Time will take everything away, we can only sing elegy softly

Jamel 2022-03-25 08:01:01

The film is made for a group of people who are sensitive, paranoid, perfect, and long for eternity. Unfortunately, I am one of them.
There is always a sense of insecurity in the male protagonist's heart, fear of losing and longing for possession. He is always full of fear of feelings, afraid of the ending that will come someday. So he simply went to the other extreme, without a stable marriage, changing partners frequently, and using fluid changes to alleviate the fear of losing eternity until she appeared.
And she is the embodiment of perfection, a finely crafted work of art, youthful and energetic. He longed to possess her perfection, and he was ashamed of his aging body, and the desire and fear were intertwined with a huge contradiction in his heart. At this time, she couldn't understand his twist and struggle, so they separated.
Until her reappearance also brought the bad news of the patient, the beautiful body will no longer exist, she finally realized the fear in her heart, the exact same fear, just like he always had. She knew that only he could appreciate her perfection, and she only wanted him to record her last perfection with his eyes before the merciless scalpel came.
Only at this moment did the two souls realize the resonance of each other, but this resonance is in the form of an elegy, to mourn the beauty and eternity that they will never return.
This is an elegy for perfectionists, sung to the ruthless years, to all the beauty and beauty that we have held on to but will eventually be washed away by time, calm but sad.

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Extended Reading
  • Hassie 2022-04-02 09:01:14

    Ben Kingsley is amazing! Poor people, grab that little warmth~~

  • Kole 2022-04-03 09:01:11

    The biggest surprise in a man's life is getting old.

Elegy quotes

  • David Kepesh: [interview on the Charlie Rose show] We're not all descended from the Puritans.

    Charlie Rose: No?

    David Kepesh: There was another colony 30 miles from Plymouth, it's not on the maps today. Marymount it was called.

    Charlie Rose: Yeah, alright, you mention in your book...

    David Kepesh: The colony where anything goes, went.

    Charlie Rose: There was booze...

    David Kepesh: here was booze. There was fornication. There was music. There was... they even ah, ah, ah, you name it, you name it. They even danced around the maypole once a month, wearing masks, worshiping god knows what, Whites and Indians together, all going for broke...

    Charlie Rose: Who was responsible for all of this?

    David Kepesh: A character by the name of Thomas Morton.

    Charlie Rose: Aah, the "Hugh Hefner" of the Puritans.

    David Kepesh: You could say that. I'm going to read you a quote of what the Puritans thought of Morton's followers: 'Debauched bacchanalians and atheists, falling into great licentiousness, and leading degenerate lives'. When I heard that, I packed my bags, I left Oxford, and I came straight to America, America the licentious.

    Charlie Rose: So what happened to all of those people?

    David Kepesh: Well, the Puritans shot them down. They sent in Miles Standish leading the militia. He chopped down the maypole, cut down those colored ribbons, banners, everything; party was over

    Charlie Rose: And we became a nation of straight-laced Puritans.

    David Kepesh: Well...

    Charlie Rose: Isn't that your point though? The Puritans won, they stamped out all things sexual... how would you say it?

    David Kepesh: Sexual happiness.

    Charlie Rose: Exactly. Until the 1960s.

    David Kepesh: Until the 1960s when it all exploded again all over the place.

    Charlie Rose: Right, everyone was dancing around the maypole, then, make love not war.

    David Kepesh: If you remember, only a decade earlier, if you wanted to have sex, if you wanted to make love in the 1950s, you had to beg for it, you had to cop a feel.

    Charlie Rose: Or... get married.

    David Kepesh: As I did in the 1960s.

    Charlie Rose: Any regrets?

    David Kepesh: Plenty. Um, but that's our secret. Don't tell anybody.

    [laughter]

    David Kepesh: That's just between you and me.

  • George O'Hearn: Life always keeps back more surprises than we could ever imagine.