Lin Yifeng's "Leaving is to come back" contains such a lyric: "I leave you all for being too devoted to love, I am afraid that I will forget the colors of the world".
Tommy escaped because his love was deeply rooted in New York, his mother, his best friend, his bicycle, his childhood, his growth and all the important things at the beginning of his life. Some of these precious things shattered too early, which was an unbearable burden for the thirteen-year-old.
Before he left, Tommy found Bernadette downstairs in the women’s prison. He supported the railing on the street and looked down. The shot from the top was a crying face with regret and bewilderment and New York blue. Decades later, Tommy returned to New York again, he found Bernadette’s home, and when he parted with her again, the overhead shot showed him crying with nostalgia and relief and the wet streets of New York Brown floor.
Isn't the blue sky like the freedom he is about to flee to pursue? Go away, forget all the sadness and heaviness from now on, and don't bear the things that you can't bear, so that you can continue to live. And the boy has to fly into the sky, be a free bird, and fly far away, so that he can find his nest one day.
The brown floor was also like the color of the roots he had returned to New York to search for, and his heart was as moist as the ground at this moment. From the moment he set foot on this land again, countless past events flooded his heart like a tide. Until this moment, the tide in his heart finally came out of his eyes. It was not until the mirror was "returned" to Bernadette that everything over the years finally became a circle.
In the taxi leaving, Tommy asked who wrote Piper’s "French Division". Piper was angry because of the parting. In this game they used to enjoy, he rejected Tommy for the first time and answered that he didn’t know. .
Reunited many years later on the street where they grew up, Tommy asked who wrote Pipes’s "French Division", and I was as excited as the light in Tommy’s eyes when Pipes answered him. Tommy asked Pipas "What about the Camino Orphan, do you remember?" Pipas replied: "Do you think I am like a library?". I'm as worried as Tommy, did Pipes forget him? The hug that Paisi rushed up the next moment, I was as happy as receiving a birthday present in my childhood.
In this way, love is back, except for those who are forever gone.
The whole movie is telling a story about love.
Mother's fragility, loneliness and crying are the longing and love for her dead husband. Mother's hard work, her expectations, she learned that Tommy took medicine after being expelled from school, this was love for Tommy, and also the despair after the small hope in her heart was shattered. These are the painful parts of love.
Tommy ate the cabbage sprouts that were hard to swallow, because his mother thought it was healthy food, and his mother would be happy if he ate them. Only by listening to my mother’s breathing under my mother’s bed can I fall asleep peacefully. Every day I count how many tablets of the tranquilizer in the bottle have been eaten by my mother. This is the tenderness part of love.
Pipes was left by Tommy alone, feeling betrayed. He was so angry that he broke the window glass of the shop and stole their beloved bicycle together. He also spilled the money in the piggy bank shared by the two to the sea. This is the selfish and possessive part of love.
The butcher’s female owner said to Tommy after Pipes lost her job at school: “In any case, he is an employee in my shop.” This is the compassionate part of love.
After many years, Tommy finally had enough courage to tell his story to his wife. After listening, his wife encouraged him to return to New York. This is the part of love about honesty, tolerance, and support.
2020, love someone well.
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