i have always loved you

Toni 2022-04-19 09:03:13

Saw this movie on a slightly depressed afternoon.
"I've Always


Loved You" Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 66th American Film and Television Golden Globe Awards The French film "Il ya longtemps que je t'aime" in the story Juliet spent 15 years in prison for murdering her parents and children. When she came out again, her younger sister, who had been away for more than ten years, came to pick her up. Long time in prison and depression made her a little out of tune with the real world she faced again. Her life was filled with rejection. There is an inexplicable sense of distance for everyone. Indifferent and silent.
This is a movie about redemption. The story flows slowly, with a calm and quiet attitude, bright and clear. Unlike those movies about redemption that I have seen before, there is no abuse of a large black tone, and it sings softly like a light song.
Juliet was forgotten by her parents because of her crimes. When her father died of cancer, her mother kept her sister Leah from telling her. In their eyes, when Juliet killed her own parents and children, she also died completely in their hearts. They claimed that they had only one Leah and ignored the existence of Juliet's daughter. When Juliet learned of her father's death, it was many years later. The sister told her sadly that her mother had been brainwashing her, and everyone thought that Leah was the only child.


When looking for a job, when others found out that she was imprisoned by her husband for murdering her parents and children, everyone faced her with evasion and anger. She just packed her things and left indifferently, without any extra words or explanations.
The existence of such a woman must be lonely.
in the world.
Leah was afraid to have children because of her sister's sin. She and her husband went to Vietnam to adopt two children, and have been living happily ever after. The arrival of my sister disrupted everything calm. Life began to rippling with a little unease. Her husband was very concerned about Juliet's sin, and always disliked children approaching her. Leah had always been in love with this sister who had not seen each other for more than ten years. She kept her photos and recorded her misses every day. However, many things in life between the two of them were accidentally lost in memory. She never touched the tune that the previous two sisters had been playing, and she wanted her child to learn the flute instead of the piano, which was placed in the utility room. Those fond memories of my sister in childhood are happiness and the cruelest pain.


Until one day, when Juliet taught her eldest daughter to play "Qingquan", which they had always liked when they were young, the two sisters and sisters sat together again and began to play and sing.
: I have always loved you deeply and have never forgotten you.
There are a lot of subtle feelings about this movie.
Said the man who was walking beside Juliet at that time.
I love walking in the yard, it used to be the kind of small triangle yard. I just walked and counted step by step. Later, in a larger prison, the number of steps counted was even greater. All the people in the prison called me "Rambler" and "Outsider,"
Juliet said to those looking at her, sitting on the clean floor with champagne. No one came to see me after I went in, I thought I was forgotten by everyone, and then one day the guard told me that someone came to see me. I thought I had heard it wrong. Later I saw a young woman sitting there. smile at me. I recognized her. She is Leah. I didn't say a word, just listened quietly, and she told me she should go back. Then I plan to never see her again. Because she reopened my heart to the dead place. The little Leah I dreamed about that night, because of that girl, so I came back.
When the film comes to an end, the truth is revealed. in an accident. Leah saw what her sister treasured. I saw a little poem written by my sister's son to my sister.


The garden after the rain is so warm and sad. It's like you're not with me, Mom. I don't want you to die, never ever. We are to be together forever.
But behind the poem is a cancer death test sheet.
Everything began to become clear, and under the pressure of Leah, Juliet finally spoke the truth.
She loves her son deeply, and she can't bear the pain and pain of the little child in front of her. She loves him. Then she killed her because of too much love.
Then she was sent to prison without any explanation.
she said to her crying sister.
Explanation is an excuse, and death has no explanation.
I gave him life and ended him with my own hands.



Sometimes the depth of love will be misunderstood as a superficial form and exiled.
From start to finish, I liked this woman very much. She paced back and forth lonely in the prison, and put a book in front of the bed every day to sleep soundly. It feels like a huge wall with support, a real feeling, and a stable state of mind.
From a macro perspective, the film is a reflection. A reflection on family love and ethics and human nature. In an increasingly flashy world, people's mentality is one of loneliness. Spiritual atrophy. When the outside and the inside cannot be unified, there will be deep scratches in the communication between people, the communication between people and society, and the communication between people and the world.
In the story, the local policeman in charge of Juliet has been telling Juliet about one of his plans warmly. He wanted to go swimming in the Orijoko River, but he had too many worries and dependencies to delay the plan. He told her that the river was so big that it didn't seem to be as big as the border. Many people wanted to explore its source, but only found its diversion. After his wife divorced him, he lived far away with his daughter. She doesn't see him again. Every time she would let her daughter take a flight or train to see her father by herself with a small tag like a package. It hurts when he speaks. with despair. I love you. Trust because you are my everything, so I love you deeply.
Since you are all mine so I hope that you will love me.
If one day you have forgotten me, I will not hesitate to leave you the world.


A lot At the time, I thought that the interpretation and appearance of the river was very beautiful and very thematic. Or rather profound. Because sometimes love is like a big river, with no source and no border. There is only infinite warmth and love. Sociologically speaking, but speaking of it as a kind of self-liberation that people hopelessly seek in a struggle. This river seems to be a metaphor, swaying obscurely at a certain edge of the world. Everyone's search is unsuccessful, and then the choice is only a process of staying and continuing to search or giving up. The choice disappears.
In the end he did not reappear. He told her that he had nothing to worry about. Then he went in an extreme way to find the source that he longed to know.
When Juliet learns from the mouth of the alternate leader that he committed suicide with a gun to his neck. She turned her head and walked out of the police station, hiding in a large area of ​​silence in the room.
When the world falls again, please stay by my side.

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I've Loved You So Long quotes

  • Juliette Fontaine: The worst prison is the death of one's child. You never get out of it.

  • P'tit Lys: The prince went slowly through the forest. His beautiful horse was silent. The sky was taking on the color of roses. "Will I be in time?" the prince wondered. He remembered what the magician had told him. "Night is your only enemy. Once it has cast its cloak of darkness over the world and you cannot tell the shadow of a dog from that of a wolf, you will know it is too late and that your beautiful lady is lost forever. Hurry if you love her." The prince's heart was pounding.