about hope.

Helen 2022-02-07 14:51:33

It's been a long time since I've seen such a warm and hopeful movie.

19-year-old Lucy, after her mother committed suicide, independently set foot in France to find her biological father, and finally had a happy ending. Find your biological father and find true love. There is not much surprise just by watching the plot, but the quietness of the countryside created by the movie, and the interaction between people's eyes, language, and bodies, still adds a lot to the film. Although it's natural to guess the ending of the movie shortly after it's played. But the quiet country atmosphere, Liv Tyler's sensual plump body, is still very attractive.

In general, this is a movie full of hope. Although there are also plots of relatives and lovers dying in the movie, although there are scenes of crying in the face of the death of friends and relatives, what the plot wants to tell is that there will eventually be hope. Real feeling. The plot develops along the way, and the director is always reminding us and hinting at the ending. And in doing so, let us see the theme of dreams and hopes that he wants to express.

Not long after the film started, I quickly guessed that the sculptor was Lucy's biological father. Whenever confronted with the dialogue between Lucy and his wife (lucy's mother friend), whenever Lucy asks for clues about his biological father, the sculptor always tries to interrupt them. Needless to say, he wanted to avoid talking too much about lucy's biological father, and indirectly he was avoiding it.

Whenever Lucy and Nikolay had conversations, eye contact or plot staggering, the director always gave Josephines plenty of plots and shots. Obviously, this is a love capture between triangles. And from Nikolai's fascination, I finally concluded that Lucy finally belonged to Josephines, this handsome guy with curly hair and full of sunshine.


The two episodes in the film are also quite exciting. Meeting Nikolay again, Lucy listened to Hole's Rock Star jumping wildly in the room with headphones, reflecting the girl's desire and hope for the fanatical pursuit of love. At the end of the film, with the shy first sex, Mazzy Star's Rhymes Of An Hour slowly said that this sad music will also show the power of love in happy and sweet moments.

Under the prosperous big banyan tree, it carries the innocent girl's first time and the next happy life.

As long as you believe, he will always come.

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Extended Reading
  • Alena 2022-03-27 09:01:20

    Pure beauty, movie like this just never gets out of time

  • America 2022-03-23 09:03:17

    I have always felt that Pei Ye is a fragrant, refined and sensual Baroque master, wandering between the daily and the mysterious, the official history and the curious, the feeling is modern, the expression is classical, and the political stance is 'conservative'. Radical', he must have gotten along well with Neruda and Márquez. Director Bei pays great attention to people's sense of smell. When I didn't look at the photos, I always assumed that this person must have a big nose. I found out later that his nose wasn't that big, but I realized that he treats sight as smell and touch. So in his pictures, people (faces, limbs, colors) occupy a lot of space.

Stealing Beauty quotes

  • Niccoló Donati: So, Lucy Harmon, how long are you staying and what do you think of Italy and when are you going to come to our house and see how real Italians live and change your life forever?

  • Michele Lisca: This is the book.

    Noemi: "Adolphe" by Benjamin Constant.

    Michele Lisca: It's all about ideals and passion.

    Noemi: Ah, a fairy tale!

    Michele Lisca: Read it.