I am sick and you are my only medicine

Makayla 2022-04-04 08:01:01

First of all, I want to make a rant, I have recorded the title of the film as "Affectionate on the Coast" several times today. The movie was downloaded to the computer a few days ago. Before, I set myself a goal of one movie a day, but after a week of persistence, my brain began to slack off. I was so lazy that I just wanted to watch brainless variety shows. Later, I was obsessed with talking to someone, and my mind was naturally not on the movie at all.
Divided into two movies to watch, I am really worried that the seams of the movie reviews will become abrupt. Because there were two days between the two viewings, and the mood changed 180°. Will the feelings written in this way also change with the mood changes? After all, I'm not a professional film critic, so I think it's all up to my mood.




Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie Pitt's R-rated film.
When I was very young, when I watched MR. AND MRS SMITH, I especially liked the scene where the two of them cooperated with each other in the shootout, especially with the background music. Since then, they have been successfully popularized by the PITT couple.

Throughout the film, the suspense set against Vanessa is not revealed until the very last minute, and at the beginning, you only see a middle-aged couple who have come from the United States to this coast of France. My husband takes a book to collect articles and write articles all day long. He is an old smoker and an alcoholic. As for the wife, she put on a face of abstinence every day and stuffed a lot of pills into her mouth. Husbands and wives who always care about each other silently, under one roof there are always angels staying quiet, living together for 14 years, even if there are many twists and turns and contradictions in the middle, the little things in life still carry the natural flow of clouds and water and comfortable.

This is also the author's wish. I don't smoke, so I can't smoke the cigarette butt with sparkles between his fingers when he falls asleep, but I'm willing to give it to him before brushing his teeth every morning and night Squeeze toothpaste onto our couples electric toothbrush.

I can straighten the buttons of his shirt and the tie on his chest before he goes to work every day.

When RONALD goes out to interview people for inspiration every day, the few conversations I have with the innkeeper are enough to move me. Love for the elderly is much deeper than the love we think we know. In the entire film, several of the most valuable conversations start in this small coffee shop.



Every old man has a great understanding of love, and the greatness needs us to pay tribute and learn with a sincere heart.




The monotonous day-to-day life of the two of them began to become different after they checked into a bunch of newlyweds in the next room. The content of the film that seemed to be straightforward before gradually became intriguing. The hole that Vanessa accidentally discovered, who would have thought , has become the most crucial character in the whole story.


The couples in the two rooms are in sharp contrast. A pair is like glue, a pair respects each other like a guest; a pair is fragrant every night, and a pair has different dreams in the same bed. Vanessa, who was unable to have sex with her husband, began to sit by the wall every day watching the life of another couple through a small hole. To be honest, I feel particularly morbid to seek pleasure in this way to satisfy my desires. And when Ronald also discovered this hole, he started the same voyeuristic behavior as his wife, watching every move of the two people on the opposite side. Perhaps the Ronald couple also longed for a sex life like a normal couple, but they couldn't proceed normally due to the obstacles that lay between them.



One day Ronald went back to his room early and accidentally bumped his peeping wife. The husband and wife directly started the absurd life of monitoring their lives together to heal their wounds. Ronald starts trying to make physical contact with Ness. (Writing here, I really want to say that Jolie is really big in playing with fire. There are a lot of close-ups that she wrote, directed, and starred naked, and I am a little curious, Jolie cut her breasts to prevent cancer before, so I saw it in the film Is it the special effects or the make-up artist too strong?)


To be honest, I felt a chill at the fact that the couple had been wanton and privately watching other people's sex. They conspired to go sailing together, and Vanessa was even more fascinated by the husband of the couple. In addition, she has been trying to match her husband and the newly married little wife Lea to have a relationship, dressing Lea in her husband's favorite way, and so on. At first, I thought this might be Vanessa's way of trying to regain her passion with her husband, as they peeped night after night and even invited the couple to dinner just to get them drunk so she could watch their "passion scene" ", after this series of behaviors, their feelings did pick up.

However, when Ronald saw that his wife even asked the wife next door to prepare her husband's favorite jacket when he was young, I found that it was not as simple as simply satisfying my own desires. Ronald also began to worry about his wife's impulsiveness. After being disturbed by a series of actions of his wife, he saw through the hole that his wife intended to have a relationship with the husband next door.
I was quite surprised until I saw the truth revealed in the finale. Because Vanessa and Ronald's relationship has really warmed up. She asked him to take her to church to pray, and when she came out, she said to Ronald the most touching thing in the whole film "I prayed to God to forgive me for all the evil words I said during our meeting, and I prayed to him Give me the strength to show it."


I figured it must be pretty hard to get a woman as stubborn and complex as her to realize and admit her twist. Women are inherently twisted, and if the problems in love relationships are difficult to solve, this power is evil enough to smear a woman's purest soul, and it will become more and more ugly. Compared with Vanessa who always wanted Lea and her husband to have a life, Ronald refused, and it could be felt that his doting and love for Vanessa was extraordinary.

The first time he was in the bathroom, he always encouraged and appeased her anxiety, and was patient enough with her;
seeing her coming back wet from the outside, only her smile was in his eyes;
when she thought she was a badass, He only hugged her tenderly and said to her that I was a jerk like me; when
he took her to dinner in the restaurant, when he saw the desire in her eyes for the dancers on the dance floor, he reached out and invited her to dance;
When he was having sex with other men, he told her over and over again that it was just her temporary greed, not her real thoughts.



It seems that Angelina is really old, especially with thick eye makeup. However, the years have given her enough wealth. Her figure is as tall and slender as when she was young. Vanessa, who is immersed in her own dance world without her husband's hands, is undoubtedly breathtaking. She looks like one of the lilies. Duo Poppy, let her only exist in your eyes. Piece after piece of her in the ceiling mirror, this scene is a true portrayal of the contradiction and division, pain and struggle in her character.


The plot culminates in the film after Ronald stops his wife's infidelity in time. He forced Ness to admit it, to admit to his illness, to admit to the sickening evil inside of him. Yes, she was ill, very, very ill, terminally ill, so ill that she felt unreasonable. The successive infertility blows made her resentful, resenting all those who could conceive and have children together, just because she had no children. In fact, think about it, Ness must like children very much, otherwise there is no reason why she would wake up in a heart-piercing night terror.



Vanessa is really lucky, because her husband loves her deeply, even if she is so sick that he is unbearable and tortures him everywhere, he still loves her deeply, heals her, and saves her. She is sick, and he is his medicine.





The scenes in the film are all taken at the seaside, and there are many scenes of a fisherman. I didn't quite understand why he was repeatedly and delicately portrayed at first, but it became clear in the final reading.

In fact, think about it, sometimes life really needs this, just follow a certain force that pushes you to walk with it, because it is most likely the force that takes you to your destination.

I like the tone of the film, it feels like the sea at night, but it doesn't feel too heavy. Jolie brought her husband's tacit understanding to play. Although many people criticize the film script setting, plot holes, etc., and maybe Jolie's affectionate desire to create a French movie has failed, but it still attracts me enough.





In love, perhaps every woman will be sensitive and vulnerable, sometimes even like the mentally and mentally ill. I have been unable to trust people for more than a year because of some bad experiences, and I can't help but be full of doubts and guesses when facing the other person's words. Always habitually think about the reasons why things happen in the worst possible direction. But even so, I am still a person who chooses to wait for love.
I wish I could always be naive, because it is the driving force behind my pursuit of all good things.
I hope that I can always be enthusiastic, because in this way I can take care of the people around me that I want to take care of.
I told my friends that I thought I might not be able to find the love I was looking for in my entire life. But I think I seem to have found it. I told him that I was sick, a very serious mental illness, and he told me that he was my medicine and would cure me. I'm uneasy, just tell him when I'm flustered, he'll make me feel at ease.
However, it is not always good that it does not last long, or that life is always unsatisfactory. He is not my medicine in the end, but I still want to realize the dream of giving him toothpaste on the electric toothbrush sooner or later.
Fate may also be a tide-like force, I want to follow it, maybe it can also bring me to him.
Because I said I was sick and he was my only medicine.

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By the Sea quotes

  • Roland: I just want to get drunk for breakfast.

  • Roland: Is that what you want? To be unknown by someone?