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Leo 2022-04-22 07:01:20

Thankfully I listened to the soundtrack before opening the movie, otherwise the lengthy dialogue would have been unbearable. When I try to fast-forward, I'm also asking myself, what if I can't stand the long boredom of real life and can't fast-forward?

The hero and heroine finally don't have to escape from each other like the first two times, but is this the best ending? When I see them at a love hotel, they're almost taking off their clothes and they start arguing again, and I think it's a wonderful metaphor.

The argument was long and direct. I have always liked watching the quarrel scenes in movies. A quarrel with logic and position on both sides is more direct to the essence than a plain love story. At this point, every quarrel in Stealing Your Heart is textbook. When I watched it for the second time, I discovered many details that were completely uncaptured back then. These details made the suspense of whether the dancer and the doctor ever went to bed completely meaningless.

Last month, a professor from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign gave a lecture, and the sentence that left the deepest impression on me was "We need conflicts because peace is boring". This seems to explain many cases of not dying without dying. But I'm actually a little pissed at the overly sensual quality of human beings surrendering to their deep-seated need for conflict.

Another point of view that I agree with is also reflected in this quarrel, of course, because the heroine does have feminist ideas. She accused him of being passive whenever he was about to achieve something because he felt his position was threatened. The male protagonist's rebuke is also not bad, that part made my heart beat faster.

The more I learned about the power relationship between the sexes, the more helpless I actually became. It's a brutal game between people, and unfortunately, it happens in what we think of as the closest, strongest, most indestructible relationships. How do you define power? But let the other party obey your will, do what you want him to do, and don't go against your ideas. This hidden power is so profound that it fulfills the fun of chasing and tests the trust of human nature.

In the conflict of words and silence, the game of thrones is going on. Everyone starts this game with their own resources, needs, interests, ideas, logic, and positions as pawns. Don't ask where to put the word love, many times it is a rhetoric to cover up selfish desires. If this is an unavoidable truth in relationships and marriages, are you sure you want to join the game?

It's as if tourists don't want to face a Greece with alarmingly high unemployment, where train drivers can't go anywhere and was almost kicked out of the EU because of poverty. The viewers who love this series also don't want to believe that in addition to the heroine's breasts, there is more to it. Many things are also falling apart. So the ending of this movie is still kind, and I don't deny that the last paragraph of the male protagonist's statement is really moving.

"You're living in a fairy tale like any other little girl." That's a great phrase. When I put the three together and think about it, it is basically a story of how two unreliable literary and artistic youths became reliable and faced the difficulties of life. Since you are not omniscient, you can never predict what will happen next. But now that the story has come to an end, you can also be sure of the inevitability of this conflict, because they were both dangerous, uncertain, imaginative fairy tales when they were young, and that's why they talk so much after one encounter. , meet again, and stay again. They are naturally attracted to this kind of person. When the fairy tale turned to the last page, all kinds of unresolved contradictions suddenly appeared. The boy and the little girl not only grew up, but even began to grow old, so they had to start a long war.

Would this power struggle subside a bit with someone else? No, trust me, they're just going to be reinvented, over and over again.

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Before Midnight quotes

  • Nina: Like sunlight, sunset, we appear, we disappear. We are so important to some, but we are just passing through.

  • Celine: You know what? The only time I get to think now is when I take a shit at the office. I'm starting to associate thoughts with the smell of shit.

    Jesse: Ha ha. That is a good line. I gonna use that in a book some day.

    Celine: I'm sure you will. And that'll be the best line in the book.