Pretty Butterfly

Wednesday, July 28, 2004

Today, instead of French normal lessons we watched a French movie! The show is called He loves me he loves me not. About half of the 2h movie, it was how this girl Angeline was in love with a married cardiologist, Luoic. She sent a flower to him on his birthday, waiting for him to visit her that night but didn't. She often send him gifts and often write romantic messages even though the guy is married. All the while we are watching a extra-marrital affair where this Angeline was dumped by the guy and was so depressed that she commited suicide. At this point, the image electrocadiogram came into the picture. The heart beats from normal to zero then it reverses all the way to the beginning of the movie. I thought we were watching this movie again. But instead now it was Luoic point of view! That means in the first half we watched what and how was Aneline was feeling and thinking. Then we watched Luoic's. It was a cleverly cheorograph movie where pieces fall into place when u watch the guy's point of view. This guy was stalked by this mysteral lady who is Angeline all the while! The guy receives a rose from a stranger and dismiss it as a ardent patient. The stalker knows his birthday and beg the florist to deliver the rose. While playing in a park with his friend's son, some drawings of him were laid on a bench while he was resting. The stalker was sketching him from a far. A painting was hung in his office that resembles him from a friend. His wife brought it home only to discover there were lovey dovey messages and got angry. The guy protests that he doesn't know. Poor guy. Then next day, the stalker makes a duplicate key to her house under her care. The guy's wife discovered the key and words that say,"I'll will be waiting at home." And got really angry and moved back to her mother's house. He got really fustrated and helpless as to who is ruining his life. There was a scene where Luoic was arrested for assualt and featured on tv, Angeline was watching. The woman Luoic assualted died. Then Luoic biazare behaviour of assualting was due to Angeline's unique "gift". After Angeline's and Luoic's point of view in the movie, the movie came back to the events that happen after Angeline's suicuide. She assualted Luoic when he's trying to move away and end up in mental hospital. But when the film ends, u can get the feeling that she will be back to haunt Luoic again even though she was release from mental hospital.
This movie is really well choreograph and not like most films where there is a continuous story telling unlike this one where the story is cleverly interwoven in the movie. Slowly unraveling some mysteries that leave you feeling "so des nie"......

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