I oppose that in the commentary, there are many saying that the second half of the whole paragraph collapsed and dragged the whole film. Not really! The drama of talented scholars and beautiful women often avoids the chai, rice, oil, salt and stumbling after marriage. The drama of working hard in the workplace often ends abruptly after a lot of hard work and succeeds in gaining a foothold and getting promoted and raises. But things are often not the case in the world. It is the starting point of a new story that is more complex, more contradictory, and more experienced.
It is said that poor and lowly couples are sad, and the rich couples in the movie still cannot go on together. In the news outside the film, those who win the lottery overnight get rich, either one party is embroiled in the money, or the divorce is ugly. It is not so much that having money/lack of money makes people change their minds, it is better to say that having money/lack of money makes interpersonal relationships extremely unstable. This kind of instability is actually caused by the sudden change of class after being rich/no money: it may be actively seeking a class transition (for example, the heroine wants to integrate into the upper art field after being rich), or it may be passively encountering class fall (in the family way) Falling / being criticized in special times / encountering a tide of layoffs, etc.)
And the class change caused by this sudden change in wealth often makes people unhappy, because even if the material conditions meet the class standard, the spiritual level is difficult to approach the average level of the current class. I think this is what the film really wants to tell us. of. In the film, the heroine's deliberate pursuit of "high-end taste" cannot be exchanged for recognition by others; it is extremely difficult for people who have fallen into the family to integrate into the lives of ordinary people. Why is the ancient works of thousands and thousands of fame come from the hands of degraded literati, rather than officials who have won the imperial examination and the spring breeze is proud of horseshoe problems. It may also be related to the former's inability to integrate the spiritual level into the class of the body, resulting in a huge sense of unhappiness, and then turning grief and anger into strength.
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