Will the emotional effort be rewarded the same? The narration in the film says: "On some cold nights, she thinks of him; on some cold nights, he thinks of her; on some nights, they think about each other at the same time, but they don't know that they have the same thoughts. That's the connection, that's all."
Ray, the mature and rich man in the film, said "I don't want to have a long-term stable relationship right now, so I hope you can understand that we'd better keep our other options. "This may not be selfish, and feelings may not be as simple as equivalent exchanges at all. The mature man Ray has material things, the ordinary girl Mirabelle has nothing, all she can give is herself - but it just seems too inaccurate to use: one self, one and only, all. Some will ask if this is not enough? But there are many times that it can only be just, especially for lonely people, people who have not experienced the vicissitudes of love.
Later, Mirabelle, an ordinary girl who was hit, found that at least Jeremy, the silly boy who had a crush on her, could be touched, hugged tightly, and would not become a stranger in a single turn. She carried Ray on her back and tried to follow her. Boys dating.
The mature and golden man Ray knows that only people who are in love are afraid of the gap between the physical distance and the psychological distance, so he deliberately constructed such a gap to make the girl Mirabelle feel insecure. It's the same, when Mirabelle, a girl who was trained by these people, was suddenly sad for no reason when she faced the stupid boy Jeremy's "I'll protect you", and now I can finally understand her.
In fact, people always think that they can escape the complexity of love through indifference, they always think that they have experienced too much and can no longer accept intimacy. Like every young girl who doesn't give up on romance, we just don't agree.
To be fooled and deceived, is the emotion paid for it not worth it? Are you trying to hate someone you love in a seemingly tolerant outward display? With the persuasive ambiguity of mature man Ray rolling in, Mirabelle will only be drawn to him again.
There are thousands of forms of love, and this one belongs to quiet love, and it can't bear the little disturbance - there is no choice here, there is no choice at all. At the end of the film, Ray said, "I did love you..." Mirabelle's eyes suddenly filled with tears, she nodded, and with a reluctant, helpless and somewhat relieved smile, she turned around and the wind blew her skirt... ...Not far away, Jeremy, the nonsensical young boyfriend, is grinning, silly, waiting for her with open arms. In the end, the silly boy didn't know the existence of this quiet love, and even the coquettish clerk got into the wrong bed.
Mirabelle travels to Los Angeles with her student loan on her back, when the reality is she's just working as a sales lady at the handkerchief counter of a fancy store. Eager to integrate into this new environment, but she seems to have not found a real life in this indifferent city ~~ wealth and charm are hard to resist, and such quiet stories are repeated. Love simplicity, or are we too simple to be stupid? Troubled by love, I see a little more clearly.
Thanks to Steve Martin for writing "shopgirl" with heart, Claire Danes for a great performance, Jason Schwartzman for his signature performance, I saw a good movie without "closer".
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