Notes on "Summer Love"

Howell 2022-04-23 07:03:27

"He admired her from the bottom of his heart and blew kisses to her in his head." Catherine jumped into the river, and the plot clips fell in love with the music. Her pride, expression, posture, the lights of the Seine River at night, and her hat floating away, not only won the account , more to win the audience. "I never laughed before I met you." Kai freezes between movement and stillness, and even the noise is still into texture, love, form and content blind date, really love; freeze frame, ghost pan, key image overlay, cropped into It is the most fatal point of Chu Fu; although jumping scissors are occasionally amazing, they are not as exquisite and poetic as Gundam.

Gao and Chu are different in tone. It is obvious from comedy that Chu is lively and funny, like Keaton, which is similar to the stage. It is a genre comedy and classicism. On the other hand, Gao is brisk, romantic, philosophical, and poetic. It is a comedy and free expression of life.

This film subverts the patriarchal wives and concubines, Zhan Yuzu and the old kings become the battlefield where Kai fights for love, and the battlefield is always scarred. Kay said, "Complete love only takes a moment." She believes that love and pain can be offset and repaid. Love is supreme, but she is materialized by her, and she has always wanted to have a baby. "We play with the source of life, but fail. ”, rebuking Kay for “pioneers to be humble and selfless”.

"I like the back of your neck, the only part you can't see I can see" maybe Chong fell in love with Kay's self-righteous blindness "Did Kay have any joy in this war? No, she made Zu's life a mess Her death gave Zu a sense of relief." "The most sad thing about war is that he deprives himself of the struggle." Zhan said that the two can coexist. Compared with Zu's sinking, Zhan has seen through the bullshit that love is supreme in classicism. Illusion, he conquered love, not to get love, love is a personal struggle, not to conquer others with love like Kai, not to be nomadic, to choose Ji Bei who promised to grow old.

Who won in the end? "What I'd rather win is such a (peaceful) life," says Cham; if death is a kind of peace. This may have nothing to do with love, but it is actually a story between the new wave and classicism, a war, and a personal struggle.

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  • Jules: The most important factor in any relationship is the woman's fidelity. The husband's is secondary. Who was it who wrote, "Woman is natural, therefore abominable?"

    Jim: Baudelaire, but he was describing a certain world.

    Jules: Not at all. He spoke of women in general. What he says about a young girl is magnificent: "Horror, monster, assassin of the arts, little fool, little slut. The greatest idiocy combined with the greatest depravity." Wait. I'm not finished. This is marvelous: "I'm always astonished they allow women inside churches. What could they possibly have to say to God?"

    Catherine: You're both fools.

  • Jim: I understand.

    Catherine: I don't want to be understood. It's almost dawn.