What is a brilliant life? love; persevere

Darian 2022-04-20 09:02:13

"I've been silent all my life, lonely and restless all my life.
About values, one day I answered this question. You said, do you have values? I said, I don't, I don't care about democracy, freedom, and lively news. Later I think, what are the values?
Believe in love, the eternal pursuit of love, persistence in life, and even life, until one day, life will cover you, like a white cloth covering the stool you are familiar with.
When a drama ends , I am not in a hurry to express an opinion, not even to say a word; I do not condemn its flaws; when my children seem to live
humbly, and even die with me, I remain silent, not to collapse in an instant, to despair.
Silence. When relatives leave..."

"I made up my mind that when you come back, we will go on a trip this Spring Festival. Because we have never traveled before, but that's not the reason.
Go where you want to go. We don't argue. ;We reduce our quarrels--from the first three days, we can once a week.
I don't compliment another woman on the trip, and I don't peek at their faces, although they are younger than us, and they are beautiful and attractive; although you The corners of their eyes may not be as lustrous as theirs, and they have proud breasts—
but they are just someone else, someone else’s daughter, someone else’s lover, someone else’s wife, even someone else’s lover; and we are lifelong companions.
—I know very well . All this will also be told to our children and to our father, our mother."

"Dear Nikolai, I don't really want to write this letter to you. Your mother is dead, she died in a dream. "

Dear wife, I want you -- and our children, even our fathers, our mothers, our younger brothers and their lovers and their children, to come and see this movie and what's in it. LIFE - BRILLIANT LIFE."

It's not literary, it's better than any of the best movies I've ever mentioned before. It is not art, it is not for the withdrawn; it is not jerky, it is not out of reach.
But it's not just a movie, it's a long and complete life.
Although it talks about ideals and studies, talks about progress;
talks about love, talks about travel, talks about politics, talks about rebellion, talks about separation;
talks about sickness, talks about terror, talks about death;
talks about marriage, talks about Giving birth, talking about father and mother passing away one after another, talking about children growing up, falling in love, getting married;
talking about living brothers getting old one by one, talking about time passing by, people approaching the end of life day by day;
Speaking of impulse, speaking of anger, speaking of resistance, speaking of repentance, speaking of keeping secrets, speaking of reunion...

But these are not all, but they are all indispensable.
This is a person's life, regardless of joys or sorrows, it can be called "splendid life".

Kind and righteous people, I have a final question for you:
Years later, when his brother and his wife are gone, he and his brother's lover become lovers and will spend the rest of their lives together - what do you think of them? unethical? despicable? perfidious?
……

YB 2010.1.25

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  • Kristofer 2022-03-27 09:01:15

    Wang Xiaoshuai's three hours made me feel hypocritical and long, but Giordana's six hours made me walk into the movie, what is small to see big and what is pretending to be small to see big. The two brothers' very different fates are heartbreaking. "The Leopard" (1860), "1900" (1900-1945), "Bright Life" (1966-2002), 15 hours of watching the changes in Italy since the independence movement for a century and a half, and almost the entire Italian country history. Thousands of sails have passed, and this hot land has grown.

  • Bernardo 2022-03-17 09:01:06

    Always number one on my list of movies. The film is full of crying, but not to earn your tears. The film is full of sadness, but not to earn your sadness. The film is full of strength, but it's not meant to teach you to be strong. You are Mateo, and you are also Nicolas.

The Best of Youth quotes

  • Andrea Utano: I watch the midnight sun sink towards the horizon, then it stops and doesn't enter the sea. I think of my father, mother, and you, how you've always said that everything is beautiful. I think you were right. Everything is truly beautiful.

  • Giovanna Carati: Look, but do you know that I still have a postcard you sent me from the North Cape, in '66, in Norwegian? I think it had an inscription. And under the translation it said: "Everything that exists is beautiful!", With three exclamation points... but do you still believe it?

    Nicola Carati: No, I don't believe in exclamation points anymore.