The Lover--First Love And Inner Hunger

Kobe 2022-07-06 14:23:13

I'm talking about a girl your age, fifteen or sixteen, who will say goodbye to her lover. The whistle blared, and the ship slowly left the embankment. Her face was like a lake, and her heart began to cry. She saw the black car on the shore, and she knew that there were a pair of eyes looking at her in the back of the car. She was still in the position she had seen him for the first time, leaning against the railing and resting one foot on it.

The embankment got farther and farther away, until there was nothing to see but the sea. When she heard the familiar waltz on the boat, she finally burst into tears. The music reminded her of the man on the bank, her lover. Suddenly, she knew that she loved him deeply, a love she never admitted. like quicksand.

Years later, when she went through every step of her life and became old, she also published a novel. She received his call, her voice restrained and trembling. He said he didn't know what to say, and then said, as before, he still loved her, and his love for her never stopped.

It doesn't seem like it's exciting and unimpressive, does it? Maybe because we can't experience it for that long. But I am familiar with her feelings; the kind of face that is like a lake, but the heart is crying. As she said, sometimes it is inexplicably sentimental. No one notices, like the passing wind, and will not be pitied. That kind of emptiness and hunger, the hunger of the heart, after all the hard work, is what resonates with me. That's all.

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  • Elouise 2022-03-22 09:02:30

    I probably read other people's film reviews and knew that the male protagonist of the original work is relatively weak, but Tony Leung's acting was so good that he suppressed the feeling of cowardice. His acting skills are really good. From the first time he saw the heroine lighting a cigarette, his hands were shaking, to the heroine who didn't refuse him to get in the car and cigarettes normally, to lit cigarettes after the lingering, to unconsciously lighting cigarettes when faced with each other, every detail was revealed. His emotions changed.

  • Salma 2022-03-21 09:02:49

    16.2.4 This film represents a beautiful balance between French romance and Chinese subtlety.

The Lover quotes

  • [last lines]

    Narrator: Years after the war, after the marriages, the children, the divorces, the books, he had come to Paris with his wife. He had phoned her. He was intimidated; his voice trembled, and with the trembling it had found the accent of China again. He knew she'd begun writing books. He had also heard about the younger brother's death. He had been sad for her. And then he had no more to tell her. And then he told her - he had told her that it was as before, that he still loved her, that he would never stop loving her, that he would love her until his death.

  • Narrator: "Now and then I go back to the house in Sadek. To the horror of the house in Sadek. It's an unbearable place. It's close to death. A place of violence of pain of despair, of dishonour... But it's in this family's dryness in it's incredible harshness that I am the most deeply assured in myself. In the deepest of my essential certainties, all common history of ruin and shame, of love and hate is in my flesh."