The Truth is Hirokazu Kore-eda's first non-Japanese feature film, featuring Catherine Denaf, Juliet Binoche, ethan Hawke, and the main languages are French and English.
The film still retains a highly recognizable Kore-eda style, and what impressed me the most was the foreshadowing hidden in the details, and finding these clues during the viewing process was a great pleasure for Kore-eda's films all along.
Poster of The Truth
Here's a bit of an inventory to share some of the interesting foreshadowings in the film.
In the opening paragraph of the reporter's interview, Fabian said that his favorite work was Helena in "Another Day", and the reporter also said that Bian won the César Award for the second time for this film, and later Lumir revealed that Fabian snatched from Sarah, and it was Helena who played the role. Fabian said in an interview that she could even trade with demons for this role, and then stressed that it was a soul transaction, not a body, but the truth is that she exchanged her body for this role, and it is really three hundred and two silver here. Later, when she mistakenly thought that an actor had died, Luke said "You probably confused her and ...", but did not say who it was, and it can be inferred from the later plot that this refers to Sarah.
Fabian was interviewed
To interject here, I doubt that Fabian has won several César Awards, and when Charlotte first visits Fabian's room early in the film, she can see three César-like trophies on the table.
Three trophies
Later, when Fabian took Sarah's dress, he passed here again, and there were only two trophies left on the table, for some reason, or maybe I didn't look closely enough, and if you have any clues, you can leave a message to tell me.
Two trophies
Having said that, during the interview, Luke handed Fabian tea, which Fabian took a sip and praised the temperature, and then the same situation occurred again, all for Lumir to take over Luke's work and make a cup of hot tea for Fabian.
Fabian was burned
Lumir arranges for Charlotte to go to the room where she lived as a child to put her luggage away, and when Charlotte goes upstairs, she uses a top-down camera to photograph her walking up the spiral staircase.
Charlotte went upstairs
Later, when the mother played by Manon came back to see the elderly Amy, the composition of the spiral staircase under the overhead perspective was also used, and the two scenes were opposite in color, one side was the daughter going to the mother's room, the other side was the mother going to the daughter's room, which was also the opposite, and the same was that the two times upstairs there was a feeling of opening up two kinds of time and space.
Manon went upstairs
Charlotte finds the broken little paper house of The Wizard of Oz in The Lumir's room, which is a symbol of the breakdown of the relationship between Fabian and Lumir, which can be deduced that when the small paper house is repaired, it is the time when the two are reconciled, and the plot behind it is indeed so.
Repaired little paper house
Charlotte inherited Fabian's love of vanity, and when she learned that the little actor in "Memories of My Mother" had been acting for a long time, she bragged that she was a Hollywood actor.
Shyness after bragging
In the scene of Amy's 17th birthday in "Memories of My Mother", there is a hair-twirling action, which appears three times in total, the second time is Manon's improvisation, so that the actor who plays the 38-year-old Amy also uses this action, as a fixed habit of the character, at that time Fabian was jealous and dismissive, until she accepted Manon, she began to add this action to her role while practicing alone, and then asked to remake the scene, showing that her attitude had changed.
Fabian's transformation
Once, fabian was awakened in his sleep by the sound of children in the yard, and she said that she heard Lumir's voice and got up to find it was Charlotte. A simple line here is very readable. It is possible that she happened to dream of Lumir when she was a child, so she would mistakenly think that the child's voice outside was Lumir, or subconsciously she agreed with it, or preferred Lumir when she was a child, so when she was unconscious, she would first think of the image of Lumir when she was a child.
Found in the yard was Charlotte
Fabian breaks through the psychological barrier and takes the initiative to apologize to Luke that night, both Fabian and Lumir are very happy, and the film uses two messages to reflect their feelings, first of all, when Fabian breaks into Lumir's room, he can see that Lumir and Hank are not wearing pajamas, suggesting that the two experienced a (or more) hormonal movement last night.
A night of fun
Then Lumir finds a lipstick-printed wine glass in the kitchen, explaining that Fabian drank last night, and then Fabian also explains that he drank it because he was happy.
One night of drinking
In the last scene, everyone is relieved of their previous suspicions and looks at the sky, at which point everyone stands in a triangle, suggesting that the relationship is stabilizing and moving further, which is really interesting.
Harmonious triangle
Kore-eda's films may feel very bland if you watch them only shallowly, but once you start to pay attention to details, you can enjoy the pleasure of being a detective, and if you are interested, you can turn out his other films to find out.