Parallel worlds are a common theme in film and television creation. The suspense thriller "The Night When the Comet Came" tells the story of a mysterious event triggered by a gathering of friends. The action film "Cosmic Pursuit" detonates the senses with a killer's different time and space travel. There is also the popular drama "Want to See You" some time ago, which is sweet and abusive at the same time extremely brain-burning, making everyone want to watch it. Recently, a new romance film with the theme of parallel worlds has been released, which is called a large-scale version of "Want to See You" by netizens. Without further ado, let's talk about it-
goodbye love
aka: To My Strange Lover
Director: Hugo Gerin Writers: Hugo Gerin/ Igor Gottman Starring: François Seville/ Josephine Joby/ Benjamin Lavigne Release Date: 2019- 04-03 (France)
It's a very romantic French film, and it's on this week's list of new films. The hero of the story is called Raphael , he is a geek with whimsy. In middle school, Raphael was not interested in studying, but was obsessed with writing novels. In the stories he created, the male protagonist takes himself as the prototype, a superhero with super powers and his mission to save the world. Even more exaggerated is that this hero has more than a thousand wives.
Having said that, the real Raphael is actually a person with no emotional experience. By chance, Raphael met the heroine Olivia . Like Raphael, Olivia is also a weirdo—she sneaked into the school storage room to practice the piano in order not to attract attention.
Music is like a pair of invisible hands, connecting the two together in the dark. After this awkward encounter, the two "weird people" fell in love at first sight. Later, the two gradually got to know each other and became a couple.
Like every couple in love, they have had countless happy times together. get out of school together, go shopping together, work hard for the university of your dreams... From campus to society, from ignorant students to entering the workplace. After the test of time, the two finally entered the marriage hall and formed a happy family.
Raphael got his wish to become a novelist, and Olivia became a piano teacher. With the company and encouragement of his wife, Raphael's creative road is very smooth. The science fiction novel based on the two of them caused a sensation as soon as it was published, and Raphael also became famous. His signing venues were full, and he often appeared in various talk shows.
Fame is a double-edged sword, and this statement is true for Raphael. He has fulfilled his life dream, has wealth and popularity, and can enter and exit various high-end occasions. But on the other hand, he gradually lost himself in the sensuality, and his feelings for his wife became more and more indifferent. At the end of his novel, he even let the character of his wife die at the hands of the enemy.
One night when a snowstorm hits, Rafael returns home as usual. He and his wife have long been at odds with each other due to the lack of gatherings and separations. The two began blaming each other again and fell into a rambling quarrel. Unbearable Raphael broke the vase in anger and rushed out the door.
The once immortal couple, but now they are strangers. Raphael used wine to drown out his sorrows, and was so drunk that he returned home. When he woke up the next morning, he found an astonishing fact - his wife disappeared as if he had evaporated from the world, and the furnishings and objects in the home were completely changed.
It turned out that Raphael at this time had entered another parallel world. In this new parallel world, Raphael retains all his previous memories. However, the environment around him and the relationship between the characters have undergone tremendous changes. And his own identity has also changed from a famous writer to an ordinary literature teacher.
While Raphael was still immersed in a sad reality, he discovered an even sadder truth - in this parallel world, Olivia is not his wife, but a famous pianist. Her concerts are held all over the country, and she has many fans and followers. It's a pity that Olivia in this world doesn't know Raphael at all.
Have you discovered that in this mirror-like parallel world, the social status of the two has reversed. Raphael couldn't accept this fact, and decided to re-acquaint and retrieve Olivia in this world.
With the assistance of his good friends, Rafael came up with various tricks. For example, breaking into a high-end banquet and deliberately creating a chance encounter. Pretend to be a nurse to win Olivia's favor. He even faked the identity of a biographer for himself and persuaded Olivia to publish an autobiography in order to gain a chance to get close to each other.
When the people he once knew best became strangers, Raphael had to start from scratch. With his efforts, Olivia gradually understood and trusted him, and the two became friends who could chat. He also often takes Olivia to places where the two of them have been before, trying to relive the good old days. It's a pity that this Olivia in front of her has no memory of all this, which makes Raphael very frustrated.
The turning point in the relationship between the two happened after a trip - Olivia was going out for a few days, and Raphael went with her on the pretext of writing an autobiography. On this island like a paradise, the two enjoyed a short and happy time. They ride bicycles by the lake together, play the piano together in the house, and go to the seaside to swim together at night. Deep in love, the two also spent a night of spring supper.
When Raphael thought he had finally moved Olivia, he was struck by a bolt from the blue again: In fact, Olivia was about to marry her fiancé. How will Raphael save this precarious relationship? Will he be able to return to his original world? There are not many spoilers for the story behind, you can go to the movie to find the answer.
Like "Want to See You", "Goodbye In Love" also presents the sweetness and bitterness of love by crossing the bridge to a parallel world. But to say it, "Goodbye In Love" is actually more similar to another domestic film, that is, "Charlotte Trouble" , the box office champion of the 2015 National Day file . In these two works, the male and female protagonists are married couples, and both have the setting of crossing into a parallel world. More importantly, both pairs of protagonists are facing the same problem - emotional and marital crisis.
"Charlotte Annoyance", under the package of comedy, allows the audience to see the cracks that are gradually exposed in a marriage. At the end of the story, Charlotte returns to the real world, finally understands the goodness of his wife and learns to cherish it. Coincidentally, "Goodbye In Love" also has the same spiritual core, which can be seen from the details in the film - when Raphael first traveled to a parallel world, he found that although the identity of the people in this new world had changed, they still retained their identity. The habits and hobbies of the original world. In order to get back his wife, she decided to do what she wanted.
He knew that Olivia, like himself, only liked espresso without sugar. When she tried her best to prepare, she found out that Olivia actually didn't care about the taste of coffee at all.
He also knew that Olivia liked the coconut-flavored little cakes and prepared them in advance. But Olivia's unmoved response also disappointed him.
Did you find out, those "likes" that Olivia once had were not really likes. It was because she loved Raphael deeply that she learned to change and accommodate, turning his various likes into her own. Isn’t this kind of love and empathy the most worthy part of a relationship that we should remember and cherish? In comparison, what are the occasional quarrels and frictions?
From "Charlotte Trouble" to "Goodbye Love", they all try to use the shell of comedy to present the core of the "seven-year itch"; use messy and trivial details of life to explore the essence of love and marriage: a good love, It's not love at first sight by accident. But no matter how many times they meet again, even if they lose the memory of the past, they will meet again and fall in love like the first one. A good marriage is not always hard work and no stumbling blocks. But after countless quarrels, they can still be reconciled as before, tempered into a ten-year-long love and companionship.
*The author of this article: Zhang Bucai
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