"Liberal Arts", the mainland translation of "Love Songs of Liberal Arts". This translation is not good, this film is not about love.
This is a movie that can understand what the director wants to express in one go, and it is not worth watching again. The footage is ordinary, and there isn't a single scene that exclaims: wow, this screenshot would be a great photo. The plot is very ordinary. The male protagonist Jesse breaks up with his cohabiting girlfriend, has a short but innocent ambiguous or romantic relationship with a girl who is 16 years younger than him, and sleeps with his female teacher of romantic literature in college. With the bookstore lady owner who also loves books.
But it's rare to see a film that articulates a theme so clearly: growth. Its translated name is love, and the plot is love, but the whole movie is not love, which is the biggest highlight of this movie. A question I've been thinking about recently is that art should express the artist's mind, not the surface. A good novel is not about the plot, but about the author's thoughts, like the discussion of "Twilight" in the movie, it sells well, but it is shallow, because it is easy to read and attractive, but it is far less than The charm of hard-to-understand and thoughtful literary works, they can make people read again at a certain stage of life, and have a new and deeper experience. It is an impact on life and soul, not a vulgar life to please. A good photo does not depend on the beauty of the picture, but on the soul that the photographer wants to express through the photo. The same is true of music and movies. What attracts attention will not be superficial things. What can be touched is always just a carrier. The important thing is the mind and soul. So even if this movie is very simple and can't be very profound, on the other hand, it is much better to focus on expressing a theme and express it thoroughly and clearly than a very ambitious and flashy movie.
Zambi said when he parted ways with Jesse to meet again: I sometimes despise myself, like a older, wiser me looking at my nineteen-year-old manuscript, this manuscript I am full of potentials, but I have to live a full life to catch up with the other self. Moreover, I know that there will be a day, but sometimes I hope this process can be faster. Maybe, for me, you are the shortcut .
We fall in love, love people, and be loved, to a certain extent, to grow from the process of getting along, not simply to have someone to accompany. So even if two people are separated, it doesn't mean how grief-stricken it is. In many cases, it's just that the growth of the two people has deviated. The person who is attractive to us may be the person suitable for growth.
Jesse's adored female teacher of romantic literature pulls Jesse into bed and kicks him away immediately after he's done. "I love your body but have no interest in your soul." This was my first thought about the behavior of a female teacher. Cool, isn't it? Men of the same age are physically old, and young men are not evenly matched in thought. Her charm comes from her growing up to know exactly what she wants from a man, not relying on it, not living with a person out of fear of loneliness.
The old retired professor said a classic sentence: After I was nineteen, I always felt like I was nineteen. People are resistant to growth, but they are pretending to be mature.
Another man, a pale teenager with mania. Sensitive to life and avoid. After being rescued by suicide, Jesse said to him: Don't be a genius who died young, die when you get old, it's a great thing to grow old. This middle-aged man, who was in trouble and wanted to escape back to college, began to tell others that getting old is a great thing.
At the end, Jesse snuggles up on the couch with a woman her age, and the woman says, you're going to be a good old guy. I want to be an old lady with a long white ponytail, and I want a very, very wrinkled face. I think getting old is really nice. Summarize the theme of the entire film, the end of the play.
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