See the story from the heroine's point of view

Maiya 2022-12-30 17:34:47

The reason why the heroine falls in love with him is not only because life is hard and lonely, and needs company and comfort, because his time is short, and there is no positive help for life. He is attracted by the male protagonist, and the internal motivation is that she herself is also identifying and sliding towards this nothingness. However, she can still have love, and she has not become a complete nothingness like the male protagonist, which shows that she still has some inner strength to fight against nothingness. In the film, she cooks for him and takes him to travel, which also shows her love for normality There is still desire and a little hope for happiness, although she also knows and accepts that his love and happiness, and even the love and happiness she can have that has nothing to do with him, are like dew. Time is short. It's fleeting, so she can grab a little bit, but she has almost zero requirements for the male protagonist. Ah, I feel sorry for the heroine, she is beautiful, she is both charming with nihilism, and touching with the pursuit of love and resistance to nothingness

So this is not a love movie, but a stare and confrontation with the abyss of life.

The scene of drinking in the pool was amazing. It's also the condensed version of the whole scene. The water is even more symbolic of the unbearable reality. The male protagonist pours the wine there, and is really indulged in a state of complete indulgence without caring for his breath, not caring whether he is alive or not. The heroine went down to find him and kissed him. It was really two desperate people who couldn't breathe. The touching thing about the kiss of two desperate people was that it was a senseless and compassionate kind of life that reached the bottom. A touch of bright beauty on top of a dark undertone of despair.

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Leaving Las Vegas quotes

  • Sera: Are you saying that your drinking is a way to kill yourself?

    Ben Sanderson: Or, killing myself is a way to drink?

  • Ben Sanderson: I'm like a prickly pear! I'm a prickly pear!