The story seems to be composed of three small stories. The story is not complicated. In the first story, Ron, who was determined to become a writer, handed over the novel he had written for three years to the publishing house, but no one was willing to publish it. A stable job to live, at least there is a wife by his side, and then he went to Paris to spend a honeymoon with a novel manuscript. Ron was moved by the novel and knew that he could never write such a novel in his life. By chance or subconsciously, he copied the novel word for word and published it. The novel was a great success, and he succeeded.
The second story, one day, after becoming famous, Ron was followed by an old man. When Ron was impatient, the old man said that he was the master of the novel, and told Ron the story behind the novel in which he poured his heart and soul. unhappy life. Because of this lost novel, the old man left his beloved wife and spent the rest of his life silently in the rural north of the United States, and could no longer write a satisfactory novel. After spending most of his life, fame was not what he wanted. The old man had already made a choice half a century ago, and now he understands that it is not difficult for a past person to make a choice, and it is rare to bear the consequences of a choice. The old man actually regretted it. At the beginning, he became a writer as much as Ron. He seized the inspiration to write a novel. Because his wife lost the manuscript of the novel, he left his wife and returned to the United States from Paris. When Ron asked him what he wanted, the old man said he wanted his wife and daughter back, so the novel was no longer important. Ron plagiarized the novel to steal the old man's life, and Ron will pay for it.
The third story is actually a continuation of the previous two stories. Clay is the old Ron. Ron was worried about plagiarism all day long. He decided to confess to his wife and the publisher. During the communication, he inadvertently put the blame on his wife, thinking that his wife deliberately thought that the novel was written by him, which prompted him to publish it. , Ron is very inferior at this moment, but his wife thinks that Ron wrote such a novel, and she believes Ron. The quarrel ended unhappy, but the death of the old man shortly after made the real author a secret.
The results of it? Ron has kept it a secret, and he has become a well-known writer. However, his conscience has been greatly tested, and his life is not happy. Although he has not divorced, he and his wife will never return to their original state. Is it a moral condemnation or just a novel? not important. The answer is given in the film, life is our biggest work.
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