To live or to die?

Turner 2022-04-20 09:01:38

Watching this movie is all about Nicole, more precisely her fake nose.

However, what happened by accident is a fact that may be deposited in every woman's heart.



What do we live for, or for whom?

Maybe you will say: I live for the people I love.

What if one day you find out that the person you love doesn't need you?

What if you find that he not only doesn't need you, but has been bound by your love, and that your love for him is just a burden to him?

Love can save everything, we've been taught that.

If even love can't save us, it is natural to choose death. . .



This is a film about women, about their lives and what it means to be there.

Three women lived in three eras with the same despair. On the same day in different time and space, they all faced death. Death doesn't solve anything, but sometimes it's a need. We live, understand life, and then we can choose to live on or to end it. Love has always been there, but when love can't do anything, when it can't be the reason we live, the only thing we can do is die.

This film is sad because we are told that love is not redemption. Richard loves Clarissa, but he can still fall in her presence. Sadness is always inevitable when fantasy is shattered. In fact, we have long known that love cannot explain everything, but we need to say it because we need to live.

It takes not only courage but also living faith to face the facts. Virginia only has courage, so she bravely walked to the center of the lake. If we are brave, we will change our current life; if we are brave enough, we will choose to live or die according to our hearts.

Back to the original question, what do we live for? This is a narrow question, survival is not much greater than death, and we know that we are only alive because we are not brave enough to die.


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The Hours quotes

  • [first lines]

    Virginia Woolf: [Narrating the letter] Dearest, I feel certain that I am going mad again. I feel I can't go through another one of these terrible times and I shant recover this time. I begin to hear voices and can't concentrate. So, I am doing what seems to be the best thing to do. You have given me the greatest possible happiness. You have been in every way all that anyone could be. I know that I am spoiling your life and without me you could work and you will, I know. You see I can't even write this properly. What I want to say is that I owe all the happiness of my life to you. You have been entirely patient with me and incredibly good. Everything is gone from me but the certainty of your goodness. I can't go on spoiling your life any longer. I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been. Virginia

  • Richard Brown: Like that morning, when you walked out of that old house and you were, you were eighteen, and maybe I was nineteen. I was nineteen years old, and I'd never seen anything so beautiful. You, coming out of a glass door in your early morning, still sleepy. Isn't it strange, the most ordinary morning in anybody's life? I'm afraid I can't make it to the party, Clarissa. You've been so good to me, Mrs. Dalloway, I love you. I don't think two people could have been happier than we've been.