And what's his name? What's her name?
It seems that this was only mentioned casually when the two people initially told each other symbolically that his name was Jesse and her name was Celine after getting off the car in Vienna. And this is not important, because on this sleepless night, in this city where no one knows them, they don’t need to use names to confirm each other’s existence. They only need to use confession to witness each other and their lives. This confession makes They no longer belong to a name, a social symbol, but only to themselves and to each other.
On this frank night, they faced each other honestly, without imagining, and without defense. They not only faced each other truthfully, but also confronted themselves straightforwardly, even for themselves. Those timeless dialogues were not meant to please each other or show off deep. , But a comprehensive self-discussion time after time, time after time a tacit display. They tell them to listen to themselves, and then have good enough luck to meet someone who understands, so Jesse said, I often dare not face myself and avoid myself, but I feel relaxed and liberated when I am with you. .
The scene where the two call their friends in the cafe can best reinforce this confession. They pretend that the other party does not exist in this space, pretend that they are talking about this woman or this man next to someone who is not relevant, and how they feel about this man or this woman. Is this an irrelevant conversation? It is better to say that this is a confession facing one's intuition and an indirect but absolutely true confession facing the other party.
The significance of this encounter lies in this confession, which implies a self-talking in the middle of the conversation to complete a dialogue with oneself. Based on this confession, this night is more profound than the decades before they met and the decades after they met, because this night’s confession is based on their absence in the previous decades and the separation in the following decades. At the price, this night is unique. It is a specific point in time. It does not belong to the past, does not belong to the future, but only belongs to the present.
Because this confession gives the meaning of this encounter, this night is also surprisingly large. Not only does the breadth of dialogue continue to extend, it involves death, anger, fate, time, the social roles of men and women, and the most subtle feelings in the heart. , As if to say all the feelings of life's happiness, anger, sorrow and happiness, and encountered various metaphors: the mysterious woman who tells fortunes, the tramp who writes poems, etc., and they seem to be unintentional. Words, but often become the starter of the event, become a kind of hint.
Another meaning of this encounter is to develop into a love, but even if it develops into a love, it is only an encounter at first. Although the encounter between men and women always contains some ambiguous emotional elements, this love is only subordinate to this encounter, and it is a themeless variation of this encounter. Just like the painting on the poster of the exhibition that they saw, Celine said she liked the painting and the close fusion of the characters and the background. The surrounding environment was more eye-catching than the people in the painting, and they knew this kind of encounter. The procedures and endings that should be required for the various sentiments of the encounter, embed the behavior and emotional effort into this encounter frame that exists as the background. You can watch this poster together now, but you can't watch the official exhibition after eight weeks together.
Celine said that she was most afraid of the last few seconds of consciousness before death, because you knew you were definitely dead. But isn't their encounter also a clearly conscious death? From the beginning, they tacitly understood their separation, but this clearly realized separation still cannot prevent her from chatting with him, getting out of the car with him, sharing her own experiences with him, trying to communicate with him, understanding each other, and He and him are like real lovers, so that in the end they even have to change the original intention of just being a passerby and imagine the future meeting.
Perhaps this is the most difficult knot in emotions. On the one hand, we imagine and truly hope for a lifetime, and at the same time, we are afraid that the boredom brought by time will eventually precipitate love into a habit and erase the beauty of the past. People sometimes In a situation of extreme happiness, I will sincerely pray for this moment to stay. It is not so much to cherish the present as it is to fear the future, because we do not have the courage to have this kind of happiness in the future, but on the other hand, the emotional factor The cause of trouble, but it makes people want to stop, unable to completely cut off the kind of long-lasting thoughts, this pair of men and women in the in-depth understanding of the constant entanglement of the problems of seeing and disappearing is probably due to this. Jessie said that he always felt that if I could accept the facts and accept his inherently difficult fate, he might not be so angry and painful, but the crux of the problem was that he was not willing to accept it at all. Isn’t it the same with love? While skeptical and hopeful, I can’t help but pray even if I don’t fully believe it.
Therefore, when Jessie asked why people always feel that the relationship must be maintained for a lifetime, and Celine also echoed that it was silly, the two of them must have some grapes that they can’t eat, so they simply said it was sour. With inexplicable envy and unwillingness, when facing this problem, I still can't really have the kind of open-mindedness of LET IT BE. I will still be reluctant, or will emphasize that I don't like deliberately maintaining emotions while constantly chatting. The date of meeting again. "Is this really our last night?" "Is it true that we won't see you again in the future?" The people who ask questions are people who can't let go, but aren't people because they can't let go?
"You mentioned the situation in the next few years. A couple will start to hate each other and become bored with each other's every move. I think I will have the opposite development. The more I understand a person, the better I can truly love him, he will comb a certain hair, which T-shirt he will wear, and a story he will tell on certain occasions. I believe that will be the true state of my love for a person.” This It was Celine's attitude towards love that Jesse showed to Jesse before parting. It was faintly revealing the simple emotions and the possibility of a certain continuation, which made people simple and good wishes to believe that the highest realm of love is plain. The parting of the train station that follows further deepens the room for further development of the love derived from the encounter, because they are as trivial as all the parting people and are reluctant to let go.
But when they were perplexed to use seeing or not seeing to maintain a relationship to seal up a kind of beauty, they forgot another possibility that love lost the original bright red color, that is, they returned to their lives and met each other. People in life, then forget each other as a matter of course. Maybe at this moment they think that the splendor of this encounter will make them unforgettable, but most of the time I don’t understand where I got this confidence. Confidence memory can compete with time and life, and the weight of self-confidence emotions is worth time. weight.
"Norwegian Forest" is an unforgettable youth with cherry blossoms flying, and when you reach middle-aged Watanabe, you can only confess to yourself with the beatles old song: "It will take me a while to remember Naoko's Face. And, as the years go by, time takes longer and longer, although it is very sad, but it is true. At first it only takes five seconds to think of it, and gradually it becomes ten seconds. , Thirty seconds, and then one minute." And then the sad son said, "I hope you will always remember me, always remember me as a person". Being together is afraid of the destructive power of inertia, separation is afraid of the invasion of forgetting, what is the way out for feelings?
The last few shots of the film slowly swept over the places they had walked together, the cemetery where the unknown dead were buried; the long and narrow walkway they had sat on by the window; the fountain where they met the fortune-teller; the countless dead bodies in the water were washed away. To the quiet river on the shore; drinking to see the stars on the green grass and the wine bottle falling on the grass. At that time I suddenly wondered, if these fixed scenes have memories, will they be more resistant to the erosion of time than our memories, and will last longer; if one day these buildings are unable to withstand time and eventually decay and collapse, will we still I remember the footprints we had on a certain street, and our emotions drifted through a certain river.
The possibility of meeting will finally be fulfilled by a sequel. Such a sequel is reasonable, just as they did not expect such an encounter, and no one can predict whether they will meet again in the future. What about the sequel after the sequel? Is it to choose the last forgotten after bidding farewell again, or is it really like a tree branch in the river, wading through the river of time hand in hand? There is a line in a movie I saw many years ago: There is a time when the movie ends, but life has to go on. Whether time or love will win or lose can not be determined by a movie.
"Don't let time deceive you. You can't beat time. Amidst worries and worries, life fades away. Time will have its own preferences, tomorrow or today." Time's verdict on this encounter made me recognize emotions. The fragility in front of him may be another meaning of this encounter.
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