Every man has a Notting Hill in his heart

Ulices 2021-10-20 17:27:36

An extremely nonsensical film, a cliché Hollywood love model: two people with disparity in identity met because of an accidental event, (the first plot point) and then enter each other’s lives, A talks to Party B about their troubles, and Party B sends them to Party A. With warm embrace, the two of them finally couldn't suppress their emotions on a dark and windy night for a month, and the scene that the audience most anticipated happened. (Second plot point) After the warm interpretation, it is natural to quarrel. The two separated because of a misunderstanding and returned to their respective lives. During this period of time without each other, they discovered the importance of each other, so the two met again at the place where they first met. At this time, the most incredible scene happened. , The money-losing self-employed actually strongly rejected SUPER STAR, and SUPER STAR has removed the star's halo at this time. She is just a girl standing in front of a boy and longing to be loved (I'm just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her), it was this heart-wrenching love monologue that made the money loser finally decide to redeem this piece of star dreams. (The third plot point) All the friends and relatives who lost money came to the scene to support their old friends, and started a last-minute rescue love chase. The ending is naturally that the lovers finally get married. They completed the most touching declaration of love in front of the media. In response to the sentence, "If you love someone, you must let the whole world know." From then on, the frog and the princess lived a shameless mortal life.

I didn’t want to say anything to this movie because she was so lackluster, but I think carefully about why such a clichéd, absurd and nonsensical comedy can be hailed as a classic by many people. I remember that it was not long after the film was released. There is a widely circulated saying: "Every man has a Notting Hill in his heart." I think this is the reason why this film can be successful. People say that women love fantasy. In fact, men treat love more unrealistically. In real life, there are thousands of people who have no careers like the heroes in movies. Love is fruitless, even his mother doesn’t even remember the name. The little man watched the rich man drive the sports car and soaked up the beauty in his heart. When he cursed God for injustice, he prayed that God would grant a sacred love to him, but every time he peeed, he looked like a bear and felt ashamed of himself. I don't think anyone deserves it. In fact, the movie can be summed up into two categories: one is the description of real life that makes people resonate, and the other is the description of illusory life that makes people think about it. This movie undoubtedly belongs to the latter, and he satisfies the little man very well. Fantasy. The playwright chose such a theme in consideration of such a huge audience, but the flaws in the play have destined it to be only a second-rate movie.
First of all, this movie does not touch on love itself, it is just a romantic story piled up by a series of accidental events. Those who watch the movie with an educated mentality and hope to learn some skills of picking up girls will be disappointed after watching it, because the film has not used reasonable causal logic to explain why STAR fell in love with money-losing goods. ? Do you need a reason to love someone? Even nonsensical comedies like Journey to the West know how to find a fateful excuse for love, but the screenwriter of this Oscar-winning film is so instructive to treat the audience as SB, trying to use the logic of love because of love. love. The most incomprehensible thing is that STAR proactively kissed the actor for the first time. When I saw it, I thought it was a fantasy picture of the actor. After the lens flashed, everything in front of me would be restored. I didn’t expect the story to follow. The absurd kiss continued to develop. In fact, it can be seen from the later plot that the screenwriter has been working hard to find a reason for the heroine to fall in love with the actor. The film does not describe the heroine’s extravagant and lustful private life as a Hollywood actress. Instead, she uses more pen and ink to describe the mortal world of the hero, so as to convey the heroine’s voice to the audience. She is just a yearning. A woman who enjoys ordinary love in ordinary life, seems to have this psychological basis, her love for the male protagonist will be more real. But this Hollywood actress seems to have too much free time and too few friends. This is far from the life of an entertainment actress in our impression. There is no phone, no dinner, no K song, no clubbing, all day long. Gossiping with a silly boy, it looks too fake. Even a little man like me doesn't bother to waste time with the passers-by in his life now. What kind of idleness would a Hollywood star have? Secondly, the characterization of the film is too thin. In the film, the hero and the heroine have experienced three minor incidents, including the bookstore stealing incident, the climbing wall incident, and the hotel slander incident. In these three things, the male protagonist has always maintained a unique demeanor of a British gentleman. There is a little cowardice, wit but not brave enough in the gentleness, while the performance of the female protagonist is stronger and much more mature. Their handling of things reflects the way they handle things. The relationship between weak men and strong women. However, a man with this personality does not have any charm in itself, and there is nothing in him that can attract women. It is just a mediocre two-dimensional character. If you must find a reason for love in the character, then instead of letting it It would be more convincing for the heroine to fall in love with an honest man than to make her fall in love with a man who is bad but loyal to love.
In fact, the biggest failure of this film is that the director wanted to tell a ridiculous story in a real way. After conceiving an impossible story, he would try to justify himself and say that no matter what, he would feel a sense of cutting his feet and fitting his feet. The result is that the film came out. The temperament is strange. Of course, it would be quite interesting to see this movie purely as an entertainment commercial film. Some of the scenes in the movie are very cleverly set. The protagonist’s sense of joy is very full, and there is also the sentence I'm just a girl, Standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her is indeed very classic. It is said that many people watched this film a second time because of this sentence.

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Notting Hill quotes

  • Anna Scott: "For June, who loved this garden, from Joseph, who always sat beside her." Some people do spend their whole lives together.

  • William: Sorry about the "surreal but nice" comment.

    Anna Scott: Don't worry, I thought the whole apricot honey thing was the real low point.