not a movie review

Hipolito 2022-04-20 09:02:03

The picture and lines are still full marks, but the plot is not bright. Even the background music is not good this time. It still integrates a little bit of philosophy to describe the spark moonlight chemistry of the moment when rationality and love irrational conflict in life.

When I saw the ending, I started thinking about something else. Thinking of what I'm holding on to now is stuck in the past, good and bad, and can't get out. It suddenly occurred to me a while ago that the best times for me are always in the past when I can't focus on the present moment or feel hopeless from the present life. An illusion that life two months ago doesn't belong to me two years ago either. Last night, I dreamed that I was nearing graduation and going back to school to pack up my luggage. I woke up in the pattering rain, and it really felt like a lifetime away. Looking at it from the current perspective Even those days of crying and getting drunk at night seem cuter than now I'm not the one who drinks 10s at sips Not the one who smokes at the door of thirteen The person who retches is not the one in the office and you watch the coffee commune. But you have to go down with those imprints, and the imprints you left on me will be added into the memory by me to tamper with the mood at that time.

So stupid need a way out.

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  • Stanley: The comparison makes me laugh! Olivia is a person of accomplishment and charm. Sophie's a street finagler who makes her way living off one bit of hokum to the next.

    Aunt Vanessa: Well, I don't see how you can compare the two.

    Stanley: Well, don't put ideas into my head!

    Aunt Vanessa: Well, far be it from me!

    Stanley: Of course, she does come from dire circumstances. I mean, it's very easy to be judgmental about people who are born into circumstances less fortunate than one's own.

    Aunt Vanessa: Well, life is harsh. One must do what one must to survive.

    Stanley: Well put. And people do sometimes make the wrong choices, which they regret, even though no serious harm was done.

    Aunt Vanessa: Which of us has not made some blunders in life?

    Stanley: And there is a rather appealing quality about Sophie. Despite her disgusting behaviour.

    Aunt Vanessa: Yes, her smile is rather winning. Of course, it depends how much value you put on the purely physical.

    Stanley: Well, no, I... I, for one, esteem the higher virtues.

    Aunt Vanessa: Hmm... Beauty of the soul...

    Stanley: Although her eyes are rather pleasant to look into. And that she can be amusing, under the right circumstances.

    Aunt Vanessa: Oh, but Olivia is an educated, cultivated woman. One that befits a man of your artistic genius.

    Stanley: Yes, now, my genius must be factored in. On paper, there's really no reason to prefer Sophie to Olivia.

    Aunt Vanessa: Well, I would say the opposite.

    Stanley: ...And so your, your suggestion that I, I be honest with Olivia and tell her that as irrational as it seems, I've fallen in love with, with Sophie - that's a preposterous notion.

    Aunt Vanessa: It's lunacy.

    Stanley: ...Yet I can't help feeling that...

    Aunt Vanessa: ...That you love Sophie. Yes, I understand. You're puzzled and bewildered; because your foolish logic tells you that you should love Olivia.

    Stanley: Foolish logic?

    Aunt Vanessa: And yet, how little that logic means when placed next to Sophie's smile...

    Stanley: What are you saying?

    Aunt Vanessa: ...That the world may or may not be without purpose, but it's not totally without some kind of magic.

    Stanley: ...I have irrational positive feelings for Sophie Baker. It's like witnessing a trick I can't figure out.

  • Aunt Vanessa: Which of us has not made some blunders in life?