Romantic thriller version of "Love Before Dawn"

Else 2022-08-14 17:12:11

Richard Linklater (Richard Linklater) has set a very high standard for this kind of "love chat" theme. Scenery, music and lines are all indispensable. Later directors may be more and more difficult to surpass, but Have to work hard on the type. This ingenious work can be said to have found a breakthrough. It is a relatively successful attempt to blend the two types of love and horror together. The scenery of the Italian town is beautiful, and the music selection is not inferior. However, the most outstanding topic is to discuss topics that go far beyond the scope of love. The viewpoints of death and immortality are interesting and not difficult, and even the ending scene is touching and tearing. Effect. The identity of the heroine is quite meaningful. She is not a werewolf or a demon commonly seen in genres, but an immortal body that has traveled through thousands of years. The incompatibility of hormones and immortality keeps her out of love and dare not get involved. This role is a bit like the ghost with a bed sheet in "A Floating Ghost". Fortunately, she finally broke this self-imposed fate and gave up eternal life for the sake of love. The two directors adopt the narrative method of first suppressing and then raising, constantly brewing emotions and paying attention to details. Some viewers criticized the slow progress of the first half of the film, and the narrative has not advanced the key plot for a long time. The plot of the hero’s mother who fell into grief after the death of the hero seems to have nothing to do with the following story. It seems that in order to draw the plot of the hero and heroines meeting on the road, the deeper purpose should be to reveal the imperfection of "immortality". Death is not terrible. theme.

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  • Evan: I'd still like to grab coffee or something, sometime. Because I think you're the most attractive person I've ever seen. But that doesn't outweigh that you might be a mental patient and I gotta make sure that you're the kind of crazy I can deal with.

  • Evan: You don't sound Italian, are you really from around here?

    Louise: Not far. I traveled a lot, though. So I sound weird as fuck.