For ordinary people, this may feel like a fantasy, but the Spanish girl Rosa encountered such a situation. Because her stepfather could not accept the child who was not related to her, she came to France with her adoptive mother's family. The adoptive mother's daughter, Jenny, has a deep bond with Rosa and is a sister. A car accident at the age of eight took Jenny's life, and Rosa changed her name to Jenny. Many years later, Jenny grew up as a writer, had a husband and two children. Childhood memories seem to be a distant past, and Rosa can't seem to remember anything before the age of eight.
Maybe it's the writer's instinct, maybe it's the subconscious that seeks her roots, as an autobiographical novel advances, Rosa's body and mind are getting more and more uneasy. In her eyes, everything that was used to be normal in the past became unfamiliar and weird, and even the self in the mirror changed into another woman. Rosa's hysteria made Rosa miserable, and her hysteria nearly collapsed those around her. Finally, one day, she found an old photo in her adoptive mother's drawer, and she followed her childhood self back to a coffee shop in Spain like sleepwalking. All the characters in "Illusion" appeared, but they all said they didn't know her. One night, a deja vu scene and action finally awakened her long-suppressed memory: that blond Jenny, who she had always thought was her, was actually dead when she was eight years old, but she always I couldn't accept the fact that my sister died, so I always thought of myself as her subconsciously...
All the mysteries were finally solved. On the return train, Rosa changed into "Jenny" clothes and returned to "Jenny" "s home. The lost part of herself was finally found. Jenny looked at Rosa, or Rosa looked at Jenny, and smiled comfortably...
Because the film is in flashbacks, for more than half of the time before, I thought it was a split personality or a ghost story like the sixth sense. Coupled with the constant incoming phone calls in the middle, he was only in a trance. But I still have to admit it was a good one. Sophie Marceau has always been my favorite actress, of course, needless to say. The performance of Monica Bellucci, who gives the impression of a vase, is also remarkable. It should be another movie worth watching after "The Beautiful Legend of Sicily". Because in terms of performance, it should be more difficult for two people (actually it should be considered three people, and Rosa as a child) to play the same role, it should be more difficult than one person to play two roles. To maintain the continuity of the characters and retain their own characteristics, the key is to make the audience accept and convince them. It is really not an easy task for two actors from different countries.
Whether it is the story or the way of shooting, people will think that this is a niche movie with a little literary accent, but in fact it raises a big question of "who am I". When I was a child, because of the dialect, I often had a confused feeling when I had to speak Mandarin when I just went to school. The same thing must be called with another tone and name, but it is written in the same words, so sometimes I don’t know who I am and what I am talking about. Of course, at that time it would not have been thought that this was a philosophical question, nor that this confusion was actually a process of acceptance and adaptation. Rosa finally found the cause and effect and a complete self after the painful struggle, and also answered the question of who I am. I just don't know if this is complete or not.
The name of the film is "Don't Look Back", maybe it is to exhort the world that the past you are looking for may not be the beautiful thing you hoped for.
But how can people resist and find their own psychological demands?
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