I don't know if it was a coincidence or fate, I just finished "Love, Rosie" this Saturday morning, and it was "Begin Again" in the evening. I just criticized the film theme of "is there pure friendship between men and women" in "Love, Rosie", and then found the resonance of the soul in "Begin Again".
Some people say that "the basis of becoming friends between men and women is to like each other, but they just don't want to admit each other." In fact, "whether there is a pure friendship between men and women" is a one-sided proposition.
Humans have always been accustomed to defining and summarizing things in one word in order to perceive the world efficiently. But in the emotional world, this way of knowing is a kind of lazy behavior. We always use friendship, love, and family to define the relationship between people, and then use the potential code of conduct in "friendship" (or "love"/"family") to regulate the boundaries of communication. For example: Once friends do something that seems to cross the line, either go further into love or fall back into awkward friendship.
We always unconsciously think that friendship, love and family affection are discrete like the three states of "solid, liquid and gas", but emotional fermentation is a continuous state of gradual progress. In junior high school, I liked SHE's song "Unsatisfactory Lovers" very much. "Above AUO and less than lovers" is the intermediate state between friendship and love. At this stage, "sweet upset, joyful confusion", and realizing that "lovers are less than full" is also a This emotional state is more meaningful than answering "is there any pure friendship between men and women".
It is generally believed that "lover is not full" is not a stable relationship, as the song sings: either "go down and have to be friends", or "just move forward a little and I will nod my head". But "Begin Again" offers a different paradigm.
Gretta and Dan, two people who were frustrated in life and work, walked together through music, with a touch of emotion, two hearts slowly approaching, only the story of encountering each other but not loving each other. We might be upset that the director didn't let Gretta and Dan together. But the director made us feel the faint affection in the bud of love, a trace of confusion when it died without a disease, and the real pain that could not be let go.
Why are we always obsessed with the ending of "the prince and the princess live happily together", because the lovers in life are not full of normality, but lack the perfect relationship.
Gretta rode a bicycle alone and disappeared into the night of New York's drunken fans. At the end of the movie, some people may ridicule that this is the hypocrisy of literary youth. Maybe, but the perfect moment of Gretta and Dan sharing their respective playlists with a splitter on a dark street can't be recreated. But such moments are like pearls, strung together with the beauty of our lives.
In the easter egg, Dan helps Gretta publish her street ablum through the Internet, and although the two are not together, they still rely on each other in their work and life. The director insisted on expressing: a lover who is not full can also be the steady state of the relationship.
"Begin Again" is also a good movie. At the end of "lost stars" there is a line we are all lost stars, trying to light the dark. It evoked a period of darkest time. Fortunately, there was also Angel, and there were beautiful moments like pearls.
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