The American movie "Enigma Apartment", Douban score 7.5, remade from the 1996 French movie "Very Apartment", the French version of Douban scored 8.2 points, obviously the remake is not very successful, failed to surpass the previous work.
The film uses a lot of memories interspersed, so some viewers feel a little confused, here is a clockwise combing of the story, there are spoilers please be careful. Because of the interlocking links, the details are more complicated, and friends who do not have the patience to read the text can directly download the film to watch.
The story should take place in the 1990s, and the biggest use of this background is that mobile phones at that time were not as convenient as they are now, and the delay and difficulty of communication were often the key factors that triggered dramatic conflicts, otherwise the story would not have evolved in this way.
Alex and Lisa are two female neighbors, Lisa is a modern dance performer, with her ex-boyfriend, rich businessman has an emotional crisis, accidentally ran to Alex's house to hide, the two met. Alex's dream is to become an actress, and seeing Lisa, who is mature, generous and beautiful, and has the pursuit of rich businessmen, Alex feels like an ugly duckling, slightly ashamed of herself.
Alex has a crush on a photographer, Matthew, at first sight, but Matthew doesn't know her. She has a problem with her camera and goes to Matthew's equipment store for repairs, only to have Matthew fall in love with Lisa at first sight and follow Lisa to the dance rehearsal hall, all of which Alex sees.
Matthew told Fa Xiao, who ran the shoe store about love at first sight, and it happened that Lisa came to the shoe store, and Matthew pretended to be a salesman and took the initiative to talk. He learned the size of Lisa's shoes, booked a pair of red leather shoes for Lisa, and got the coveted date opportunity. In fact, Lisa also saw him following herself.
Alex herself lives under Lisa's dazzling light, and now the object of her crush also likes to rob Lisa, and she looks at Lisa and Matthew through the window, very sad, jealous and angry.
Matthew confesses to Lisa, who is overjoyed, but tells Matthew to talk about it in the evening when she is in a hurry to work. As a result, Lisa's unit arranged for her to temporarily replace her to tour Europe, and at that time, communication was inconvenient, and Lisa could not contact Matthew, so she asked Alex to convey a handwritten letter to Matthew and revealed what Matthew had confessed to herself.
Not only did Alex not forward the letter, but she also cleared out all the messages in Lisa's house. When Lisa called from Europe, she added to the news that she had discovered Matthew meeting other women at home. Lisa believed it to be true and gave up contacting Matthew completely.
After Matthew confessed, he could no longer contact Lisa from work or at home, thinking that his confession scared Lisa away, and after a long time, he left his hometown and went to New York to take up a job, but he never forgot Lisa.
Two years on, Matthew is a successful man and engaged to his boss's sister. He returned to this sad place again because of a business trip to a restaurant to negotiate business with Chinese businessmen. Coincidentally, at the same time, Alex was also at this restaurant, waiting for Lisa to eat together.
Alex is shocked to find Matthew's figure, and she worries that Matthew will meet with Lisa and tear everything down. Alex hurried out of the hotel, Lisa followed, Alex asked the front desk to turn Lisa to answer the phone, and lured Lisa away, so that she would not find Matthew present. Matthew happened to go to the bathroom, and the wall heard that it was Lisa calling, so he chased him out.
Lisa informs Alex on the phone that her former rich businessman boyfriend has found her room in the hotel and is going to take a break with Alex. When Matthew chased after her, Lisa had already walked out of the hotel, but in a hurry, she threw the hotel room card on the floor of the hotel and was picked up by Matthew.
Matthew followed the clues of the room card to the hotel room, which was empty, only to find Lisa's silver makeup box and shredded newspaper, news about a wealthy businessman. Matthew followed the rich merchant in the hope of finding Lisa. The rich merchant came to a dwelling and stuffed an envelope into the room, and Matthew took out the envelope after the rich merchant left, which was a key.
Matthew took the key and left a note for Lisa. He then went to the small place where the shoe store ran it, and told him that he had found Lisa's residence. Fa Xiao also tells him that he is in love with an actor (in fact, it is Alex), And Alex has been thinking about it for a long time, and from the beginning of his contact with Fa Xiao, he actually hopes to find out the news of Matthew's past and present.
Alex learns from her hair that Matthew has found Lisa's residence, so she puts on the costume that Lisa often uses, and wears the red leather shoes that Lisa and Matthew bought when they met at the shoe store. Matthew came to the residence, opened the door with the key left by the rich merchant, and saw the red shoes on the ground, which were the size and style of Lisa's shoes, and the soles of the shoes were still covered with snow, and he was very sure that the person who lived here was Lisa.
The fake Lisa was now facing the window, presumably knowing that Matthew had entered the house, but pretending not to notice. Matthew volunteers to hug the fake Lisa, who pretends to be surprised and asks who he is. Matthew discovers that this Lisa is not the Lisa he knows, and quickly apologizes. Fake Lisa said she was a nurse at the hospital.
Matthew recounts the process of misunderstanding the stalking, and the fake Lisa is full of curiosity and listens carefully to his narration. In fact, the fake Lisa already knew from Matthew's hair, and now it is very happy to hear the close narration of her crush. Matthew is about to get up and leave when she's done, and when Lisa asks Matthew to stay behind for fear of harassment by wealthy merchants, Matthew will fall asleep on the couch.
In the middle of the night, the fake Lisa took the initiative to give hugs, and the two of them had a rain. Fake Lisa went to work the next day, Matthew felt ashamed of last night's events, and since he couldn't find Lisa, he considered leaving here to go to China to run errands. However, the ticket did not have a suitable time and had to be postponed. Matthew agrees to accompany Fa Xiao to his girlfriend's stage performance, which is the stage play of the fake Lisa (Alex). Alex discovers Matthew's arrival on stage, and despite her heavy makeup, she is afraid that Matthew will see through her true colors.
Matthew wanted to go to Lisa's house one last time before leaving the city to see if he could find any clues to the real Lisa. He rummaged through the tables and cabinets and found that there was nothing inside, and it was not a place where people often lived. He was suspicious.
Matthew went to the shoe store and bought a pair of black leather shoes according to the shoe number of the previous real Lisa red shoes, and pretended to give them to the fake Lisa. When trying on shoes for the fake Lisa, it was found that the fake Lisa did not match this size at all, which proved that the red shoes were not worn by the fake Lisa at all. Matthew did not show his face, pretending that something had happened and left.
The fake Lisa (Alex) felt that she might be discovered, so she asked Matthew to learn more about Matthew and asked what Matthew really knew. Matthew didn't actually go far, but followed the fake Lisa all the way to a restaurant.
Matthew met Fa Xiao at the entrance of the restaurant, the two entered the restaurant together, and met with the fake Lisa (Alex), Who introduced that this was the girlfriend and actor Alex mentioned earlier, and Alex saw the two appear at the same time, and was shocked to know that the identity was finally exposed. Matthew did not expose Alex's disguise of Lisa in front of the small face, and the two vaguely pointed out the matter, and Alex said that she had fallen in love with Matthew very early. Alex gave Matthew the handwritten letter that True Lisa had left behind.
Matthew learns that Lisa is about to leave the city by plane, so he immediately chases them to the airport, where the two finally meet, and the two lovers finally hug each other.
The suspense in the film is very cleverly designed, and some details of the past are constantly revealed through the memories of the parties, and finally the audience will completely connect the story, and it is not easy to see the overall situation without a link. Of course, there are not no bugs in the film, and there are still some loopholes.
Lisa made friends carelessly and almost broke a beautiful marriage. But what do you think of Alex as a person? After all, human beings are complex, is Alex purely out of love, jealousy or revenge? A single emotion is probably not easy to explain. Some people say that love is selfish and causes blindness, which is true. In the name of love, absurd things have been done since ancient times.
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