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Kendall 2022-04-21 09:02:50

Wei Lin's Magic, another movie that made me think of robots to perform at the beginning, the same sense of age, a mixture of technology and deception... Unfortunately, I can't remember what movie it was.
I'm glad that Woody Allen was so light on the fact that his friend cheated Stanley. After all, jealousy is a bit boring. It is vulgar to talk too much about technology and human nature. I remember that the heroine asked Stanley if the starry sky was evil. She thought it was romantic, and inexplicably thought of the "Interstellar Crossing" she watched before.
Looking back, I thought that Mr. Hu mentioned his ex-girlfriend, probably true love.
A fool who plays ukulele is not worthy of sophie, but sophie is worthy of stanley. Rousseau finds a sophie for Emile to replace philosophy, and what woody Allen finds for stanley is a beautiful flower from the United States?
Aunt Vanessa is truly a wonderful being, an indescribable intimacy of Provence.
There is also Uncle Nietzsche lying with a gun. Could this picture fit the phenomenon that Uncle said and the joy that can never be erased in the appearance, the metaphysical loss and suffering, and release himself in the picture.
Or all existence is legitimate only as art in the end. Whatever, sophie is too beautiful, beautiful like a painting, like art, pure. Fits well with uncle.

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Magic in the Moonlight quotes

  • 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?