In the film "Purple Rose of Cairo", the heroine Cecilia loved three men: her husband Munch, Tom who ran out of the movie, and actor Jill. Cecilia had developed admiration for all three, at least in the past. But at the end of the film, this love is like a flash in the pan, and Nanke's dream never happened. The two men who once walked into Cecilia's world, Tom and Jill, finally walked out of her world. Cecilia's fantasy love experience is actually a "siege" about Cecilia's love.
Munch, as Cecilia's real husband, I don't know if the two of them were in love in the past, but at present the relationship between the two is running out. Munch lost his job due to the Great Depression in the United States, idled around at home all day, and often committed domestic violence to his wife Cecilia. Therefore, Sai and Meng only have a nominal relationship between husband and wife. But this relationship is unequal, or it can be said to be a "double standard". When her husband Munch had an affair, Sai could only choose to hide in the movie theater, pinning his emotions in the movie to avoid reality; however, after Cecilia's "extramarital affair" was discovered by her husband, her husband treated her with violence. The emotional inconsistency in reality provided an opportunity for Cecilia to "derail": Race watched the same film five times and integrated her personal emotions into the virtual world.
And Tom walked out of the screen in the film is a highlight of the film. As a virtual character living in the film, Tom's act of walking out of the screen from the screen indicates that the gap between reality and virtuality is broken, and the world is divided into the real world and the virtual world. And Cecilia's love is divided into real love and virtual love. It also seems to imply that Cecilia's Tom's love is ultimately a moon in a mirror and a flower in the water.
Tom's character is the main reason to attract Cecilia. Tom's romantic, passionate, brave and handsome character in the film deeply attracted Cecilia. Tom's ability to disregard for love is also one of the reasons that moved Cecilia. However, Tom, who walked out of the screen, does not have the economic income to survive in the real world, and his life philosophy is to follow his own life philosophy on the screen, that is, the concept imposed by the screenwriter on him, which is inconsistent with reality. In other words, what Tom is doing may not be due to the natural emotions of human beings, but a pre-existing setting of an arranged, similar to programmed character. Human emotions arise spontaneously, and emotional actions such as hugging and kissing are natural, not mechanical. It is precisely because Tom is technically "inhuman" that this makes him a wonderful contrast to the other two real men.
Compared with her husband Munch, Tom has more to create romance in life and create Cecilia's ideal lifestyle. Whether it is external or internal, Tom's personality is more in line with Cecilia's ideal pursuit. But the two have something in common, that is, there is no stable economic income in real life. This is one of the reasons why Cecilia finally abandoned Tom and chose Jill.
Jill is the actor who plays Tom in the film, and he and Tom are indistinguishable in appearance. But Jill's identity is a big star, and Cecilia's identity is a very ordinary petty citizen. In reality, the two are unlikely to be together. Even though Jill may have a short-lived favorable impression of Cecilia, he is more concerned about the future development of his personal career. This explains that in the end Jill used Cecilia to trick her back into reality, allowing Tom to finally return to the screen.
In the choice between Tom and Jill, it is understandable that Cecilia finally abandons Tom and chooses Jill. Tom is just a virtual character in the film, even Cecilia can walk into the screen and live in Tom's world. However, there is still a gap between life philosophy and lifestyle, and Cecilia is incompatible in identity in the world in which Tom lives. And Cecilia's love for Jill only unilaterally feels that Jill also satisfies her love concept. But there was no question of whether Cecilia herself was a better choice for Jill. There is also a disparity in status. To Jill, the plug is an item, there is only a momentary goodwill, but after using it, it is like abandoning Cecilia like a luggage class. After all, rationally speaking, Cecilia and Jill are not from the same "world" either. This "world" is different from the difference between Sai and Tang's virtual reality world. The difference between Sai and Ji's world is the difference between life levels and circles, and the difference in concept.
Cecilia's love experience is short-lived, romantic and absurd like a dream. But the relationship between these four also reflects most of the love style and life philosophy in reality. The phrase "life is like a play, play is like life" is fully reflected in this movie.
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