Text/Baby Anne
sat on the straw mat in the living room, facing the afternoon sun, and played a disc given by a friend. A film in the 1970s that belongs to the category of cult (faith, ritual). When he handed the disc in a hard case, he said it was about a suicidal teenager and an 80-year-old woman in love. A man and woman of different ages met at a funeral. He thinks it's a good movie, and he often buys a few as a gift when he sees it.
There is a flash of young couples hitting the roadside. Their hippie attire can be clearly seen, the girls are wearing long floor-length sarongs and big hats in weird attire. From time to time, large episodes are broadcast, feeling the country, and the lyrics are Kerouac-style. A simple and reckless passion: you can be noble if you want to be noble, and you can be low if you want to be vulgar...a free spirit of the vigorous seventies. I don't have any memory of that era, I just saw myself pressing the play button again after the disc had finished playing. Lee Chang-dong's "Mints" once made me do this. When you are subdued by a force, there will be a sense of surprise. Must be certified again.
This power manifested itself in the eighty-year-old Maud. An old woman has a childlike heart. Anarchists. Believe in a life above morals. Love all things natural, forests, soil, trees, smells, touches, and collect things that are clear inside and outside the body. She drives fast, defies police and rules, and loves to see destruction and destruction. Including the attitude towards feelings, also fall sex and innocence. She approached him, but she was not possessive. A ring that the young man solemnly presented, she threw it into the vast sea in a blink of an eye. That way I'll always know where it is. she says.
Director Ashby also has the same temperament. He is so obsessed with drugs and reclusive life that his name and mainstream culture are almost forgotten. Artistic value is overlooked and rarely appraised correctly. As Maud said to Harold, I want to be a sunflower because it is tall and simple. If it were you, what kind of flower would you want to become. The unhappy teenager looked at a white daisy and said, maybe it was one of them, because they looked the same. Maud said that they are different. If you look closely, you can see that some of them have many petals, some have few petals, some are facing the left, some are facing the right, some are blooming just right, and some are about to wither... There is such a big thing in this world because so many people can tolerate treatment like this.
Most of the reviews searched regard this movie as a comedy, and the point of interest is also kept in the abnormal state of love for a long time, which is in a state of excitement and inconceivable. If people who really know how to understand emotions, watching this movie, they should not even be faintly strange. It's not even a comedy to entertain the audience.
Maud chose to die on her birthday, or that was the best way she could think of saying goodbye to the world. She is too old. Excessive betting on intense vitality. How can a person always burn like a torch without a cold heart. When wearing a blue silk kimono with a crystal hairpin in her bun, hugging and dancing with him in the abandoned train carriage, when they were face to face, talking about the past and weeping, perhaps, she had already know how and when to say goodbye to him and all this.
The boy who had always been pale and obsessed with death drove his car to the cliff after Maud died. The car fell and shattered under the cliff. And the young man, who appeared on the top of the mountain, carried the Yueqin she gave him on his back, fiddled with the brisk melody, and danced his body away in the sun. He has understood the truth of life and death, and will learn how to enjoy the beauty of it all. In an encounter, what matters is not age, wealth, or lust, but the influence, comfort and transformation on each other's hearts between two strangers who meet by chance.
This is something that can be done in the realm of love and life only by people who have real feelings and have clear strength.
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