After reading it, I didn't feel "the relationship is strange" like many people do. Can the seemingly outrageous love between the age of 18 and the age of 80 be called "love"? I think the answer is yes. The types of love are rich and varied, and here it should be the kind of spiritual enlightenment soul fit. It's not the biggest problem here that the protagonist has a 60-year-old age difference. In reality, isn't there also a year-long love between Yang Zhenning and his wife? People keep saying that love has nothing to do with status, money, height, age, gender, or even life and death, but if that case happened to them, how many people can really see it? Only the age of the director has set the tone for the film's maverick and transcendental style. The two people who can be matched as grandsons and grandchildren collided to create this wonderful spark.
People say love is great, and I think love is magical too. The magic of it is that it can bring together unrelated individuals, not just the body, but the soul. The director used a peculiar method to express the representative of the small literary and artistic youth of that era-Harold's little neuroticism in adolescence. Whose youth does not have such a little neuroticism? At that time when our minds were full of all kinds of weird ideas, we felt that nothing was impossible, we had no concept of love, and we felt overwhelmed when we saw the heart pounding of the person we liked. Not after that wonderful age of teens. Perhaps the word neurotic might not be the right word to exaggerate, but I really can't think of a better word to describe him.
Harold is detached from the world. This young man in the upper class who could live comfortably and do whatever he wants, because of an incident when he was young, pretended to commit suicide all day long to seek his mother's attention, or to find the excitement and pleasure of death. His mother had developed the skill of watching him hang himself on the phone and ignoring his "corpse" floating in the pool. (Such a strange son really needs a strong psychological quality) But in the end, he couldn't bear the scene where he smeared blood in the room "cutting his wrists to commit suicide". He introduced various girlfriends and urged him to get married, even though those girlfriends were used by Harold in various ways. Weird way to scare away. That's right, he is such a person, he likes death. He has a pale face and a thin body, which does not seem to fit in with this world. His various suicide scenes in this film are also the embodiment of the director's black humor. He likes death, he likes to attend the funerals of various strangers, and he bought a hearse as a walking tool. In this way, he and Maude met at a stranger's funeral, found that they had the same preferences, and fell in love through the process of ordinary couples getting to know each other and falling in love.
Maude - a coquettish 80-year-old woman who hooked up with Zhengtai. She has a physical and psychological age that is completely inconsistent with her age, and her personality is as bright and lively as the sun. No one would have thought that she was a person who experienced life and death in a Nazi concentration camp. The term "old kid" exists, and I wonder if it's because they share the same quirky naivety that they can walk into each other's souls. Unlike Harold, Maude has a rich life experience and a young and sunny heart. She likes the green plants in the house, watching them bloom and bear fruit, like the straight and short sunflowers, likes smoking hookah, and likes to collect strange things. painting. In this way, she taught Harold "Live" and "Love", to choose the day he was about to propose to end his life, and to accompany him through a short period of youthful confusion. She's Harold's true spiritual mentor, and I think without her, maybe Harold would just die on his own. Knowing that this relationship is doomed to be fruitless, let it be eternal, no pain, no harm, and end at the best time, she probably thought so.
What I want to say is that this film should tell us not just love, but also thinking about life and death. Harold is in his youth, but he pretends to commit suicide in various ways and loves death; Maude is a dying person, but he loves life incomparably. The two are in stark contrast. The part of the sunset that leaned against each other on the seaside was particularly moving. It made me see two lonely souls warming each other. They danced in Maude's hut and sang the song of freedom "if you want to sing out , sing out .and if you want to be free , be free ." Playground, doing all kinds of crazy things together. Life is beautiful, isn't it, so after Maude's death, Harold didn't fall with the car like we thought, but played the piano she gave and walked briskly dancing into the distance... So far, the once dark and lonely young man is no longer there Well, there is one more person in the world born with love and hope. The love of two people is not the freedom of life, anyway, everything has been seen.
Weird, childish? When they fell in love, they didn't care about the world's vision, even if it was only one day, they fell in love with each other like that.
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