I'm really sorry it didn't end

Dayana 2022-03-25 09:01:13

In the previous episode, he struggled to write, and he ran into walls everywhere. The episode in which he lived in embarrassment really saw me gasping for breath. It seemed to be a true portrayal of myself. I started to read it while I was having breakfast. It won't be able to recover for a long time.

At noon, I began to watch the follow-up one after another, and found that the plot unfolded in three lines, one for plagiarizing the male protagonist, one for the old man's youth, and one for the famous writer who wrote the story of plagiarizing the male protagonist. What is the effect of this? That is when I found out that the male protagonist is only the person written by the author in the third line, I suddenly relaxed a lot, but this relaxation also made me think it is worth thinking about: The reason for my relaxation is undoubtedly because, the male protagonist It's alright, but on second thought, this is a movie, why do I agree that the drama within the drama is a fiction, but I deeply sympathize with the male protagonist at the beginning, it is also a drama.

In fact, the whole story is closely related to the relationship between "reality" and "fiction". Finally, the old writer said to female fans: You need to distinguish between reality and fiction. This is also what the screenwriter wants to tell the audience. Throughout the movie, the audience is constantly trying to get in and out of it. This is what I think is the most interesting part of this movie.

The first novel in the movie, The Window Mounds, has no ending. The actual ending was told by the old man to the plagiarized writer, and the novel about the plagiarized writer, "Wonderful Pens and Flowers," also has no ending. We don't know how the plagiarized writer will face his guilt later. Under the pressure of female fans, the writer said that Luo Li covered up the facts and lived a happy life, and the female fans were very dissatisfied. Because she believes that "A Wonderful Brush" describes the writer's own story, she wanted to know the true ending, but the story came to an abrupt end at this moment.

But no one can press the screenwriter in reality.

In fact, every time I see the "open ending", I am very confused, because some stories are better without an ending than a bad ending, but according to normal logic, when the story seems to have a bad ending, the author will Stop abruptly, this is smart, but is it opportunistic? Writers who want to be lazy can also write open endings because endings are hard. It's even better if the story ends abruptly, no matter which direction it goes. (The actual results of the two novels in this movie are somewhat unfinished, but they were not written into the novels)

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The Words quotes

  • The Old Man: He should've been somebody everyone knows.

    Rory Jansen: Yeah... but what happened?

    The Old Man: Life.

  • The Old Man: You choose the words, you choose the pain.