13岁的吉娜(珍妮弗·加纳 Jennifer Garner饰)充满对大人世界的憧憬。她渴望散发媚惑的女人味,和梦中情人那样约会,得到男孩们的青睐。但这一切都只是她的白日梦,事实上吉娜在异性男孩中间似乎没什么吸引力,并被朋友捉弄了一番。跟邻家哥哥马特(马克·鲁弗洛 Mark Ruffalo饰)大闹一场之后,吉娜已经完全厌恶了这乏味的童年,她要赶快长大成人! 想不到,吉娜梦想成真了。她竟在第二天变成了一个30岁的熟女,有体面的工作和优厚的收入,人生翻开了春风得意的新篇章。虽然吉娜一头雾水,却也开始投入这上帝赐予的幸福生活。然而,步入了大人世界的吉娜真的获得了她梦寐以求的东西么?30岁的她理所当然要面对成人复杂的世界,这让她怅然若失;更不妙的是,她心爱的男孩马特,此时要成为别人的丈夫了。失去了童年和白马王子的吉娜,开始乾坤大逆转,她要找回丢失了的东西…
The Doll is an adaptation of the novel, The Doll (novel) by Bolesław Prus, which is regarded by many as one of the finest Polish novels ever written and, along with Pharaoh (novel), made Bolesław Prus a potential candidate for the Nobel Prize in literature. The influence of Émile Zola is evident, and some have compared the novel to Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert; both were Prus's contemporaries. The movie, however, may be more compared to Stendhal's Le Rouge et le Noir, (The Red and the Black).
The Doll constitutes a panorama of life in Warsaw between 1878 and 1879, and at the same time is a subtle story of three generations of Polish idealists, their psychological complications, their involvement in the history of the nineteenth century, social dramas, moral problems and the experience of tragic existence. At the same time this story describes the disintegration of social relationships and the growing separation of a society whose aristocratic elite spreads the models of vanity and idleness. In the bad air of a backward country, anti-Semitic ideas are born, valuable individuals meet obstacles on their way, and scoundrels are successful.
This poetic love story follows a nouveau riche merchant, Stanislaw Wokulski, through a series of trials and tribulations occasioned by his obsessive passion for an aristocratic beauty, Izabela Lecka, played by the famous Polish actress, Beata Tyszkiewicz.
Plot:
As a descendant of an impoverished Polish noble family, young Wokulski is forced to work as a waiter at Hopfer's, a Warsaw restaurant, while dreaming of a life in science. After taking part in the failed 1863 Uprising against Tsarist Russia, he is sentenced to exile in Siberia. On eventual return to Warsaw, he becomes a salesman at Mincel's haberdashery. Marrying the late owner's widow (who eventually dies), he comes into money and uses it to set up a partnership with a Russian merchant he had met while in exile. The two merchants go to Bulgaria during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78, and Wokulski makes a fortune supplying the Russian Army. The enterprising Wokulski now proves a romantic at heart, falling in love with Izabela, daughter of the vacuous, bankrupt aristocrat, Tomasz Łęcki. In his quest to win Izabela, Wokulski begins frequenting theatres and aristocratic salons; and to help her financially distressed father, founds a company and sets the aristocrats up as shareholders in his business.The indolence of these aristocrats, who secure with their pensions, are too lazy to undertake new business risks, frustrates Wokulski. His ability to make money is respected but his lack of family and social rank is condescended to. Because of his "help" (in secret) to Izabela's impecunious but influential father, the girl becomes aware of his affection. In the end she consents to accept him, but without true devotion or love.(wikipedia)