You will notice that what we are aiming at when we fall in love is a very strange paradox.

其实在我们陷入爱情那一刻对其抱有的向往本身是个奇异的悖论。

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Hawkes presents a gaunt and gentle threat, not least when he croons a love song to the violated heroine, while Olsen is a beautiful paradox: an actress holding together a movie as a woman who is coming apart.

NEWYORKER: Martha Marcy May Marlene