The ending does not symbolize Murphy’s redemption in any way. Still, he loved hard despite being broken again and again. In the end, he still weeps and apologizes to his son because he realizes that he has never been a good father nor a very good husband to his wife. She, too, knows that there’s no way she can snap out of what he’s going through as he anyway despises her.Īs the reality starts to sink in, his son shows up and he holds him tight. While he visualizes pregnant Electra comforting him in the bathtub, in reality, his present wife, Omi, takes one look at him and leaves him all by himself.
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He feels dead inside, and for the last time, he envisions what could have been if only he had made the right choices back in the day. In the present, Murphy prays to god for another chance to relive that night and weeps silently in his bathtub. A pale orange light shines over them and slowly begins to flicker, depicting how what’s gone will never come back. In the final moments of the film, the past reflects on the first night Murphy and Electra made love. Time has, indeed, tested their relationship, and “summer” is now way behind them. It rains and Electra and Murphy finally realize that they are not who they dreamt of being. While the camera angles in this scene remain the same as the one where they first met, it is now complemented with a darker and far colder backdrop. “Let’s protect each other,” she says and by that, she implies that she wants to be freed from the turbulence that their relationship is going through.
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Electra, who once believed that Murphy was the one, now talks about taking a break from their relationship. Their careless acts of infidelity and drug abuse have further pushed them away from their dreams and even their relationship isn’t the same anymore. They’ve both been through hell because of how they took their youth for granted. Parallelly, adopting a very similar style of cinematography, the film depicts a very different stage of Murphy’s relationship with Electra. Murphy will never be the great filmmaker he thinks he’ll be and Electra will lose herself in her pursuit to meet her utopian views of love. Little do they realize that they’re both walking clichés during these moments. In the meantime, Electra seems to be too lost in her unrealistic and idealistic expectations from love. Purposefully foregrounded with a very bright backdrop, this scene almost appears as a dream where Murphy preaches about love and the meaning of life. Among these, there’s a scene that specifically shows the first time Murphy met Electra.
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There are sporadically distributed sections in the movie that highlight the very early stages of Murphy’s relationship with Electra. Throughout the film, there’s a stark contrast between Murphy’s present and his past not just in context with his relationship with Electra, but also with who he once pretended to be. The news of Electra’s unknown whereabouts further breaks Murphy and brings back all of the memories that he once shared with her-a relationship he did not embrace, the consequences of his infidelity, and the complications of his gratification-seeking youth. Contrarily, she was the one who once questioned Murphy and his intentions with her daughter. To make things even worse, Electra’s concerned mother calls Murphy and tells him that she hasn’t heard from Electra for the past three months.
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Electra has departed from his life but her memories still linger. Murphy despises her, feels trapped with her, but there’s nowhere else for him to go. In the present, it’s the first day of a new year and a troubled Murphy wakes up next to Omi, who is now the mother of his child. This resulted in Omi getting pregnant and completely shattered Murphy’s relationship with Electra. However, when Electra wasn’t around one day, Murphy cheated on her and had sex with Omi. As a result, they ended up having a threesome with their neighbor, Omi. Their intense sexual relationship took a new turn when they decided to further embrace their deepest, darkest desires. That’s when he met a French girl, Electra, who he dated for almost two years. Murphy was once an aspiring filmmaker, who visited Paris to study cinema.
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While his past highlights the complications of his relationships, his impulsive choices, and his relentless drug use, his present reflects on how the seeds of his past have now bloomed into sour fruits of regret and despair. The film keeps shifting back and forth between Murphy’s past and present. ‘Love’ is all about Murphy’s life, his lies, and his troubled thoughts.