It's the second time to watch this movie after many years. Maybe because I have also experienced emotional changes, so I feel more deeply.
Her husband cheated, her mistress was pregnant, she was divorced, and her property was occupied. After suffering this series of blows, Francis accepted a plane ticket to Tuscany from a friend and embarked on a journey of healing that belonged to her. "Under the Tuscan Sun" tells such a story, but it's not sad. American relaxation, Italian enthusiasm, the beautiful idyllic scenery of Tuscany, and the wise and humorous dialogue in the film make this film full of romance and warmth.
Life is full of surprises, ups and downs are like shadows, and parting happens at any time. When everything falls apart, will the good life we look forward to come? How are we going to get through those tough days? As the picture of Tuscany unfolds on the screen, these questions are constantly beating on the hearts of the audience.
Instead of returning to San Francisco, Francis spent almost all of her savings on an old house in Tuscany that had been there for over a hundred years. The process of repairing the house is also the process of repairing her broken heart. This process is not easy.
On a rainy night, she was curled up alone in an old house with power outages. Lightning struck the washing machine in the yard, and the windows were rattled by the strong wind. The end of the world seemed to come, and she could only be alone here. wait to die. On such a night, the pain of breaking up the marriage was like a mad dog guarding the door, suddenly jumping over to bite the broken heart, and the pain came wave after wave, making her unable to resist. Only those who have experienced it can understand what kind of pain it is. You know that relationship is over, it's never coming back, it's dead. No matter how unwilling you are, no matter how unwilling you are, you can only let it go. You can only curl up in the dark, watching your heart be torn apart, and then shatter like a lit firecracker, smoke and debris scattered everywhere, the pain spreads from the heart, drowns your whole body, you can no longer breathe . Lost love took away a part of your soul and almost took your whole life, but you know you can't sacrifice your whole life to pay homage to it. You have to go on living.
Standing on the balcony and watching an old man lay flowers in front of a tombstone, rebuild the house with renovators from Poland, and go to a neighbor's house for dinner, Francis rebuilds her life in a different place. From being alone, to slowly establishing connections with people and things around, that broken heart also began to be glued little by little. Catherine, who is over 500 years old, made Francis see a different world. She always wears a grand dress and a top hat with feathers on her head, eats ice cream in winter, kisses a bird on the street without anyone else, and dances in the pool sprayed on Christmas Eve. Francis asked her, "How did you do it?" She smiled. "The hat makes me happy, and so does the ice cream." She said that when she was sixteen, she met a Bole Fefe, who said that people sometimes have to live Be respectful, never lose your childlike enthusiasm, everything will work out the way you want it to .
Is that right? Such a rhetoric seems ethereal, light and unreliable. The pain in the past is so heavy, real, and lingering, how can you maintain the enthusiasm of a child? Broken hearts seem to be glued together, but a disappointment will be shattered again. When the snake in the yard got into the room, Francis was so frightened that he lost his mind and his inner loss and pain rose again: "What am I doing here? Alone in a big house? You know the most amazing thing about divorce is that What? It won't really kill you, but when a lover who promises to die says he doesn't love you, it will kill you instantly. You can't wake up every day trying to understand how the world works like this, It's like it's never been bright." Yes, when the dark clouds fill it, it's like the sky has never been bright. But how long are you going to stay in this darkness? Catherine, seeing her lost face, snapped at her: "You're so boring! You're sad, like a big black hole. Regrets are a waste of time, Fefe used to say, they let the past hold you back and you can't face the present. If you Addicted, how can I be happy? Listen, when I was a little girl, I always spent hours catching ladybugs, and finally I gave up and fell asleep on the grass. When I woke up, they crawled all over me."
Can you really let go? Let those hurts pass, forgive the former self, and forgive the ruthless him? The sadness of being betrayed, the love that was put in but not obtained, the unfulfilled expectations for oneself and the other party, the loneliness of those who want to be intimate but cannot be intimate, all these plots, how to fall out ? That part isn't covered in the movie, and that's the most important part. Only when a person understands himself in the relationship, understands the other party, and sees clearly the entanglement and longing in each other's souls, can he truly realize who I am. Maybe then, we can be grateful to each other for being a mirror of ourselves, allowing ourselves to see the truth and have the opportunity to live our true self. Maybe then, sadness will turn into a blessing, body and soul will become one, the light will shine on the dark, and freedom will come.
The innocence of the past is gone forever, and we embark on the journey of life, destined to experience a catastrophe. Continue to indulge or overcome obstacles? Continue the trek after drinking the wine of pain, or stop in the dark and get drunk? The road of growth is so painful and so long, every moment and every second, the taste of ants eating the heart is passing through the body, every emotion and every breath is testing the determination to be born as a human being. And only when we travel through the darkness again and again, experience the taste of life in one meal and one meal, and understand the true feelings of everything in the grass and trees, can we embrace the innocence again. It is pure and agile after the events of the world, and it is the wine of life.
Francis went through emotional anticipation and disappointment once again, swaying up and down like a roller coaster. But she can also regain herself after disappointment, in the process of repairing the house little by little, in every meal, in every warm interaction with Catherine, girlfriends, neighbors, real estate agents and construction workers , the heart gradually became steady and stable.
The movie has a happy ending, with an old house being renovated and a wedding in the yard of a young construction worker and a neighbor's daughter. Francis lay contentedly on the chaise longue and soaked up the sun. When she opened her eyes, a handsome man stood in front of her, smiling and picking up the ladybugs from her body.
Life is not like a movie, but it is as exciting as a movie. No matter what happens, it's the most important thing to stay innocent forever , Catherine said . The people of the Alps have built railroad tracks across the Alps, although there are no trains yet. Anyway, they built it, they knew the train would come one day.
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