The meaning of the so-called "other women" seems to have several layers.
According to the world's standard of judgment, the heroine Marion is a successful woman, a professor of philosophy at the university, who is writing a book, has her own successful career, and her husband is very decent. It seems that there is nothing wrong with her. However, the sadness implicit in another woman's fuzzy words in the counseling room that came from the exhaust vent accidentally made her lose her peace.
Perhaps it was because this kind of grief made her feel the same way. She actually knew that her marriage with her husband was already in perfect harmony and shaky, but she didn't know how to face it. In the next room, although another woman is talking, they share the same confusion and sadness.
Immediately afterwards, she found that her own brother and her childhood girlfriends disliked her so much, but she mistakenly thought that she was very close to them, between herself in her own mind and her in the eyes of her close people. The gap is so big, it's just another woman. At this time, the audience was a bit confused as she was, why she was so disgusted by her own brother and her childhood friend.
The film reveals the reasons one by one. She had mercilessly belittled her brother's debut work, but she has no impression of what she said many years later. To her girlfriend's sweetheart, she deliberately or unintentionally tempted her, but the purpose was to reject him and establish her superiority, and she didn't even realize the harm she had done to her girlfriend. She is always used to judging others aloft. Her philosophy as a professor of philosophy itself represents a kind of rational thinking, and rationality represents emotional isolation. She actually isolated the emotions with her younger brother and her girlfriends without knowing it. In the film, she wears a mask to kiss her lover at the time, and her ex-husband also represents the metaphor of isolation. In order not to interfere with the career she is about to start, she kills the children with her ex-husband on her own initiative, which leads to the subsequent divorce.
She even isolated herself in her heart. The beast in the cage is also a metaphor. She has imprisoned herself and isolated herself from the outside world. But the most regrettable thing is that she isolates herself from true love. She is unwilling to face her feelings. It is clear that true love is coming, but she keeps it out of her heart because she was already engaged at the time and it has been shown in the film. But her fiance at the time was actually a cold and ruthless man.
In the end, she finally faced up to the problems in her marriage, and had a showdown with her husband who had no love for her for a long time. She also gradually realized that the reason why she had these emotional problems in life was the strict requirements of her father's education method when she was a child. But lack of warmth matters.
At the end of the film, she resumed efficient work, seeming to find peace of mind. But, can I really get out of my prison so quickly? I hope so, but I doubt it. . .
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