Beauty's special love event

Ophelia 2022-04-21 09:03:51

This film was beautifully shot. It's that quiet, silent beauty. Whether it is scenery, people, objects, or music, perspective and composition, they are all very delicate and natural. Or to say Penélope Cruz, her beauty has become a state. I first met her from the vanilla sky, then I was attracted by this moth-like woman, and then I saw her love Barcelona. She has a Spanish temperament and speaks English very nicely. What impressed me the most was the scene of Consula and David at the beach. She was lying on the beach, without any deliberate dressing, just a simple beige coat, gray-blue scarf, and an innocent smile. It is an incomparable beauty. They hugged and walked on the beach together, and he took pictures of her. It was true love, even if it was short-lived, but true, regardless of age differences, regardless of worldly opinions. Some people can be missed for a lifetime even if they are together for a day or two. I think the value of love should lie in truth rather than time, but as long as love is pure and not length, it really takes courage to pursue it.
Another clue in the film is David's emotional ups and downs. He is over sixty years old, but he is quite academically cultivated, tasteful, knowledgeable, and famous. He is familiar with outstanding paintings, plays beautiful tunes, is proficient in photography, and maintains sports habits. He has had many women, but he has lost ground to young Consula. In front of such flawless beauty, he had low self-esteem, dared not face her friends, her family, dare not take responsibility, and dare not face public opinion. Like a child, escape, contradiction, and self-torture brought her pain and regret. After her graduation ceremony, he dared not contact her for several years. Until, until she gradually cut off her long hair and took the initiative to find him with short hair. She has breast cancer. She said that she would not feel distressed if she cut her hair slowly. She said that over the years, only you have been so obsessed with my body. He told her that he would always be by her side. He took the final image of her perfect body and slowly developed it. There was a silent tear from the corner of her eye. However, why didn't he say it earlier, why couldn't he be with her magnanimously at the beginning of love? Have to wait for her to be incomplete, have to wait for her illness to be equal to his old age, before he dares to love each other magnanimously? Only when there are defects in each other can you have the confidence to love each other, is that so?

Love with a big age gap can be real, as long as you are magnanimous enough, as long as you are willing to fight the world. I saw Consula looking at him with hopeful eyes in the restaurant, and I saw Consula smiling like a child when he finally agreed to attend her graduation. Her love for him is real, without a trace of trouble, without thinking too much. But David was too timid. At that time, he was too cowardly.

But the romance and innocent smile on the beach are real, the flowing tune he played for her is real, the passion and warmth between the beds are real, and love really existed. I think that's enough.

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Elegy quotes

  • George O'Hearn: Beautiful women are invisible.

    David Kepesh: Invisible? What the hell does that mean? Invisible? They jump out at you. A beautiful woman, she stands out. She stands apart. You can't miss her.

    George O'Hearn: But we never actually see the person. We see the beautiful shell. We're blocked by the beauty barrier. Yeah, we're so dazzled by the outside that we never make it inside.

  • David Kepesh: I think it was Betty Davis who said old age is not for sissies. But it was Tolstoy who said the biggest surprise in a man's life is old age. Old age sneaks up on you, and the next thing you know you're asking yourself, I'm asking myself, why can't an old man act his real age? How is it possible for me to still be involved in the carnal aspects of the human comedy? Because, in my head, nothing has changed.