Closer--Sees My Past Self In This Film

Verlie 2022-07-21 15:37:25

It's the only movie I have to watch every night for five days in a row. The blowers' daughter had already heard it in 2007. It was the melody I heard in the inn where I was working in Lijiang in the summer of my 21st year. Because of this melody, I remember the smile of a Kunming man and the appearance of Lijiang that summer. Later, I found the movie by following the clues, watched it once, and ignored it if there was no big surprise.

Later, the hard drive failed, and I was bored at night. I dug out old movies that I had seen before, but I remembered to listen to the blowers' daughter again. So open the player again and watch the movie carefully. Alice's script is still clear in my memory, because I did the same thing with her. I tried my best to love a man, but didn't give him my real name. I loved to the end. My passion was exhausted. I just said "Sound, I didn't love you anymore, so goodbye." I left his side and started a new life.

There was a gap of two years between the first viewing and the second viewing. Then I went crazy watching this movie once a day. Seeing Alice is like looking at my own shadow, except that I don't have Alice's angelic face. I like her charming smile in the club and her heart-pounding tone of voice. I also love how she walks around the house in baggy clothes. A perfect woman has two souls, one charming and the other simple.

So I remembered that summer, when I carried a canvas bag alone, jumped on the train bound for Sichuan, and then transferred to the bus. After more than 50 hours, he came to pick me up when I arrived at Lijiang Bus Terminal. If I had seen the movie then, I would have said, "Hello, stranger," with a small smile. It's a pity that I hadn't seen it at that time, so I just smiled lightly and followed him to the inn run by Shuhe.

He's an editor with a writer's dream.

She is a young and invincible showgirl from New York.

He is a respected and strong doctor.

She is a mature photographer who lives alone after a divorce.

He meets her by chance and begins a love affair.

He and she met through a prank and got married.

But he said that she destroyed his life, and

He also walked into the club on a down night to meet her. She was so beautiful.

The feelings between the four people are overlapping.

In the end, she returned to New York with a ponytail, and the name on the passport was Jane.

He and she continued their marriage and lived a trivial and ordinary life.

Only he was left in place, waiting for the next reincarnation.

The end of the film and the beginning of the film almost overlap; still Alice is still walking on the street, but there is no man on the opposite side who looks at her and smiles, but the men around her frequently look sideways.

I shouldn't be the only one who sees my past self in this film.

At that time, I was young and fearless.


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Closer quotes

  • Dan: Deception is brutal, I'm not pretending otherwise.

    Alice: How? How does it work? How do you do this to someone?

    [Dan is silent]

    Alice: Not good enough!

  • Larry: You still pissing about on the Net?

    Dan: Not recently.

    Larry: I wanted to kill you.

    Dan: I thought you wanted to fuck me.

    Larry: Don't get lippy. I liked your book, by the way.

    Dan: Thanks.

    [Sniffs]

    Dan: You stand alone.