Love is not a trial, too much truth is poison, and a lie is sometimes an antidote.
"Stealing Heart" is one of the better films I've seen on the clichéd theme of cheating and cheating. This story is a wonderful play. Even if it is a literary film, you still can't guess the ending until the last moment. The reason why you can't guess the ending is because you don't know who and who these people ended up stealing. Because the relationship between the four protagonists is really complicated. The film has four protagonists, two men and two women. We set the two males as M1 and M2 respectively, and the two females as W1 and W2 respectively. The relationship between the characters in the movie can be summed up in the simplest sentence. M1 and W1 were originally together, and M2 and W2 were together. Later, the affair begins. M1 started with W2, and then M2 and W1 also had a relationship. Eventually M2 and W2 reconciled. And M1 and W1 are separated. Jude Law is M1 Dan and our Black Swan Natalie Portman is W1 Alice. Clive Owen plays M2 Larry and Julia Roberts plays W2 Anna.
My favorite is the beginning of the film, Natalie Portman proudly walks in the crowd with short red hair, just like the end. Dazzling, gorgeous, independent. The difference is that her hair has grown and the color has become low-key and dark. In my opinion, this is a symbol. She was still her, whether her name was Alice or Jane, she was still her, the one who was different and dazzling. Only this time, she has grown up, grown up from hurt, deceit, betrayal, atonement, truth, she didn't put away her light, it just softened, and there will be other people in the crowd with her eyes When they meet, she will love others again, but she will not use all her strength. When she grows up, she will protect herself. As Alice said to Larry at the club that night, "I don't belong to anyone".
Dan, he lost completely. He thought Alice would love her forever, and he thought Anna would leave Larry forever. He lost, not because he was not sincere, he was the most sincere and true one from beginning to end, and he lost because he was too real, too eager to get close to the truth, he treated it frankly and honestly Everything, and time and time again wished his woman did the same to him. Alice or Anna. When love is too close to the truth, it is not far from the end. He forces them to tell the truth, and he forgives again. In love, there are so many all over again? Only marriage can start all over again. He is a prodigal son who loses himself, hurts others, and then hurts himself. At the end of the movie, he saw the name of Alice Ayres on the wall, and then he knew that it was himself who was addicted to the truth from beginning to end, and that he was deceived from beginning to end. As long as he quits the truth like quitting cigarettes, he will not fail completely in love. He still can't quit cigarettes in the end, can he quit the truth?
Anna is a conservative. She chose marriage between love and marriage. She needs marriage to settle her heart. We don't know who she loves more, Larry or Dan, she's like a kid who's had enough outside and occasionally can't find a home, but eventually the kid's parent will bring her home, and that parent is Larry
. In love, only Larry is loyal. Even if he and Alice XX, it is because of sadness and revenge. But he was also a person who loved the truth at first. He needed the details of Anna and DanXX to abuse himself, and the more he abused himself, the more he began to abuse others. This person is poor Dan. And this shows that he has always loved Anna, and all his self-abuse and his abuse are because of his love and hatred for Anna.
And ironically, Dan is their Cupid. This kind of character relationship connects the four of them to each other one by one. Everyone is close to each other, and any two of them are involved and steal each other's hearts. Larry and Dan are a kind of "heart-stealing" in disguise on the Internet, and the ambiguous eyes of Larry and Alice when they meet for the first time at the exhibition are also a kind of Platonic "heart-stealing", always, stealing. The person who likes the truth loses the worst, because he always wants to know who is stealing and what are the details of the stealing. How can there be so many truths in love, the more you want to know, the more miserable you die. Dan's fate is that he steals, and finally gets stolen. Stealing is risky.
People are always desperate for the truth, and the truth is that love doesn't need truth, love only needs fools.
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