I am still willing to see this film as a youth film, with handsome guys and beauties, your love and my love, accompanied by singing and dancing. What the film has to tell us is rich and deep, but the form of the film seems a little ironically old and clichéd. The director has been preparing for this movie for 16 years, and perhaps the old part was conceived by her 16 years ago. At that time, perhaps such an opening and such a plot were not too old-fashioned. But if, as the comments say, the film is the director telling his own story, then such a plot and such thoughts are thought provoking.
The relationship between the three is confusing. Paul loves Aster, which is the respect that all boys should have for school flowers, especially a simple-minded big boy like Paul. But he actually fell in love with Ellie. Although Ellie was smart and helped Paul a lot, and the two had been together for so long, it was still difficult for Paul to fall in love with Ellie, especially after he successfully dated Aster. Ellie's falling in love with Aster may have been hinted in the first act of the band, but I thought it was just the ugly duckling looking up to the swan, until later Ellie flirted with text messages and felt that the two had found a soul mate, so they fell deeply in love. . And Aster is a little uncertain about Ellie's feelings. Who does she love? Paul and her boyfriend are definitely not. But does she love Ellie? She said that she might have guessed it before, otherwise she couldn't explain why she was so special about the encounter with Ellie at Paul's house, and even went to the hot spring together to meet "candidly". But maybe the thoughts are too shocking to the world, so her thoughts are just subconscious activities, and occasionally they come to mind and they are just dismissed. Is this ignorant feeling of love?
That comment is well said, in this movie who loves who is the least important, the important thing is the pursuit of love by the three people, that is, the director's understanding of love. What exactly is love? When Ellie's father encouraged Paul to love Ellie, he said that love was "not even wanting the other person to change a little bit". This sounds great, but it strikes me as being too idealistic and pulling worldly love too high. "Love is patience, love is a gift" is the definition of a missionary-like cliché, which in the movie looks more like a satire of those who are rigid, those self-righteous elders. At the end of the movie, it seems that the most respected statement is that love is "willing to destroy one's own good paintings, just for the opportunity to get back a great work", but this is more about the choices when you are young, not just about love.
But is love really just desperate to pursue the best one? Indeed, love has only that one share. Of course, it is different from other things. It should not be just contentment. But what if everything you have now was also that cinnabar mole? How to distinguish the so-called beautiful love, but only the white moonlight that cannot be obtained. Even if you only look at the present when you are looking for love, you only look at the present, you only look for what you see in your eyes, and you only look at the feeling in yourself, and even believe that this is the only one, can you be sure that what you find in the moment is unsurpassable?
There is no point in doing dialectics in this way. If a movie is made into the expository essay and argumentative essay that I hated most when I was a child, it would be too much to burn the piano and cook the crane. A story, telling a truth that you want to say, is enough.
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