To be honest, just looking at the name, I thought it was a thriller and suspense movie. After reading it, I realized that this is just the tragic life of a poor woman.
The most hurtful thing is the "unfamiliar" in the title, and the "unknown" in the original text. You have sacrificed your life for him, and in his eyes, you are just a strange woman. There is no difference from other women.
I haven't seen the original version and Xu's version, but I think the best thing about Qiong Fang Deng's version is that she is sober. After she saw the male protagonist and other women at the age of eighteen, the moment she turned to leave, or even earlier, she realized that she and Stephen had no end. After the reunion, regardless of her life and the birth of her son, she just wanted to leave something for this love and her life, because she knew that she would never be able to fall in love with anyone else in her life.
When she met at the concert, perhaps she was once again bewitched by Stephen's eyes, or perhaps she began to imagine that there might have been a possibility before them. She betrayed her later family, desperate, and finally failed, and finally she finally woke up.
She felt that her son's departure might be God's punishment for her greed and betrayal, and she could only leave this world without it, as if she had some regrets.
Lisa, played by Joan Fontaine, has calmness and madness beyond time and space. Such a combination of contradictions determines the status of this version of the film.
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