After watching it, my favorite is the scene where the brick smashes the glass at the end. In my opinion, this ending is the finishing touch of the whole movie. The title of the film is "Like a River of Love", which inevitably makes people think about the beauty. However, the whole film does not deliberately render warm and sweet, but an extremely restrained and concise narrative.
The whole film has fixed shots, and the lines are also full of daily trivialities, creating a feeling that is extremely close to reality. But at the same time, through mirror reflection and so on, it creates a faint indescribable ambiguity. It is this lens language that, although not deliberately rendered, brings people into a kind of reverie that is close to reality. What did the audience see before the end came? A lonely and empty old man looking for warmth and companionship. Although he found a support girl, he didn't ask for it like a beast, but showed a kind of warmth in many details. There is also a call girl who sells her flesh. Although she is in the flesh business and betrays her boyfriend, she expresses a little persistence that she longs for. It's just that in the face of reality and the entanglement of her nominal boyfriend, it is inevitable to reveal a little pitiful.
The last one is the heroine's boyfriend. He clearly expressed his desire to marry the heroine. Although he may just want to possess it, at least he didn't play with the heroine casually. It's just that the methods and methods he used, the entanglement of the heroine, all revealed disgusting expressions.
If there is no brick at the end, perhaps it will really make people have a beautiful reverie about the faint complex and ambiguous feelings between the old man and the call girl? What's more, there is also the cold city, which contrasts with a hateful boyfriend. Even at the end, I saw the panic of the old man, but if nothing happened, many people may secretly bless the old man and the girl, hoping that they don't seem to be dirty and dependent and warm, right?
However, in the end, a brick smashed the glass, but also smashed the falsehood of human self-deception!
How can there be so-called beauty in such a story? But like a bubble, it bursts when you poke it! The original face revealed is nothing but the confusion and absurdity in the human heart.
The old man seems to be in memory of his family's deceased wife, without any filth. However, the deceased is gone, how can someone replace it? A girl with a similar appearance is just to satisfy some of her own desires.
The girl is so pitiful? Helpless in an indifferent city? Maybe I was really sad, but it was just a mismatch between desire and ability. The entanglement of the nominal boyfriend? It's really disgusting, but wouldn't it be better to just say goodbye?
There is no such thing as love between two people like this, it's just an illusion of self-deception and deception.
Therefore, a brick at the end came to an abrupt end, which seemed to be an open-ended ending, but all I could imagine is the continuation of the plot, but no matter how it continues, the absurdity and stupidity of human beings have been exhausted in that brick. .
PS people are indeed easy to be weak in the face of loneliness and difficulties, and no one is a saint. However, staying awake is invaluable. In the face of ugliness, you can sympathize and understand, but you must never compromise. Facing the ugliness, there will be better possibilities, instead of indulging in false beauty.
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