Coffee merchant Louis (Antonio Banderas) has a successful career but has always been single, and in order to find a partner, he marries an American wife through a newspaper advertisement. On the day the ship arrives at the harbor, Louis is captivated by her beauty, and he finds that this woman is very different from the bland woman in the photo.
The woman says that she is the Julia (Angelina Jolie) he is waiting for, and she does not want men to marry her because of her beauty, so she will make this decision.
Of course, Louis was too late to be happy, and told her that he was not actually a small employee of the coffee company written in the letter, he was the owner of the coffee company. The two talked happily, so they hurried home to prepare for the wedding.
At first, the two live a happy and enviable life, and Julia's flirting technique makes Louis completely unable to resist her temptation. In order to show his trust, Louis offers to give the money in his account to his wife, and at the same time, he also hopes that Julia will write a letter to go back and report to his worried sister.
Shortly after the incident, a man came to the door and said that he was a private investigator and had been hired by Julia's sister to determine if she was okay. Soon after, a woman came with a letter saying it was not at all the handwriting of her sister she knew. Louis rushed home worried, but it happened.
Julia left with all his money, and news never came. The deception and betrayal of the Pillow Man turned Louis from heartbreak to anger, and he sold all his possessions, determined to find her no matter what, and even kill her.
He turned to the former private investigator, who took him to Havana. On the night of his stay, Louis saw Julia, whose name was Bonnie, in the dining room, and seemed to have a marriage contract with an old colonel.
He came to her room and at first wanted to kill her, but his heart was more affectionate with her than he could have imagined, and finally he hugged her and confided that he could not live without her.
Bonnie, also the fake Julia, said that she was an abandoned baby who grew up with a man named Billy. She gave Billy all the money she got, hoping that Billy would let them both go, because she was really in love with Louis.
The colonel's engagement was successfully dissolved, but the detective brought bad news, claiming that according to the police's information in the newspaper, it was believed that the real Julia had been killed by Bonnie. Bonnie argued that it was Billy's hand.
Louis decides to flee with Bonnie and go to a more remote place. But on the first day of staying in a mansion, the detectives caught up again. An impatient Louis shot at him, ran away, and went to buy two tickets as Bonnie had told him.
In fact, the detective is Billy, and he has already replaced the bullet in the gun with an empty package. He asks Bonnie to find a way to get Louis to sell out his shares, and then they work together to kill him and seize the property.
Bonnie, who was already in love with Louis, refused at first, but due to sexual habits and desires, and billy really accompanied her for so many years without abandoning her, she agreed.
But at the very last minute, Louis discovered their plot. Bonnie handed Louis a cup of coffee mixed with poison. He exposes their plot, but in order to prove that he truly loves Bonnie, he drinks it all...
More than two hours of film, the plot is quite rich. Starring Angelina Jolie, one of the sexiest women in the world, and Antonio Banderas, I think one of the most handsome men, starring.
The film is adapted from a novel, except for a few parts, full of tension, and audiences who love large-scale lenses can also get a lot of satisfaction in this movie.
The plot setting is quite fresh, the opening of the film uses the heroine's current time to state the main axis in a storytelling way, and interlaces the beginning and end of the development of the core development of the narrative, and the theme lays out the twists and turns of the triangular relationship, fully showing the interweaving of love and hate and the temptation of desire and other human issues.
The plot narrative is gentle and gentle, sometimes through attractive highlights, and shocking explosive points to pull up the wonderful situation, and the close and coherent plot promotion is even more gripping, and the content expression of love tolerance and buying and selling love is also worth pondering.
In the film, Angelina Jolie not only boldly shows her body, but also passionately interprets with Antonio Banderas, and presents the emotional exchange of true love in the later part, which is sincere and exquisite, quite infectious, but also seems to be a fierce means to win hearts.
As Bonnie says, it's not a love story, but a story about love that speaks quite closely to the feel of the film.
Both men love Bonnie in some ways, but one is willing to give everything, including his own life to love; the other is to ask Bonnie to grab everything from others, and the two enjoy it together.
The struggle between selflessness and selfishness is bound to show a dazzling light in the end. As for whether you are worth it, it is a matter of opinion. But it cannot be denied that if you have really loved, it is worth it.