When we become strangers again...

Leonard 2022-01-21 08:02:24

I became interested in this movie by listening to the radio. I was in my early twenties. The radio host’s strong voice made this classic movie vivid and vivid, and I was fascinated by it. Of course there is that one—< Bourbon North Africa>In the hot afternoon in the southern city, we hid in our house, sweating like rain, drawing our self-righteous future with pencils, holding our vowed love in our hands, and
then frantically scouring the streets for this romanticism It turns out that it’s hard to find a disc... In the end, like the protagonist in the movie, he can only become a knot in my heart. I remember it by accident but feel very disappointed..
Many years later, I traveled to a certain city in the south of the Yangtze River. , I finally found this disc in a video store by accident, and bought it immediately, just as the protagonist in the movie found the cigarette shop on the corner of the street. The past years have slowly unfolded with the picture of this movie, rough but textured. Simple but very simple. The movie is just like I imagined, black and white pictures, beautiful scenery... But what touched me most was the performance of the actors, sincere and natural, just as high-level as other movies of that period, I am a bit nostalgic, just For example, I like Kurosawa Akira’s samurai films, Bergman’s philosophical films that Bergman is a little bit incomprehensible, Chaplin’s comedies, and those Soviet war films. I even said that I like to be in the early stage of the film industry. In the era when materials and technology were scarce, the admiration of performance and narration by film lovers, the advent of the era of reading pictures, some of the essence and original intention of the film were blocked...
Now I am no longer in that city in the south, and left. Friends and colleagues who have been with each other for many years, and old lovers who have already gone their separate ways, as time accumulates, after N years, they may become strangers, and things are different. When I look forward to facing that city and people again, they What would you think of me?

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  • Arden 2022-04-24 07:01:23

    Moving. The heartwarming nostalgic journey, the ultimate romance, and the purity and beauty that only existed in the 30s and 40s of the last century. A man who lost his memory and then lost his memory again and again, a woman who was waiting for the return of his love. Only true love can make up for the trauma after the war, and the love that lasts forever is unforgettable. PS The director of this film is the director of "Soul Broken Blue Bridge", no wonder the styles are so similar.

  • Athena 2022-04-19 09:02:44

    The originator of combining the theme of amnesia with the theme of love. Two amnesias, two different lives that started anew, ups and downs, after more than ten years, only the heroine's love has not been shaken. Ronald Colman's performance is particularly good, especially the confused look and body language after the first amnesia, and the brief trance that touches the past. I was also impressed by Susan Peters, who plays the infatuated niece, who voluntarily lets go when she finds herself permanently separated from her with a woman from the past ("I almost became yours). Beloved, Charles, it's just that close, and I'll always be proud of it, but 'nearly' is not enough for a lifetime"). Perhaps, it is those regrets that cannot be realized that will remain in my heart for a long time. Another example is Dr. Jonathan from the mental hospital. He has always helped and supported the heroine, even though he knew that giving her hope was the chance to destroy himself, because he had always been unrequitedly in love with her. The same infatuation, but the results are very different. In the second half, the memory can be retrieved little by little, or rely on the unconscious senses and spatial memory. (8.0/10)

Random Harvest quotes

  • Smithy: I'm - all right. It's my speech. I can't - remember. I'm not like the others. I'm not like them. I'm all right. But I - I can't go back. I - I'll never come out; I'll - I'll be like the others.

  • Smithy: I don't even know who I am.

    Paula: Well, I know who you are. You're someone awfully nice.