Baby, I think we both know
It's alright, alright
But how could I forget what you did that night
Baby, you told me you loved me in Tennessee
Where we were gonna live
But now you've done a few things that I can't forgive
Driving to her house
Tellin' her you love her
Lying on a friday night
Ring in your pocket
Lying to me all along
In the back of your truck with the radio on
can be seen from the lyrics - her husband James cheated. The reason for the derailment is probably related to the repeated emphasis in the film that "love and work cannot have both". If Kelly chooses to be a star, then she can only belong to everyone, not just one man.
Returning to the beginning of the film, Bow asks Kelly to sing "Timing is Everything", and Kelly sings "you run into the building to get out the rain...." so smoothly that Bow asks her in surprise how she is so fast Sings out - yeah, why so fast? Because that's how she and James met.
She loves James so much, but when her career is in full swing, she's bound to snub him. Regardless of whether James' derailment is correct, it happened after all. Kelly wanted to forgive him, she couldn't blame him, but she couldn't let it go, and she also complained that she ignored him at the peak of her career, so she broke down mentally and led to alcoholism and depression. The tragedy of miscarriage. ——This can be reflected in the performances and dialogues in many places in the film.
The three songs Kelly sang in Dallas at the end of the film represent the beginning, climax and end of her life stage. The home in the song "Home" does not refer to the real home, but expresses Kelly's desire to escape from this. Contradicting realistic expectations, she wants to find a place where she can find peace of mind. So she had no choice, or rather made a choice, to die with the best memories of James.
Charles Stanton and Kelly's experiences should be very similar, so Kelly can guess Charles' background and quickly advise her in the backstage scene at the end of the film. In reality, both women are strong on the outside and vulnerable on the inside, but in the end the two of them chose two different paths—Charles removes her heavy makeup at the end, showing that she has removed her outer pretense , decided to live another free life with Bao.
The role of Bao is very clever. He has always been a bystander in the film's story. The director cleverly borrowed him to express the emotional tone of the film - that is, not to blame anyone for any mistakes, but to be unconditional and inclusive. Understand, pity, sympathize and love them.
In fact, this is a very, very delicate film, which contains love, life, struggle, choice, etc. There are too many contents, both romantic and sad. I hope those who are interested can watch it again patiently, maybe they will have different feelings.
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