"45th Anniversary" is about a man's 45-year-old lie that collapses just before it becomes perfect. The screenwriter destroyed the 45-year marriage life of the heroine who thought she was happy within a week, and let us see the real reaction of an elegantly aged and respected woman when she looks back on her life and finds that everything is festering.
Now let me recap how this wife woke up in the perfect hotbed.
The film starts 6 days before their 45th wedding anniversary party. The opening scene shows loneliness, echoing the ending scene.
In the early morning, my wife came back from a walk with the dog, took the letter and put it on the table, drinking water and humming the dance song they had when they got married: They asked me how to know my true love is real, oh, I replied of course, here Something cannot be denied. . .
As soon as the camera turned, she found that something was wrong with the old man, who was reading a letter tremblingly. It was this letter that removed the cloak of her supposedly happy married life.
She asked him what was wrong, and he said that Swiss officials had discovered Katya - his ex-girlfriend.
His ex-girlfriend died 50 years ago when he fell into a crevice in a snowy mountain while climbing with him.
The husband inarticulately asked the wife if she remembered Katya, the wife said yes, the husband said yes, I should have said that I loved Katya. .
The word love is very discreet. The wife knew that her husband's ex-girlfriend was called Katya. She thought she was just an ordinary "ex-girlfriend", so she never took the deceased ex-girlfriend seriously for 45 years. Now her husband is excited to say that he loved Katya. Judging from her husband's expression, it was clear that this love was not in the past tense.
The letter mentioned that the snow-capped mountains in Switzerland had melted, and the mountaineering team found Katja's body frozen in the ice. They wrote to ask the male protagonist if he wanted to take a look.
The male protagonist wants to go, but the female protagonist is against it. After the previous foreshadowing, under the catalysis of "past love", they began to quarrel openly and secretly.
Although she was frightened by her husband's previous words, her wife's self-restraint allowed her to continue her daily routine as if nothing had happened.
When going to bed at night, my husband couldn't help but bring up the past. He clearly remembered what his ex-girlfriend looked like before his death. The wife restrained her inner discomfort and asked some topics about Katya following her husband's topic. During the chat, I learned that Katya's hair color is black like herself. The wife began to doubt in her heart.
Although the wife is in a bad mood, the anniversary post has already been sent to her relatives and friends. As the anniversary is getting closer, she needs to prepare more and more things.
After a day of running around for the anniversary, she came home and found her husband listening to music on the sofa. It was a dance song when they got married. This song lifted her mood. She probably thought, no matter what, her husband should still love her more.
After the previous accumulation of negative energy, the screenwriter threw out some positive energy factors at this moment to adjust the mood. But it didn't take long for the negative energy to turn again.
After the meal, the husband hesitantly asked his wife if he had mentioned to her that he was Katya's husband. The wife was shocked to deny it. She asked him what he meant, and he said they were traveling together as a married couple, not really married. Facing his ex-husband, he said very nicely, "Maybe I didn't mention it because I couldn't speak to a beautiful girlfriend like you." But he clearly remembered the wooden ring that Katya wore on her finger before her death. .
Before going to bed, my husband couldn't help but talk about his ex-girlfriend. The picture is a close-up of the wife's expression when the husband is chattering. She is struggling, distinguishing, recalling, reflecting. The husband clearly remembers the time when his ex-girlfriend died, and the wife recalls absentmindedly that year her mother also died. She suddenly realized that they lost their loved one in the same year, and she was afraid. Did this vulnerability affect their encounter later?
Could it have been wrong from the start and everything was her own wishful thinking?
The husband used to be a mountain climber, but now he is reluctant to go for a walk in the village.
My husband used to love taking pictures and had a full set of photography equipment, but they basically didn't take any pictures after they got married.
Careful details.
When they chatted after dinner, they mentioned the pictures of their friends' house full of children. The wife expressed regret. She thought that they were not interested in taking pictures, probably because they did not want children. The husband stroked his wife's face and said, I have a picture of you when I first met you, and you were so beautiful!
Sweet words always work easily.
They danced together to the background music of the wedding dance music, and then went to bed and made love tacitly. The husband kept his eyes closed during sex, and the wife kissed him to open his eyes, but he couldn't keep his eyes open.
That night, the wife was awakened by the sound of her husband climbing the attic. He went upstairs overnight to look up pictures of his ex-girlfriend. When asked by his wife, he said embarrassingly: This is just a photo.
The countdown to the anniversary doesn't stop. Although their marriage was dropped with an atomic bomb, to outsiders, everything is still perfect. Days have to go on.
The husband continued to chat with his ex-girlfriend before going to bed. The wife is obviously disgusted, but the husband is still immersed in his own world. The wife asked, would you marry Katya if she hadn't died? The husband avoided for a while and said: Yes. This answer makes the wife can no longer lie to herself. The wife's world begins to crumble.
After several hesitations, the wife finally went to the attic. Found the attic full of her husband's memories of his ex-girlfriend. He carefully collected photos, diaries, and even dried flowers when they were in love. And these things have appeared in her life in some form.
The wife looked at the photos in her husband's collection and found a picture of Katya pregnant. The discovery left the wife unable to breathe. Their decision not to have children in the first place was up to the husband, who had been under the misconception that he did not love children.
At night, the husband waits for his wife to fall asleep and then goes to the attic to be nostalgic, and the wife pretends to be asleep. She was hesitating whether she wanted such a married life or not.
The day before the anniversary, the wife had a showdown with her husband. She made her feelings and doubts clear.
She told him she knew that ex-girlfriends influenced everything about their married life: the smell of the house, where they traveled, the type of dog they adopted, what books they read, what music they listened to, whether they wanted children. . .
The husband vehemently denied it. The wife refused to be cheated again. She said, "I understand everything, but you still have to go to the party tomorrow."
He made her feel that he didn't love her, but he couldn't make everyone think the same.
My husband said I must go, I must go, I never planned not to go. The husband realizes that he may lose his wife.
He has long been accustomed to his wife's love for him, and never thought that he would lose it one day. It was probably because of his fearlessness that he allowed him to talk to his wife about his ex-girlfriend without any guilt.
The next day, the husband deliberately tried to please his wife uncharacteristically. It was clear he was trying hard to start over. The wife touches the anniversary gift her husband gave her, and probably wants to accept the fact, after all, it has been 45 years, what else can it be?
It's finally time for the anniversary party. The guests were like clouds, and everyone was beaming to congratulate them on their 45th anniversary. Everything looks so perfect. The wife couldn't help but collapse.
She hid in the bathroom to control her emotions before coming out to listen to her husband's speech. Her best friend had inadvertently mentioned that men break down on such occasions, because it reminded them of how they were married. The wife does not believe that the husband will cry, because the husband was not so excited when he got married.
And when my husband said he loved you at the end of his speech, he actually cried. This is really beautiful in the eyes of the guests. And this beauty is the biggest irony in his wife's heart.
The wife began to question the meaning of such perfection.
The dance music chosen for the opening dance of the party was the dance music they used when they got married.
they ask me how do I know my true love is real
oh and
I answer of course
there's no denying
what's here They say one day you'll find all love is blind
oh Heart is on fire
You have to realize the smoke fills your eyes
I laugh at them
I laugh happily I think they will doubt my love
But today my love flew away I don't have my love
Now my friends laugh at me
so I smile Say
when a lovely flame extinguishes
smoke into your eyes!
It turns out that when the husband chose this song 45 years ago, he was saying "I don't have my love." Today, 45 years later, the wife has finally lost her love.
The lyrics say "one day you will find that all love is blind". This is too pessimistic. But maybe that's what the director wanted to express.
The wife forced the dance to finish the song. At the end of the song, she quickly pulled away her hand, indicating that she finally made the difficult but correct decision: this relationship should be a long-term relationship, and if you don't want to, I will leave.
The movie is disillusioning, but not desperate. People are always responsible for their own choices. In my opinion, my wife is a person with the ability to be happy. Whoever she is with will be happy. Because of her self-discipline, even if she is alone, she will live a positive life. Even if it is difficult, people with their feet on the ground can always rebuild hope. She is beautiful, but she just didn't meet the right person.
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