Mr. Oldman with an old-fashioned temperament is a connoisseur auctioneer of a top art auction house. A pair of observant eyes has established his position in the auction appraisal industry.
Dressing neatly every day, going in and out of fancy restaurants, and living a glamorous but almost dogmatic life. My biggest hobby is to join forces with my friend Billy to collect portraits of women of various periods at a low price and enjoy them alone in my secret room.
Until one day, a mysterious female customer, Claire, came into his life with a large amount of antique heritage. Claire claimed to have agoraphobia and never showed her face, but this special way of communication made Oldman gradually fascinated. He even turned to the young mechanical handsome Robert around him to pursue a woman's method.
Finally one day Oldman gave up his original life and embraced the new life with an open embrace, but found that everything was different from what he saw. When he threw himself into this love, good things turned into demons that devoured people.
Virgil Oldman, this is the male protagonist's name. So from the beginning, we knew it wasn't going to work out. A weird old man guarding a room of paintings can see how lonely he is from the outside, almost a "virgin". As fate would have it, he thought he had met the only love in his life, that woman with a classical charm.
"What's it like to live with a woman? It's like going to an auction where you never know if your bid is the highest." Mr. Oldman's first and only romance felt like a grand auction Yes, I paid all my wealth and enthusiasm for the peerless treasure in front of me, but what I got was a fake.
Mr. Oldman discussed counterfeiting face-to-face with beautiful counterfeiters: "Every counterfeit hides some truth. When copying someone else's work, the counterfeiter can't resist the temptation to add his own traces to the work. , often some trivial details. From an inadvertent brushstroke, the true feelings of the counterfeiter will be revealed, making the counterfeiter inevitably betray himself."
What does the word "love" actually mean? Is it a physiological and chemical reaction, or is it a joy that you experience in person? Is it the yearning and expectation for the future, or the stimulation of various relationships in the world? How much comes from our inner longing, and how much of these longings are spontaneous? Who's to say Mr. Oldman wasn't stimulated by the mechanic's colorful romances and sparked a passion he shouldn't have at his age.
Perhaps Mr. Oldman finally discovered that the meaning of life may not lie in length, wealth or status, but only in various attempts, explorations and experiences. The lover in his eyes seems to have been transformed into a piece of art, the pain in the bathtub is the "Ophelia" submerged in the water; when she sits opposite and looks at the injury on the foot, it becomes "The Boy Who Pulls the Thorn" . "Xishi in the eyes of the beholder", the artist's eyes are of course works of art.
The last sale of Mr. Oldman's life was also a portrait of a woman, but he no longer needed it because he had found true love in his heart. I can hardly bear to see the situation when he faces the empty wall. Although the first love mostly ends in failure, the ending is even more tragic because of the lateness of this first love.
When Mr Oldman found himself deep into the scam, he set out to find the real part of the scam. He remembered Claire saying "no matter what happens to us, you have to know I love you", he had been to the "Day and Night" restaurant she said, he was chasing love like a teenager, and he began to feel the taste of loneliness .
Maybe the real ending is the stroked old man who died alone in the nursing home, who went to Prague alone with the only painting, waiting for his lover to appear in the "Day and Night" with huge gears, maybe it was just an illusion generated during his treatment. . Even when he was the most lonely, he still had expectations for love. Maybe this was Mr. Oldman's "best offer" for his feelings.
I like the last long mirror very much. Mr. Oldman made it in the innermost position of the restaurant. The camera slowly pulled out, surrounded by friends or couples who came together. All kinds of gears were running in an orderly manner. Only he was like a spare part. , waiting alone for the "true feelings of the counterfeiter" to appear in front of him... At the beginning of the film, he was sitting alone; at the end of the film, he was still sitting alone.
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