진화 혹은 퇴보, 컴플리트 언노운
인생 리셋에 대한 진지한 고민
Evolution or Regression, Complete Unknown
Innate desire to reset the life
The main reason I chose to watch this film, <Complete Unknown> was very simple. Beautiful and talented Rachel Weisz has hardly disappointed me since the mummy-period. Her classical appearance along with capability of understanding every character she assumes never have missed the shot. Attracted to her beautiful profile on the movie poster, I never thought about looking any more information of this movie; I even did not know who directed the movie and with whom Rachel plays the role. I was ignorant enough to be attacked by this harsh, severe and irresistibly honest movie.
This movie shows the life of one woman, who consistently re-starts her life with new name, new residence, new job and eventually new identity. And the core virtue of this movie is being frank with her dare choice. The movie drives its audience to confront his or her inner desire to change the reality, acclaiming “I hate myself as I am”. Indeed I do not fancy, like, adore, admit myself as I am. Then what if we could renew our lives afresh, as if ourselves of yesterdays did not exist? What if we want to reset our lives from bottom to top that we can feel a sense of rebirth as if we were fictional characters in a role-playing game?
When I bump into such self-denial drive thanks to the films - every movie presenting the gadgets of time-traveling strongly shows there could be a gate for runaway, including <Harry potter and the prisoner of Azkaban>, <About Time> and hilarious <Back to the Future>. I always imagine of impossible possibility. And Alice in the film starring Rachel Weisz shows quite a probable way of re-inventing our lives.
As a cat with nine tails and nine lives, she wants to live as many lives as possible with respectively different names, characteristics and identities. She must abandon all the familiar things from her lover to residence but it is a reasonable cost for taking a new chance. As she claims, she could be anyone with any life. Even she could live thousands of lives as long as she wants because she truly believes that she could start afresh when everything seems deadlocked. How many people would envy Alice, despite her unavoidable loneliness and lying?
It seems on the one hand irresponsible, and on the other hand limitlessly liberal. It requires cost in its own way but too tempting to be disregarded. It could be a regression for a human-being because he or she cannot experience the continual growth with propounded relationship, but it could be an evolution as he or she would jump to the other dimension of life when he/she chooses to abandon the old life. It is indeed just a matter of choice, even though the choice itself could not be made easily. Notwithstanding her becoming complete unknown to others, again, such alienation would not bother to Alice at all. All the more, it would be the only way of life she could bear because she already is so accustomed to the pleasure of deleting the familiar, abandoning the old, giving up the memories. She represents the innate desire of all human beings to be liberated; the way she actualizes such desire may be somewhat disputable, but the desire itself could not be denied. Yes, we could be the one who we say we are, how deceitful and daresome it is.
