I know.. this is not a great movie... but.. is an very interesting idea.
In fact is like a comon fantasy to take of every thing a begin from a new start.
I like the movie, but I have seen that in general the people dind´t like it.
Oscar
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Sometimes I think movies like this get in too close and those they do tend to put them down. This is a film that actors, and non-actors, people who've hit a bump in the road, like, then dislike, their routines, lives, marriages, or feel stuck in a rut, hit a certain age, own regrets, want a second, third, fourth, chance to start over, get a glimpse of what high-risk and low-risk lives look like. And how each wanting what the other has up to a point of actually making the leap of faith. How life moves in this Mobius strip type of way with ups and downs with all of us feeling tomorrow is promised. Is it?
It questions everything. Every cliche, "Everywhere you go there you are." is truth. We can't stop being somebody. We can make behavior changes but our core self is still there. Her the piano prodigy who opted for a low-risk scientist job. He for 'writing emails' succeeding in bits that don't feel they amount to much. Do both feel like a failure? Is this a movie only people in mid-life can identify with?
I feel the film runs a fictional parallel with many of the audience who show up in theaters, take that time to witness the lives of others hoping to justify or encourage them to take leaps or maintain.
We start fresh every day.
GFW
Probably you gave on target when you talk about middle-aged people because to young people is very difficult to see this point.
I agree with you about "you are you".
In fact I think you are you since the very begining of your life.
In this way is a very interesting fantasy to be "another person".
Oscar
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... and we can't stop being somebody either. We can change behavior, spruce up our character, but Mankind makes his destiny through his choices and values.
What we aren't privy to, other than the few hints of hating her name, and Alice and her mother weren't close, and the glare / longing look at the piano, we have no indicator what created this trajectory she doesn't want off of.
Maybe the film is a warning for those who think they want to do this? That in the end it's an empty life?
GFW