Meow sister has a friend who has been in love once in her life,
It took 8 years to talk about it, all the way to getting married and having children.
That is to say, all her experiences of love,
It's all from her husband alone.
Meow sister once asked her:
"Don't you feel sorry?"
She replied jokingly:
"There is no way to regret it, after all, there is no chance now."
Real life doesn't work,
But thanks to the dream machine of movies,
Let's be bold enough to YY, if this attempt is--
"permit"
PERMISSION
The heroine, Anna (Rebecca Hall), is writing her senior thesis on the history of female composers. She's beautiful, smart, sensitive, and has a unique sense of humor.
The main character, Will (Dan Stevens), runs a handmade wood furniture store with a friend. He was a simple, sweet boy, gentle, considerate, dependable, and loved Anna with all his heart.
Two little children without guessing, childhood sweethearts, they participated in each other's life very early and became each other's only - spirit and body, both .
Feeling comfortable and happy together, she is already looking forward to being proposed, and in addition to the hidden ring and the marriage proposal that he adjusted over and over, he is also building their future home brick by brick.
Anna has a younger brother who does gardening. And his younger brother's boyfriend was also introduced by Will - his college classmate, Reese , who is also a furniture store partner .
On Anna's 30th birthday, the four of them got together. During the banquet, Reese who drank too much suddenly said to Anna:
This unexpected question from the soul made Anna seem a little wandering and flustered. And Will also took back the ring that he was about to take out.
The shaken Anna made a proposal that seemed unbelievable to outsiders: she and Will could have sex with other people.
There are three reasons:
1. Their relationship is strong, confirming that they will be together forever for the rest of their lives;
2. There is only one life, and she doesn't want each other to miss out on some of the experiences they want;
3. Ana needs confirmation that Will is with her because he wants her, not that he only has her.
Different from "open relationship", they define this behavior as "permission" .
Meow Girl Classroom: An open relationship. Both parties in this relationship have the will to maintain a partnership, but they are not restricted by the mainstream monogamy. This means that both parties agree to remain in a relationship or partnership, while also accepting or allowing the intervention of a third party.
But in Anna's and Will's case, they insisted that the relationship was only each other, and that the sex with other people was just for physical experience, so it wasn't an open relationship.
The film by the director Brian Kela Nuo, has a charming temperament door of the daughter Rebecca Hall , and has a charming blue eyes, your big cousin Danny the Dragon starring.
There are also many bright spots in the supporting roles, such as François Artron in "I Killed My Mom", and David Joseph Craig, who worked with Rebecca in "Deadly Gift" .
This is an exquisite movie, and it's very "good-looking" - often with ingenious compositions, unexpected shots, meticulous color matching, and of course, the most important thing is the high-value cast lineup mentioned above.
It's also very "good" - the BGM subtly participates in the narrative, and the sound has a sense of presence and layering in the film.
And many small details that externalize the inner world of the protagonist and are full of design sense will also make you smile.
The seemingly gimmicky setting of "permit" actually projects the basic anxiety of modern people: loneliness, self, and love .
A relationship starts from love, where loneliness is dissolved and reborn, the self is broken and reconfirmed in the collision, and the joy of the body and the spirit fights each other.
When the passion recedes, but the relationship cannot move forward and grow with people, the collapse begins to unfold slowly, quarrel, hurt, end, and a new cycle begins.
In this film, the director chose an ingenious cut to let a couple who have a successful relationship in themselves rethink and define whether the other party is their lifelong partner. During this process, many things have slowly changed.
After mutual approval, Anna and Will go to the bar to "hunt" together. Anna, who had been taking the initiative in this attempt, was the first to meet the bedfellows.
Dane, a current computer engineer who has formed a band and released records, is like-minded with Anna. As handsome as Will, but a little cooler and wilder than Will's gentle shyness.
Not long after, Will also met his object—or rather, Will was still passive and accepted the offer to come to the door.
Lydia, a mature woman, a rich ex-husband and a secretary went to bed and was caught by her and had a beautiful lawsuit, so she could live a good life with her ex-husband's money. She is of course experienced and sophisticated.
It can be said that both of them are perfect Dream Persons. So - let's share our feelings.
Will's questions are: "How was the experience?" "Have you tried every pose?" and the classic question after holding it for N days: "Is he older than me?"
Anna's question is: "Where did you meet?" "Do you enjoy it?" "How many times have you done it?"
More than a one-night stand, Ana and Dane had more and more contacts. Dane wrote songs for her, made her breakfast late at night when she couldn't keep her overnight, took her to the concert hall and let her play the piano... ...
And Will and Lydia open their hearts to each other after having a good time together, and Lydia tells him that he can do whatever he wants to her- (but what exactly did Dandanron do to her, I bet you can't think of it)
And once there is a second, and there is a first, there is a second. Anna and Will both slept with strangers again.
Things are getting out of hand. Saying that it was only about the body, Anna had already given up her mind; and Will was slowly showing Anna a completely unfamiliar side.
Seeing that their relationship was on the verge of being broken, Will and Anna chose to cut off everything outside and return to their world.
3-2-1, back to the origin.
He rehearsed the proposal in the car again. The difference was that this time Will finally gave out the key and knelt down to offer the ring——
And Anna--
HAPPY ENDING.
A lover overcomes prejudice and proves that sex can be separated from love. After experiencing the flowery world, I can come back to renew the years with you, okay?
NAIVE.
Anna agreed to the proposal at the moment, but when she and Will came to the repaired house together, she suddenly realized that everything could not go back.
The house was finally repaired, but their emotional home had long since collapsed.
We humans are greedy animals.
Not only want the warmth of love, but also want to enjoy the freedom of being single; not only want "you love me", but also want "you love me the most".
Not to mention the eternal thirst for the unknown, the infinite imagination of the unchosen, and the secret argument of "Schrödinger's The One": the best, is it always the next?
This is human nature itself, it is not about right or wrong, good or bad. But don't try it.
And no matter how greedy you have to remember: when choosing, it must mean losing .
When you do anything like "grant", make sure you can afford to lose like "erasure".
Text丨Meow Girl
Basel Films丨There is no life without movies
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