The story begins with the memory of a great director whose death in a small locale makes him feel compelled to return to his hometown. Where is your hometown? Someone once asked this question, and someone answered that the hometown is a place that cannot be returned. Yes, some memories are revisited in the hometown, but you can't find them anymore.
A little elf boy named Duo Duo has a younger sister, his mother brought them up and his father was killed in battle. In addition to being a deacon to the church pastor, he likes to hang out with Ivordo, the projectionist at the church movie theater. He said, even though you are decades older than me, I think we can be friends. What binds them together is the movie. Duoduo has collected all the film clips that Ivordo has cut - because those clips are all kissing clips, and the lovely priest thinks that if these clips are cut, the movie can no longer be called: erotic movies. Before Duoduo became a movie projectionist, the most common thing that people watching movies in the cinema said was: For more than 20 years, I haven't seen a single kiss scene!
You may also find such people around you. You are used to their existence, but you never know their names. The cinema is small, the town is also small, and it is always the audience who come to the movies. In the early days of the cinema, there were not so many rules. Some men and women who wanted to fool around stood watching laughing films while secretly covering up making love; hawkers would ask everyone what cigarettes you wanted to smoke; Body, a group of teenage children sitting in a row actually started to take off a plane; one likes to preach at the movie theater that I go to the movies to sleep, and every time someone makes fun of it, he always says don't let this group of people go, but in the end this Everyone in the movie theater will repeat it for him; there is also a weirdo who likes to spit into the seat downstairs when watching a movie and scold the bastard. In the end, everyone is familiar with his habits and is used to throwing spit after he finishes spitting. Give him a stinky shoe; and whenever the movie is over, the crowd flocks to the square outside the cinema, and a madman drives the crowd out of the square, and keeps saying: the square is mine; the dog in the square, the dog in the station gate Bright red flowers, green trees, donkeys, messy furnishings... These were all our memories.
Everdo lost his light because of a fire, and Duo Duo started to take over his job, when Duo Duo was not even a table high. Chicchio, a wealthy man in town, financed the reopening of the movie theater. Ivordo often spends time with his little friend Duoduo. Before the fire, Everdo had told Duoduo not to be a projectionist for the rest of his life, why? Because you can't leave here, because you can't do anything else, you can talk to those actors about your thoughts, but you'll always be alone. It's a career, but it's definitely not a lifetime career.
After working as a projectionist and having sex in movie theaters with prostitutes, his puberty finally came. He begins to fall in love with the beautiful daughter of the bank manager. Of course they were stopped, and then of course separated after a bitter love. That was his heartache. One day after he came back from the army with a notice of discharge, the blind Ivordor said to him that this city is cursed, and you stay here and think that nothing will change. You gotta get out of here, get out of here. At the station where Duoduo left, the blind man Ivordo grabbed his collar and said, "You have to forget us, you can't come back, absolutely can't come back." If you miss us, then you must forget us, you can't come back here after failing, you know?
A man's ideal is to travel all over the world, Duoduo will never know that Ivordo had insisted on breaking up him and the beautiful girl Elena. Although he knew everything when he returned to his homeland thirty years later, he would no longer blame him. The film doesn't tell about the days after he left town, but everything shows that he is already a successful man. He was standing behind the funeral procession, and he recognized Kichio, who called him you respectfully, and he said, why? Chichio said, because of your status. If you want, I can call you too, Duo Duo.
He entered the church against Alfred's coffin; he saw the woman he loved and his good classmates become a couple and had children; he stood by the shore he once loved and listened to Haitao's thoughts; he saw because The Paradise Cinema, which was forced to close due to poor management, was bombed to the ground; he frantically searched for the note left by his beloved in the ruins of the cinema; he connected the films he collected back then and brought it back to Rome for screening, On the screen, there are scenes of men and women kissing, one after another, there are hugging kisses, strong kisses, provocative kisses, and affectionate kisses... He looked at it and couldn't help but stand up, tears in his eyes.
The movie ends here. When the years come to an end, people will never ask why. If there is no departure, there will be no dream; if there is no thirty years of stubbornness overseas, there will be no continuous effort. Duoduo once said that he did not dare to come back, and has never dared to come back. Where there are too many memories, you will be trapped by memories. Where there is no memory, the human eye is always in front. When there is a bang, and even the place where the memories are stored is gone, people can only go back to the journey.
Ask his mother a lot, why didn't you remarry after your father died? My mother said, because I can't love anyone else but him. She only loves Duo Duo and Duo Duo's sister. Ever since Duo Duo became a projectionist, he wouldn't lock the door every night until he came back.
Learn more about what love is. Love makes one person drive another person away from their hometown, love makes one painfully unable to return to the past, and love also makes one unable to get out of love and wait for 30 years. Because there is no right or wrong in love, there is no right or wrong in life either.
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