Can love or not love

Elinor 2022-04-23 07:01:34





In fact, love is a very strange thing. It cannot be eaten as food or as water. When you are in love, both joy and sadness are menacing; when you are not in love, you are tired of even saying one more word.

I have never wanted to write a review of this movie because it takes too much effort and emotion. After watching the movie that day, I already felt like my whole body was hollowed out. I couldn't say a word, and I couldn't squeeze a smile. I took the subway home alone, and it took several days to recover.



In fact, it is a very simple story: two young people fell in love, got married, no longer in love, and separated. The girl was pregnant out of wedlock, and the father of the child was not him, but he loved her and asked her to marry him. She gave up the opportunity to further study for him, and he became a good father for her.



They think that love is a fairy tale and that as long as you love each other, there will be a perfect ending. But the reality is that any beautiful fairy tale will turn into irritability when encountering trivialities in life. In the end, they can't stand each other and have to give up.



His stubbornness and childishness, her accommodation and dissatisfaction.



The story is described using the method of interlude. So you smile and watch them fall in love one second, and then you see them arguing and torturing each other clearly the next. It's like riding a roller coaster, one second you are still in heaven the next second you are thrown straight to hell.



The more I see the ending, the more I feel breathless. When the happy past is gradually blurred by time, what I hold in my hand is only the painful reality.



However, you always feel sad, sad for them, and mourning for love.



Some clips are so hard to let go: she is wearing a red floral dress and a brown leather jacket standing in the dim light of the shop closing, both of them are reluctant to go home, he sings love songs for her, she grabs the corner of the skirt and sings along Dance. Holding hands, she smiled brighter than fireworks.



Finally she said I was tired, really tired.



Summer is about to pass, and his back disappears from sight.

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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.