Edward's Nocturnal Animals to Susan is cruel.
For emotionally sensitive people who experience true love being betrayed, the trauma can be fatal. Edward's real mood was as destructive as the one in his book about his wife and daughter being raped and murdered.
Few people understand this, so the director used a cruel and direct way to let the audience directly understand the mental damage.
People who have no experience will not be able to substitute at all, let alone analyze and interpret. They will directly say that they don't understand, why do they write and shoot like this? They are the lucky group for the time being.
The male protagonist is weak both in the book and in reality. He also knows his own weakness, so in the book he clearly describes the surprise of weakness and the self-blame and remorse after the accident. (And I personally think that this weakness exists in everyone, it is human nature)
But no matter in reality or in the book, the male protagonist is also very clear that it is the murderer in the book and the real heroine who are guilty. It's not his weakness. Although he hates his weakness, he says he can stop it, but he has never been a murderer!
The world doesn't feel the same way. When you get hurt, everyone cheers you up, or even blames you for being weak or crazy. It's not that serious. I just wish someone could admit that some of the damage was devastating and it couldn't be better. Some suicides are liberation, and living is torture. The director is the one who admits it.
The director expresses garbage art, and behind the brilliance of metaphorical success is nothing more than a stuffed horse with swords on its body and a group of old women dancing naked. However, the heroine betrayed the hero because of these garbage.
The heroine was later betrayed by the incumbent, and it was garbage who betrayed garbage. It's not the same as the true love she had when she betrayed the male protagonist. (I'm sorry that the use of "garbage" above is very dazzling. Please understand correctly that it is not a complete negation, but just use garbage to describe the side of garbage)
The heroine finally suffered a mental shock because of the book and the current betrayal in reality. She also regretted it and wanted to start over. At least meet Edward again and ask why?
It was a pity that Edward had told her in a book that he was dead. In reality, Edward was already another person. He knew very well that he couldn't go back. He knew the heroine too well.
The heroine looks a lot like her mother and ends up wearing a green dress to meet Edward. She still doesn't understand the ultimate damage of "green". Her existence is to sting and destroy Edward. The director has arranged it cleverly here, and the green she wears unintentionally is the green that can never be rewritten.
How could Edward forgive her, he had to give up and let go of himself.
back to reality. In this world, there are still many people who can't write novels to express their inner wounds, and they can't find relief from death. On the surface, they looked innocuous, but they were injured.
Tagore said, "At the end of the day, I stand in front of you, and you will see my wounds and know that I have been wounded and healed."
Scars do heal, but let's not forget that they were wounded.
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