final dialogue
This short review is mainly because the understanding of the ending dialogue is somewhat different from the existing analysis. If the dialogue is understood to have actually happened, the title may have a lighter meaning, or may even contradict itself with the plot. Only the protagonist is alone on the beach from beginning to end, and is only woken up by a stranger at the end, which is more suitable for the title, so I want to share my understanding of the ending.
According to the film's narrative, the actress was woken up by passers-by on the beach in winter, invited to have a fire-fighting chat with the crew, and a chance reunion with the director at night. And it was in this conversation that the two had a heated argument about their former feelings for each other under the awkward gaze of the rest of the crew. After the director gave the actress Chekov's book, she was suddenly awakened on the icy sand, and everything that happened before was a dream.
I saw other comments that the setting of the dream is a cover-up, and the plot of waking up after the dialogue is as unreliable as the window cleaner in black outside the window, and this dialogue happened in real time and space . But I think the sincerity and candor of this dialogue can only happen in a dream, and we know from the beginning that the protagonist spent a long time dodging scandals and emotional wounds, and even after all that time, the scandal is still big To a certain extent occupied her thoughts and thoughts and other people's impressions of her. However, when talking and laughing, people always avoid talking about the elephant in this room, neither talking about Young Hee's real situation nor talking about the drama in his wasted life. Every conversation is like a touch of water, and every stone can't make waves. After the conversation, there is more loneliness and contempt.
No matter how spicy the words are, they can only be said with a smile, as if it was just a joke. The listeners understood the sarcasm, but they also pretended not to understand and laughed along with them. It was like a cry for help wandering in the dead valley.
However, the dialogue with the director in the dream near the end is different. Although the words are bright and resentful, the emotions and words that have been repressed on weekdays can finally be vented. It is so precious and vivid to speak out your thoughts freely, and get rid of the usual hypocrisy. However, the protagonist, like most people, is a person who lives in calm despair, and can only crave and rely on dreams to express his heart directly with the people in his mind, so that when a passer-by wakes up from the coast, he still reluctantly gives up on the dream.
After all, the world in the mind is the last piece of free pure land for the protagonist, and only in the dream world does not need to play on the scene.
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