if i never met you

Nico 2022-10-23 08:40:00

In the fourth part of "Pokémon", the champion Suzuran said: People meet people, and then something is created.

In fact, this sentence can be used to sum up all movies. (If it can’t be summed up, it can be excluded from the ranks of movies.) The
light and shadow on the screen change for two hours. What compresses and blooms is the bond between people.

So what if the encounter between man and man leaves nothing behind?

This is the film.

Bad things first. The reason why the male protagonist finally made this decision, although at the end of the film (I can't be the men who accepted everything), is still too little thought. Whether it's the high-spirited spirit at the beginning or the amazing glimpse in the birthday video, they all illustrate the same thing: the male protagonist lived a brilliant life before, let him give up his love for those past, accept the reality, and live with pain and strength ,This is impossible. It's like a person who loves delicious food loses his sense of taste in an accident and goes to live with "tasteless life". This is not because the male protagonist does not love the world, life, or life; on the contrary, the male protagonist is deeply attached to the world (he said The world is a better place without me), so he cannot accept the changes in the world in his eyes. crippled and narrow.

In Great Expectations, it is said that once a person's horizons are opened, they can never be closed again. The male protagonist, who was born into a wealthy family, has tasted the splendor of life, so how can he compromise with himself and accept this dim future?

However, this point is completely inadequate in the film, making the end of the film look like a propaganda film promoting the legalization of euthanasia in Western European countries.

Also, the interaction between the male carer and the female protagonist is completely inadequate. As the closest person to the male protagonist other than the female protagonist, the male carer should show a completely different ideology from the female protagonist. While highlighting each other, they should establish a connection between them through contradictions and differences. In the movie, it is enough that the male nurse's mental state is borne by the male protagonist's mother. As a result, the separation of the two roles is not high.

Although the overall story is still not beyond the category of youth films, once the British make a move, there are at least two more levels, and the dramatist is here. From the perspective of the story structure, this film is actually the BE version of "Beauty and the Beast". I don't know if the live-action movie version of my Goddess Emma next year can surpass this one.

Some people will compare the French film "Unreachable" and think it is inappropriate. I actually don't like the view that "in my eyes you are no different from ordinary people", it seems too politically correct and too white and leftist. The state I like should be, I see your difference, but it doesn't affect me seeing the difference in you; I won't turn a blind eye to your difference, but I won't let it change the way I look at you, Like sunglasses changing the color of the iris.

So back to the beginning, in this film, "people meet people", did anything come out? For those most in need of salvation, it is clear that something has changed. However, my love for you can be engraved in your life forever, and you will become my most beautiful dream in my eternal sleep. This is the "created thing".

For the entire universe, a person's life is too small and too short. Even if we observe the entire human civilization as the object, the possibility of being able to survive the heat death is untouchable. But it is precisely because of the mortal destiny bestowed by the gods that life is so precious and cherished; it is also because we love life that we respect and fear death.

Isn't it.

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Me Before You quotes

  • Will Traynor: I have to tell you something.

    Lou Clark: I know. I know about Switzerland, I have known for months. Listen I know this is not how you would have chosen it, but I can make you happy.

    Will Traynor: No.

    Lou Clark: What?

    Will Traynor: No Clarke. This could be a good life, but it's not my life, it's not even close. You never saw me before. I loved my life. I really loved it. I can't be the kind of man who just accepts this.

    Lou Clark: You're not giving it a chance, you're not giving me a chance. I have become a whole new person these last six months because of you.

    Will Traynor: I know and that's why I can't have you tied to me. I don't want you to miss all the things that someone else can give you. And selfishly I don't what you to look at me one day and feel event the tiniest bit of regret or pity.

    Lou Clark: I would never think that!

    Will Traynor: You don't know that. I can't watch you wandering around the annex in your crazy dresses. Or see you naked and not be able to... oh Clarke if you have any idea what I want to do to you right now. I can't live like this.

    Lou Clark: Please Will! Please!

    Will Traynor: Shh. Listen, this, tonight being with you is the most wonderful thing you could have ever done for me. But I need it to end here. No more pain and exhaustion and waking up every morning already wishing it was over. It's not going to get better than this. The doctors know it and I know it. When we get back, I'm going to Switzerland so I'm asking you if you feel the things you say you feel. Come with me.

    Lou Clark: I thought I was changing your mind!

    Will Traynor: Nothing was ever going to change my mind. I promised my parents six months and that's what I have given them.

    Lou Clark: No! Don't say another word. You're so selfish. I tore my heart out in front of you and all you can say is no. And now you want me to come and watch the worst thing you could possibly imagine. Do you have any idea what you're asking? I wish I had never taken this stupid job. I wish I had never met you.

  • Lou Clark: You don't have to be an arse! Your friends got the shitty treatment. Fine *They* deserved it. *I'm* just trying to do my job as best I can. So it would be really nice if you didn't try and make my life as miserable as you apparently make everyone else's.

    Will Traynor: And what if I said I didn't want you here?

    Lou Clark: I'm not employed by you. I'm employed by your mother. So unless *she* says she doesn't want me here anymore, I'm staying. Not because I care about you, or particularly enjoy your company, but because I need the money. I *really* need the money.