when the "if" is possible

Kamille 2022-04-19 09:02:15

Sometimes liking a movie is also a kind of fate. It just happens that what the film says resonates with what I think. I often wonder, if I had made that choice, what would it be like now? Unfortunately, this question will never be answered. It happens, it happens, there is no "if" in the real world.
Movies, however, make "what if" possible. A momentary difference leads to a series of subsequent changes, even changes in fate... In "Sliding Doors", after the bifurcation of time, two different clues become independent lines and occasionally intersect, which makes people very reverie. What will be the final outcome of the two? In the end, the director chose to return everything to the original point. The heroine still found out her boyfriend's betrayal, and then met the emperor in the elevator and picked up the earrings... This scene brings us back to the beginning of the film... So, will this be the beginning of another cycle? Or will things change in the future? As a viewer, of course I hope things change so that the heroine doesn't die in the end...but who knows what happens after that.
After watching the movie, I kept thinking, what does this movie want to express? As I kept thinking while watching the film, two clues, which one would have a better ending? Is it the first original line, or is it a line that has been changed later? In fact, in this unconscious comparison, I have a psychological suggestion to myself, that is, I think that what has changed will be better, this feeling is like usually, we will be dissatisfied with real life, but always think " If it was like that then, it will be better now." So. But obviously, the director poured cold water on my idea, because it seems that the heroine's life after the change is better than the original clue, but in the end she died after finally finding true love... So I I wonder if what the director wants to tell us is that time cannot be forked, and don’t delusional alternatives and accept the current life. Never ask for "...

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  • Nelle 2022-03-26 09:01:07

    I don't know if it should be a pity that we can't always see another possibility of life, maybe we have been kept in the dark

  • Brent 2022-04-22 07:01:33

    Encountering true love but having no luck, who knew that the encounter at the elevator door of the hospital would not lead to another car accident?

Sliding Doors quotes

  • Helen: I didn't know you liked Elton John.

    Gerry: I-I-I do sometimes.

  • Russell: I must say, being friends with you certainly makes the wait for the next episode of "Seinfeld" much easier to bear.