It’s not that I don’t love, but I love that I can’t face each other

Jessyca 2022-01-23 08:04:04


The seventh and eighth days are the essence, and here is the beginning: the male protagonist started to practice the violin but it was unreasonable. (Reflected in the dialogue of the old white-haired man) At that time, he met his first love, which was the woman he met on the street at the beginning. After seeing the parents, the heroine’s father did not recognize the hero and forcibly arranged the marriage of his daughter.

After being extremely frustrated, the male protagonist’s grief and anger turned into a talent for music. At this time, the white-haired old man nodded in satisfaction and presented his collection of violin to the male protagonist. Because of the talent of the male protagonist, his admirer (wife) became his wife and took good care of him. All housework and all life affairs are carried by the wife.

However, the wife found that her husband had never really appreciated her dedication and had never really accepted her love. She admired her husband’s violin skills the most. In the end, it turned out to be the husband’s never-ending miss for his first love. She was so angry that she became ashamed and was greatly frustrated. I broke my husband’s violin (corresponding to the opening and changed the piano, but I can never find the old piano sound. In

the end, the story connects the reasons for the suicide of the male protagonist: always get rid of the miss of the first love + the existing family There is no feeling of warmth and love at all + my spiritual sustenance, the violin is broken + the mother's death + long-term depression and illness... The male protagonist was actually one step away from suicide because of his son's prayers and because he could not bear to abandon it like this. Young children,

but when they met on the street and was rejected by the woman, the last trace of the male protagonist’s desire to survive has been completely cut off. A particularly sad story, the woman actually still remembers the male protagonist in her heart. It’s not that she doesn’t love, but that she does. I love too much to face each other. I


just finished watching this film yesterday, and the above are my own opinions when chatting with friends. First post it to make a pit, and make up the film review after the holiday~!

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Extended Reading
  • Elody 2022-03-16 09:01:08

    It was all because of love, lost the love of his life, in exchange for the soul of music, completely devoted to love, no instrument can play the soul again, he chose suicide safely, this is a movie that is not afraid of spoilers, what to watch These are the various comic styles of narrative. A fictional city, a beautiful but not heavy love, this is like a live-action cartoon, a romantic adult fairy tale. ★★★☆

  • Myles 2022-04-20 09:02:28

    Another element of music is added. Various shooting types are mixed together to tell the last eight days of a musician's life, but the form is greater than the content.

Chicken with Plums quotes

  • [last lines]

    Irâne: Nasser Ali... My love!

    Nasser-Ali Khan: Iran...

  • [first lines]

    Narrator: Yeki boud, yeki naboud. There was someone, there was no one. That is how Persian tales begin. Yeki boud, yeki naboud.