The film is set in northern Europe. Sweden, Stockholm. A small town covered with snow all year round and sparsely populated. Shakespeare said that winter is best for telling sad stories. This is indeed a sad story. About childhood, about vampires, about wandering, about those unspeakable feelings and boundless fates that have become thickened over time. Tranquil, pure and empty. Like a journey that is only accompanied by time, it exudes a slightly bitter and pale fairytale atmosphere.
We can't imagine how a person with a 12-year-old youthful face who has existed for hundreds of years, how will her life and destiny be laid out in a bizarre way? When the tender face can no longer hide the desolate and melancholy eyes, when the once fresh body has been sculpted by time to be whiter than snow, what kind of soul will be attached to such an appearance?
We can only guess that she may have been born in the Middle Ages, perhaps earlier. From a poor family, unhappy childhood, suffering and bullying. Yes, she once had her own childhood, but that was a long time ago. Just like the boy named Oscar who suddenly appeared in front of her on a snowy night, their loneliness and helplessness made them feel sorry for each other.
The boy said, can we date? "Girl" seems very calm, I'm not a girl, you know? Of course she knew that it was impossible for them to develop a love like that of a human being. She and the boy "have different paths", this is her destiny. But for her to survive, she needs to find a mate she can rely on in her endless immortality. The weight of this loneliness is as gloomy and miserable as the fate it bears. It will become heavier and heavier as time goes by. It will never be redeemed and freed, and it will never end. In contrast, the loneliness of the lost men and women in "Lost in Translation" is just a flick of a finger, too light to be worth mentioning.
For Ellie, a hundred years is nothing but a cycle. Like the change of day and night, like the four seasons. A hundred years later, she will continue to look for the next "mate", the boy Oscar will eventually become a passer-by in her eternal life, a link in the past, like a note or a pause in a long symphony, she can be here with him. What she obtained was only short-term comfort and support for her. After waking up, she would have to continue on the road to find bargaining chips for her eternal loneliness. A journey that keeps pace with time and never ends.
It is foreseeable that the old man who has been by her side in the play hunting blood for her is actually a "sample" of the boy Oscar a hundred years later. When he is old and frail and can no longer "function" for her survival, that is the moment when his life ends. We can see that Ellie drained his blood and threw him out of the window like a kite was torn off. There was no guilt in her farewell eyes, but only indifference and deep helplessness. The terrible thing about her fate is that she can never die, or that she cannot die on her own. When death finally comes to an end for human beings, we have completed the journey of being human, and life has a rest and a complete ending. But she can't. What she has to bear is the suffering of the eternal reincarnation of life, which can never be released or stopped. It will only accumulate in her heart as time goes by, and eventually it will become a matter of indistinguishable truth from falsehood. abandon. This is Allie's sorrow as a vampire.
We always like to give a work a positive, optimistic meaning, as if life is like that. Of course we would like to believe that this film is about the pure friendship between a human boy and a vampire girl, or love, but calm down and think, in fact, as long as the time is long enough, such things as feelings do not exist and cannot be maintained . What is the difference between mutual support and mutual use? Just like the beautiful "partners" in the play, they just take what they need from each other, like taking eggs from the belly and taking charcoal from the snow. The only difference is that the boy is dead before time reveals the "truth". So boys are always weak and abandoned in our eyes.
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