an unending affair

Chris 2022-12-09 07:41:55

A person who does not believe in love, how does it feel after watching this movie? Movies are just movies after all. I thought so. I'm afraid most people think so too. But I can't help but doubt that there may really be such a feeling in this world, which exists beyond the worldly understanding.

I should believe this, I can't eat grapes and say grapes are sour. Like what people say about a movie, they think it ends up falling into the rut.

If you think of a person every time you see the word love, then you love him, at least once. It's just that most of us are not so lucky to have a too happy ending. So the movie will help us realize our dream. If James is not with Susan in the end, then it is a victory of the world. If they are together, it may be a victory of love, but too much, I think it is physical, this is a victory. The love that is outside the field, but people, after all, are first of all animals. Perhaps, this kind of love that tends to be instinctive will last longer than those so-called spiritual love, because the body is the most loyal and not easy to change.

This may be the original purpose and origin of love.


Only that specific person can unlock the code of the body and unravel the knots of the heart. Only him can make the spirit and the flesh fit perfectly. This is of course the highest state of love.

The story is very simple, they met in a bar, she seduced him, they had a slight sympathy for each other, and then got drunk, so they had a one-night stand. A very common scene in life, but it often happens overnight. The next day, the love evaporates under the white sunlight, and I can't remember it anymore. Maybe it's because they didn't unlock the code of each other's body, so they never lived.

They open a secret passage and gain insight into each other's bodies.

What a wonderful feeling it is.


We often want to see the other side of the world, because we can't always go beyond. The reason we cannot go beyond is actually not other, but ourselves.

Just like what James said when he finally found Susan, what he couldn't face was himself, and what embarrassed him was only himself. The secular vision can only work if you identify with it.

But at this point, I admit that most of us can't get beyond, and that's both the transcendence of this movie and its unrealistic, because in a sense, it goes against human nature. Contradictory human nature. Therefore, there is more sadness in the real story, because it is not decisive enough, and there are too many thoughts, but the gains outweigh the losses.

And the story of going one's own way, how many beautiful, how many unfortunate? In the end, what kind of life will they lead? Stories have an ending, but life doesn't.

Leng Nuan and self-awareness, everything has to be managed by oneself.

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White Palace quotes

  • [Nora is going to meet Max's friends for Thanksgiving]

    Nora: Alright, I'm gonna go in there, I'm gonna say 'Hello, my name is Nora and you can all go fuck yourselves, I'm not Janey.' How's that?

    Max: Perfect.

  • Judy: Come on, I wanna know how you two met.

    Nora: I picked him up in a bar. How's that?

    Max: I was drunk, and she was drunk, and I liked her looks so I convinced her to let me bring her home, and I seduced her on the sofa bed, and it was magic, and I keep coming back for more.

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