Sophie is fantasy, Monica is reality.
Cause and effect:
The blond mother has three children. Because her husband died and remarried to the coffee shop owner, the owner did not want to raise other people's children. The blond mother had to send these three children away to the black-haired mother and her couple for adoption (they may be infertile, Jin's mother and dark-haired adoptive mother may be best friends), three children and adoptive parents were involved in a car accident, Sophie and adoptive father died, leaving Monica, younger brother and dark-haired adoptive mother, Monica left scars. After her husband died, the dark-haired adoptive mother could only raise one, she chose Monica, and the younger brother was sent back to Jin's mother.
Later, the black-haired adoptive mother grew old and became a white-haired adoptive mother (many film critics regarded them as two mothers... This can only be blamed on the casting, if the hair color is the same color, it will be easier to understand).
Because Monica couldn't accept the fact that her family broke down, her biological father died, her biological mother remarried, and the last spiritual straw—the close Sophie sisters also died, she imagined herself as Sophie and her current home as Sophie after the car accident. When I was a child, I imagined my close relatives as my biological parents: the white-haired adoptive mother was imagined as the golden mother, and the appearance of the husband was imagined as the appearance of the biological father when he died (this is why she has not seen her younger brother before. He looks big, but the husband is imagined as the appearance of the younger brother, which can be understood as the younger brother is very similar to his father when he is an adult, and his genes are strong. This kind of incest fantasy may be due to the lack of fatherly love in the teenage years, and Freud's Electra complex. can explain).
Later, because of her career pursuit and the pressure of writing books, Monica began to have hallucinations to see her childhood - a black-haired girl, and then followed the black-haired girl to find her true self.
The plot is actually about Monica's schizophrenia caused by childhood trauma, and then the process of finding herself
The three women in the photo are Jin's mother, Sophie's childhood and her dark-haired adoptive mother.
The white-haired adoptive mother is the black-haired adoptive mother in Monica's memory. She always knew that Monica had schizophrenia, so she pointed to Sophie in the photo and said it was you. Since her husband died, her spiritual sustenance was only Monica, who also survived the car accident. She was worried that Monica would leave her in memory, so she closed the door and did not let her go. Later, she received a call from her blond mother to go to the hotel. Pick up Monica.
Monica didn't fully accept this fact at this time, she still wanted to be Sophie, so she didn't go with her white-haired adoptive mother, and changed back to Sophie's appearance on the train. But when she returned home and found that the three close relatives—the husband and the child were still strangers, she suddenly realized that she was a stranger, and the mother and wife they loved the most were actually Monica, and she realized In real life, there is only Monica but not Sophie, and she herself can't accept that she is Monica, so Sophie finally stopped at the entrance and watched Monica live
That is to say, the ending of the movie is that the heroine is completely split into two personalities - Monica & Sophie. These two personalities accept the truth of family breakdown and their own schizophrenia, and accept the existence of each other, and write autobiographies together
ps. The biological father may be Italian. Monica and her younger brother follow the biological father's brown skin and black hair, and Sophie follows the biological mother's blond hair. Monica's two children follow her husband, the imaginary husband is brown and black, and the imaginary child is also brown and black; the real husband and child are both blonde (if you want to understand this, it is easy to distinguish which ones are which are hallucinations and which are reality)
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