" Before watching the movie "Life with a Cup of Wine", as a wine circle novice who only likes to drink sweet wine, I always thought that wine is more fragrant with age (such as Lafite in 1982?)."
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Stories of middle-aged losers
The first male, Miles, is a middle school Chinese teacher with a dream of being a writer. He has been divorced for three years, but he still cannot get out of the fantasy that he will one day reconnect with his ex-wife. And the former film and television star Jack is about to get married, marrying a rich family who owns a luxurious villa. The film is about Jack's one-week single trip with his best man, Miles, as the best man.
Jack and Miles have completely opposite personalities. Jack is a handsome, high-emotional and confident girl seduction master, while Miles is bald, restrained, sullen, geek, and has a special love for people and things he loves, such as wine.
As the Chinese translation of the film conveys, this is a film that will use wine as a dark thread.
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Miles and Pinot Noir
Maya: Why are you so obsessed with Pinot Noir? Just like your hobby. Miles: I don't know either, emmm, it's a hard grape to grow, you know, it's thin skinned, sensitive, early ripening. It does not grow anywhere like Cabernet's black grapes, and thrives even when neglected. Pinot Noir requires constant care and attention, it only grows in those hidden, special corners of the world, and it can only grow with the utmost patience and nurturing of the gardener. Only someone who takes the time to understand Pinot Noir can understand its potential and feel its full expression, I mean taste. It's the longest, most eye-catching, most refined, and oldest wine on the planet. Of course Cabernets can be great too, but for me, Cabernets are too vulgar in comparison.
This is one of my three favorite dialogues in the film.
Miles and Maya are awkwardly chatting while Jack and the new girl they meet on the trip quickly start having sex in the room.
And Miles isn't talking about Pinot Noir so much as talking about himself, who is as "thin-skinned", sensitive, precocious and passive as Pinot Noir. So as a loser, Miles can't get along with his ex-wife who is better than himself, because he can't stand the feeling of being despised, so he cheated and divorced. And his advantages must be understood by those who are willing to take the time to understand him: passion, richness of heart, and literary potential that is unknown to the world.
This reading makes this passage seem narcissistic and nauseous: I'm great, I'm different, but only those who take the time to love me find me good.
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Maya and wine
Miles: Why are you obsessed with wine? Maya: I find that my sense of taste is very sharp, and the more I drink, the more I like the things that wine inspires me to think about. I like to imagine the life of wine, it is a living thing, I like to imagine what happened in the year when the grapes are ripe, how the sun shines on it, how the rain nourishes it to grow. I like to imagine how people tended and picked it; if it was aging, how many people who tended the grapes are no longer alive. I like to imagine how wine keeps growing and evolving, as if I opened a bottle of wine today, it would definitely taste different than if I opened it on any other day. Wine is alive, it continues to grow and become more complex until it reaches its peak. Only then does steady, inevitable aging begin.
Before watching the movie, I always thought that wine is more fragrant with age. After seeing this, I realized that wine, like people, has its childhood, adolescence, and middle-aged and old age, and it will also usher in aging and death.
PS: Maya is a barmaid who is studying for a master's degree in horticulture at the bar where Miles often goes, and her perfection and matching degree for Miles make me think that this is just a beautiful fantasy script arranged by the director for Miles' failed life.
Tips: Wines above 10 degrees generally have the ability to "self-sterilize", and there is no shelf life to speak of, but there is a "drinking period". For most common table wines, the ingredients are relatively simple, and they are the peak when they leave the factory, and they are best to drink within 0-3 years; and only a few AOC-level wines have collection value, but even for the best part that needs to be aged the most Wine, from the factory to the peak drinking period, will not exceed 40 years, and then it will inevitably gradually age and taste. (In the end it turned into a bottle of vinegar ^_^
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1961 White Horse Village
Miles: I think the star of it will be that 1961 Château Maya: You have a bottle of Château '61 and you have it lying there? Miles: Yes... Maya: Go get it! I was serious! quick! !H61 is at its peak as far as I know, right? ! Miles: Yes, yes. Maya: Maybe it's too late, what are you waiting for? Miles: I don't know, maybe waiting for the right person and a special day. It was originally planned to open on the tenth wedding anniversary, however... Maya: When you opened the 61-year-old White Horse Village, it was that special day.
There are two completely different people like Miles and Jack in the world, one is a special day every day, even a single trip before marriage can have two romantic encounters; the other is always waiting for his special day , special people...
The former type feels that everyone they meet is the right person, while the latter type is dissatisfied with everyone they meet.
To a certain extent, this film is about life choices under the mid-life crisis, whether to continue to indulge in those lives that are not available, or to be addicted to the life that can be reached at the moment.
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middle age crisis
-I am a fingerprint on a skyscraper window.
-I'm a thumbprint on the window of a skyscraper.
-I'm a dung on the toilet paper...
-I'm a smudge of excrementon a tissue...
- Run to the sea with thousands of sewage filth.
-surging out to sea with a million tons of raw sewage.
In the end, Miles may finally realize that even if life fails again, he should not indulge in self-defeating and self-infatuation. After all, special people and special times need to be brave to meet and explore even if they are around.
And the "happiness" in life is more like a character, not determined by good or bad luck.
When the "peak period" of life gradually comes and fades away, everyone will more or less realize that the shadow of fate is behind them, and they will gradually get closer. No matter how good people are, they will realize that there is always such a limit There, and your life will never be endless anyway.
May everyone be like Miles, aware of their own behavior patterns, and then be able to choose more freely and actively, instead of being controlled by "patterns".
Even if you end up making the same choice, you have to believe that it will be different.
05
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Happy New Year
Since I was in front of others, I set the flag that I hope I can write more Braille in the new year. Although there is no one to supervise it, I hope this flag can exist as a legacy of supervising growth.
Looking back on this year, it doesn't seem like much has been accomplished: a failed relationship that ended in a weird way in the last days of the 2010s; a job that I didn't love, and it's going to end at a glance; The poor people are very interested in tossing money. In the past year, from the initial ETF investment, to learning grid, and then to convertible bonds, although this year's yield is close to 20% compared to CSI 300's 33% The passing line is too far away, but if every failure can become a growth, then the loss is not in vain.
At the end of the novel "Gone with the Wind", Scarlett said: After all, tomorrow is another day.
In the last half hour of the 21st century, I also sincerely say to those of you who can keep reading these boring words here:
Whether the past year was good or bad, 2020 will be a new year, happy new year! ^_^
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