child, it could be the object of derailment. Of course in China it could also be parents. Even if the couple's relationship breaks down and eventually leads to divorce, the emotional connection between them will never be truly cut off because of the appearance of this third person.
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