The accidental encounter on that train nine years ago was just a beautiful encounter. The American guy Jesse seems to fall in love with the French girl Celine at first sight, and Celine also has a good impression of Jesse in the conversation along the way. Young impulses and passions lead them to the seemingly crazy decision to spend the night together in Vienna. Young and frivolous, happy time. When we are young, we always like to play cards unconventionally, to be free-spirited and rebellious, to pursue freewheeling excitement, and to like coincidences and accidental decisions. So they wandered along the Vienna river, lingered in street taverns, whispered in the cemetery in the evening, kissed shyly in the sunset on the Ferris wheel, whispered on the park lawn, and discussed childhood, parents, feelings, life and death together. . The night is fascinated, two free and lonely souls are attracted to each other, and there are always beautiful feelings quietly breeding in the dark night. On the Fountain Square in front of the City Hall, the charming camera lens, swaying, together with the girl's dancing long dress, is the most beautiful scenery this night.
This encounter is as beautiful as a dream, like a fairy tale written by Andersen. It was dawn, so I woke up. After 12 o'clock, the prince should take out the glass slipper, because Cinderella is going home. And you don't have a slipper, and I'm not a Cinderella, so we can't see each other again. Let this night be the most unique and wonderful night in our lives. Don't ask the other party's name, don't leave the phone number, so as not to fall into the world's stereotypes and let the feelings be in a phone call that seems to have nothing to do with it. Worn out in the ordinary days of life, just like most of the people around us. So, let our feelings be frozen in the corners of the streets of Vienna, and maybe picked up from memory many years later, they are still so fresh, fiery and radiant.
This was a wise decision, and a perfect story should end like this. It's like Gu Cheng's classic verse:
We met on the sea in the dark night,
you have yours, I have mine, the direction;
you can remember,
Best you forget,
the light that shines on each other at this meeting!
The rule of the game is that the strange returns to the strange, abandoning impulses and passions in the fading night, or abandoning them in this strange city, and taking away only vague memories and real life. When the camera circled around the city of music, which was surrounded by morning light and mist, the scene flashed back to the streets and alleys that the hero and heroine walked through the night before. This is the most beautiful scene in the play, although it is a little sad. .
However, life has hurt parting since ancient times, not to mention that love is blind, and it is no exception to the hero and heroine, so in the passionate kiss on the platform, they finally made an impulsive decision. An open ending.
This is the first story.
If the protagonists really meet as promised, it may be a happy ending, but at best it's just a clichéd Qiong Yao romance drama. If they do meet, there may be no second story. And the second story will make the series a classic.
The opening is still a set of slow-moving landscape shots through the streets of Paris. Different from the way of reappearing at the end of the first film, this time it is a flashback at the beginning of the film, which tells the protagonist's upcoming itinerary. The camera finally stopped in front of a bookstore full of creepers on the street. Jesse, who has lost his youth and has become an accomplished writer, is holding a press conference here for his new book. His new book is about that night nine years ago. As the conference draws to a close, Jesse talks about the idea for his next book, a story that overlaps in time. When he finished speaking and turned his head slowly, he saw Celine standing beside him and smiling at him. It turned out to be a thousand years old. It's just that this sight is not closer, but farther. People who were once close have been separated by time and have become unfamiliar and unfamiliar.
Like the reunion of old friends, there is more joy than surprise, the scene nine years ago is as clear as what happened two months ago. The first thing to verify is of course the agreement nine years ago. Love can meet by chance, breed in inexplicable, crazy in passion, or fade away in time, and disappear in barrenness. We can accept the birth of love, and we can tolerate the death of love, but we cannot accept the pause in a vacuum and the waiting without an end. Zhenxuan in "Kim Sanshun" said, what would happen if one party stopped the other party and also stopped love? One day in love, nine years in love. Wave your hand and go away, how can you feel the pain of lovesickness? So Jesse's nine years of perseverance and search may only be for waiting and getting an answer to Celine's missed appointment. Knowing the result, you can finally let go of that entanglement. So in a brief reunion, they walked all the way along the Seine, talking about career, work, faith, family and relationships. Jesse and Celine's handling of feelings is clearly markedly different. Jesse's nostalgia for the old love is more exposed. When he knows that Celine may have passed him on the streets of New York, he is unhappy with life and real marriage, and he is worried about Celine's missed appointment, and nostalgia at the moment of breaking up. And dependence... And Celine chose to seal up the memory of nine years ago, so that reading Jesse's novel seems like a lifetime, is it a story written by someone else, or a memory in his own mind? Maybe women are more self-preserving animals. But in the car, she finally couldn't control her feelings and broke out. Yes, she didn't forget that every minute and every second of that night was a song in her life. She said: See you again, I can't even believe I was once so romantic, all the passion was exhausted that night. And he said: Why didn't you show up that day, if we met that day, maybe our life would be changed?
What would it be like to do it all over again? Some people believe in love, but they are not good at staying together. She said: "I long to love and be loved, but when someone is always by your side, you feel suffocated. He left, I can think of him without dying. Some people always think that after a few years of getting along, they can make their passions and intentions converge, which is impossible, so it is better to end when they feel the best. At least it didn't affect life. So even if they were together, maybe it was just like most people, they were in love, and then he said thank you like her and became someone else's groom.
At the end of the film, Celine holds coffee, imitating the tone of her favorite jazz female singer, pointing at Jesse in a lazy voice and saying: Baby, you are gonna miss that plane. And he sits on the sofa and smiles: I know .maybe a lot of people will look forward to the ending, he stayed for her and missed that flight that should have been missed nine years ago. But I still don't believe in love. On that night nine years ago, two young people who were trapped in emotions did not choose to be together because they were full of doubts about love and rebelled against their step-by-step life. Then on this evening nine years later, the two had their own twists and turns in the middle of their helpless lives. Even if the young people meet again, their trajectories will not overlap. She said: Lost is lost. I don't like "Landed Dreams of Covered Bridge", but the encounter came too late, so it is a derailment and betrayal to the family. And they met at the right time. Fortunately, the images that remain in the memory are of each other's good and those most beautiful moments, not each other's hatred. Romance and love are items with a short shelf life. It turns out that we love someone because the body secretes a strong dopamine, and we stop loving someone because this strange thing is exhausted. Some people say that when we fall in love with a person, dopamine only exists for eighteen months, and love is so unsustainable. Let’s revisit the classic saying written by Eileen Chang: If you marry a red rose, over time, the red one will turn into a smear of mosquito blood on the wall, and the white one will still be ‘bright moonlight in front of the bed’; if you marry a white rose, the white one will be your clothes There is a stick of rice stick on it, but the red one is a cinnabar mole on the heart... If they are together, maybe they are just quietly waiting for the disappearance of dopamine. So it's better to separate, even if the memory that is not clear after many years makes people question its authenticity and beautify it, it is worse than being ruthlessly dismembered by life.
At the end of the film, Celine plays and sings a song "A Waltz For A Night" that she wrote to Jesse at home. The soft and sweet scent is like a gentle chanson, sung in a low voice. On the surface, it is calm, but in the dark, it turns thousands of times, which is shocking.
Nine years is not a short period of time. If you are lucky enough to live to be 90 years old, those nine years are also 1/10 of your life. I believe that most people in the world have completed the process of going to school, graduating, working, falling in love, getting married, and having children in their nine years. If your process is faster, you may be able to complete the process of divorce and remarriage. If there is any difference before and after the nine years, I am afraid that all the lofty ambitions of the year have melted into ordinary life. An unintentional encounter nine years ago made an overnight romance, but this reunion nine years later seems cruel in real life. Who called fleeting darkness in vain, let Shaohua fail in vain, and entrusted youth with difficulty? If there is no predestined relationship, how can we meet together;
Maybe it's a coincidence. Recently, I accidentally revisited "Escape to Tibet, Can't Escape Love". It is also a story about a girl and a man who meet on a journey. 2 Accompanied by nine days, how can I feel the empty payment and waiting for several years. The same sadness and a thousand knots, tossing and turning again and again, back and forth. Maybe nine years later, they may not meet again. What if we meet each other? It's just that time has passed, and the face has grown old.
At the beginning of the film, the male protagonist tells an imaginary story about time travel, a story about how everything happened in the length of a pop song: a man living in utter despair, who has always dreamed of Go on an adventure, ride a motorcycle across South America, and have an earth-shattering love affair, all the while he's sitting at a marble table eating lobster all the time. He has a good job, a good wife, everything but nothing. Because what he wants is to fight for value, happiness comes from struggle and the key is not what you get. So he sat there the whole time.. that's when his 5-year-old girl climbed up on the table and danced to a pop song in a dress. He looks down... Suddenly, he turns 16, his middle school sweetheart drives him home, the same song plays from the car radio, she climbs up and starts dancing on the roof, she's beautiful, With the same expression on his face as her daughter, he may not remember the dance, but at the same moment, he was here and there... At that moment, his life dissipated by itself, and it was clear that time was for him It's a lie, and that happens all the time, deep down here and now, at the same time.
I love the crazy ideas in this story. At sunrise nine years ago, Jesse and Celine thought they had woken up from their dreams. As a result, Celine's clock stopped for the past nine years, while Jesse lived a day where the time overlapped, at the same time. And in the sunset of the reunion nine years later, it may be the real time to wake up.
Our life is like a moving train. There are always hurried passers-by who meet and part with you, and we always see similar scenery in a trance. This process is like an endless waltz. The waltz in the dark night is beautiful because it is short. Because of beauty, so eternal.
A Waltz For A Night "One Night Stand"
Let me sing you a waltz waltz I'll sing for you
Out of nowhere, out of my thoughts are deep in my memory melody
Let me sing you a waltz waltz I'll sing for you
About this one night stand is about this one night stand,
you were for me that night
Everything I always dreamt of in life
But now you re gone
You are far gone
All the way to your island of rain
It was for you just a one night thing
But you were much more to me
Just so you know I just want you to know
I hear rumors about you I don't care what other people think
About all the bad things you do about all the things you do
But when we were together alone but when we are alone with
You didn t seem like a player at all you do not play like a master
I don t care what they say I do not care What other people think
I know what you meant for me that day
I just wanted another try
I just wanted another night
Even if it doesn t seem quite right even if it's not right
You meant for me much more
Than anyone I ve met before
One single night with you little Jesse
Is worth a thousand with anybody 1000 night and others
I have no bitterness, my sweet I do not feel bitter, dear
I ll never forget this one night thing I will never forget that night
even tomorrow, another arms even tomorrow, lying in the arms of others
my heart will stay yours until I die
Let me sing you a waltz waltz I'll sing for you
Out of nowhere, out of my blues is my deepest sorrow
Let me sing you a waltz waltz I'll sing for you
About this lovely one night stand with regard to this section one-night stand
than the movie, is more unusual is that creative people, nine years later can be together again. It is said that the entire film took only 15 days to complete the shooting in Paris, which can be said to be done in one go. I prefer the translations of "Love at dawn" and "Love at sunset" over the various translations of the title. This is a mess that people who have feelings and sensitivity will sigh, and people who don't have feelings and big strips will be bored to death. I don't know which one you are.
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