"Stealing Heart" Film Review

The content of the movie is no different from the stage play. It basically follows the script of the stage play, with occasional deletions. The film is extremely arranged and developed around the multiple emotional relationships that four men and women may have, which is repetitive and unclear. The four main characters are stripper Alice (Natalie Portman), obituary columnist Dane (Jude Law), photographer Anna (Julia Roberts) and a dermatologist Larry (played by Clive Owen). The director is Mike Nichols, who directed the classic film "The Graduate."

Alice is a striptease girl from a small town, the elf-like girl in the film. She has a persistent pursuit of love and is passionate and unrestrained. Deep down in her heart, she longs to be truly loved. Alice's acquaintance with her lover Dan is quite destined. Among these complicated relationships, she has only loved Dan, like a devout believer in love: when she was knocked down by a passing vehicle on the road, It was Dane, a stranger, who took her to the hospital after bruising her leg. Within hours of the two meeting, Alice fell in love with the man in front of her - and when she looked into Dane's briefcase, she saw the sandwich Dane was carrying and thought, "I'm going to take all of it." All love to this man, this charming man who cuts the sides of his own bread." But after Alice died, Dane said that in fact, he broke the bread that day.

Unlike Alice, Dan appears too frivolous. He is like a hunter looking for prey in various ambiguous relationships. He is unwilling to be lonely and has no sense of security. The gentle land of women is his refuge. When he entered into a relationship with Alice, he was not single and had a girlfriend, Ruth, who was engaged in linguistic research. Later, he successfully teased the photographer Anna and made her his lover.

Dan has no idea what love is and keeps wandering between Anna and Alice. After ruining the relationship between Anna and her second husband Larry, Dane wanted to win back Alice, but was rejected by Alice. The contrast between before and after is that even though Alice knew about Dann and Anna's underground relationship before, she turned a blind eye and gave Dann the greatest tolerance. She said that she would never leave someone she still loved, so she had been waiting for Dan to leave her. But on their fourth anniversary, Alice calmly said, I am leaving you, I no longer love you.

In this love, Alice loved Dann to the extreme, but also loved her too much. She trudged on the road of love, but failed to get an equal response. This was a kind of loneliness.

In the script, Anna said to Alice, "They have been sleeping with women all their lives, but they have never understood what sex is. Men have a great sense of mystery towards women because we are layer by layer. Wrapping themselves. What they love is not us, but the feeling we make them. What they love is fantasy."

In the emotional entanglement of Alice, Anna, Dane, and Larry, Only Alice's love is the most pure and passionate. On the other hand, looking at the three Annas, it can be said that none of them is committed to love. In love, if the person you love most is yourself, you will cut off the channels of communication with the other person and fall into loneliness.