To get light in, you have to open the door.

Kristina 2022-04-19 09:02:07

Last night, when I read the recent works of my favorite author, who arranged the people and things around me into the newly published novels, my relatives and friends protested one after another. "Mythical love will have to break one day." From silent generation, writers should write about people, relationships, and plots that are imagined in the air, rather than real things.

Of course, after watching Mike Mills' "Beginners", it was a complete turnaround. How can such a great story not be told or shared with others. His goodness is not because of real events, but because of the energy contained in the story itself. I didn't cry, I just felt sad and happy.

The film is carried out in two lines. By taking care of the father who is in the late stage of cancer and coming out of the closet, the interaction with his lover, his friend and his son, and the love between his son and his lover Anna, the time is misplaced, and the way of jumping back and forth brings out the distance. Beauty is like a father teaching his son a precious lesson in life, teaching him how to love.

In the middle of the film, I wrote a diary of self-questioning. I remembered what I said three years ago when I heard a long-distance love story of a pair of older friends: "If you want light to come in, you have to open the door."

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Beginners quotes

  • Oliver: And what about the chair? Is it gay?

    Hal: The chair is not gay, obviously.

  • Oliver: We didn't know how we learned the stories in our heads, but sometimes they stopped running, and I can really see Anna's eyes in 2003. Her ears. Her feet. This is what it looks like when she says, 'I love you,' in 2003. This is what it looks like when she cries. When she tells me there's always a new empty room waiting for her. They used to make her feel free. Now they make her feel the opposite of free.