The heroine Allen is walking in a London subway station. When the car stops at the station (according to the theory of parallel universes, time has a bifurcation point), inadvertently two choices make her life go to different journeys:
(1) Allen missed the subway, when she got home, her boyfriend Jerry just got up and was taking a shower...
(2) Allen got on the subway, when she got home, she unexpectedly found Jerry and his lover lying on the bed...
Two main lines are laid out beautifully and smoothly in the film:
Allen who catches up with the subway, catches up with Jerry's affair, catches up with the brokenness of her emotional world earlier, and also meets her "Mr right" James , James is the man I admire most in the film, sometimes childish and sometimes mature and elegant. James carried and accommodated Allen's broken heart, and also allowed Allen to come out of the pain, gain growth, and open his heart to love and be loved. The romance between Allen and James is also my favorite and most touching part of the film. Allen is not wrong, James is really a different man...
And Allen, who didn't catch the subway, didn't catch up with Jerry's affair, but she also suffered from Jerry's hidden deception and injury, but she still worked hard and never complained. The old way of giving, compared to Jerry's terribly bad game of betrayal. Jerry's embarrassment between the two women and the strong woman character of his cheating lover are the most interesting parts of the film. And Allen, who has always had a beautiful fantasy, finally found that the clumsy Jerry had already been in an affair with her back to her...
At the end of the film, two juxtaposed and entangled main lines merged together because of an accidental accident. The intertwined time and space lead to the same ending. It turns out that catching or missing the subway doesn't change the encounter between Allen and James.
Doors are always "Sliding", and life is always predetermined; the fate of being accepted or abandoned is still moving forward.
It's just that I have always believed that the people who should meet, no matter what, they will always meet.
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