During the Great Depression in the United States in the 1930s, in a small town in New Jersey, the weak waitress Cecilia and her husband lost their jobs. Cecilia often went to the movies alone to kill her time. The adventure film of "The Purple Rose of Cairo" fascinated her deeply. When Cecilia saw the film for the fifth time, the actor Tomscreen suddenly walked off the screen, expressed his gratitude and love to her, and opened a movie theater with Cecilia. The film director and male lead Jill find Tom and persuade him to return to the movie world. Tom is unwilling to return to the screen world, but he is very uncomfortable with the real world. Cecilia also fell in love with Jill, a real person, and was in conflict. Tom is not a real person after all, but Jill is a Hollywood star. Both are obviously not good partners in life. In the end, Tom returned to the screen, Jill returned to Hollywood, and Cecilia returned to her husband with nothing
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The Purple Rose of Cairo movie plot
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The Purple Rose of Cairo quotes
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Cecilia: You never pay attention to me any more. So I thought, if we could go to the movies tonight, you know, you could forget your troubles a little.
Monk: Forget my troubles. Cecilia, you like sitting through that junk, okay? I'm gonna shoot crap, okay? Go to the movie by yourself.
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Tom Baxter: I'm doing a little archeological work.
Rita: A real life explorer!
Tom Baxter: I've come in search of the Purple Rose of Cairo. It's an old legend that's fascinated me for years. A Pharaoh had a rose painted purple for his queen and now the story says purple roses grow wild at her tomb!
Rita: How romantic.
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idealist living on earth
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The Purple Rose of Cairo——The spiritual dilemma of "playing into the play" of all parties inside and outside the screen
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The Narrative of Meta-Film: When Screen and Reality Intertwine
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The Life of a Bohemian——Cecilia's Life Script
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The real wants their lives to be fictional, and the fictional people want their lives to be real