The fireworks will go out, the songs will stop

Jacques 2022-04-19 09:01:37

It seems that the film has been deliberately painted with dim colors from the beginning. There were calls from the little girl's voice. But no matter how loud she calls, it is impossible for her to come back. The death of the dog seems to imply that everything has its own unpredictable lifeline. You don't know when those things, said to be over, will be over.

The film is very close to real life. It is about a woman who has a boyfriend. Because she is pregnant with another man's child, and she is unwilling to abort the child, she has to leave her ex and marry the father of the current child. At that time, she seemed to be very happy, singing, dancing, having sex, everything was infinitely beautiful. Until many years later, when she met the man she betrayed again, the man couldn't help asking her: "After you get married, are you loyal?", when she replied: "Of course, I have always been loyal", the man stared at her Stunned, still full of irony.

At that time, even such an accidental encounter with an ex-boyfriend could easily become an inducement for family quarrels in a two-person room that was already a husband and wife.

In the alternate elaboration of sometimes present tense and sometimes past tense, the film vividly and vividly shows the emotional differences between the two before and after marriage. Before the wedding, they rolled passionately on the bed, and the room was filled with the singing of "Nobody baby but you and me". The man said it was the best music for just the two of them. After marriage, no matter how provocative the man is, the woman doesn't want to do it again with him. Probably, this is the "seven-year itch".

When they first met, they looked like they were in love with each other. They exchanged wedding rings with each other, and said "I do" with tears on their faces. Just a few years after the marriage, everything is not the same as it was at the beginning. I still remember a woman asking her grandma in a wheelchair, "What's it like to fall in love with someone?" and her grandma said, "Oh, I don't even think I've been through it. That kind of love that started out and then all went away. "

It is said that the most indestructible thing is emotion, but it turns out that the most turbulent thing is also emotion.

At the end of the movie, the little girl calls her father not to go. However, it seems to have ended, no matter how, it cannot be recalled. The fireworks bloomed in the picture, splendid for a moment, and then went out. The "Nobody baby but you and me" engraved with the sweet times of the past, I don't know when, it stopped.

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Blue Valentine quotes

  • Dean: Tell me a joke.

    Cindy: So there's a child molester and a little boy walking into the woods. The child molester and the little boy keep walking further and further. And it's getting darker and darker. And they're going deeper and deeper into the woods. And the child molester... The little boy looks at the child molester and he says, "Gee, mister! I'm getting scared." And the child molester looks down at him and says, "You think you're scared, kid? I gotta walk outta here alone."

    [Dean shakes his head]

    Cindy: You don't think that's funny?

    Dean: No.

    Cindy: I do.

  • Jerry: Cindy doesn't usually bring her boyfriends home for dinner. So, uh, I'm thinking this might be serious.

    Glenda: Don't listen to him.

    Dean: I hope so.

    Jerry: You hope so?

    Dean: Yes, sir. I mean, I'm pretty serious.