The moment she saw him for the first time was such a moment on the verge of a boundary. He was lying in the middle of the road, and a speeding car pressed down on his ankle, extremely. She drew his eyes widened and empty. "I thought you were dead," she said.
Two desperate people meet on a restored old bridge. Her despair came from the lingering sound of the piano that was nowhere to be found in her heart. The old love has long since dissipated like smoke, and every syllable that is sobbing on the heartstrings is clearly a wound that is getting deeper and deeper. Her despair comes from her unconscious resistance to light and her conscious panic to darkness. So she chose to escape and escaped to the bridge where he stayed day and night. He is a vagabond, his despair has no reason, it is his own complete hopelessness, and he sacrifices his life every day, and he can't care about it. Until meeting her, he realized that something called "love" was overflowing in his chest. That's real, doing something for another person, at any cost. Maybe everyone can only live once, so they can only truly love once. And her love has long since disappeared with the distant sound of the cello, so she can't bear such a strong hospitality from him. He is destined to be just her "Xinqiao lover".
Love is like light, shining brightly in an instant, but you will definitely cry after watching it for a long time. She is a woman who is afraid of light. Her near-blind blindness is handled brilliantly in several places in the movie: for the first time, he removes the tape stuck to her left eye while he is in a coma, and the camera immediately cuts from his surprised facial expression to the fish market. The eye sockets of the dead fish whose eyes were gouged out; she saw him perform fire breathing on the street, and the fire stinged her eyes just when she was enjoying herself. In the picture, there were three test jets flying into the blue sky; she was looking at paintings in the museum, candlelight Shining on her glass marble-like eyeballs made people feel terrified. In fact, she is so greedy for light, just like when she eats the raw fish he stole, she thinks of Japanese food; walking on the street at midnight, passing the disco dance hall, she will lie on the ground and spy on other people's dance steps. And he, who probably never knew what sushi was, had no interest in parties. He only knew that he was in love and could go to jail for her and die for her. The fireworks bloomed on the Ai Ru Xin Bridge overnight, and the splendid and charming is also a short-lived moment.
They danced to Handel's "March of Fireworks" and slid across the water of the fire tree. Whether the more indulgence is in full bloom, the darker and desolate the cold night will be. Her escape, his all. When she learned that there was a new hope to see the light in the world again, she decided to leave resolutely. Although he tried so hard to stop her at one time, he would rather she be blind forever, and would rather be a guide dog who guards her for the rest of her life. But how could his feeble power resist the flood of desires in her heart? In the end, the fireworks of love were extinguished, and they each returned to their place, each rediscovering their inner redemption.
When they met again, his heart was still pure and white, like the first snow covering the brand new bridge. And she, the brand-new Xinqiao, only has a sense of guilt and helplessness in her heart. Because he never stopped the hopelessness and fate in his heart from beginning to end, in the end he could only hold the only "hope" he had ever had in his life and fall to the bottom of the Seine with his supreme love.
"We're going to the Atlantic and let Paris rot behind us". Absolutely love the background music as they leave Paris. Death is more eternal than love.
At the end of the film, the director typed out a line of letters "Dedicated to my love - Julia" with a very short speed. Perhaps he who only made four works in 20 years is the wanderer who sneaks under the dark waters, but he has never lost the courage and hope to find the light in his heart. Too many times, we live well, but our eyes are already blind.
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