In September, I read Rohmer's script "The Four Seasons", and I have been obsessed with the script of this story. Then I did everything possible to find this movie. After all, I came to watch it with a strong personal emotion.
Because I am familiar with the plot and know the progress of the story like the back of my hand, I can watch the actors' performances very carefully, and guess the inner message that echoes the script from some subtle actions.
Margot is undoubtedly the most lovable character in the film. She possesses a woman's most precious possession—wisdom, knows how to appreciate a man, and knows how to protect a relationship from erosion. If I were Gasper, I would also feel most at ease with her. Because she is calm, reserved, and does not show off herself, most of the time she is willing to listen and analyze for each other.
Lena is an unreachable shadow. She and Gasper have never set a date since the beginning of their acquaintance. She admires his difference, but he follows her infatuatedly, dazedly. to go to a missed appointment. In front of Reina, Gaspar had no choice but to wait. But he waited willingly, and even wrote a "Pirate Woman's Song" for her to welcome her.
However, while waiting, I met Su Lian, an enthusiastic young woman, who took the initiative to lean over, and it was difficult for any man to resist. What's more, she has a wonderful singing voice, which is more than enough to match the "Song of the Pirate Woman" he wrote for Reina. So he's lost, confiding to Margot that he has even more in common with Sulian than with Lena. Margot laughed at him for being superficial, but he refused to admit it. This suddenly reminded me of a set of adjectives - "not taking the initiative, not rejecting, not being responsible", why do people who fall into emotional entanglements always seem so naive?
When he and Su Lian made an appointment to travel to Weisong Island that was supposed to go with Leina, Leina appeared in front of him the next day, with his thoughts, like a rose blooming in front of him . He told Margot that the day he met Reina, everything was as beautiful as a dream. He denied the meaning of Su Lian's existence almost instantly, and explained to Margot, "If I hadn't met Su Lian, I wouldn't know how much I loved Reina."
But what happened in the end? I want to leave some thoughts for friends who haven't seen the movie, not to announce the ending of the story. The development of all emotional stories is nothing more than the process of gathering, dispersing and reuniting.
Gasper, the boy who is silent on the surface and frantic at heart, is like a ivy that lazily climbs over the fence on a summer afternoon, spreading out his tentacles to explore emotions, aimlessly looking for a female partner that suits him and belongs to him. Meet one, catch one, but don't know how to give up and choose. Faced with the sudden chaos, he could only grab the hedge of escape and retract into the excuse he weaved.
I appreciate Margot's subtlety. She likes Gaspar, but she'd rather avoid it than a distant hope in the face of a wavering emotion. Her heavy love bloomed in the lighted eyes when they met for the first time, in the relaxed and pleasant conversation when walking on the beach, in the lingering kiss when saying goodbye to him, and in a teardrop that fell from the corner of her eye after turning around alone.
I forgot whether she told him that she liked him from beginning to end, but suddenly remembered that a friend reprinted a passage from Annie's "The Best Love", "Don't confess to each other. Confession is a request for a change of direction."
So I was relieved.
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