1. Themes
"The French Lieutenant's Woman" uses the "two-line narrative" technique to compare the love of the Victorian era in the 18th century with the emotional entanglement of modern men and women. Although the two stories are unrelated in content, their theme of love is , you can see the collision and relationship between the past and the reality.
1. About love and marriage:
Sarah and Charles in the past line are traditional love based on true love, while Anna and Mike in the current line are modern love based on sex. The "two-line narrative" makes the concept of love and marriage collide in different eras show out.
2. On freedom and love:
In the past, Sarah gained true love after enduring criticism from the outside world for her pursuit of freedom. Now, in the online series, freedom is within easy reach for Anna, but her true love is nowhere to be found. The "Double-Line Narrative" also shows the relationship between freedom and love in different eras.
Through the "two-line narrative", the surface theme of the two stories in the film can be clearly seen: the past line is a celebration of the traditional love based on the "unity of soul and body" based on feelings, and it is a victory belonging to the "lover" ; And the modern line shows the tragedy of the concept of sex. People who don't pay attention to feelings will eventually be tortured by feelings, which is a tragedy of "lover".
The parallel comparison between the two leads to a deeper theme, which is an eternal theme belonging to women of different eras. On the issues of pursuit, choice and final belonging, women of different eras have completed the same problem. Deep thinking.
Second, the jacket structure
1. The film adopts a layered structure, also known as "play within a play", in a film, the story of the film is repeated to lead to other stories or events. In the film "The French Lieutenant's Woman", the two stories are in a layered structure, and the presentation state of the film is two story fragments that are interspersed and intertwined. In order to make the audience understand, the director's proportion of the intersection of time and space has also been adjusted. road. Films often choose an era that is closer to the audience for narration, so the main narrative line of the film is the present line, and the past line is intertwined with the modern line, which not only enhances the sophistication of the narrative structure of the film, but also makes the storytelling of the film more complex and vivid. . In addition, the beginning and the end of the film are both the present line, and the past line is set in the middle. While the two lines do not affect the narrative, it also makes the content of the film have a certain alienation effect, which arouses the audience's thinking, and also deepens the theme and characters of the film. understand.
2. The development of the plot structure of the two lines in the film echoes each other and interlocks, forming an interesting intertextual dialogue and mutual correspondence.
example:
1⃣️When Sarah came to Mrs. Pu's house as a follower, she was proud and forbearing (past line)
Some unemployed tutors will become prostitutes (past line)
2⃣️Sarah and Charles meet again after three years (past line)
After the disbandment of the crew, Anna and Mike also separated (now online)
(The two parallel narratives do not interfere with each other)
Through examples, it can be known that the past and present line stories are separately narrated in parallel, but the "double-line parallel narration" at the same time echoes and sets off each other. The two stories are inseparable in appearance. This narrative structure makes the content of the film more abundant and flexible, expands and deepens the theme of the film, and enriches and strengthens the connotation of the film.
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