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"Who Do You Think I Am" tells the story of a divorced female university professor who is over fifty years old.
The heroine, Klar, is over fifty years old and is a professor of literature at a university with a successful career. Her husband cheated on her and left her, and she was hit hard.
She has a successful career and has since raised her two sons alone. The new life seems peaceful, but she is always in a claustrophobic tank full of water, even if she closes her eyes and ignores the surrounding environment, she escapes Not free from the deep suffocation and pain.
Fortunately, she met a young lover, Joe, who is a blind spice for a bleak life. In order to retain this beauty, she wanted to establish a stable relationship with Joe, not just stay in the stage of passionate sex, but Joe didn't want to be with her. Deepening the relationship, always making excuses to shirk, frustrates her.
To learn more about Joe, she decides to fake Clara's identity to get close to Joe's friend Alex, who stole the identity of her niece Kadia, a 24-year-old with long brown hair who works in the fashion industry. But unexpectedly, with the deepening of communication between the two sides, she and Alex fell in love.
As the English poet Chapman said: Love is the second sun of all things, wherever he shines, there will be spring.
Klar, who fell in love, was like a dry rose that had ushered in the long-lost rain and dew, and her originally pale and thin cheeks became rosy, plump, lustrous, and more energetic.
She would dance frantically at academic gatherings, ignoring the strange eyes of others. Her mobile phone was connected to the earphone cable, which was convenient for whispering with her lover. Even her two sons were often left aside by her.
She indulged in a fictional identity and could not extricate herself.
I didn't play her, that's my life. - Claire
But Alex was not satisfied with that.
He made a request to meet. At first, Claire made excuses to decline.
Alex approached her by locating her workplace.
In the end, she couldn't find any reason to escape, and she agreed to meet.
On the platform of the station, people came and went. She appeared in front of and beside Alex many times, but he never noticed her.
I naively thought that my face would replace hers. ---Claire
The scene of the meeting shattered her dream, she failed and fell into the dust of reality, Alex is not in love with the real her, but the fictional young and beautiful Clara, who loves the external image.
He is so young and vulnerable. - Claire
She was disheartened and decided to end the relationship unilaterally. She lied again, saying that she had accepted her boyfriend's marriage proposal and would immigrate to Brazil.
But she couldn't let it go, and couldn't help opening the Internet to follow him.
She found that Alex had since disappeared, and her Facebook profile had been deleted.
I found Joe, my lover, and pretended to inquire about Alex's whereabouts.
Joe tells him that Alex had been in a car accident, didn't brake and ran straight for the cliff, and told Claire that Alex had been treating Clara as a psychopath. .
The news made her feel guilty and despaired of life.
Only she bears the pain alone.
Later, at a psychiatrist, she opened up about the experience and wrote a book about what happened to them.
It is written in the book that after Alex and Clara separated, Claire appeared to approach Alex in her real identity, and the two were deeply attracted to each other. He didn't mind her age and admired her very much. The two were together. , with endless sweet words:
The most impressive scene is in bed, he and she read Liera's love poem "Goug out My Eyes" (translated by Yang Wuneng)
Goug out my eyes and I can still see you,
Block my ears and I can still hear you;
Without feet, I can walk to you,
Without a mouth, I can still pray to you.
Break my arms, and I will still embrace you—
With my heart as with my hands.
Hold my heart, and my mind will not rest;
You set fire to my brain,
I will still carry you with my blood.
The intensity of the emotion is evident here.
It stands to reason that Claire, who is accompanied by love, should be very happy.
On the contrary, she still has a hurdle in her heart that she can't overcome, and she suspects that in Alex's heart, she is just Clara's eternal spare tire. She loves her, but she just appeared in Alex's life just right.
After struggling for a long time, Claire took the initiative to pierce the thin layer of window paper.
She deliberately lets Alex discover the secret that she is Clara. But before Alex could make a decision, she chose to die in a car accident.
Why is she so cruel to herself in the novel. Is it because of guilt? Are you ashamed? It doesn't seem to be.
Psychiatrists found the root cause. It turned out that it was no one else who took away her husband, Xiao San, but her own niece, Kadia. After leaving Claire's house, Kadia did not move to Norway, but moved into her ex-husband's house. The fact that her husband cheated on her niece was a big blow to her, who was over 500 years old, and her mentality gradually became unbalanced, almost neurotic.
I was jealous of her, jealous of their happiness, they stole mine. - Claire
She desperately desires to be loved, and even falsifies her identity to deceive love.
I don't care if I die, as long as I'm not abandoned. . . I long for someone to take care of me and soothe me, even if it's a hallucination - Claire
After being loved, she wanted to further prove that the soul was more important than the young body. However, she was afraid of getting the answer.
The story is not over yet. At the end of the film, there is a reversal. It turns out that Alex did not die, but had a new family and became a father. It was the former lover Joe who lied. .
After getting the news, Claire called Alex, who had become a father. The film stopped abruptly here. Did that call connect the other party? The director did not answer.
Whether the phone is connected or not is no longer important, the important thing is that she finally dares to face Alex with her real identity.
When lost and suffering, everyone has their own different ways of redemption. In "The Kite Runner", Amir redeemed the shameless past in his life through a kite, and the neighbor girl Marda in "This Killer Is Not Too Cold" The appearance warmed Leon's cold heart, and Charlie, a high school student in "Smell the Scent and Know a Woman", brought new hope to the despairing Franken.
And a deceptive online dating in "Who Do You Think I Am" redeemed Claire's inner black hole, just as Nora in "A Doll's House" she mentioned in her school literature class, she went off to pursue an independent life , does not want to be a puppet, no one knows how Nora will end after she runs away, but the important thing is that she has awakened and stepped out of the house.
When watching a movie, we, like psychiatrists, will not be ashamed of Claire's lying behavior. Why are people over fifty years old so emotionally pretentious and vulnerable, choosing to avoid the truth rather than face failure calmly?
But after the condemnation, we sympathize with Claire.
Because in real life, we can more or less see the same shadow from ourselves and from others, maybe in order to save face, or to get rid of loneliness, to lie to show weakness, to gain comfort and attention.
Don't be in a hurry to criticize their behavior, because not everyone in this world has your advantages. There are always some people who are vulnerable and depend on others.
"When you feel like criticizing others, remember that not everyone in the world has the advantages you have." - Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Although in the current context of advocating independence and success for everyone, vulnerability and sensitivity are considered outdated and should be abandoned, but everyone has their own weaknesses, this time, fate hit her, maybe one day It will hit you. After all, the good things in life are short-lived, and the hardships are always accompanied. You can hold on for a while, which does not mean that you can hold on forever. At that time, you will also be afraid, longing and doubtful, and will desperately grab the life-saving objects around you, just to get out of the quagmire.
The director has a profound artistic foundation. The film gave up all sensational and tear-jerking means, just presented the whole story truly, and integrated literature, art, and human nature into a unique aesthetic, making the film shrouded in a kind of sadness from beginning to end. Emotion, showing a journey of redemption of the soul. In addition, the film's lens is delicate and rich, using a lot of close-up and close-up to capture Claire's every move, let us see her inner vulnerability, desire and sensitivity. It is these artistic features, combined with the suspenseful narrative method, that the director took the common theme of online dating to a new height.
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