"Walk in the Clouds", this is the award-winning film at the 1997 Shanghai International Film Festival. Like the warm winter sun, it is overflowing with warmth and intermittent sentimentality and the ultimate beauty.
I can’t forget the illusion-like fascinating vineyard under the sunset in the movie, the majestic and majestic music of the hero and heroine in the sunset in the background of the mist, and The tortuous and deep emotions between the heroes and heroines floating in the floating world.
The man played by Keno Reeves, Paul, is a soldier who has just been demobilized from the battlefield. In the days when he left home to fight, he always missed his wife and his originally warm family. When he ran home with joy, the reality was very different from his imagination. His wife sat on the sofa and listened to music, even him. The letters sent back to record his thoughts and thoughts on the battlefield day and night were completely ignored by his wife and tossed aside. The wife explained that as long as he knew that he was alive, it would be fine. Lost, in the days when he left the battlefield, he recalled the smoke-filled scene countless times. The sudden death of life made him know how to cherish the preciousness of the people around him, but when he wanted to give this kind of cherishment and care, he faced It is the wife's indifference, no one shares the inner touch, which is undoubtedly lonely and sad. But his wife just kept sending him out to sell chocolate.
She is a Victorian woman who was unmarried first and was abandoned by her boyfriend. She originally had to return home to reunite every year when the grapes were harvested in her homeland.
They meet at such a moment, on the train, on the bus, every time they meet, the finger of God plucks the strings of fate.
She stopped by the road and waited for him to appear, and told him her story, hoping to get his help, temporarily acting as her husband, hiding from her conservative father, and the kind-hearted he readily agreed. Together they embarked on the road of love and beauty lurking.
The beautiful vineyards are shrouded in warm sun and mist, like a dream, so people here are also called "Yunxiang".
In this refreshing location, their carefully fake husband and wife relationship appeared trembling in the eyes of everyone in the family, and could not tolerate the slightest negligence and carelessness. Fortunately, Victoria’s family members are very friendly and witty, and they readily accept Paul, a new member of the family. Only her father is stubborn and conservative. His feudal traditional thinking is totally unacceptable for his daughter’s self-assertion, and he feels frustrated. He regarded Paul as a stranger who broke in suddenly, with suspicion and scrutiny.
After night fell, the grapes appeared frost, so the harvest of this year might be ruined. The members of the whole family lit a bonfire in the vineyard, with paper fans like butterfly wings tied to their arms, using strong smoke. Come to dispel the cold. Victoria took Paul to participate in this family's labor. This is the first time Paul has gradually integrated into the family, and it is also the first time that he has slightly regained the passion of life after leaving the battlefield.
The most memorable thing in the film is the process of harvesting the grapes. Paul went from being naive when he first started to becoming familiar, and even aroused the impulse of Victoria's father to secretly compete with him. While the two people hurriedly picked, they spied on each other's progress, constantly competing to speed up each other's speed, greatly improving the efficiency of harvesting, and the other members of the family stopped their work and couldn't help but watch their game. The local tradition is to throw the harvested grapes into huge wooden basins. People step on them to produce fragrant wine. Amidst the cheerful and jumping music, the grape juice splashing in the sun brings life. Bright and beautiful. The moment my father and Paul looked at each other and smiled several times, I believe that the rift in my father's heart is slowly dissolving under the warm sunshine of this Yunxiang.
When Paul inadvertently slowly settled in the hearts of this family member, his love with Victoria also grew secretly, but because of his family, his wife, this responsibility made him scruples in his heart, he did not dare Love Victoria easily, because it can't give her the future, so I'm afraid of hurting her again. Under the saw of this contradictory feeling, he decided to leave to expel this quietly growing love.
The Yunxiang at night is quiet and beautiful, which makes people feel the quietness of the years. Regrettably, the parting song has already played, and Paul sings the sad parting song with melancholy under Victoria's window, waiting for her to turn on the light in the room to light the dark night and his sad parting heart. He finally left.
The following story cannot but be said to be arranged by God. Paul returned home and found that his wife had empathized and had an affair with others, and he was able to divorce easily and smoothly. He returned to freedom and ran away happily. His wife could not understand his reaction, only he himself understood that the joy of this moment, what this divorce deed means, that is the face of happiness he has been looking forward to for a long time. . He can finally truly express his heart and pursue his happiness. He immediately found a car and ran to Yunxiang where he was dreaming again.
However, what awaited him was the anger of Victoria's father after the lie broke through. He threw the kerosene lamp in his hand at Paul, but accidentally slammed it on the stems of grapes. In an instant, a fire dragon spread rapidly, and the power of the whole family was also There is no way to resist this sea of fire. The entire vineyard was destroyed in the raging fire. Looking at the ruins after the fire, the hope of the whole family fell from the clouds to the deep sea. Finally couldn't help the old tears, the slumping in my heart finally poured out, because I was afraid of losing, I had a strong feeling of exclusivity, because I cared too much, cherished the people and things I loved too much, and did
n't want to divide the slightest bit from others. This is the hesitation and fragility of the father in love. At this desperate moment, Paul found a living grape root in a ruin, and it rekindled the hope of the family. Father took up this last source of life and said to Paul: "With promise, honor and love, plant it. The source of life, the root of your life is connected to the family." Father finally accepted Paul truly and calmly. At the same time, he also gained the true meaning of care, hope, love and trust.
The smile opened on the ruins, you can already see the hope of the trees in the coming spring, the sun penetrates the mist, and finally it is as clear as the sky.
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