The dead are gone

Drake 2022-05-02 06:01:14

I first saw Dai Hanhan's movie in the movie "Kill Your Love".

I didn't finish watching this film, but I was a little impressed with the delicate boy holding a cigarette, wearing a red velvet jacket and looking confused.

He smiled and said, "I'm only good at starting."

Later, I saw this movie on station B, and while sneering at the name of this strange ghost film in Hong Kong in the 1960s, that is, the visual sense, I opened it honestly. The original name of the movie is actually "Life after Beth", life after Beth, the verb is omitted subtly, and it has nothing to do with zombies. The actor Zachary's girlfriend Beth died at the beginning of the film. Zach missed that girl crazily like our ideal boyfriend.

He was a bit nervous, behaving strangely, unable to concentrate; he went to the girl’s parents’ house and played chess with the girl’s father until three in the middle of the night, comforting each other; he even took away the scarf that the girl once wore, and carried it with him in the summer. , Is considered by the brothers to fuck a scarf. In short, affectionate.

In fact, they just broke up. This is probably the kind of experience that all of us have or will have. If you lose a person or a thing, you are very regretful, just thinking how good it would be if that thing can come back. You must cherish all the time that you have together. You will definitely do the things you once wanted to do but didn't do. But so what? You have lost that thing, and nothing can come back. You are very sad and sad, and we are often moved by this sadness. Later, the girl turned into a zombie and found her home on her own, and lost all the memories that they had broken up and that they had died. Everything started again, and Zach was extremely pleasantly surprised.

They fell into passion again and love each other more than before. Zach, the girl's mother and father cherish the lost Beth very much. They said things they had never said before and did things they wanted to do but did not do. He told her All about my love for her. Lost and regained are so precious, people always forget why they chose to lose.

They fell into passion. There are also very interesting plots here. For example, Zach goes to the park regardless of beth's father's objection, they make love and enjoy crazy happiness.

The zombie girl’s face was partially burned by the sun, and her skin was originally pitted, even with snake wounds. Zach didn't seem to see it at all, and thought beth was so beautiful. No wonder the barrage started to talk so much, why can't the male lead see it?

He noticed the old scars, just like a liar occasionally remembering the forgotten truths but not paying attention to them; he ignored these scars as if ignoring the irreparable past. Gradually things changed.

Zach took beth to the beach to sing. The zombie beth could only listen to slow-tuned jazz, and the affectionate ballad made her emotionally unstable and drove her crazy.

In fact, your girlfriend only loves jazz, but you have to sing folk songs to her. When the mood is originally bad, the consequences will be serious.

She smashed the sentry hut by the sea and destroyed Zachary's Maserati. Beth couldn't control himself, and Zach became scared, or he was scared from the beginning.

He just suddenly remembered why he left before.

He wants to leave now.

But beth wanted him to stay in the muddy attic with her. So the male protagonist finally wanted to escape like a normal person, afraid of being killed by his formerly caring girlfriend.

He still likes Beth, but since Beth said that his songs are unpleasant, he no longer ignores the past and her weirdness like when he reunited, he began to think that the past was something that could not be ignored, which is the so-called frank meeting—— She was different from the past, she was no longer Beth then. At this time, he met a beautiful childhood playmate in the restaurant. He found that her skin was smooth and beautiful, and her personality was gentle and easy to communicate. They chatted friendly and comforted each other. At this moment, Beth ran out of the house and was bumping into Zach saying hello to other girls. He lost control of his emotions again. Zach couldn't take it anymore, he took her to Beth's cemetery and told her that she was dead. Here is also a very interesting setting. Beth's father kept Zach from telling beth that she was dead. When Zach first met again, although he didn't like this request, he didn't delve into it; when he discovered the other side's bad points again, Jean re-told Beth what happened in the name of frankness. This fact of death is like a real scar in life. When you reunite with that person, you ignore the broken traces, but when the passion fades again, it will be unavoidable to revisit the old things and find that the mottled broken shadows in the broken mirror have never been what you thought. what is dead may never die (not) And at this time, although Zach has never changed his mind, he still inevitably noticed new people, new things, they are so beautiful, so good, and most importantly, with him The story between is still a truly intact mirror, not a cracked past. When Beth learned about her death, she completely lost her mind. She ate people and wreaked havoc in the house. In the end, she kept chanting "go hiking" and "together". The world went crazy after a relationship collapsed. Everything in the past and past memories are like him. Only he can solve this relationship-whether it is to stay together or simply shoot to break the relationship-the world can Back to normal. Then, in the badly injured world, although the order is still there, his world still has lingering fears. But this is harmless, because he still has to move on under the impetus of the world, and he will meet new things and start again. What was inappropriate before will still be inappropriate again. What attracted you in the past will still make you unacceptable if you do it again. People just don't want to accept this kind of self. When watching the barrage, some people said that the plot was sick, and some people asked where this is a comedy. Maybe I was hypocritical or thinking too much. It would be really interesting to see this movie as a concrete mental process.

It talks about the psychology after the broken mirror, not yours after all. Two people once fell in love and separated later, which may be sad, but it may not be the feeling we expect to reunite and even regain passion again.

What you didn't love once will be even more dazzling to you now.

The person in the relationship who behaves more stupidly and stubbornly looks like a crazy zombie from the other side—and, not because he doesn’t like it anymore, but because he likes it the most. I feel that I am the most legitimate, so the other party is very strange. So, even though you have gone through hardships and you once had passion, but what is not suitable is always not suitable, even if you are reluctant, you still cut off this relationship. The ugly side who didn't want to face it fell down in this decisiveness and lost. The actors performed very deeply, seemed a bit nervous, and seemed normal, but in fact, it was because this was a psychological film. Materialize the protagonist's heart. Quite interesting, isn't it? It is like a mirror, simply reflecting how different groups of people look in the feelings of others and themselves. Oh, maybe it's a haha ​​mirror, which reflects the way everyone is in the heart of the male protagonist. Chaos is true, but true is not necessarily true. But everyone feels a little sick. Unreasonable. We are such people. Long love or not, has nothing to do with reality, I may still have feelings in my heart, but I will not choose the inappropriate pair of shoes. The deceased is gone, and what was not suitable in the past is no longer suitable now. Nostalgia for the things that have been lost, and the perpetual turmoil for the things that are not available, are just human inertial greed. Suddenly I remembered that in Sex and the City, the one I admired most was Samatha. Every time she broke up, I felt frank: "Sorry, I still love you, but I love myself more." We used to say that clothes are not as good as newcomers. , But thinking about it carefully, whether a person is new or old depends on where and when, whether the new is appropriate or the old is appropriate, or neither is appropriate. Possible existence is reasonable. Breakups that existed in the past will naturally continue to exist unless the conditions change at some point in the present. Just like the heroes in the movie never look back to see the explosion, we can only move forward courageously. Perhaps most of the lost things are only suitable for nostalgia and regret, not for possessing. Too much obsession with the past is not a good thing. It's not sentimental, it's not sentimental, it's just facts. After all, the deceased is gone, and all you care about is yourself.

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Life After Beth quotes

  • Zach Orfman: Oh, everything's great. Beth's alive and it was all just one big hoax. So, just forget about it.

    Judy Orfman: Well, I don't think that's funny.

    Zach Orfman: Yeah, well, I don't either.

  • Zach Orfman: We're going to go for a hike.

    Geenie Slocum: Not a hot idea.

    Maury Slocum: In broad daylight? Zach, are you nuts?

    Geenie Slocum: Wait till nightfall.

    Beth Slocum: Why?

    Maury Slocum: Because, baby, it's safer.

    Beth Slocum: At night? Who hikes at night?