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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  • Vinnie 2022-03-26 09:01:15

    I can stand any movie I'm talking about, but I can't stand the love between teachers and students.

  • Hassie 2022-04-02 09:01:14

    Ben Kingsley is amazing! Poor people, grab that little warmth~~

Elegy quotes

  • David Kepesh: [interview on the Charlie Rose show] We're not all descended from the Puritans.

    Charlie Rose: No?

    David Kepesh: There was another colony 30 miles from Plymouth, it's not on the maps today. Marymount it was called.

    Charlie Rose: Yeah, alright, you mention in your book...

    David Kepesh: The colony where anything goes, went.

    Charlie Rose: There was booze...

    David Kepesh: here was booze. There was fornication. There was music. There was... they even ah, ah, ah, you name it, you name it. They even danced around the maypole once a month, wearing masks, worshiping god knows what, Whites and Indians together, all going for broke...

    Charlie Rose: Who was responsible for all of this?

    David Kepesh: A character by the name of Thomas Morton.

    Charlie Rose: Aah, the "Hugh Hefner" of the Puritans.

    David Kepesh: You could say that. I'm going to read you a quote of what the Puritans thought of Morton's followers: 'Debauched bacchanalians and atheists, falling into great licentiousness, and leading degenerate lives'. When I heard that, I packed my bags, I left Oxford, and I came straight to America, America the licentious.

    Charlie Rose: So what happened to all of those people?

    David Kepesh: Well, the Puritans shot them down. They sent in Miles Standish leading the militia. He chopped down the maypole, cut down those colored ribbons, banners, everything; party was over

    Charlie Rose: And we became a nation of straight-laced Puritans.

    David Kepesh: Well...

    Charlie Rose: Isn't that your point though? The Puritans won, they stamped out all things sexual... how would you say it?

    David Kepesh: Sexual happiness.

    Charlie Rose: Exactly. Until the 1960s.

    David Kepesh: Until the 1960s when it all exploded again all over the place.

    Charlie Rose: Right, everyone was dancing around the maypole, then, make love not war.

    David Kepesh: If you remember, only a decade earlier, if you wanted to have sex, if you wanted to make love in the 1950s, you had to beg for it, you had to cop a feel.

    Charlie Rose: Or... get married.

    David Kepesh: As I did in the 1960s.

    Charlie Rose: Any regrets?

    David Kepesh: Plenty. Um, but that's our secret. Don't tell anybody.

    [laughter]

    David Kepesh: That's just between you and me.

  • George O'Hearn: Life always keeps back more surprises than we could ever imagine.