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old and young
Tess 2022-04-23 07:05:39
The love between a girl in her twenties and an old man in her sixties. An old man in his 60s, with a strong physique and a black leather jacket, he can take care of himself and is full of wisdom and literary atmosphere. A girl in her twenties is so beautiful. The old man seduced the girl, and the girl fell in love with the old man. When two people stand together, you will feel that this is really love. But the old man was finally afraid. He knew that one day in the future, a young man would take the girl away. It would be better to quit instead of being rejected. When the girl wanted to bring the old man into her life circle, the old man chose to leave, even though he loved her, even though she loved him at that moment. Two years later, the girl found the old man, the girl had breast cancer, and she was going to have an operation the next day. She asked the old man, "If I lost my breasts, would you still love me?" There was also a similar relationship between the old man and a middle-aged woman, Beauvoir and Sartre. The old man loves freedom uninhibitedly all his life, and the girl loves it frankly and sincerely. Maybe at some point each of us scare ourselves, "If I..., would my lover still love me?" This may or may not happen, and this may or may not be the case. In the end, I really believe it, the old man and the girl are really in love, even if the old man may be looking for the feeling of youth, even if the girl may be attracted by the mature and elegant demeanor of the old man, even if they really need to be together, after a few years, the old man has a stroke, When the girl left the old man, at that moment, it was still love, and no one could say that it was not pure. It would be nice if marriage was as simple as love, but marriage has so many other meanings, having children and supporting old age.
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Adolf 2022-03-25 09:01:23
The old man fell in love with the girl, loved everything that her youth and body symbolized, but did not read her soul and thoughts. He didn't cherish what he thought would be lost from the beginning. It never occurred to him that she would fall in love as his righteous lover.
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Alexane 2022-04-02 09:01:14
I don't know, I just came to see the show. But the director is very good, and there is a scene in the back where leaves fall, which makes me sad.
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Consuela Castillo: Beautiful picture.
David Kepesh: Beautiful woman.
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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.