Next to the music track, there is an episode of "Seventy Years Back in Time" in small print. When I saw this title for the first time, I thought that a movie with such a tune would have its unique charm. Today, a few months later, I have been curious about this movie, and finally searched for this movie on Baidu. This is a movie shot in 1980. It took a long time to find the original version and started a journey back in time.
The movies in the 1980s were not very clear, giving people a hazy feeling. At the beginning of the movie, the protagonist Richard is a famous writer. At one of his celebration banquets, an old woman has been watching him quietly from a far corner. Richard didn't notice it. When Richard and his friends were preparing to cut the cake to celebrate, the old man walked towards Richard slowly. After his friends slowly calmed down, Richard looked back and saw the old man. The old man looked at Richard very intently, took out a delicate pocket watch from his hand and gave it to Richard, and said to her, "You come to me". Then he left. In the rest of his life, Richard still lived his normal life. Nine years later, Richard also encountered some setbacks in his career. When he was about to go on vacation to find inspiration, he drove past a hotel. When he drove past, it seemed like Attracted by something, he drove the car back again. Checked into this royal hotel. When the clothing student at the hotel asked Richard if he had ever met, I already felt that Richard must have something unusual here.
With 40 minutes left to eat in the evening, Richard began to wander around and accidentally saw a hotel history museum, which is a miniature museum. When Richard was casually admiring the objects in the exhibition, he was suddenly strongly attracted by something. When he slowly looked back, there was a picture on the wall. She is a young, beautiful and delicate woman.
Richard felt like he had a special feeling with her, but he didn't know who this woman was. So he embarked on a difficult journey of searching. Through the old staff of the hotel and the library, he knew who the girl in the photo was, Elise, an actress who was relatively well-known in the 1910s. Richard found the place where she had lived, but the maid told him that she had passed away. The maid saw Richard's watch and told him that it was the most precious thing Elise had ever had, and she would never give it to others easily. And this watch disappeared just before she died. Richard became even more puzzled. He found his philosophy teacher, who told him that he had an experience traveling through time and space. (I omitted a lot of details here, because this is not the key point. I hope to understand the details through the film.) Richard returned to the hotel. According to the teacher, after several attempts, he also successfully passed through and returned to the Royal Hotel in 1910.
When he asked around and saw Elise by the lake in the hotel, he didn't believe his eyes. When he walked into Elise, Elise also said affectionately to Richard, "It's you." There seems to be a similar feeling, and it's more like fate.
But their meeting didn't go smoothly. Elise was strictly controlled by her agent, but Richard and Elise soon fell in love. Their time together is very short, because Elise is about to go to the next city to perform. But despite the severe obstruction of the agent, Elise took the risk and spent a very pleasant afternoon with Richard the day before the performance. The two people were rowing a boat on the lake and chatting a lot. Love doesn't need time to evaluate the depth. If it is the destined person, it may be the moment of a glance. In the performance that night, Elise could no longer control his emotions, and involuntarily told Richard his own voice during the performance-you are the person I have been waiting for.
The agent was afraid that Richard would delay Elise's performance, and arranged for Richard to be tied up. The next day, he took Elise and left the hotel. When Richard woke up in the racecourse where he was thrown, he couldn't wait to rush to the hotel. But the whole repertory troupe is gone. Richard walked out of the hotel desperately, crying on the bench. When the film gradually became clear from a vague figure, Elish appeared. She gave up her career. She did not go with her agent, but decided to wait for Richard at the hotel. When Richard sensed Elish, the two embraced crazily. Two people who care about each other very much are afraid of losing, Elish said to Richard, we will never separate, forever and ever.
2 people are very happy and cherish every minute and every second very much. Both of them were too scared. Suddenly each other disappeared. Elish asked Richard if he would marry her? Richard's answer is yes, and it is exactly the same. It is also Elise's willingness to spend his entire life on fulfilling this promise. Richard came to this age because he traveled through time and space. When he was about to show Elish how suitable his suit was, he touched a coin brought from reality and saw the time above. In an instant, he brought Richard back to the real age. At the moment he traveled, he heard Elise screaming his name. The voice contained nostalgia, perseverance, despair, pain, confusion, loss...
Richard could not return to reality again. Going back to the past, the pain in his heart tortured him every day, he was in a daze at the photos of Elise in the museum every day, thinking about love has become all of his life. He once again passed by the lake where they met for the first time, and once again went to the chair they used to sit on. He was reluctant to leave here for a long time. Seven days later, the hotel costume student found him in the room. At this time, he has not eaten or slept for 7 days. The eyes were kept open, and Richard's soul had slowly left his body when the doctor was rescuing him. In a white world, he saw Elise reaching out and waiting for him. He walked to Elise. The two did not speak, staring at each other. At this moment, they don’t need to speak. Nothing can separate them again, no matter where they are. , As long as you are there, my life will be reborn there.
Filming such a movie in 1980 made me have a deep respect for the director, screenwriter, and actors. What touched me about this movie is not how gorgeous its pictures are, nor how strong its star lineup is. But in the age of film shooting, the actor's grasp of the role fell into three points. This is not what these so-called "actors" can compare. In order to organize my thoughts more clearly, I will explain my feelings from several aspects together;
1: Is there really another person waiting for you all the time?
At the beginning of the movie, an old woman tells the hero that you are looking for me. Does that mean that the old woman already knows that he is the afterlife of the person she loves? If so, what kind of mood would it be when seeing people who once loved each other so much now are like passers-by? If you don't have someone you really love, you can't experience it. She waited until the moment of her death in order to wait for the pocket watch to be given to him. This is a kind of perseverance, a perseverance to love. Although movies are movies after all, movies also come from life, but they may be higher than life at certain times. Have each of us ever wondered whether there is really another person waiting for you all the time. And you are like the male protagonist, you can't notice it at all, but the other person lives in pain every day.
2: How long does it take to have love?
The love of the heroes and heroines in the movie makes many people think it is amazing. In the current words, it is love at first sight or destined. They have not been together for more than 3 days, but they can protect one person for a lifetime, and they can also make another person pass away because of over-missing. Many people will ask, is the love produced in 3 days really as exaggerated as in the movie? If you asked me this question 3 years ago, I might tell you that it would never be possible. Love is not defined, love is composed of love and affection. Love can be a feeling, affection can be a kind of family affection, it is a kind of responsibility. So when you love someone deeply, she (he) has become a part of your body. That's why I feel the heart-piercing feeling when I separate. Some people have not been in love for three years together, and some people feel that the other person is their own for the first time when they meet, so there is no time for love. The most important thing is that you find the right person you love.
3: How much love is so pure?
This is also one of the biggest feelings this movie brings to me. When Elise was an already famous actor in the movie, I saw Richard for the first time and didn’t think he couldn’t even afford to live in a hotel and his clothes were too old-fashioned. Have a strange view of her. They are pure love, warm love like a ray of sunshine in spring. When choosing between Richard and his career, Elish resolutely gave up his future in order to wait for a Richard who didn't know the result. Think about it nowadays, men who have no house, no car, no savings, feel inferior in the eyes of women. Even if the woman accepts it, the woman's family may not accept it. There are too many factors to consider in the current relationship, and the love between Elise and Richard has become like a white cloud in the sky, and it is impossible to see. When I saw this movie again, my heart was baptized again. Why do people miss their childhood the more they get older, because they are the most innocent when they are young, so when we reach a certain age, innocence has become a luxury. Although it is a movie, I prefer to bury the love between Elise and Richard in my heart, so that I can at least remember the touch that it brought me.
4: Not everyone can travel through time and space.
As a 1980 film through time , simple and sincere, no one doubts its plot or logic. On the contrary, I hope that Richard can go back again and live happily with Elise. However, when the director was shooting this movie, I think he was also conveying a message, an attitude. When they were finally together, the two met in heaven. Are we living in the moment ready to be in heaven when we are with the person we love the most? The director told me through the lens of the movie that not everyone will pass through. When the person you love the most leaves you, you are irreparable. So what are you going to do? The protagonists can only be together for 3 days. You are with the person you love every day. Are you still not satisfied? There is an old saying that what is lost is always the best, but what is lost can never be restored.
5: Life is a reincarnation
When the old man Elise gave the pocket watch to Richard at the beginning of the movie, I thought that the pocket watch belonged to Elise, but in fact, Richard gave it to Elise when he was crossing. If you want to analyze in depth, you will find that this is the same as Tai Chi, there is no beginning, no end, no one can give it. When Richard traveled to reality, I think the pain of Elise at the time was beyond words. But she has always believed and believed that she would meet him again, just like she had given up going with the troupe and waited for Richard in the hotel. She waited, and she firmly believed that she would meet Richard again. Indeed, after 70 years, I met. In these decades, Elish did not miss Richard for a long time, but I admire Elish. After Richard separated from Elish, because he couldn't bear the pain of lovesickness, he chose to leave this world to meet Elish. But Elish didn't, but insisted on waiting until the last moment of his life. Beliefs and conventions have always been the spiritual pillar that supports Elish's survival. When Elish was young, she met and fell in love with the handsome Richard, but the good times did not last long. Richard disappeared, but Elise was waiting for him to appear. This time was 70 years. After 70 years, Elish met Richard again, but this At that time Richard just looked like him, he couldn't recognize Elish at all. A lover who had been thinking about it for 70 years, met again but didn't know what to say, because things are not humans, so Elish chose to let Richard dream about it. Looking for her, from this point, it can be seen that Elish knew in advance that there was a possibility of crossing. So when Richard traveled to 70 years ago, two people began to relive the old dream. Therefore, the beginning of any thing means the end, and the end means the beginning of another thing. Life is in reincarnation, time and space are in reincarnation, and life is also in reincarnation.
This is the first time that I have written so much for a movie. I have experienced too many things in recent years. I have understood some truths of life, some seemingly ordinary but cost a lot to understand. I have heard people say that when a child knows how to care for his parents, it is because they have also become parents. When Richard came to heaven and met Elise, I had a feeling of reluctance. People who loved so much could only be together in this way, but I felt happy for them. Because every one of us has the day to die after all. If you can choose to be with the person you love most in that world, I believe many people will choose this way. A person's life is very short. Even if you are 100 years old, you will feel that it is actually a blink of an eye and that it is not easy to live in this world. But dead, it makes no sense. I work every day for my living expenses, live well for my family, and work hard for dignity. I am very tired and tired. The beauty brought to me by this movie will always be with me. Humanity has the most beautiful aspect. This movie is also just right to show. We will regret many things we have lost, but the past will eventually In the past, the unknown is always tomorrow, and the greatest wealth that is lost is to make you better understand how to cherish what is in front of you. I never know what tomorrow will be like. I just hope that you can live well today, so that both those who love you and those you love can live well.
Finally, I hope everyone can find their own true love!
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