lost the self before that

Eugenia 2022-10-21 14:13:55

I've been obsessed with Korean movies lately and have been watching this week. Xue Jingqiu's rich performance is really admirable, there is no similar type of actor in China. This film is basically his alone stage, the heroine is in a coma at the beginning, and then the sporadic scenes seem to be just to witness the beauty of his youth.
Why mints? A white hard candy, it should be the most common and bland candy, cheap, single, and not too many people like to eat it. But the taste is refreshing, pure white and flawless, simple and beautiful, just like the outings they used to like each other together. That was over twenty years ago and she gave him a mint and told him I was trying to like it because I was packing a thousand a day. He said, I like to eat. Without being too obvious, love is the refreshing taste of my peeling candy. After enlisting in the army, she went to see him, they had met in that environment, she didn't know.
When the gathering, when the bottle of mint hidden in the envelope was trampled and scattered all over the place, it was doomed that this relationship would never go back. He looked at her and sang with his comrades, not knowing whether the future was life or death. They are also just victims. When shooting students, they have no time to tell what the opposite is, but because we have guns, this gun is a weapon to shoot at you. When he was injured and collapsed, he wasn't a warrior, they weren't warriors, they just had some kind of responsibility during that time, unfortunately just in time for the need to charge.
He mistakenly identified the female student as his girlfriend, and he made a mistake when they were all vulnerable. In the end, the female student couldn't go home, and he couldn't find himself. Sometimes I have to sigh that some coincidences in the world are magical. Just two days ago, there was news that the students of XX returned to their alma mater to apologize, and heard someone discuss in the elevator that it was not their fault. If it was us, it would be the same. Yes, it belongs to the torrent of the times. We have always followed the trend. Only by obeying the times can we survive. But no one thought that after the crazy times have changed, when all people are enjoying the peace and happiness of the moment, the scars left on them have not healed, and there may not be a day when they will heal. How hard must they have to endure the past that they all hated, the impassioned people who brought up those things countless times, and the destroyed self?
He chose to keep all the good things sealed, and turned himself into the kind of person who is often seen in society. So there are all the plots in the back, he is irritable, he is violent, he is frivolous and casual in front of his first love, and he is vulgar and shameful in front of prisoners. In the end, society really abandoned him. His wife didn't let him see his daughter, even the dog he didn't want to see, and he lost his job as a police officer. He bought a gun and planned to take someone to die with him. But at this moment, the beautiful first love left in the past came back and wanted to see him for the last time. The little softness in his heart was in that bottle of mints. If a person can remember the habits of twenty years ago, don't doubt that he has you in his heart.
Perhaps it was the sensitive nerves of the past that were touched. Instead of a pistol, he opted for the rails, during an outing with an old friend. Koreans really like railroad tracks. In Bai Lan, Cui Minzhi also read the letter left by Cecilia Cheung on the train. The train represents the time to move forward, and the tracks leave traces of existence. Only the road ahead is really cruel. Engraving himself in this axis of time and space, he just wants to be remembered.
If someone takes my beauty away, I can't let him take you away, that's the only thing I can keep.
I once thought of standing on top of the world, but the world has changed, and maybe we have changed too.
How can we continue our love when the me you love is no longer me?

I left because I couldn't make me love you any more.
I'm sorry for not being able to see you one step too late.
The mints you left me, I've been saving for over twenty years.
I want to live again.

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Peppermint Candy quotes

  • Yongho: Do you think life's beautiful?

  • Yongho: I don't want to die alone. I need one bastard to come with me. Just one bastard among all that ruined my life. But then... Who should I kill? It gives me hard time, you know. To pick just one is hard thing to do. The fucking stock broker who made me go clean broke? The vampire like loan shark that charged the ridiculous interest? Or... how about the business partner who run away with my money? Or should I take my ex-wife and my kid to die with me? There're so many fuckers in my life that it's hard to pick just one.