Happiness is not about getting more, but getting less

Arden 2022-04-19 09:02:20

A few minutes late for the theater.

The small screening hall was sparsely filled with people.

On the screen norah, or liz, sitting at the bar, sad.

Jude should be the owner of this restaurant. He said the blueberry cake was actually good, but never sold it. It's not bad, it's just that no one ordered it. He comforted the injured girl in front of him and wanted to tell her that it wasn't her fault that the person didn't love her.

This is the plot of the movie I saw before I sat down.

Instinctively knew I was going to love this movie. Excluding all those negative comments, the argument that the use of foreign actors has ruined the style of Wang's films, in my opinion, although there are only two characters, I am already attracted by the feeling between the characters.

Look down and try to ignore dialogue that is not in the original sound. I remember someone saying that this film is a continuation of the Mood for Love. And I just think that there is a restaurant that is very familiar, that is Chongqing Forest.

Guess this time the photography should be Du Kefeng. That movie background, light, image, all the feeling is familiar to him.

I like this man. I like him more than Wong Kar Wai. I couldn't help but think of "Sanjoren", that bar, Tadanobu Asano, the grayish blue sea. Such a similar feeling. The feeling of being on the road.

And in this movie, norah also started to hit the road, leaving New York.

Tennessee, Memphis. The restaurant entertains during the day and the bar waitress at night. Drunk police. Slutty wife. The truth about love I have witnessed is that it is not good to love too deeply, and it is not good to not love anymore. And need to add a note: Rachel Weisz's wife suri is really, really beautiful.

then Nevada. Casino and then to Las Vegas. Here comes Natalie, and her unrecognizable love for her father. Affection is family after all. No matter how we deny it, we can deceive others, but not ourselves.

Then back to New York. Back to Jude's restaurant. Norah at this time is no longer the sad little girl at that time. You can see relief in her smile. And jude is still the jude who likes norah, and when the movie is about to end, he remembers and likes the subtleties arranged by the director: in the beginning of the story, jude prepares a blueberry pie for the girl every day, plus an ice cream ball (vanilla flavored) ?cuze' its color s white ) and a few days later the girl who came to the store every day said to jude that she decided not to come tomorrow, jude showed some fidgeting.

The movie ends beautifully in Norah's response to Jude's kiss. I don't know why I suddenly remembered the song in the movie I watched on the computer clearly yesterday. "there is an end" from Bill Murry's Broken Flower. It's really a bit similar. All on the road, after a lap or all the way, you will understand something.

It's very strange. In the past, watching Wong Kar Wai's movies was always just to feel it, but this time I saw the truth.

Sitting on the taxi home, a sandwich and a box of coffee is my dinner. I want to go back and watch this movie again, and I want to hear the original voices of the characters themselves, not the voices of the powerful Chinese cast who have overwhelmed me. The plot of the movie was filtered and played back in my mind, and I suddenly realized that maybe Wong Kar-Wai wanted to explain something in the movie.

I am reminded of one of my own big shortcomings: not knowing how to give up. Afraid of losing something, greedy for everything, so I grab everything, and finally get something? Liz came back in a circle and was a new mature self. She made the right choice to let go, let it be! and I?

I heard a voice in my heart tell me:

"Blueberry Night" movie tells you the truth: please learn to give up. Only when you know how to give up can you re-examine yourself, and then you will have the opportunity to get a new self that you like.

Then I thought of the recent contradictions and dilemmas, and I had an easy solution. That person, those reluctance, please end it decisively. Don't worry that you may not meet such a good person in the future. Please only see clearly that you have no feelings for him. Please follow the voice in your heart: liking the other person or not is the most important thing! Just keep liking the people you like.


PS I searched for cat power and found that she is the original JUDE girl who appeared in the movie ^^

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My Blueberry Nights quotes

  • Elizabeth: Why do you keep them? You should just throw them out.

    Jeremy: No. No, I couldn't do that.

    Elizabeth: Why not?

    Jeremy: If I threw these keys away then those doors would be closed forever and that shouldn't be up to me to decide, should it?

    Elizabeth: I guess I'm just looking for a reason.

    Jeremy: From my observations, sometimes it's better off not knowing, and other times there's no reason to be found.

    Elizabeth: Everything has a reason.

    Jeremy: Hmm. It's like these pies and cakes. At the end of every night, the cheesecake and the apple pie are always completely gone. The peach cobbler and the chocolate mousse cake are nearly finished... but there's always a whole blueberry pie left untouched.

    Elizabeth: So what's wrong with the blueberry pie?

    Jeremy: There's nothing wrong with the blueberry pie. Just... people make other choices. You can't blame the blueberry pie, just... no one wants it.

  • Elizabeth: [wiping her tears] How do you say goodbye to someone you can't imagine living without? I didn't say goodbye.

    [pause]

    Elizabeth: I didn't say anything. I just walked away.