Even if it is fleeting...

Lavada 2022-10-23 16:00:02

Ask a few very simple questions first. Why did Jones come to America? Why did you reject Pierce's class in the beginning? Why did you decide to take his class afterwards?

Originally, the uncle's death and life changes made Sophie want to escape and change a way of life through "Breathe In" to get out of the emotional quagmire. But the fate is like that, the small talk between the three on the way home from the airport, the identity of Keith's "music teacher", this same profession as her uncle was destined from the beginning, this is not a trip to Tanshun. . The change happened when Sophie met Case's tutoring students, and her feelings of Electra for her uncle emerged (the two books Sophie carried with her, "The Lover" and "Wuthering Heights", of course, or even towards her uncle. A certain kind of worship), coupled with the girl's persistence and willfulness to emotions, makes herself unable to resist the emotional comfort and dependence on the "uncle", so she chooses not to escape and face willfully.

Youth is always so beautiful... In

class, Sophie played Ballade No. 2 in F major, Op. 38 written by Chopin to Schumann, which is generally used to express the emotional collision between lovers. And what Case has been pulling before is Schumann's Cello Concerto in A minor Op.129. After listening to this, it is not difficult to insight into the emotional collision between the two in class. Sophie told Case very clearly that I am here and I will no longer escape! I am curious and intoxicated by the mood of Case at the time. Was it unexpected shock or unexpected joy? Is it doubtful or eagerly looking forward to it?

The director really handled it very delicately! The best thing is that the morning after Jones returned from Manhattan, the young heart resolutely returned to Case after a night of "indulgence". Everyone praised Sophie for holding the temptation of youth and who can understand Case at the same time. Anxiety and panic when sitting on a swing! When Sophie sat on the swing and stared at Keith with pure and ignorant eyes, she was so quiet that her heart was drunk...

The black and white of the film is also distinct, with a large patch of gray in the middle, but it is a large patch of clean gray that awakens the yearning and warmth in people's hearts. From a certain perspective, both of them are lucky, because life will eventually return to people's self-determined "black and white". While not causing more harm to each other, although the "exchange" stopped abruptly, it already possessed the pure "grey" that many people have never had in their entire lives, even if it is fleeting...

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Breathe In quotes

  • Keith: Maybe boundaries are there for a reason... structure.

    Sophie: You sound like a teacher.

  • Sophie: What makes you happy?

    Keith: At the moment there's only really one thing that makes me happy.

    Sophie: Me?

    Keith: It's true.