Loneliness is the norm in romantic life

Elias 2022-04-20 09:02:03

In each picturesque shot, we see him looking back at everything in his youth, love, family, art, and life pursuits.

The film calmly uses conversation and music to tell a lot of things with beautiful small details, including the rich content of life, and then package it with the eyes of old age looking at the past, named youth-youth.

It's a really romantic movie.

Yet this romance is not dreamy. Instead, he is unusually realistic. Dreams shattered, careers collapsed, loved ones left, families disintegrated, friends betrayed...

All the shocks that are shattering in your personal subjective world, in the objective world, just happen so quietly, just like the composer's old friend, the film director A sudden death.

If the birth of a person is accompanied by the attention and joy of a family, then how lonely a person's aging is.

But this is the norm of life.

Moreover, under the embellishment of art, it is also quite beautiful.

——Art is really the gentle comfort that God bestows upon human beings in meaningless life.

I used to think that when I get old, I want to sit on a rocking chair and watch the sunset and say something about your grandmother when I was young...

All smiles are frozen in the beautiful appearance of youth, and all tears are evaporated by time, All the stumbling and ups and downs of life have turned into a distant legend, just casually chatting, laughing and drinking.

However, this movie tells me, old, is to face the time that cannibalize your body little by little, is to face the fact that Jiang Lang's talents are exhausted, but there is no time for you to prove yourself; the lover dies, but there is no time to make up for it. I owe her company all my life. The time, hope, and future possibilities that young people have are lost with age.

Is it scary?

I thought, but it's not bad to have a heavy past.

But the wonderful taste of youth, such as the beautiful girl in first love, doesn't even remember whether you have slept or not.

And what I remember, what I have in my heart, what I have held in my hand for a lifetime, let's call it the pursuit of life, maybe if I am not careful, it will be broken.

Sad?

No, the film tells you with restraint and grace that this is also the norm at the end of life.

In the film, the film director's last posthumous work could not be filmed at the end, and the uncertainty of the final words of the script seems to be a metaphor.

Getting old is not a rocking chair to bask in the sun, or the unrestrained aftertaste of the victory after reaching the end, but a slower and more exhausting day after day, a more fragile mind, a more peaceful look back at the distant and vague past, and then to the end.

This is the state of aging I see.

It is natural to look at the state of youth, the body of youth, desires, hopes, and the possibility of human relationships. All this is unknown until the last line of life is spoken. Unknown is youth.

A lot of details are really intriguing.


Ya, I must watch it again.

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Extended Reading

Youth quotes

  • Brenda Morel: You're old, you're tired, you don't know how to see the world any more, Mick. All you know how to see is your own death, which is waiting right around the corner for you.

  • Luca Moroder: Would you like to try climbing?

    Lena Ballinger: You know, I can make a man go wild in bed if I want.

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