A One and a Two

Clementine 2022-04-22 07:01:46

I usually write a short review after watching a movie, but this movie really feels too much, there is so much to say, the 50-word short review really can’t hold it.

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said this, when you were away, I had a chance to spend a period of time when I was young. I thought that if I lived again, maybe it would be different, but the result is still the same, no difference. I just suddenly felt that if I lived again, it seemed really unnecessary. There's really no need

for that - the first love of NJ NJ, they met after 20 years, they still love each other, but life can't go back. He has a wife and two children. After many ups and downs, she married a wealthy American.

NJ hesitated and finally said to her: "I've never loved another person." She closed the door slowly, tears streaming down her face.

When she cried, NJ went up and hugged her. And when Minmin cried about the monotony of her life, NJ just watched from a distance. He does still love her.

What about love? When she forced him to live a life he didn't like, he left without saying goodbye. Now, he is living the life she envisioned for him, but they are not together. He and a woman he didn't love, after so many years, were plain and respectful to each other, who would investigate whether there was ever love between them.

True love can not be together, maybe this is life.

When we can't convince ourselves, we attribute it to fate, life.

However, apart from these, what else can convince yourself of this reality?

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Tingting was a freshman in high school and always lived in the praise of others for "reading well". Besides this sentence, what else does anyone know about her? She lives alone like this, being a good child in the eyes of others.

A person lives in a seemingly beautiful family, but in fact it is still a person's life. There are only simple conversations between the family. Mom goes up the mountain, Dad goes on a business trip, and he and his brother are at home alone. It is no different to her.

For her, life seemed to be like this, living alone in a big family, until the fat man walked into her heart.

The fat man told her that everyone has something beautiful.

The fat man told her that he only had her in his heart.

She thought she had caught the wings of love.

But in the end, he realized that he was just a substitute for Lily. In the end, the fat man yelled for her not to come to him. He said: "If only life was what you imagined it would be!" But what is life like? She didn't understand either, she said, "Close your eyes, that world is so beautiful."

When NJ's love and Tingting appear interspersed, it always feels like the irony of life. How similar they are, holding each other's hands when crossing the road and fleeing in the hotel. But in the end, there was no result.

Like NJ said, there is no need for that. We are all used to spending day by day in our current life. There is really no need to change.

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mother-in-law, I miss you so much, especially when I see that little cousin who doesn't have a name yet, I will remember, you often tell me: you are old. I really wanted to tell him: I also feel...I'm getting old too. ——Yangyang

heard such a child say, I am also old, I really feel a little funny. Life is still long for him, what to say is old.

But when I think about it, it seems that this is what I said to myself. I always feel that I am getting old, and that life is just like this day after day, there is no change or new ideas. Tired of the present day, no longer looking forward, no longer wishing to take risks. A man lives in his own world. alone.

Watching Yangyang take pictures around with a camera, obsessively photographing the backs of people's heads, practice holding his breath alone, jumping into the swimming pool with clothes on...

I really want to say to him: I also think... I'm getting old too.

But looking at NJ, looking at Minmin, I feel that I am still young, and there is still a trace of hope and passion left.

Maybe everyone is young and everyone is old. This is a stamp of time.

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, you can't see it yourself, so I'll show it to you. ——Yangyang

's film is like this sentence of Yangyang. The director uses the lens to let us see the other side of life that we can't see. The director used a lot of glass reflective lenses to give us a chance to look at life calmly and objectively.

The backside of life hides the loneliness of each of us. There is a lingering sadness in the film, perhaps seeing everyone living alone like this.

Like the people who come and go in "Tango", they are in the same room, but doing things unrelated to each other. It may feel a little scary to express it in such a virtual form as animation. When the movie captures this feeling so realistically, there is only a long sigh.

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If everyone is one, they are only one when they are together. Maybe because of marriage, family, love, they are together. But they are still independent, living their own lives, just together.

The more prosperous the city is, the more cruel it is to set off everyone's loneliness.

Maybe it's true that everyone is born alone, and there is no one who can fully understand themselves.

Two people. all.

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finally ends with Yangyang's words to grandma. I don't always think this is the end. In many places, the director seems to have not explained clearly.

But it doesn't need any explanation. This is life, and life is not about creating suspense that you only know at the last minute. Some suspense, maybe we will never know for a lifetime.

The only thing we know is that they will still live on their own like this, in a group of people, on their own.

Life has no end.

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Yi Yi: A One and a Two... quotes

  • Ota: Why are we afraid of the first time? Every day in life is a first time. Every morning is new. We never live the same day twice. We're never afraid of getting up every morning. Why?

  • Yang-Yang: I'm sorry, Grandma. It wasn't that I didn't want to talk to you. I think all the stuff I could tell you... You must already know. Otherwise, you wouldn't always tell me to 'Listen!' They all say you've gone away. But you didn't tell me where you went. I guess it's someplace you think I should know. But, Grandma, I know so little. Do you know what I want to do when I grow up? I want to tell people things they don't know. Show them stuff they haven't seen. It'll be so much fun. Perhaps one day... I'll find out where you've gone. If I do, can I tell everyone, and bring them to visit you? Grandma, I miss you. Especially when I see my newborn cousin who still doesn't have a name. He reminds me that you always said you felt old. I want to tell him that I feel I am old, too.