memory or fact

Jaime 2022-04-19 09:03:13

After watching Coppola's "Youth Without Youth", I liked this movie very much. I think the reason may be the bizarre techniques and the characters' desire for the unknown from the outside world. Let the woman I like return to youth, and decide to leave her. At the same time, I also give up the exploration of ancient civilization. Everything is because of love. When I see this, I have an illusion, whether it is real or fake~

When TIM.ROTH said at the end, "As long as I want to wake up, everything will be real." When the camera turned, an old TIM.ROTH appeared in front of us, and I couldn't help but think, is this all an illusion or real , Is the old TIM.ROTH who appeared in the girl's dream a real "fake"? Maybe the director's youth without youth is the truth and the illusion~

TIM.ROTH's performance in it is very good , especially the performance of the dual personality of self-struggling and self-contradiction is very good. Sometimes I can't help but wonder, is this personality split a different view or attitude of a person on a thing. Mutual growth and mutual restraint?

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Extended Reading
  • Gussie 2022-03-22 08:01:05

    I don't understand, I'll wipe it! !

  • Conner 2022-03-22 09:03:04

    Obscure. . All kinds of nonsense. .

Youth Without Youth quotes

  • Dominic: [records his voice] Geneva, 1941, May the 7th. Dominic Matei. Dictation. The documents in the Geneva safety deposit box summarize my life, which was profoundly changed in the spring of 1938 in front of the Gara de Nord railroad station in Bucharest. My first experiences were described and analyzed by Prof. Roman Stanciulescu, in reports which were confiscated by the Nazis.

    [now watching a cinema newsreel of 22nd June, 1941. V.O. continues]

    Dominic: The war rages around me. I'm a fugitive in neutral Switzerland, encircled by the Axis powers. My Romanian homeland has made a pact with the devil - Adolf Hitler - and may soon be under siege... I've lost contact with my dear friend Prof. Stanciulescu, which could mean that he's been killed... I live in fear, dreading what awaits in the alleyways, eluding capture by my wits, moving from hotel to rooming house, always working on my book.

    Dominic: [V.O. continues. Dominic forges his documents] November the 30th, 1941. Zurich. Dominic Matei. I have explained in Portfolio B how I instinctively found the talent to preserve myself. Living like a secret agent, I discovered abilities to forge documents, change addresses and prepare disguises...

    [visits a bank]

    Dominic: Shortly before he disappeared, Prof. Stanciulescu arranged a bank account for me. In Geneva. Under the name of William Patterson. Now, without him, his funds will be depleted... and I will have to find other means.

    Dominic: [V.O. continues. Dominic reads newspapers in a café] February the 20th, 1942. Bern. I must face the undeniable and chilling truth... that I am a mutant. Like a character in a science fiction novel. I am a strange Superman of the future. I have access to knowledge unavailable to mankind. Powers, I don't fully understand.

    [visits a library]

    Dominic: Despite this, I try to behave as an ordinary intellectual. Working to complete my book, documenting the origin of language and human consciousness. I began to realize that with any text I have before me, if I wanted to know the content, I simply... knew it.

    Dominic: [V.O. continues. Dominic plays roulette in a casino] Lake Campione, October the 23rd, 1942. I found I could augment my income. Winning just enough not to arouse suspicion. Nothing is as it seems. I am the proof of that... I trust... no one.

  • [first lines]

    Dominic: [voice over] Sometimes... I admit to myself that it's possible... I will never be able to finish my life's work. My one and only book. And that in the end... without her... I will be nothing. And I will die alone.

    [cries]