Yes, this The movie has a rather strange, alternative, and even unclassified emotional setting. A wealthy boy whose IQ and EQ are beyond his age and a down-to-earth nanny have been together for a few months, but they have developed an unimaginable and thorough mutual understanding. closeness, and something that resembles love but can never be defined as love. The film brilliantly dismantles all definitions of stubbornness, rendering those secular notions of sharp boundaries utterly ineffective for these two men.
The story unfolds on two separate narrative lines. In a museum-like mansion, an eccentric single mother and a young boy live with a chef. Due to the sudden departure of the nanny, the mother is leaving home again. The wealthy but indifferent family needs a nanny to take care of the little boy; meanwhile, Eleanor, a young girl who breaks up with her unmotivated boyfriend and is fired by the restaurant owner, comes to the house in urgent need of work. The little boy is a child prodigy, loves to read, has a great talent for composition, and is self-taught in mathematics... but he is also destined to be unable to integrate into the world of his peers, and it is difficult to live in harmony even with adults. But Eleanor and him, apart from a little break-in at the beginning, almost hit it off. The boy took Eleanor to eat organic food in those ridiculously expensive restaurants, and Eleanor took him to Chinatown to eat Chinese food with a lot of MSG but delicious taste. They watch movies together, chat together, and what is even more amazing is that many times they speak their own words, but they all feel that each other can go beyond the specific topic itself and reach the deep meaning that each other wants to express.
This is a particularly difficult story setting. It is particularly easy to slip into topics such as the mundane, class, and age gap, and makes people ignore the core of deep spiritual interaction, but the film is done wonderfully. The big house, the girl's ripped jeans, have become symbols, they are the hard shell that shields the heart, for most people, people can only know each other through one's shell, but the two of them are from From the very beginning, it was never bewitched by the external cover, and there was some kind of internal interaction directly.
The little boy and Eleanor in the movie are like the two loneliest people in the world, but if you think about it, everyone is not like that. Talking, laughing and playing with a group of friends every day, but who can really penetrate each other's hearts? Who is not an island? Eleanor talks about the sad topics of the adult world, the discordant family, the quarrel with her boyfriend, and her confusion about the future; while the little boy talks about the loneliness that has accompanied him since birth, and the helplessness caused by being different. estranged. Two of the loneliest people have developed an intimacy that transcends the mundane. In the beginning, it was a kindness, if it was a friend, but in terms of age and experience, they lacked the basis for becoming a friend in a worldly sense; later, there must be some kind of affection between each other that goes beyond friendship, if it is a relationship between a man and a woman , but there is absolutely no sexual element; and if it is not love, that kind of mutual reluctance and interaction, but only something that can be stimulated by lovers, it is almost lingering but incomparably pure. Every emotional progression in "Sunny Days Like Rainy Days" is in line with daily life, but it is beyond experience.
There's an interesting metaphor in the movie, Eleanor's ex-boyfriend is nothing but daydreaming about being a singer, he's an adult, but he's actually just a child, as opposed to the little boy she takes care of , The body is a child, but the heart has already understood the rules of the world and the warmth of human feelings. Before Eleanor was hurt by a giant baby disguised as an adult, she was redeemed by an adult trapped in a child's body. But she was still lonely, she could not get the mind of the former, nor the body of the latter. This becomes a reflection of this imperfect world, full of hopeless flaws. The boy treats her in a man's way, helps her untie her knot; encourages her to regain her childhood music dream. When Eleanor opened the gift package at the door of the house and saw the musical instrument the boy delivered for him, who can say that it is not the deepest love?
"Sunny and Rainy" establishes the possibility of pure love, stripping away sexual attraction and worldly purpose, showing the pure love that people have always wanted and need forever. When Korean dramas can only express pure love with dog blood, this movie uses a child instead of an adult character but perfectly writes this kind of feeling, as beautiful as a long-lost stunt.
The role of Eleanor came from Leighton Meester, who became popular in "Gossip Girl," in which she played the perplexity of an ordinary girl as she wished. Ordinary is harder to navigate than dazzling for such an exceptionally shaped actor.
The parting was almost doomed, when Eleanor crouched down and kissed the boy's mouth deeply, it was the most intimate contact and the coldest farewell, the kiss was like a friend, like a mother and child, like a lover, or more like A simply unnamed wonderful emotion that transcends it all. In the past few months, the two of them have merged like a whole, but they chose to tear it all apart, and after that, the two may become more independent and complete.
(Text / Yang Shiyang)
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