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Jane (Sally Hawkins) is a fragile, but, at the same time, an irrepressibly cheerful woman who hears voices and has paranoid fantasies. On top of this, the symptoms of schizophrenia are exacerbated by her disgusting, selfish family. Jane was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia at the age of 20, after her fiancé left her at the altar. After spending most of her life in a psychiatric hospital where shock therapy was used, Jane decides to stop taking medications. While this means she begins to see giant spiders crawling all over the place and begins to tear off tiny strips of wallpaper, Jane also feels more alive and energized. One day, Jane meets an aspiring musician Mike (David Thewlis), who also has serious mental problems. Together they have fun and learn about life in their own way, touchingly awkwardly, but with an huge supply of perseverance and confidence in happiness. Curious situations replace each other, and biting remarks additionally enhance the comic effect. Nevertheless, this does not at all interfere with the fact that in some places, both lyrical and dramatic notes break through. The loud name Eternal Beauty is easy to consider as another author's joke, especially since in one of the episodes on the screen of the television receiver, which the characters are watching, there are shots of advertising for the cream of the Eternal Beauty brand, which promises to smooth out age wrinkles, give the skin a healthy shine, and so on. We are so used to such things that we have do not notice the blatant vulgarization of lofty matters. With a smile, the director-scriptwriter hints to the audience that the real eternal beauty is different – it lies in the ability of individuals to believe in beauty and not subject to the destructive effects of time. Of course, Jane should not come to terms with betrayal, but the fact that the heroine experienced love partly expiates the subsequent disappointment.

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Eternal Beauty
2020

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