In the end, after spending nearly two hours reading it, I didn't really understand it. At first I thought that the same thing happened to both of them, and I was worried, so I thought of "Two Life Flowers", but after seeing it, I realized that it was not. So I felt that the later plot was made up by Sophie in the novel, and I thought of "The Rebirth", but I looked at it and found that it was not. Later, when I saw a car accident happened, I realized that someone must have died. This reminded me of the "Sixth Sense", whether the dead still thought she was not dead. But I still cannot logically explain the structure of the entire film.
This is not okay, I have watched hundreds of movies, and I can't understand even a movie, so I can say it. Although I really want to check the film reviews online, I still feel that I have figured it out and enjoyed it, otherwise it would be boring to be broken by others.
So I lay on the bed and tried desperately, thinking, I must figure it out. But I really can't figure it out. Someone must have died, but I don't know which one died. Because Sophie is alive at the beginning of the film, and Monica is alive at the end.
No way, I had to check it online. As a result, almost all of them did not understand, and there were a few who claimed to understand 70% to 80%, and were extremely happy. Some people also thought of "Two Life Flowers". More people use dual personality, schizophrenia, ghost movies, and soul possession to explain it, but they can't explain why. Some criticized the director for criticizing the film, saying things like "full of loopholes."
But there are also some things that are right. For example, the translation is poor. The last sentence should be "Mom, what are you looking at" instead of "Who is that sister". I was indeed misled by this broken subtitle. For another example, several people mentioned that the white-skinned little girl died, so I can confirm that Sophie died. Another person mentioned that a person with trauma in her childhood will always keep her impression of things in her childhood. Although they have not been able to explain in other ways, these tips are quite important to me.
So I lay on the bed again and thought, thought, from one point to three points, and finally figured it out, and put all the plots of the whole story together.
It must be judged that Monica is not dead and Sophie is dead. This is the premise. So it’s important to see who the bleeding hand belongs to and the correct translation of the subtitle at the end. But you may ask, what happened to Sufi at the beginning? This is because little Monica has been unable to accept the fact that Sophie is dead, or she hopes that Sophie is still alive, so she has always regarded herself as Sophie over the years. Note that she is not thinking of herself as Su. Fei, but thinks that she is Sophie. After growing up, she also had a husband, two children, a mother, and a job as a writer. But all of this has changed because of the unsatisfactory work.
The mental depression gradually touched the fragile nerve in her deep memory. She began to realize that she seemed to be another face in the photo, and a little girl always appeared in her sight, and even had nightmares. In such a chaotic state of mind, the temper is naturally bad, and family life has problems, and the husband proposes to separate. She went to her mother, but her mother was not at home. She found it in the mahjong hall. She was busy building the city walls and ignored her. In this way, the spirit became more and more tense, more and more tense, and when she was extremely tense and extremely fragile, the more she could feel the real self that had been buried for a long time, so she felt that her face was changing, changing, until she I opened the mirror to take a look, and took a sigh of relief when I found that it hadn't changed.
In this process, there are three characters who need to explain. The first one is her husband. At first I didn't understand why the husband who was watching her became another man. Later, I learned that the man who appeared at the beginning was also Monica who "treats" Sophie as herself. The man was actually another little boy in the car at the time, and he was still alive. The face that impressed her most in her childhood has followed her into her life and was regarded as her husband by her. In fact, her husband has another face like her, that is, the face who drove her to her natal house later. And her mother, the face that appeared at the beginning was also the face of her childhood mother, and it was only what she had in mind. In fact, the white-haired one who lived with her was her adoptive mother. The little girl who suddenly appeared in her sight was her childhood self and an impression, not real, and a symbol of her memory. This is why she followed the little girl later, actually following her own memory. The little girl who had nightmares at night before dragging her round and round, is also the memory of her that drew her round and round.
At the adoptive mother's house, she found a picture of her childhood. There are her biological mother and sister on it, so there is a plot to go to her hometown to find them later. Why did the adoptive mother lock the door and not let her go? Actually, she was afraid that she would not come back after seeing the birth mother. After all, the adoptive mother had deep feelings for her.
Finally, she found the place in the photo, but her biological mother had pretended not to recognize her. And the man who was "taken" by her as the face of her husband, that is, the little boy who was also in the car, did not recognize her because of the incident for many years. Later, when she went to the hotel to find her, she still regarded him as her husband, but the man just came for a passionate encounter.
The little girl appeared again, which meant she was closer to the memory. So she followed the little girl, in fact, following the memory, step by step into the childhood home. Back then, back to the scene of the car accident. She, her mother, and the little boy survived the car accident, but Sophie died. Little Sophie is little Monica’s beloved sister. They held their hands tightly together during the car accident, which actually symbolized a kind of "soul" transmission. Little Monica’s heart was greatly stimulated. She couldn’t accept what happened. So after she ran away from home, she always regarded herself as Sophie in her soul, and regarded the people around her childhood as the people around her. People live to the present.
There is a scene here, which is actually the overlap of the two scenes, that is, she meets a white-haired woman in an outdoor cafe, that is, her adoptive mother. One was when she ran away from home when she was a child, met her here, and later became her adoptive mother. Second, the adoptive mother is now coming to pick her up, and these two scenes overlap. That's why little Monica made a call gesture and got on the train by herself.
Little Monica became Sophie after she changed her clothes. In fact, this process symbolized that she had regarded herself as Sophie since then, and has continued to this day. It also symbolizes that she is still used to thinking of herself as a Sufi.
But when she returned home, she opened the door and saw her husband and children, who called "Mom". Everything became real at this moment. She finally got rid of the nightmare in her heart and found herself. Finally, Monica looked back at Sophie, and it was considered as saying goodbye to the Sophie who existed in her soul. From then on, Sophie was not in her soul, and in her heart, she no longer regarded herself as Suphie. Fei, but keeps the memory of Sophie...
Although I also used the word "soul" to explain, this soul is definitely not another soul, but can be explained as a "deep soul". So, this is definitely not a ghost movie, and there are no ghosts. Everything exists in the protagonist's psychology.
In general, this film is still quite interesting. For example, the self in the mirror still exists as a consciousness, while the self in the photo exists as a fact. These are the details that the director has bothered to express.
I think of "Stay", which is the deconstruction and re-enactment of all the impressions of the outside world in the mind of the protagonist at the moment before death, and also makes a fuss about "the impression that exists at a certain moment". It's a pity that I didn't understand it earlier, but I didn't understand it until I read the film reviews. I feel so sorry! Fortunately, after thinking about it for a long time, I finally figured it out.
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