This is a love story of two elderly people with far different living habits. Let two people who have lived most of their lives in their own way adapt to their lover's environment, life and habits. And as impulsive as a young man, whether the ignorant and irresponsible love has any results, we can talk about it.
Serious and rigid, Reynolds, who has the ultimate pursuit of life taste, falls in love with Alma, a restaurant waiter who knows nothing about the upper class. In the film, we can't deny Alma's charm in Reynolds' heart, let alone their true love for each other. But the feelings of old age are the precipitation that needs company after all. It doesn't take an attentive audience to find out, those who have seen it know how disdainful Reynolds's feelings for Alma are on the surface, and how cold he is in life. As a bystander, Reynolds doesn't care about Alma's feelings at all, and even feels that his female partner Cyril is more important than Alma in Reynolds' mind, and that Alma is just a "lover" to her? "model"? This is what Reynolds presented to the audience. However, in contrast, we can see that Alma's understanding of love is manifested. If you love someone, you must take good care of him. Companionship is her original intention. Everywhere in the film can be seen that Alma wants to bring tea and water to Reynolds, take care of him, or create time for the two of them, but Reynolds stopped her actions again and again and even expressed her incomprehension of her behavior and why she should change. The original trajectory of life, why did he send water when he didn't ask for it. Having said all this, readers can already conclude that Reynolds is a scumbag and has failed Alma's heart for him. Is this really true? Did Alma do nothing wrong?
Things happen for a reason, let's go back to those two suffocating poison scenes. Maybe the reason she poisoned her was because she thought Renoir didn't love her anymore, she wanted to get sick by poisoning to let Reynolds know that she was the only one who could be there for him when he was weak, and she believed that doing so would make Reynolds fall in love again on her. So is it her fault for poisoning? Aside from Reynolds' indifference and perfunctory treatment of her, whether Alma's poisoning behavior was caused by her ignorance, the impulsiveness of a restaurant waiter with little education to poison her lover, there is no shortage of videos that can be seen The image of Alma is portrayed as an ignorant and rude middle-aged village woman. Poisoning is not her fault, but the "impulse caused by ignorance". If she was someone who went to college or graduate school, and she did it, I would say it was her fault, but she doesn't have that. Reynolds really needed Alma's company when he was sick, and this did achieve Alma's purpose. At this moment, Reynolds belonged to her alone. As if Alma had succeeded here, Reynolds agreed to marry her and give her an explanation. At the same time, the meticulous care of the sickness also went to Reynolds' mind, and the things that were out of place in his life, the things he was not comfortable with Alma doing seemed to vanish overnight. So that "reckless" married.
However, we can imagine the life after marriage. When we get along so badly in the past, we can't integrate into each other anywhere, and history will reappear after marriage. The final result is bound to cause a second "impulse". Perhaps Alma couldn't stand Reynolds' indifference and contempt for her. In her heart, "she" was just Reynolds' plaything, a selfless companion, and this companion didn't ask for anything in return, just for Ray to fall in love with her again. , and for nothing else, Reynolds couldn't do the love Alma wanted him to show. Or perhaps the "ignorance" mentioned above. The poison this time is not like ignorance, but more like a perverted revenge, "I can't live well myself, and you don't want to live either." So, ah, you can't get along in life, you can't fit in anywhere, don't make promises to each other as soon as possible.
If you really want to analyze who is right and who is wrong in their love, I believe they can't understand it themselves, then I don't comment too much as a bystander. After all, when conflicts arise, people always think that they give the most in love, and they will always It's all right, I just objectively analyzed the reasons for the relationship between the two, that's all.
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