Nora is the protagonist of the play "House of Dolls". "House of Dolls" is a famous work by Norwegian dramatist Ibsen. The story is familiar to everyone. In the end, Nora treats her hypocritical and ugly husband as well as her own doll. This is called The empty place of the home was too much to bear, and finally decided to run away. The door closed with a "bang". This "bang" shattered the "Doll's House", and the story came to an abrupt end. Later, Mr. Lu Xun asked a classic question: "What happens after Nora is gone?" The answer given by Mr. Lu Xun himself is pessimistic, with three endings (the tragic ending can only be described as "ends"), or it’s not making a living. Forced to live in the dust; or bumped into the wall, had to return to the "doll's house"; and then, was starved to death, the bird loves the jungle, but the jungle may not be able to accommodate the bird.
I can't help but talk about Nara's story because the movie "Sleep with the Enemy" is really a modern extended version of "Doll's House". Hollywood likes to remake world masterpieces in a variety of ways. Among them, it is a common trick to move ancient stories into modern backgrounds. Many of Shakespeare's plays have been filmed into modern versions, such as "Romeo and Juliet", such as "Macbeth" "and many more. The reason why I call this film a modern extended version is because the film not only tells the classic story of "Doll's House", but also extends it, trying to narrate the story after Nora leaves. How does the story tell? I can only use one idiom to describe it-the dog's tail continues the mink. In this movie, what happens after Nora is gone? The answer, it’s okay. After Nora left, she fell into the sweet trap of vulgar commercial films. Nora did not encounter Mr. Lu Xun’s pessimistic predictions. On the contrary, she rented a house, found a lover, and lived a mediocre life. Very sweet life, and later killed her husband by the way.
If the previous story is an original story, then the whole story is indeed a very good surprise and suspense film, but because the first half of the film is based on the classic "Doll's House", then I have to produce a story about the latter one. This kind of expectation with high standards and strict requirements, and the higher the expectation, the greater the disappointment, the more disappointed, the more unhappy, the more unhappy, the more extreme it is, so the original unsatisfactory continuation is degraded to nothing. End. Just like the "Dream of Red Mansions" in the last forty chapters, it is a fairly improvised novel. How can you have Cao Xueqin in front of you?
(Actually, in American movies, this kind of anticlimactic phenomenon is common, and there is often a good idea to make a good start, but in the end, the talent is not enough and the end is dismal, such as the movie "Escape from the Clone Island". A good start? After all, it slid into the abyss of mediocre commercial films.)
For a vulgar audience like me, a happy ending is the best choice for a story. At the very least, I have to say, "Since then, the prince and Cinderella have lived together." happy life". So an open ending like "Doll's House" is painful. If I knew Ibsen, I would follow him every day and ask: What happened then? For this reason, this ending is still eye-catching to me. Faced with the vicious husband with cleanliness and obsessive-compulsive disorder who came to the door (suddenly seeing the neatly arranged cans is really shocking. Jump), this is a violent revolution that gives you freedom or death. The ending was also a "bang", but it was not a door slamming, but a gunshot, and the line that had been closed before: "Is the police station? Someone broke into my house and I killed him." Clean and neat, yet Without taking responsibility, he has reached the highest level of revenge that Li Baotian pursues. Thank God! Thank the U.S. Constitution!
Lala wrote miscellaneously for a long time, and I finally realized that the writing was off-topic. I originally wanted to seriously discuss feminism and domestic violence. There was no way to do this, so I had to wait until the next time I wrote "The End of the Road". Now that I have digressed, please allow me to ask another question that is far from the topic. I have heard a very nice English song "loveing you" before, which is the song Jane Zhang sang when she laid down the title of "Princess Dolphin". I remember it was the theme song of the movie "Sleep with the Enemy", I wonder if that's the case?
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