To be able to translate The Leisure Seeker into "Love Before Memories Die", and to successfully "touch porcelain" and "Love in the Trilogy", must be a veteran who is well versed in the introduction of Chinese films. If the literal translation is "Leisure Seeker", it sounds like a niche movie, and it won't have much box office. (PS "Love Before the Trilogy" is "Love Before Dawn", "Love Before Sunset", "Love Before Midnight")
In fact, "Love Before Memories Die" itself is a road movie , and the road movie is destined to be a movie for a few people, but this movie, since it can "touch the porcelain" love standard "Love in the Trilogy", naturally there are still many touching points, which can inspire people to live.
It is said to be a continuation, not only the name of the film is so simple, but the main thing in the end is the plot.
"Love Before Memories Dies" is about the twilight love after entering old age, while "Love is in the Trilogy" is about the romantic love of young people, the discerning infatuation of middle-aged people, and the crisis love of middle-aged people.
Specifically:
"Love Before Memories Dies" tells the story of an old couple driving an old RV to Hemingway's former residence, constantly reviewing the story of their past lives on the way.
Since it is a road movie, it must pay attention to the mode of the road movie (a guide), which is also what many fans often praise:
the first one: find yourself a partner, which is a bit strange.
John thought that a literature teacher and writer, AIDS made his memory worse and worse, and even forgot the names of his wife and children, but he clearly remembered all of Hemingway's works; his wife Ella was seriously ill and was mainly hospitalized.
No matter how you look at these two aging patients, they should not be the protagonists of this film, and it is precisely because of the specialization of the protagonists that the emotions of this film are fully expressed.
What started their journey was that the wife was hospitalized and the two were not far apart.
crazy.
Not crazy, not live.
At the end of their lives, it is the belief in life and death that drives them on a journey to find memories.
Rule 2: A car with good weather is more flamboyant.
The road trip of the two elderly people requires a car with complete facilities - a RV, the name is the English translation of the film, those who seek leisure.
Eat, drink, sleep, have a car, and take care of everything.
But this car is not a luxury car with arrogant skills, but an "older" RV suitable for the elderly, with slow speed and outdated facilities. It looked like a road trip for three old men, but after all, there was a car.
With a car, the weather can't be bad. The temperature and sunshine in summer are just the season for the elderly to travel.
And just like that, they headed to the Hemingway House on West Lock Island. On the trip, I recalled my vacation with my children in the 1970s.
Rule 3: Do something stupid together, the kind that makes people roll their eyes.
If you are still walking around in the RV, it is better to lie down in the hospital, so as not to suffer.
On the road, you have to do something stupid.
John, a diehard Hemingway fan after all, must have gone to great lengths to talk to people about Hemingway, even the waiter at the restaurant. Self-expression eloquently, completely ignorant of the embarrassment of the waiter, the image of the old urchin stands up like this, which also adds some laughs to the journey.
If Hemingway was just laughing out of the most direct expression in John's memory, then the "fabrication" after his amnesia was really hilarious.
An old man told his affair in a serious manner, for fear that his wife would not know that he was once a scumbag...
In this way, there is a lot of joy in a sad story.
Article 4: encounter some things, inexplicable kind.
The joys created by two seriously ill elderly people on their journeys are definitely not a response to boredom and boredom, but an accidental accident brewed unintentionally, which just seems a little inexplicable.
Anything encountered during the journey is not intended to happen under the subjective will, and everything will produce many inexplicable and even shocking.
After every lively little climax, the audience always feels dumbfounded. The old man's willful behavior in the first second made people laugh; the ambulance's chirping in the next second made people panic.
That's where the film's narrative comes in.
The last one: to untie some knots, the unspeakable kind.
People go from youth to old age, from seeing themselves to seeing sentient beings. Bai Xianyong has a point of view, people's life is divided into three stages, Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism.
Since we are still alive, we should not live in vain.
Confucianism ascribes the meaning of life to positivity and perfection; Taoism ascribes it to the hypocrisy that can overcome the futility of positivity and perfection; while Buddhism understands this futility and hypocrisy and still loves life.
Confucianism is afraid of death, Taoism is afraid of life, and Buddha is to die to live.
Talking about the thinking about life in love, thinking about the existence of the big self from the small self, can make the pain gradually get away from the human body.
Isn't everything we do in life just to be loved a little more?
Isn't everything we pursue in life just to be a little happier?
At the end of their lives, Ella and John, in the Caribbean sea breeze, hand in hand to wait for the sunset to end, is the most beautiful twilight love.
Love has no template, but has the same hope for life and respect for each other.
This is life, imperfect but real.
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