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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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.