The young persistence of middle-aged men

Chelsea 2022-04-22 07:01:55

The hero and heroine of this film are very flavorful (the main characters are Penelope Cruz and Ben Kingsley), and it fits the atmosphere of the film. This is a very literary and artistic film about life, which is adapted from the novel "Dying Creatures" by Philip Lowe.

The love between the male and female protagonists should be a year-end love, of course, it is also a teacher-student love with a sense of taboo. Old men are elegant and gentle, talented and knowledgeable, young women are sensitive and beautiful, intelligent and sexy, a beautiful woman has the charm of stopping people, when this beautiful woman has something to dig inside, then her attraction The force is no less than the attraction of cosmic black holes to stars.

So when this excellent old man met a young and attractive beauty, he became unconfident, he was full of doubts about the love between himself and a woman, he questioned his own charm, and doubted the admiration of women for him. Jealous of men who are younger than him, even if those men are vulgar and mean, but he is jealous because he does not have the strong and sturdy bodies of those young men, nor the time and capital they can squander freely, and women expect to be loved, expect to be in the sun Receive blessings with your loved ones. When a woman is in love, all she wants is recognition. Of course, according to the follow-up development of the black fairy tale, women who fall in love will become more and more greedy.

The final ending of the movie is that men admit that they are really getting old, and that they succumb to time from body to soul, while women also admit their humility and insignificance to their body and destiny due to illness. When our lives are not threatened, we will always care about the details of our lives. At the end of our lives, we realize that those are really nothing, and it is meaningless to pursue those unnecessary entanglements and contradictions. So cherish the people and things that make your heart move, and be brave to express it. Why should we care about the thoughts of others, we are so insignificant in the face of life and time, to keep our minds stable and happiness is the pursuit of happiness.

Humans, when I have nothing to do, I always look forward to it. Only when there is a catastrophe can we move forward bravely. This is also human nature. The world is stable and does not seek change. . . .

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Extended Reading
  • Garrick 2022-03-25 09:01:23

    Love cannot be foreseen and assumed.

  • Otto 2022-04-01 09:01:18

    Isabel Coixet, you're giving me an ass...

Elegy quotes

  • Consuela Castillo: Beautiful picture.

    David Kepesh: Beautiful woman.

  • 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.