The food will wait, but...

Ettie 2022-09-29 17:48:29

I copied this "Conversation with a Woman" from Ning, purely because the moment I opened the film, I saw Helena in a pink off-the-shoulder dress. She looked for nooks and crannies just to get a puff of cigarettes, but unfortunately, at wedding parties, such places were almost unique, and whenever she was about to light a cigarette, it would pop up from somewhere. A waiter, then, removing the cigarette from her lips, apologizing, a look of frustration in her eyes, and turning away, looking for the next place.

Fortunately, she found one, and the nasty waiter didn't follow her. She leaned her back against the wall, with her right leg slightly bent against the wall. When the cigarette left her lips, she raised her head and exhaled a deep smoke ring, like a All the depression and fatigue are vented from this smoke ring. I stared at the picture, Helena's raised face had a bottomless emotion, she seemed to see another scene from the ceiling, ripples appeared on her face, and the elongated neck The line rolled through the smoke ring, and it turned out to be so beautiful, even sexy and sultry.

This sultry picture was not just me. A blond man walked slowly to her side, handed her the golden champagne in his hand, and started their first conversation.



Dialogue 1: -Oh no, I don't think a bridesmaid should drink. (She wakes up from her own world and refuses, looking down at her pink bridesmaid dress)

-I don't think bridesmaids should smoke either. (He jokingly looks at the illegal cigarette in her hand)

- So, I shouldn't be smoking and drinking. (a glint flashes in her eyes)

-oh, come on! (he insists on handing the champagne to her, insisting she take it)

-well, (she can't resist his attack, she takes the champagne and takes a sip )

I love this conversation, with a bit of wit of course, and it's interesting to watch how Helena goes from turning down a man to taking the glass of champagne in focus.

So they began to talk endlessly, consciously or unintentionally, the conversation revolved around Helena. It took a ten-hour flight from London. I thought that the bride asked herself to be the seventh bridesmaid at the last moment because she could not find a woman after the original bridesmaid broke her leg. The bride did not want to find her because she had a relationship with a certain man. A piece of "history", and she almost didn't know the people present, except that they all knew her lawyer ex-husband...

He kept enticing Helena to speak, comforting her at the right time. Why are you here, maybe you're the only woman who can wear this pink bridesmaid dress, that's something to be happy about, "history" sounds interesting, and at the end he mentions, a little embarrassedly, that he too was cursed by her The lawyer...

Helena, who has a cigarette in one hand and a champagne in the other, did not step into his conversation trap, always turning to another topic when it was not too deep, and she was always reluctant to talk too deeply with strangers.



Dialogue 2: -The bride has started tossing the flower balls, are you going out to pick it up? (he reminds)

- uh... (Helena doesn't explain in words, but takes off her long pink glove on her left and raises her left hand with the wedding ring)

- (he pauses, naively) I I thought only singles could be bridesmaids.

- She invited me, which doesn't seem to be the case.

Helena's silent movement reminded me of Nicole in "Eyes Wide Shut", shaking the ring finger of her left hand in a charming way, her eyes were amazingly charming: "but I'm married." Maybe Helena no longer has such a style, but In this act of declaring sovereignty, she showed the long-lost amorous feelings on her face more deeply. It's been a long time, a room with a view.

One of my favorite on-screen counterparts is Helena and Depp. After watching the full play, I keep looking back at this dialogue, but I still can't see what it should be from the male performance. I just thought that if it was Depp at this time, there should be looming regrets and pain in his eyes, and then he would use words to cover up the past.



Dialogue3: -So you're married to a cardiologist?

- I broke my heart in the US so I went to the UK and met him. (Helena explained lightly, describing the pain of the previous marriage in a lighthearted way)

- Is it because you broke your heart that you met him? (He played a word game)

- All the cardiologists' wives have been told this joke. (Helena understands, and is a little helpless)

- Maybe you regret not marrying an obstetrician.

-I'm sure the obstetrician's wife has heard even scarier jokes.

The dialogue between you and me, competing against each other but without any edge, made me laugh.

They started dancing and said the most important dialogue



Dialogue 4: - I seem to have seen you somewhere (he pretends to be thoughtful)

- Impossible. (She categorically denies)

He begins to slowly describe an encounter she wears at a luncheon in a floral dress (she interjects in time: "No, I don't." Say this) sitting under a big tree in the distance, flipping a novel in his hand. A boy walked up to her and said, "Maybe you don't know, the food is ready."

And she replied coolly: "The food will wait." (She interjected fiercely: "No, I don't 't say that.")

At this time, the photographer came and said that they were the last two people who did not leave a message for the bride and groom. Helena said that I had agreed with her in person, but the photographer said: "This is for the children and grandchildren. Yes." Helena muttered, as if to say why she should let her descendants see these things.

But she still went to the camera: "Although you didn't come to me as a bridesmaid until the last moment, although you..." She actually started to talk about all kinds of complaints about the wedding, and after talking for a long time, she woke up and congratulated the bride and groom. , but she mispronounced the groom's name twice... The

cameraman shook his head and started filming the man.

He walked up to the camera and said simply: "congratulation, sis!"

Helena looked at him in surprise...



Time is such a terrible thing, it wears away everything, grinds away the edges and corners of people, changes people's appearance, messes people's memories, and spoils love. Perhaps what remains unchanged in the torrent of time is the reluctance and regret that are deeply hidden in the heart, as well as the feelings that the thunder and fire caused when we met back then.

Time made him fatter, made her speak with a British accent, and made them hardly recognize each other, even though they had fallen in love so deeply, had gotten along so closely, had made an appointment to stay together.



When you see the hero and heroine finally come to the room and roll onto the bed amid the gossip of the woman, when the whole world is expecting that they will reunite, Helena's film is always unpredictable, she is going back , the four o'clock plane.

Although she still loved him, London had an attachment she couldn't let go.



They mix up the phone calls before leaving, so Helena gets a call from his girlfriend, whom Helena calls "the **, the dancer" or "the woman who turns 23 in August". I feel that Helena is trying to satirize the male protagonist like this, while keeping a distance.

So the woman on the phone, of course, asked her boyfriend this sentence: "Who is that woman?" When her boyfriend's answer could not satisfy her, she asked to talk to Helena.

We couldn't hear what the young woman said except Helena's explanation: "I'm just no one." And thanks to her for making them find their phones mixed up.

The divorced woman becomes the no one, alas...



I would like to take the correct version of the encounter he finally recounts as the last dialogue.

You are wearing a floral shirt sitting under a dense tree, holding a copy of "***" (I really forgot the title, it seems to be Ai Fanhe), quietly flipping through it, I I walked up to you and said, "Maybe you don't know, the food is ready." You just raised your head and said indifferently, "The food will wait." So, I pulled you up, took you into my arms, and said, "No, it won't!" The young hero and heroine had their first kiss under the sun...

But, The food will wait, but the love won't.



A daily sentence of Adjani: "Passion is not about ups and downs and endless quarrels - understanding, breaking up, and reunion are bound to be connected."

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Conversations with Other Women quotes

  • Woman: [on phone] I'm having, um, you know french fries, french onion soup and um, french toast I think and a pickle. Hm? Yeah, it's all very french except for the pickle.

  • Woman: But sometimes, people who really love each other, well, they have an uncanny knack for making each other miserable.