I watched the first trailer of "Gone Lover" last year and thought the episode SHE was too ironic----- She may be the beauty or the beast / May be the famine or the feast / May turn each day into a heaven or a hell ---- Only literally understood, these words are very close to Amy's character portrayal. It's quite a thought-provoking bad taste.
The episode used in the trailer of "45th Anniversary" this year is Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, which sings "They / Asked me how I knew / My true love was true." With tears in my eyes, I can only see a hazy, plus the sea of people's hearts, so how much truth can I see clearly? The song pretty much sets the tone for the entire movie as well.
Saturday was the 45th anniversary, and the husband received a letter on Monday. He took the letter and said they had found her. Ask, who to find? Katya, I remember I told you about my Katya. Forty-five years later, he would still say "my" Katya.
The husband started smoking again, listening to songs he hadn't heard in a long time, and reading Kierkegaard's existential books that he hadn't read. Falsely claiming to be shopping is actually going to the library to read books about glaciers. I started to climb to the attic in the middle of the night to see Katya's photos. I didn't want to go to a party with friends, so I smoked by the roadside to relieve my boredom. A man who felt tired even walking on the ground began to consult a travel agency to go to Switzerland.
No kids, no photos, but there are so many photos of deceased girlfriends in the attic. She turned over one photo after another, and suddenly she gasped in the dark-----the woman in the photo was still pregnant. And the ex-girlfriend had never been told that she was pregnant before she died, so how much of the decision not to have children was due to the deceased girlfriend.
The most chilling point is that the husband simply replied to the affirmation of "Will he get married if he was alive". I knew it was a hypothetical question, and I had to answer my true feelings. It seemed that only by telling the truth could I be worthy of my true love for Katya, but I didn't consider whether the truth would break the hearts of 45-year-old people.
In the end, she came to her senses, and the memories she had piled up in 45 years suddenly changed.
At the wedding, he emotionally gave a speech on the theme of "important choices", saying that marrying her when he was young was the best choice in his life. While talking, he suddenly moved himself to tears. The friends present were all moved and seemed to have witnessed a lasting love that lasted for 45 years. Only she is the coldest, this cup of declaration sugar water, like the necklace he gave her, came too suddenly, but too late.
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes rang, and he took her hand to the middle of the dance floor, a blue light hitting them. He swayed to the song, winking and trying to squeeze the little charm out of his body to show her. Maybe for the guys to see. As if stepping on the tip of a knife, she wanted to smile, but her heart was aching. After singing and dancing, he raised her hand high, with a happy look on his face.
Amid the applause of the crowd, she yanked her hand away from her husband, leaving a trace of her calm in his sugar-coated cannonballs. But what about after pulling away? In the past 45 years, the high-rise marriage building that I have climbed step by step, I am afraid that I will be shattered when I fall.
I still remember the phrase "Enjoy while it lasts. I myself hate marriages" that Rampling in "The Melancholy" said disdainfully at his daughter's wedding. A woman struggling on the edge of collapse. I love this actor who exudes a stern temperament. This time, "Forty-fifth Anniversary" has the most gentle Charlotte Rampling I have ever seen, and this gentleness corresponds to a man who falls in a relationship. Worst role ever.
Taking a week to dissipate the trust built up by 45 years of marriage is a big risk that can turn into an unconvincing absurdity drama. Especially the last symbolic draw, if not afraid of the emotional impact, it will be difficult for the audience to feel the pain of falling from the high-rise marriage building. That hand draw requires calmness and courage. And Rampling's performance and the overall temperament of the film are perfectly integrated, and there is a surging undercurrent hidden under the calm surface. Her last draw, in my opinion, is quite powerful—while the right hand is drawn, the left hand stays in the air and does not know where to put it. The precise body language is a perfect portrayal of the broken and chaotic heart. I'm glad she was nominated for an Oscar this year, and it's no surprise that she won an Oscar for her 45th anniversary performance. (I'm almost 70, should I look better with my legs...) In
the end, the war was won but the general died. I like this metaphor for this marriage too much.
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