The movie is called "45th Anniversary". An elderly couple who have been married for 45 years. He is the vicissitudes of life old husband Jeff, she is the wife Kate, who is still charming and diligent in housework. They live in the countryside far away from the hustle and bustle of the city, with picturesque scenery and a quiet and peaceful life. Walking, breakfast, reading, and shopping in town become the main theme of each day. Isn't this kind of life what everyone desires and cannot reach? It almost echoed Tao Yuanming's words: "Pick chrysanthemums under the eastern hedge, leisurely wind in the south."
After the light kiss in the early morning, Kate asked Jeff, who was reading the letter, whose letter was from. Since then, the seemingly peaceful and beautiful life has been pulled by the letter, and the dregs of the past have appeared, until the 45-year love fell apart.
Who would have thought that a letter from the past could be so devastating. Jeff's first love, Katya, stumbles in the Alps, where the glaciers sleep forever, while they are hiking together. Fifty years later, Katya's body has not been found.
Kate naturally knew of Katya's existence. But she didn't know everything. She didn't know that Jeff was the heir to Katya's estate. Although Jeff and Katya did not have the name of husband and wife, they were actually husband and wife. Even, in the attic where countless secrets were hidden, she saw photos of Katya's pregnancy during her lifetime. Seeing this, like Kate, I gasped.
These 45 years are really cruel. Jeff and Kate, childless, rarely photographed, and have pets, she thought was their way of bonding. It turned out that Jeff's love was already complete at Katya. It turned out that if the accident hadn't happened, Katya was the one with Jeff.
Love cannot be perfect, but love cannot tolerate deceit. That little attic hides the secrets of Jeff's life. In that notebook, there are bits and pieces of their together, and there is also a violet that has been picked. That's what Jeff had mentioned to Kate about the flowers he and Katya saw together. That flower, for half a century, has never really withered. The notebook must have been turned over so often that the petals were not completely dried out and that no marks were left on the paper.
That violet was still so dazzlingly purple. It was so dazzling that it almost wiped out 45 years of time. It turns out that Jeff's 45 years and Kate's 45 years are different. In Jeff's eyes, a flower full of fighting spirit and bravery blooms, but in Kate's eyes, it's just an inconspicuous little flower growing on the broken snow mountain.
The few words Jeff said at the end of the film are actually very moving. "Maybe there are only so many choices we face in our lifetime, and when those choices are exhausted, there are no more. As a result, the choices we make when we are young are very, very important." Seeing this, I almost became an unwitting bystander, wishing that letter never existed, wishing they would grow old together. But these touching love poems that made the speaker and others shed tears have long been overshadowed in Kate's heart.
"45th Anniversary" won unanimous praise from the North American media and was one of the films with the highest overall score in the entire 2015 media. American "Entertainment Weekly" film critic Leah Greenblatt praised Charlotte Rampling's performance, saying that this is essentially a Rampling movie. I especially agree. You see the long shot of Kate and Jeff dancing at the end, where Rampling plays Kate's forced laughter and inner turmoil perfectly. Finally, she finally broke free from her husband's hand and stared blankly at the person she no longer knew. The selfish, sluggish, walking dead old man, the husband who can only rekindle his youthful enthusiasm when he is immersed in the memories of the lost lover, the lover who she once gave up on everything and loved herself. Under the blue light, in the carnival of a group of people, only she herself knows what a person's loneliness is.
The 70-year-old Rampling still maintains the demeanor of a goddess and is outrageously beautiful. At the beginning of the year at the Berlin Film Festival, he won the best actor with Tom Courtenay who played Jeff, all the way to the Oscars at the end of the year. Rampling finally got his first Oscar nomination for a leading actress, despite all the bells and whistles indicating no hope of winning. But in my heart, I will treasure this movie.
Perhaps, the violet that has withered for 45 years should have bloomed gorgeously instead of being caught in a yellowed page. Let's imagine a picture, if we go back in time, the violet blooms tenaciously on the top of the glacier, is picked by young Jeff, and dedicated to young Kate. Flowers bloom in the hearts of young lovers. This is the beauty of the imagination when we first met. This is an impossible happiness in this life.
Don't ask about the past, take pity on the person in front of you, that's what love is like. But it has been irreversible for half a century. The flower language of violet is eternal love and beauty, what a desolate irony for Kate. If everything is wrong after all, it is better to turn around as soon as possible. Just like the song at the end of the film, not "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes" accompanying their dance, but "Go Now":
Goodbye. Since you've got to go, oh, you'd better go now
. You must leave, you better leave now.
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