"Beauty Times" explores the proposition of whether love can withstand the test of time with the technique of "returning to the past". After the old man Victor was so tired of his wife "sweeping out", he came to a company that claimed to be able to use exquisite scenery and superb performance to make him go to any historical moment he wanted to go. Victor proposed that he was going to a café in Lyon in 1974, because that day, he met a person, a person he loved so much.
For a while, I misunderstood that the actor wanted to meet his first love again because of a crisis in his marriage, but the plot immediately told the audience that the person the actor wanted to meet was his current wife, who had raised his nose and eyes, grumbled, and said coldly. , Unbearable, cheating wife. The reminiscence scene of warm yellow and the reality of cool colors are constantly switching back and forth, and the image of the same woman gradually overlaps after decades. How Victor fell in love with Mariana and how the two got to where they are today is incredible and justified. It turns out that the love that bursts out between sparks and fire, after all, is no match for the firewood, rice, oil and salt of trivial life, and lost to the long years.
Under the meticulous arrangement of the director of the Memories Manufacturing Company, alcohol, lighting, and music were quickly put in place, and the atmosphere of that day was completely reproduced infinitely. Even though the client Victor is always on guard, reminding him of a certain detail that a line is wrong from time to time, he still can't help but become obsessed with the actress who plays Marianna.
The film’s creators are deconstructing love to some extent. Putting aside those candy-colored sweet moments, Victor and Mariana have completely lost their passion after decades of getting along. Perhaps this is the price people have to pay for love that "Beauty Times" wants to reveal: the love at first sight and the patience that followed for decades and even a lifetime. Although Mariana still likes to eat boiled eggs and dipped in sugar, her mood has long been different.
The choreographer and director of Memories Manufacturing Company even planned a play-in-the-play to help Victor wake up from his love for the actress and guide him and Mariana to get back together. But a happy ending is obviously not what "Beauty Times" really wanted. The film further shows that burnout in a long marriage is a necessity of being a human being. After the brief joy of getting along with her lover day and night, Mariana is inevitably occupied by emptiness again. Just as tired of her husband, Mariana was tired of her lover again—the man beside her snored loudly, and she pinched his nose in disgust.
Waiting for leisure to change but the old people's minds, but the old people's minds are changeable. This is the normal state of life. Always thinking about the passion as yesterday, but also hope that the partner will be with him for a long time. Facts have proved that people who want to have both fish and bear's paws can only gradually become disappointed in their emotional desires. For Victor, she who lives in memory is the most beautiful. People always love each other too short and hate each other too long.
When Mariana walked into Victor’s memories with a warm yellow filter and played the heroine of the story with a complicated mood, she felt that she was tortured in a marriage that had been tied to each other for decades. Acknowledge that the charm of the man in front of me once attracted myself. At this moment, she didn't know whether it was luck or misfortune for the person she chose to enter into the marriage with the lover.
Victor has to stay in the artificial dream for a few more days, for which he does not count the cost. Marianna didn't know if this was proof of how much he loved her. Perhaps, she has vaguely realized that the sound of singing at the right time that day, the unintentionally falling scarf, the slightly alcoholic spirit and hormones all catalyzed the occurrence of love invisibly. She couldn't tell whether Victor loved her or the romantic scene that he remembered for a lifetime and was unforgettable.
Between the dense memory and the bleak and pale reality, almost everyone will choose the former without hesitation. No matter how realistic the re-enactment is, it can only prove that the moment of heartbeat cannot be re-enacted. Love does not know where it starts and where it ends. Time has passed, will Victor still pick up the scarf that Mariana fell on the ground today? "Beauty Times" leaves this emotional puzzle to you who watched the movie.
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