There are many film critics who say that this is a story about cherishing; or it is a story about love in giving. Of course, true love is like that. It's just that this is a bit general, and it doesn't seem to reveal the more subtle meaning of the film. If you pay attention to the details, you will find completely different hidden meanings: courage, love, and time.
Why do you say courage
? The main conflict between Ian and Shan has always been that Ian refused to tell her about his childhood, did not take him home, and did not see his family, so Shan always thought that Ian would not share his thoughts with him, and the quarrel in Ian's dream was also because of this. But after Ian woke up, he realized the importance of Shan, and in order to avoid the fate of Shan's death, he agreed to return to his hometown with Shan. It was a very remote, desolate, mine-like place. Ian said that when he was a child, he often went to the top of the mountain by himself to read. Shan said she was going to have a look too. And Ian didn't want to go, and said: There is only loneliness on the top of the mountain. Finally, they came to the tavern where Ian's father had been "intoxicated" before his death - his father, who lost his job when Ian was 13 years old, read in the tavern all his life, and in Ian's memory, he never woke up again, And before his father was the hero in Ian's heart. The hardships of life and the crushing of idols made Ian especially cautious and work hard. This kind of deep pain is also the reason why Ian is reluctant to talk to Shan, for fear of touching the situation. At this point, Ian finally spoke about his long-hidden past and family, and dared to face his past with Shan.
Look at Shan, a singer from the United States, a top student at the London Conservatory of Music, who has been studying violin for 16 years. It can be said that she is very talented, but she has always doubted herself. When Ian said to her "I admire you very much", she said: I don't want your worship, I just want your love. Of course it's a real reason, but deep down she does have self-doubt. Second, she likes being with children very much. Among the children she teaches is a little boy, Oliver, who admires her very much, and she is happiest when facing Oliver, especially when she and Ian, When troubled with reality. She wrote a song "Song with Ian", but she has never dared to sing in public, even though Ian has always encouraged her: You are an excellent composer, and everyone should know your talent. In the end, it was Ian who designed Shan to sing the song at the end of the graduation recital.
Compared with Shan's doubts about her talent, her love for Ian is so firm. It is her firmness that enables Ian to open up to her boldly and express his love for her. Before stepping into the death taxi, Ian's words were really touching!
Second True Love True
love not only refers to love, many people only watched the love in this film, but did not see the family. If I could love again, not only Ian and Shan, but also Ian and his father. Shan is not saying: your father can feel your love wherever you are. Death cannot resist love. If his father is still alive, and his father has always been a hero in Ian's mind and never fell, how will they love and get along with each other?
Indeed, in the end Ian and Shan are separated by darkness, but their love transcends life and death. For the two of them, it was love that changed death and destiny.
Ian is a good boy: hardworking and excellent; he is careful and caring to his girlfriend, although he has the incomparable sadness of childhood, he always bears it alone. On the contrary, Shan has some self, which is of course based on love. Because of the depth of love, girls are often more irrational in love. In love, they hope that they will become transparent to each other, so that they can feel safe and feel that they can love each other for a lifetime. But the idea of men is not. Men are rational, and career is the foundation of love and the guarantee of family happiness. Suffering, vulnerability, and shame are not known to others, especially in front of loved ones. This is also the reason for many conflicts between men and women, and Ian and Shan also. So although Shan is happy, she often can't help her eyes full of tears; although Ian is in pain, she only sheds a single tear when she recalls her father in her hometown! The former is pitiful, while the latter is heartbreaking. Shan cries for love and sadness, but Ian grieves for the hardship and fate of life. So it's beautiful for Shan to cry, but it's awe-inspiring for Ian to cry. It is precisely because of his grandeur and loftiness that he can make the decision of life and death, to die instead of Shan, or to die with Shan, in any case, use his life to protect and accompany his beloved.
In fact, love can keep people away from danger and change fate, but death is unstoppable. I remember that in "The Seventh Seal", it was also the knight who led everyone to try to fight against death with reason, but in the end the knight and them were all taken away by the god of death. Only the circus family escaped, but maybe what they escaped was a head-to-head confrontation with death. All that had passed was the cold, terrifying face of death shrouded in shadows: the greatest possibility for their family was to die in peace and quiet happiness. Shan and Ian are the same: either die alone first; or both of them die together; or the one who should have died didn't die, but the one who shouldn't died, left the other half as well, lost their souls and didn't understand why TA actually left before me? ! Facing death is tantamount to stopping the car with an arm, and death is the irreplaceable and greatest possibility for human beings. But Ian did it anyway. Maybe he wanted to accompany Shan to another world, but he didn't expect Shan to live alone in this world.
The most touching thing is that Ian gave Shan a bracelet when it was getting closer and closer to the time of death at 11:00 pm: Ian used to be an idiot when it comes to buying flowers, jewelry, etc. Comforting and coaxing people, girlfriends get angry and don’t chase after them, apologize and need someone to remind them to buy a bunch of flowers. But once you dare to face true love, these are only human instincts: to love someone, I hope to give them all the best and most beautiful things; to love someone, I hope to bring the happiness of the world and the happiness of this life and the next life to them. Therefore, love has no skills, but only sincerity. Love can turn an idiot into a master of love. In a short period of time, Ian went to the flower shop, jewelry store, and took Shan to the flyover that she wanted to go but was afraid to go to... The chain is not expensive, but it is decorated with some small ornaments: musical notes , violin, flowers, trains, the Eiffel Tower that Shan wants to go to, the iron pan that Shan cooks for breakfast, and most importantly, a heart, "my heart," Ian said. God, what girl wouldn't be moved? Tears welled up in Shan's eyes again.
The most obvious thing about this film is the time
, the dream at night and the repetition of the day. In fact, I live twice at the same time. The first time is to accept the arrangement, and the second time is to choose by myself. Therefore, this film makes people feel the wonder of time, and the director also emphasizes this point: watch, stop time, 11 o'clock; repeating time and repeating events are staged... (In "Laura Run", things are also repeated , but it is a logically conceived possibility that things are different, and therefore has nothing to do with time.) Indeed, all stories are inseparable from time; Why? Another important aspect of narrative is language. If language has the function of gathering, then time is the function of expansion. Compared with space, which is the expansion of the body and objects, time is the possibility of infinite expansion of the spirit and mind. So stories can be formed, things can happen, and we can think. What is aggregation? No matter how old the time, language brings things together, as if to compress them into time; what is expansion? Whatever language brings together, things happen in time. So, time may be more real than words. Although there is often an opportunity in language, the change provided by time may be undetectable and unchangeable by language.
In time, love has infinite possibilities. But only one can happen. Many loves are not produced because the time has not come; many loves fail because the time is wrong; many loves may be produced only because of the misplacement of time in psychology. Love is neither good nor bad. Not lacking in each other's courage at the right time is the perfect love. Maybe the timing is not so right, but there is still the courage to persevere. It may be a painful but noble love. If you miss that love at the right time, that's okay, because at least there's language at the right time:
one of the functions of language is to provide a hypothesis: if at first...
So, language is the greatest mystery, even A fairy tale that can build time.
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