The three women in the film are all closely related to "Mrs. Dalloway": Virginia Woolf is independent and strong, but she is "arranged" and "manipulated" in life, and she can only focus on the creation of novels. Make "Mrs. Dalloway" fully autonomous; Laura, who is pregnant, feels as if she has been reduced to a fertility and housework robot, unable to find the true meaning of life. Considering the fetus in her womb, she chose to face life bravely like "Mrs. Dalloway", abandoning her family and leaving the country after giving birth to her daughter, rather than choosing to escape like Woolf who drowned; Mrs. Dalloway faces a world that has been turned upside down: she can "buy her own flowers" like "Mrs. Dalloway" in the novel, can spend ten years with a contractual partner, and can be with Laura's psychologically twisted woman. The son develops close friendships of equality and mutual respect.
Compared with the times in which Woolf lived, everything was different. Because of the frequent switching of scenes and characters, this movie will be confusing at first, but as long as you keep your head down, you will find that it is a good movie that "gets better". As for those who say that the film is mainly about "loneliness," "loneliness," "self-imposed exile" elements, I can only think they are talking nonsense.
PS Nicole Kidman is a completely different person after wearing a fake nose.
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