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HIS FILM DIARY 2015
total movie count ........... viewing day count
223 .......................... 255
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September 12th
—— 1948 ——
Letter from an
Unknown Woman
—— drama ——
tragic... beautiful... tragic...
This review contains spoilers
This film somehow found a special place in my heart, surprising me with a very delicate and honest depiction of love from every angle imaginable. I really wasn’t ready for a film from that time and with that title to be so drained of sentimentality and happy endings. This story is heartbrokenly haunting; but broken hearts appear to have an amazingly unfragmented way of unfolding and presenting such complex and confused emotions. This is a true tragedy told boldly and beautifully, which left me completely lost in those who was longing for love and looking to be noticed…
If you have ever been in love, whether happily fulfilled or sadly faded away, you would know more than just minor details of how the main character in this film really feels. Once in love, you can become overly obsessed with even the smallest of things; you seek out the absolute attention of someone special and you slowly but surely become furiously frustrated if things don’t go as planned. Suddenly you may give up, only to find yourself in situations where you realize how strongly you still fight for something that might not even be there to begin with. The journey of the main character is moving and masterfully told, in which the audience walk right behind her every step, watching her stumble, finding her footing, only to fatally fall in the end of it. I love the way in which the story is separated into small significant sections, where Lisa discovers her love, searches for his recognition, gives up hope, finds her hope again, finally succeeds, looses his recognition, looses hope, gives up her love. This is a fascinating character arc, which really feels followed through with and meticulously measured, all the way to the bitter end.
And once we do reach the evident end – which also happens to be the end of the letter written by Lisa and working as the very narrative of the entire film – everything suddenly comes together as one singular piece of painfully honest emotions on love and life in general. The letter leaves nothing to chance, reveals nothing can change all the while laying out every detail and depicting every moment of her past… their past. We see her past love, Stefan, while Lisa’s letter is gradually explaining and examining the inner conflicts and outer journey she had for the love of someone who never truly loved her back. What she remembers as the best day of her entire life turns out to be just another day with just another girl for him, and while she remembers every detail he can’t even remember a single thing about her. The conclusion is like an honest and heartbroken revenge story, in which her sorrows and sadness forces him to finally realize his mistakes, but while on her death bed it is ultimately a turnaround too late… a life lost that could have been, a love life that should have been, but with a man that should have known but never did… who knew that a letter from an unknown woman would be so frightfully and fatally familiar?
__________________________
HIS FILM DIARY 2015
total movie count ........... viewing day count
223 .......................... 255
__________________________
September 12th
—— 1948 ——
Letter from an
Unknown Woman
—— drama ——
tragic... beautiful... tragic...
This review contains spoilers
This film somehow found a special place in my heart, surprising me with a very delicate and honest depiction of love from every angle imaginable. I really wasn’t ready for a film from that time and with that title to be so drained of sentimentality and happy endings. This story is heartbrokenly haunting; but broken hearts appear to have an amazingly unfragmented way of unfolding and presenting such complex and confused emotions. This is a true tragedy told boldly and beautifully, which left me completely lost in those who was longing for love and looking to be noticed…
If you have ever been in love, whether happily fulfilled or sadly faded away, you would know more than just minor details of how the main character in this film really feels. Once in love, you can become overly obsessed with even the smallest of things; you seek out the absolute attention of someone special and you slowly but surely become furiously frustrated if things don’t go as planned. Suddenly you may give up, only to find yourself in situations where you realize how strongly you still fight for something that might not even be there to begin with. The journey of the main character is moving and masterfully told, in which the audience walk right behind her every step, watching her stumble, finding her footing, only to fatally fall in the end of it. I love the way in which the story is separated into small significant sections, where Lisa discovers her love, searches for his recognition, gives up hope, finds her hope again, finally succeeds, looses his recognition, looses hope, gives up her love. This is a fascinating character arc, which really feels followed through with and meticulously measured, all the way to the bitter end.
And once we do reach the evident end – which also happens to be the end of the letter written by Lisa and working as the very narrative of the entire film – everything suddenly comes together as one singular piece of painfully honest emotions on love and life in general. The letter leaves nothing to chance, reveals nothing can change all the while laying out every detail and depicting every moment of her past… their past. We see her past love, Stefan, while Lisa’s letter is gradually explaining and examining the inner conflicts and outer journey she had for the love of someone who never truly loved her back. What she remembers as the best day of her entire life turns out to be just another day with just another girl for him, and while she remembers every detail he can’t even remember a single thing about her. The conclusion is like an honest and heartbroken revenge story, in which her sorrows and sadness forces him to finally realize his mistakes, but while on her death bed it is ultimately a turnaround too late… a life lost that could have been, a love life that should have been, but with a man that should have known but never did… who knew that a letter from an unknown woman would be so frightfully and fatally familiar?
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