"Enigma Apartment" is a remake of the 1996 French film "Very Apartment". The Enigma Apartment is a familiar location where the male and female protagonists have met and met. The whole film is surrounded by the struggle and suspense of love, and the third party that appears in each love is enough to make love imperfect; the role of the third party is not necessarily a sin deserved to die, and there is no right and wrong, black and white, right and wrong in love.
The male protagonist, Matthew (Josh Hartnett), is a photographer who two years ago meets Lisa (Diane Kruger), a woman who fascinates and drives him crazy, and the two quickly fall in love.
One day, Lisa disappeared into the world without a word. Matthew was miserable but had to face reality. Two years later, Matthew had a successful career and a beautiful fiancée.
One day, he seems to meet Lisa in the restaurant, who has disappeared for a long time. So he begins to track down Lisa's whereabouts, only to find that the Lisa he found is someone else, not Lisa who was with him; it is a completely different person.
But this Lisa wears the same clothes, lives in the same home, and drives the same car as the original Lisa. His best friend Luke (Matthew Reward) decides to help him find out the truth.
And Luke's girlfriend Alex (Rose Byrne) seems to play a key role in the whole thing, is the whole thing Matthew's hallucination? Or is there no such person as Lisa?
I think this film is quite distinctive and very good. The director states the whole story in a time flashback at the beginning, although the chronological order is a bit confusing at the beginning, but in the end it is quite complete.
Although the initial rhythm is relatively slow, it also explains the plot completely, and the middle part unfolds the wonderful places of the whole film.
The first half of the director focuses on the process of searching, creating a confusing plot; the male protagonist recalls the sweet scenes and fragments of the heroine's past, and the male protagonist strives to find the reason for the disappearance of the female protagonist.
The second half emphasizes and describes the mood of the characters, including the truth of the whole thing and the emotional struggles and complicated moods of the supporting actresses.
An important theme mentioned in the film is love at first sight, and the protagonists all believe in love at first sight; so add some romance to the film.
The suspenseful atmosphere created by the whole film and the snowy and cold street scene are handled quite well, especially the soundtrack part, whether it is songs and music are quite prominent, and the faint melody can also bring out the mood changes and moods of the characters in the film.
The obsessive male protagonist in the film is played by Josh Hartnett, and I think his expression is too stiff and unnatural; perhaps he is the male protagonist for commercial reasons.
The heroine Diane Kruger's fashion style is really very beautiful and moving, although she does not have many scenes in the film; but every appearance is a beautiful appearance.
The supporting actress Rose Byrne is one of the more prominent performances in the film, and her role is actually the most played and rich in the film.
The overall performance of the actors is quite acceptable, and the director's skills are not bad; since the screenwriter and the Original French version are the same person, the overall feeling is not too far-fetched or unreasonable. In particular, the truth part surprised me quite a bit, with some sympathy in sorrow; after all, love has no logic to follow.
"Enigma Apartment" is actually not exactly a suspenseful reasoning film, but a rather romantic and poignant love story. The process of communication between men and women in love is not necessarily very smooth, and there will always be some external factors that affect the relationship between the two.
The third party is just one of the factors, lurking in it. There is indeed a third party in the film, and fate is always a wonderful arrangement of the relationship between everyone in the film. Everyone in the world of love is caught in the cycle of joy and sorrow, constantly repeating, in order to fight for love, nothing matters.
When The Coldplay lyric song "Scientist" sounded at the end of the film, I don't know how many people were touched.