"Love Story" is a romance film directed by Arthur Shearer and starring Ali McGuo and Ryan O'Neill. It was released in the United States in 1970. In 1971, the film received multiple nominations at the 43rd Oscar Awards and finally won the best soundtrack award.
Every time I hear the song "Love Story", it will bring people back to the movie again, and the white snow scene will come into view, just as white and flawless as the love inside. The melody ran through the heart to stimulate the heart again and again, which made people feel so moved that they wanted to cry.
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"What can you say about a 25-year-old girl who died? That she was beautiful and brilliant? That she loves Mozart and Bach? The Beatles? And me?"
The tragic ending is explained at the beginning of the film. The male protagonist looks at the skating rink where he used to laugh and play, remembering that good time, leaving a lonely back. How sweet the relationship was at first, but how sad it was in the end.
On the youthful Harvard campus, a pair of young men and women met due to a quarrel in the library, and after many trials and confession, they fell in love. Oliver's father was opposed to this love between rich son Oliver and Jenny, who was born in a baked dessert family, because of the disparity in family status. Oliver, who loved Jenny, resolutely severed the relationship with his father and married his lover.
After marriage, the lives of the two people were very difficult but full of sweetness. Oliver completed a master's degree and obtained a lawyer's license with the support of his wife. Seeing life began to improve, Jenny became terminally ill and eventually passed away. That year, she was only 25 years old.
The film does not have too many ups and downs, but presents the love story and married life of the two in a simple narrative.
They cuddled in each other’s arms, read books, and played with each other’s face and hair; on a snowy day, they fell into the snow one after another, buried all fours in the snow, Jenny was holding the snow in her hand and eating like a child, Oliver Looking at him with a silly smirk; Jenny will go to watch Oliver's baseball game, and Oliver will make a special trip to watch Jenny's performance, admiring the whole process intently, as if it was a first sight.
The most moving scene in the film is the marriage proposal, and Jenny is still in Oliver before she died.
Jenny said that she was going to Paris to study music. Oliver asked in a crying or even hoarse voice: "What about our marriage?" When Jenny asked why she wanted to marry her, she was speechless after the sentence "Because..." Say "That's a good reason." It turns out that love doesn't need to be expressed, the other person can feel it.
Before Jenny died, he told Oliver not to think about Paris, and don’t think it was because he gave up the opportunity to go to Paris to seek his dream, because "Love means you do not have to say you are sorry, ever."
Although the movie's plot switching and editing are sometimes unclear, the story is not complete, and even the emotional expression is not deliberately rendered, but this pure emotion of paying for love and sacrificing for love always touches people's hearts. . It is precisely because of the rarity of this kind of feeling that people feel sad about reality.
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It’s hard to recall the Korean drama "Harvard Love Story". It also takes place on Harvard campus. The male lead Kim Hyun Woo (played by Kim Lae Won) is also a law student. He was born in a prestigious legal family. ) From a poor family, he was a student of Harvard Medical School and studied part-time in the United States. They met and fell in love on the Harvard campus. The heroine later suffered from T-cell lymphoma, but eventually overcame the disease, and they lived happily together after they got married.
At the beginning of the 21st century, when Korean dramas were hot, the three major routines were cancer, car accidents, and poor cure. From this perspective, "Love Story" is viewed. With Cinderella plus leukemia, the audience may have become immune to this cliché plot, but This movie had its epochal significance in the 1970s.
The film is adapted from the novelette "Love Story" of the same name created by American writer Eric Siegel. The creation background was from 1969 to 1970. The 1970s was a very delicate moment. The radical movement of the 1960s began to decline and conservatism was returning. The mental journey of the male protagonist Oliver's resistance and return as outlined in "Love Story" reflects the psychological history of the times.
In an era of materialism, the supremacy of money, spiritual crisis, and the loss of faith, the pursuit of individual spiritual independence, self-sacrifice for love, and financial embarrassment, the "Love Story", which is always loyal to love, brought the United States in the 1970s. Here comes a clear stream to give comfort to the youth who fell into self-doubt due to the loss of their faith at that time.
Just like the classic lines in "Dead Poetry Society", the arts such as literature, film, and music can always bring comfort to people's spirit and bring meaning to life. But sometimes it can also cause an effect in the opposite direction. For example, "The Bridge of Madison County" starring Aunt Mei set off a wave of divorce in the United States in the 1990s, which pursued individual liberation and supremacy of individual liberalism.
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I once discussed with a friend about what true "love" is. My opinion is that most people have only "feelings" instead of true "love", because the definition of love is too lofty and secular love It's just love in a broad sense.
"Love refers to the satisfaction and happiness that humans actively give or consciously expect. Love is the positive energy projected by the human spirit. It means that people actively or consciously cherish, care for or satisfy others by themselves or in a certain way. Certain human needs that cannot be realized independently. Including ideology, spiritual experience, behavioral state, material needs, etc. The foundation of love is respect. Therefore, love is a kind of emotion that comes from the heart, which is a person-to-person or a person-to-something The deep feelings of this thing."
To this end, I checked the definition of love, and I can see a few key words: Give actively, cherish, care, respect, and come from the heart. And the love we often refer to, that is, "worldly love" is always mixed with many factors, because human nature itself is complicated. When we give, we are often afraid of being hurt, or hope to get a response, so we don’t dare to give and are unwilling to take the initiative. Therefore, we are selfish in nature. It is difficult for most people to feel the kind of happiness and satisfaction that true love gives, because it emphasizes a kind of "initiative" and "giving."
At the end of "Guling Street Juvenile Murder Incident," Xiao Si always wanted to influence Xiao Ming, but did not respect Xiao Ming’s personal wishes. He just imposed his own values on Xiao Ming based on his own judgment standards. When Xiao Ming did not accept what he called " In probation, Xiao Ming was stabbed to death by Xiao Ming as a reservation for the "beautiful" he loved. This aggressive love is distorted.
We are now living in an era that resembles the combination of the United States in the last century. After entering the new century, just after escaping from a state of absolute control, the admiration of individual liberalism has been rampant. Moneyism kills the goodness of human nature, and refined self-interest kills the true feelings. In the new century where beliefs are lost, people are controlled by materials and gradually alienated.
The high divorce rate, fast-food love, and a society full of temptations have caused people to gradually lose their loyalty and persistence to their feelings. It is precisely because of the disappointment in the times and the disappointment in myself (because I am deeply aware that I am a human weakness), so there is the emergence of "fear of marriage", "non-marriage" and "lazy marriage", and even "non-marriage" "Infertility protects safety".
Even though Jenny’s family is Catholic, Oliver and Jenny chose to witness the wedding by the mayor because they do not believe in any denomination. At the wedding, the two soulful vows made everyone present feel the firmness of their feelings and blessed them.
Film and television stories are always beautiful and touching, and it is precisely because of their rarity that we are moved by them. But life is still secular, and only a few people can achieve "pure love". We all have to ups and downs in life, compromise in frustration, and learn to love in secularity. After all, we are just ordinary people, aren't we?
In Maugham’s "Edward Barnard's Fall", "The heartbeat at any moment is not easy, don't neglect it" is impressive, but for us now, the most rare thing is not slack, but heartbeat, and heartbeat Perseverance and fearlessness afterwards.
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