Who is the real betrayer

Jed 2021-12-27 08:01:13

Under the lens of the film are very ordinary American streets, without special signs, just passing by on ordinary roads. In ordinary cities, the anxiety caused by doubt in ordinary love is precisely because of ordinaryness and ordinaryness. It is not because this kind of thing can be seen everywhere, it may happen around you, or it may happen in your surroundings. On you.

Joanna, played by Keira Knightley, is indeed a beautiful woman. Her expression is too vivid and beautiful. It always makes my eyes unable to leave the face. At the same time, Alex’s smile is so simple and cute. It can be said that the two of them are very good. The encounter on an unknown street in New York was coincidental but also deliberate. The encounter 3 years ago, the separation two years ago, each had a new partner, one married and the other unmarried, but they couldn't forget each other, and they still loved each other. Such an encounter made both of them very happy. During the day there are still their own trivial matters, but in the night, people can be casual and chic. After a whole night of getting along, can't help but kiss deeply, but Joanna still couldn't make love with Alex, because she couldn't make love with Alex anymore, she went to face Michael's eyes. She couldn't do it, so he and her lay side by side until the sky turned white.

On the other hand, Michael and Lola. Faced with Lola’s beauty and temptation, Michael couldn’t keep his impulse and sexual desire after all. He had sex with Lola. After waking up, he regretted it, especially when he woke up. After seeing Joanna’s note, I felt more guilty. I didn’t expect my wife to trust me, but I cheated and betrayed my wife. The guilt in my heart made her want to see Joanna right away. He had to treat himself. His behavior atonement, he can only do better to Joanna, in order to eliminate his inner anxiety and guilt.

But who is the real betrayer?

The sex between Michael and Lola was only temporary. After sex, he was full of chagrin and guilt for his wife. His heart still loved Joanna alone. And Joanna? Although she did not have sex with Alex, she did love Alex. This is the real betrayal, isn't it? In other words, this is a more complete betrayal.

At the end of the film, Joanna did not immediately express her love when Mike said "I love you" to herself. She was hesitating, she was still thinking of Alex in her mind, and she was also guilty. Now, not knowing how to face Michael, she knew she had betrayed Mike. The film stopped abruptly before her reply. It came so abruptly and ended in an open manner, leaving the audience to guess whether the answer was "I love you too" or "Let’s break up". Both answers are possible. Isn't it? Different audiences, audiences with different experiences and different emotions have different yearnings for answers. Some people think or want her to say the first answer, and some people are the latter.

If Joanna’s answer is "I love you too", then Michael and Joanna are both carrying ghosts, and they will undoubtedly "appear" very affectionate in the next period of time, but in the "love", they go further and further away from each other. , The gulf in the soul is getting wider and deeper, they gradually doubt and distrust each other, there are more and more lies, more and more secrets, love will eventually be destroyed one day.

From the time they betrayed each other, or earlier, when they doubted each other, this is the final outcome. This is also a common occurrence in love and marriage in today's society, so the film was chosen to be an ordinary street in the United States. Because this kind of thing happens everywhere. Today's love is no longer deep, and the crumbling love building will collapse at any time. In this increasingly open society, people are always inevitably prone to doubts, and doubts create barriers. Therefore, love thinks of an apple that gets into a bug, and it slowly deteriorates from inside. Even though I knew it at that time, it was too late to save it.

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Last Night quotes

  • Joanna Reed: What I wouldn't have given to have tired of you.

  • Joanna Reed: In the middle of most nights, when I can't sleep I still replay you