"Last Year at Marion Budd" was my favorite movie, and shortly after the movie opened, I realized that this was the movie I wanted! Memories, I really like this theme so much. I've read some novels about memory, but I've seen very few movies. This is probably the first one. Also, the film has a Calvino feel to it. "This is the movie I like!" and "This is the movie I want!", the two are not the same, the difference is probably that the latter is not long after the opening, and there will be an intuitive tremor in my heart. kind of advance determination. I felt the same way when I watched "Eight and a Half" before.
Memories, denials, pursuits, escapes, repetitions, doubts, overthrows, secret passions, repressed, passionate conversations, lost pains, chaotic possibilities, building memories, and finding a way out from memory. Oppressive organ, pictorial scenes, disturbing hints, collapse and fringes of madness, endless labyrinthine hotels, math combo games, earnest, sleepwalker male protagonist, restless lady, gloomy husband. And the ending, I really like it so much, I really didn't expect it to end like this. They finally walked out of the hall together, so happy for them at the moment, maybe it could really lead to relief, but it was also unsettling, after all, the whole movie is permeated with a sense of instability. At this moment, the husband appeared on the dark stairs, he was late, his lateness may or may not be intentional, he stood there, watching them go out, but did not do anything. Before this, the husband was like an indifferent, emotionless existence, defeating the male protagonist without any expression in every game, a huge obstacle-like existence. But the late appearance at the end enriched the image. He is no longer an obstacle symbol in the male protagonist's perspective, but an emotional person in the audience's perspective. His lateness adds more complex feelings to the ending, deepening the The loneliness of a heavy fate. There is nothing to stop them. However, there is no longer anyone in the shot, just the hotel in the dark on the exterior. "Through the straight path, between the eternal statues and the granite floors, you are lost, forever, in the silent night, just you and me." This metaphorical ending, as if to show a trapped Everyone's labyrinth seems to have fallen into a net of fate that cannot be escaped, but it is so romantic that it seems to fall into nothingness, and it seems to melt into eternity. Nothingness and eternity merge into one, becoming the supreme romance. For some reason, when I saw the ending, I thought of the ending line of "The Rocky Horror Show" - "On the surface of this planet, there is a bug called man, lost in space and time." Although the two are not consistent , but both make me feel a similar melancholy.
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