Allegory of the Moonlight

Rozella 2022-04-21 09:02:05

Look around us and look at your life. When we go online, we receive a lot of information but care less and less; we talk a lot about life and human nature, but we refuse to clean the corridors of our homes on weekends. The accumulation of wealth makes people's lives better; but are we happier? On the contrary, many people feel that they are becoming more and more empty.
This movie gave us a dream, a dream of finding freedom. In a quiet night, do you have time to look up at the sky, "People today don't know the ancient times and the moon, but this month once looked at the ancient people." If we don't have subways, fast food, and the Internet, what will the world be like? Is the life of the ancients more leisurely? In the moonlight, Tao Yuanming's small courtyard, Li Bai's singing and dancing, Zhuangzi's leisure travel, Laozi's Tao Te Ching. If we ride the moonlight and go back in time... Of course, that's impossible. But the movie gives us hope with his unique magic.
The people of the past have come to the present, and they have interpreted the relaxed and romantic 18th-century love story in the present. In the hustle and bustle, the roof was used as the dance floor, and violin artists were invited from the street. Under the dim candlelight, the two of them waltzed. All of this can be done in the real world, and our beautiful world is all around us, as long as you carefully discover it.
I love this movie because she taught me to see life in a different light. I can't travel through time, but when we get real joy, it doesn't matter anymore...

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Kate & Leopold quotes

  • Kate: Are you for real?

    Leopold: I believe so.

  • Stuart: It is no more crazy than a dog finding a rainbow. Dogs are colourblind, Gretchen. They don't see colour. Just like we don't see time. We can feel it, we can feel it passing, but we can't see it. It's just like a blur. It's like we're riding in a supersonic train and the world is just blowing by, but imagine if we could stop that train, eh, Gretchen? Imagine if we could stop that train, get out, look around, and see time for what it really is? A universe, a world, a thing as unimaginable as colour to a dog, and as real, as tangible as that chair you're sitting in. Now if we could see it like that, really look at it, then maybe we could see the flaws as well as the form. And that's it; it's that simple. That's all I discovered. I'm just a... a guy who saw a crack in a chair that no one else could see. I'm that dog who saw a rainbow, only none of the other dogs believed me.

    Gretchen: I believe you.