love like fireworks

Eloy 2022-03-21 09:01:34

In the depths of summer, I skipped work and watched Blue Valentine at home.
In the early morning when the cute little frankie was playing on the grass alone, he found that the dog megan was missing, and the life of this ordinary family started like this.

What shows in front of people is a loving father and daughter and a busy and impatient mother. She likes Dean's doting on her daughter very much, saying to her daughter: "I love you like craaaaazy!" And Cindy tends to let her daughter grow up quickly, Adapt to a cruel society early. This small difference is just a corner of life's bumps, and it can't defeat love. People always think that way.
Actually love is long dead, or I tend to think that love never came.
When the rift between the two could no longer be repaired, the director interspersed with the moment of first meeting in his life and explained the origin of the marriage. He is kind and lovely. Although he was abandoned by his mother, he still believes in love, and he recognizes her at a glance. And she's beautiful, sensitive, curious about love, and can't wait to give herself. After passing by countless times, he finally caught her, as if grasping a light dream. It can be seen from the dialogue between the two that the difference in values ​​is too great. His romantic optimism and her rational pessimism are destined to attract the two and separate them. When swearing, I always felt that her tears were more moved, moved by such a man who was willing to take responsibility. Maybe women can't accept men who are satisfied with the status quo. They should work aggressively and adapt to secular standards. Live decently, endure disappointment, mature and indifferent. What they want is actually similar, so when they see the man in the past, they will naturally have an illusion: if they were with this man, their life might be different. She was already more educated than him, and she experienced more warmth and coldness in the seemingly complete and actually broken family, and her desire to escape from the status quo was a hundred times stronger than his. The clips where she tap danced silly, the clips he wanted to jump into the river for her, the clips where the two hugged each other in the back seat of the bus, until they walked towards the happy destination, the song he wrote for her always played back "Baby" , nobody but you and me." He was still in love, and she had stopped long ago.
The processing at the end of the film is the most beautiful part of the whole film. The love between the two people is constantly flashing back, but it is fleeting like an illusion. Fireworks are suddenly lit in the dark, leaving the most beautiful and gorgeous temperatures behind, and after burning into ashes, they disappear and are scattered in the wind.

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Blue Valentine quotes

  • Cindy: [Cindy runs to the car while Dean saunters] Fuck! Give me the keys. I fucking want a divorce!

    [Dean pauses, sucks his ring finger, removes his ring and throws it into the bushes]

  • Dean: [long silence before Dean speaks] You know, it's not just us, we got a little girl we gotta think about.

    [breaks into tears]

    Cindy: I know... I... I can't do this anymore.

    Dean: You're just thinking about yourself. What about Frankie? You want her to grow up in a broken home? Is that what you want?

    Cindy: I am thinking about Frankie.

    Dean: You're not thinking about Frankie.

    Cindy: I am thinking about Frankie.

    Dean: No, you're not. Is this how you want her to grow up?

    Cindy: I don't want her to grow up in a home where her parents treat each other like this.

    [Dean cries and hits the wall four times]

    Cindy: Don't.

    Dean: I'm sorry. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Baby, I'm sorry.

    Cindy: [Cindy sobs] I can't do this anymore.

    Dean: I know. Baby, I'm just fighting, you know? Fighting for my family. I don't know what to do. I don't know what else to do.