The End of the Affair
■ Basic Data
| Item | Content |
|---|---|
| Year | 1999 |
| Country | United Kingdom, United States |
| Director | Neil Jordan |
| Cast | Ralph Fiennes, Julianne Moore, Stephen Rea, Ian Hart, Jason Isaacs |
| Genre | Romantic drama |
■ Title Language Table
| Language | Text | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| English | The End of the Affair | – |
| Español | El fin del romance | El fin del romance |
| Français | La Fin d’une liaison | La Fin d’une liaison |
| Deutsch | Das Ende einer Affäre | Das Ende einer Affäre |
| Português | Fim de Caso | Fim de Caso |
| Italiano | Fine di una storia | Fine di una storia |
| Русский | Конец романа | Konets romana |
| 中文（简体） | 爱到尽头 | – |
| 中文（繁體） | 愛到盡頭 | – |
| 한국어 | 애수 | Aesu |
| ไทย | – | – |
| Tiếng Việt | The End of the Affair | The End of the Affair |
| Bahasa Indonesia | The End of the Affair | The End of the Affair |
| 日本語 | ことの終わり | Koto no Owari |
■ One-Line Definition
👉 A work that depicts a structure in which possessive love and religious surrender collide within the memory of a ended affair
■ Synopsis
A writer revisits a vanished love affair and discovers that its end was bound to a vow, faith, and sacrifice.
■ RECIPE Tags
#PossessiveLove #SacredVow #Renunciation #JealousMemory
■ Primary Axis
- Entry: Love as possession
Reason: The past affair is reconstructed through jealousy, loss, and the desire to own another person’s truth.
Related Film: The English Patient - Middle: Desire against vow
Reason: Romantic attachment is broken not by absence of love, but by a binding promise beyond ordinary passion.
Related Film: Brief Encounter - Core: Love transformed through renunciation
Reason: The affair ends as erotic possession is forced into sacrifice, faith, and spiritual surrender.
Related Film: The Age of Innocence
■ Secondary Axes
- Memory investigation: The truth of love emerges through documents, testimony, and delayed interpretation.
Related Film: Atonement - Forbidden intimacy: Love becomes most intense where fulfillment would destroy the moral frame around it.
Related Film: In the Mood for Love
■ Person
- Director: Neil Jordan
- Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Julianne Moore, Stephen Rea, Ian Hart, Jason Isaacs
■ Structural Tags
#MemoryReconstruction #RenunciationStructure #PossessionConflict
■ Attribute Tags
#BritishFilm #1999Film #NovelAdaptation
