pure horror

Kaci 2022-03-26 09:01:12

"A letter from a strange woman is the highest level of secret love." I thought that this movie would be about a little fresh drama about a girl's secret feelings when she faces a boy she loves, but after watching it, it is undoubtedly a movie called Heartbreaking tragedy. Sighing and indulging in Qiong Fang Deng's beauty and Louis' arrogance, the two should have been a pair in the world, and hand in hand along the time, will be the perfect ending. Unfortunately, the world always lacks perfection, and things backfire. Steve shattered Lisa's dream, and it went against the wishes of all of us.

He Rubo is fortunate, Jinyi Lang, wished on the same day. Steve's appearance and talent are unparalleled in the world, unsympathetic, and first-class in the world. He was impressed by his inexplicable memory, and even more curious about how many women he had in his life. After the whole movie, what left the deepest impression on me was the moment when Lisa watched the train leave. She said, "Steve, you don't know yourself too well." At the end of the movie, Steve really walked out of Lisa as Lisa thought. When I lived my life, I admired Lisa, the highest state of secret love, worthy of the name, a few words are enough to see through your heart. A train that turns Lisa's fate upside down. From the beginning of getting on the train and leaving the city that belongs to Steve, and then the train sent Steve out of Lisa's life, and finally the train took her child away forever... It means that the parting train changed Lisa's life, and the fate was turbulent, just like The meandering of the rails has never been able to have a moment of peace. The director makes good use of symbolic foreign objects or scenes to connect the story in series and promote the development. The three journeys of the train run through Lisa's life, showing the terrifying coincidence of fate, or this is a "good start and good end" that belongs to life. . There are also many such connections in the film. At the beginning, Lisa witnessed Steve taking the woman home on the stairs, and then he was brought home by him; at the beginning, Steve met Lisa in the snow for the first time, and then Lisa escaped desperately in the snow alone. He marvels at the precision of the shooting techniques, cleverly connecting the stories, borrowing external objects to express the delicate hearts of the characters, and at the same time, there are things right and wrong, and the meaning of fate is ups and downs. The whole film is down, although it is a tragedy in my understanding, but it belongs to the sweetness of Girls' Generation's crush, which really makes people's lips rise and yearn for love. The swing accompanied by the music, the love at first sight with the glass door, the virtual train from the opposite seat to the next door, squatting beside the piano with a loving gaze... and that long and warm kiss. All of this is the beauty of the girl's embrace of spring, the surprise of touching love, the longing that she once yearned for, and the youth that many people can't go back to. It is not so much a secret love at the highest level, it is better to say that this is a love that is so simple and terrifying. Today, when simplicity is not the mainstream, when you devote yourself to a relationship with pure love, it will be scary. However, Lisa's pure love for Steve that I love you has nothing to do with you is also terrifying and rare. Lisa is unique. Her love is too complicated, too simple, too crazy, too ordinary, too scary and beautiful... At the end of the film, Steve agreed to a duel, and I have no solution to Steve's heart at this time, and finally he looked back and saw Lisa when he was a child... Whether his appointment was out of love for Lisa, or just as a man's responsibility, Or guilt... No one can read Steve, and the film ends with a scene that really deserves to be explored. But in my opinion, it seems to be more to satisfy the audience's heart, and perhaps it is also to imply a kind of energy conservation in life. Lisa has devoted her life for Steve, so if Steve's life is to end, it must also be done for Lisa. This last ride.

The meaning of this film may be far more than what we have seen. Some things may have to be delved into in order to see different meanings.

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Extended Reading
  • Dane 2022-03-28 09:01:11

    If "a well-constructed love story is society's way of compromising lovers and society with alien language (Roland Barthes), then in this story, Lisa never stops fighting, and Stefan never dares to step into it. Therefore, From youth to middle age, between every escape and return, Lisa gained the most complete love experience among all the moments she fought for herself—even if the love was fragmented, whispered, and alone. . And the same detachment from reality (and an important motivation for their brief connection; "I like winter because I can imagine spring"), Stefan is a cocoon, saying that "it's easier to please others than to please yourself", and then for Putting on the shackles, love and art are both. What the letter touched him was not love, but a woman's intimidating tenacity and faith. On the basis of the original book, the good time of two people getting along was added, and the love was manually frozen. In the music and the imagination of the distance, but prolonging the sigh after the end. Fontaine's performance is excellent, and the camera language is a master.

  • Mortimer 2022-03-28 09:01:11

    The fun of unrequited love mostly lies in psychological activities, but only adopts the narrative structure and audio-visual language of traditional Hollywood melodrama (the three-act drama structure that starts and turns together, the classic lighting, especially the hallucinogenic-oriented depth of field design, the hero and heroine ride in a panoramic view. The indoor train scene pictured in the background is somewhat self-referential) to present such a theme, and it is inevitable to be discouraged. Even if it is a complete tragedy, but due to the melodramatic style, the ending is accompanied by a symphony that gradually moves towards grandeur, and it is fixed in the hero's awakening, as if the heroine's moment of awakening and repentance in exchange for a man's life is enough to afford it. An ending that can be regarded as a "big reunion" - in the face of masochistic self-destructive love, but using sadistic methods in audio-visual language, in a certain sense, it constitutes a contradiction between form and content.

Letter from an Unknown Woman quotes

  • Stefan Brand: Honor is a luxury only gentlemen can afford.

  • Stefan Brand: Promise me something.

    Lisa Berndl: Anything.

    Stefan Brand: And I don't even know where you live. Promise me you won't vanish.

    Lisa Berndl: I won't be the one who vanishes.