(Text / Yang Shiyang)
Maybe everyone has thought silently, "Will you suddenly appear in the coffee shop on the corner of the street?" The ex is the most delicate person in the world. Some people claim to forget, some deliberately forget, but in fact no one May really forget, it is like a tattoo in memory, even if the pattern is removed, it will leave scars. Even if it has been fantasized many times, the sudden reunion of Encounter years later. But the short time we spent together was like a dream.
Jim and Amanda met in front of a supermarket shelf in their hometown, each wearing bloated cotton clothes and shopping baskets, at a loss for words and words. People say that time will dilute everything, but at the moment of reunion, we will know that it is a lie that everyone forces themselves to believe. We avoid some memories, but it does not mean that we are really forgotten. At a certain moment, memory The trigger will be touched, and everything in the past will come instantly in high density. Jim and Amanda are trying to find a mechanism to digest and deal with this situation.
In the end, they decided to catch up with each other. In 22 years, the teenagers and girls were thrown into middle age. Jim's mother died of illness and his career collapsed. He returned to his hometown to clean up the house where he lived when he was young, and he was also cleaning up his own mind. Amanda's sister was pregnant, and her ex. She came to take care of her, and by the way, she wanted to take a breath from life-she has a husband who is more than 20 years older than her and two adopted children.
They revisited every place they lingered together when they were young, whether it was the store or the lakeside, it reminded them of every nuanced scene at that time. They went back to the house where Jim was a child, rummaged through the old items, put on the clothes of the year, and read the love letter of the year. They recorded a sitcom when they were young. Suppose the two of them are old together and are in their twilight years. At this time, Jim And Amanda decided to reprise it.
They drank alcohol and walked back to their youth. To a certain extent, this was like a role-playing psychotherapy. On the surface, they were playing crazy, like two children who went back to the past. From the core, They forced themselves to face something they wanted to forget once, faced those old love words, returned to the moment of their separation, they were shy, they avoided, but finally faced it calmly. Dancing hilariously in that lonely house on a cold winter night, as if there were only the two of them left in the world. That was the night when they blocked the outside world and put an end to reality. They hug, clink glasses, laugh and dance affectionately, but at the last moment of the kiss, they all stop, they know that some boundaries are insurmountable - how much it is like the plot of first love in high school, trying to get each other , but at the last moment it all ended because of cowardice. They are in such a situation, unknowingly, when they are 40 years old, they return to 18 years old.
Any difference will leave some wounds, or at least doubts. How many people feel that they lack an explanation at the moment of breaking up. It seems that if there is a sufficient explanation, people can really let go of each other and move forward. But there are very few such opportunities. To a certain extent, "Blue Jay" shows people such a possibility, and it completes an expression for people.
There are many emotions and emotions buried in our lives. In the adult world, we are required by cultural pressure to smile and face the people and things around us every day without revealing our inner lines, but everyone knows what lies behind that kind of decency. of repression. Jim and Amanda were at the door of the old house, leaning together. Jim talked about his life. He was calculated by his relatives for business, and his future was lost. Amanda admitted his depression and secretly taking drugs. They have nowhere to talk on weekdays. In the eyes of others, they are all doing well, but only at this time can a couple who have been separated for 20 years become a tree hole for each other. This indescribable taste really cannot be described in words. They rescued each other's loneliness, penetrated the reefs in each other's lives, and became each other's salvation.
Amanda said that she was particularly envious of the children being able to cry, the tears gushing like a waterfall, and finally she was able to cry like a child without any scruples, and Jim finally had the opportunity to tell Amanda how timid he was back then. And cowardice and his departure and escape, and now the knot is finally unraveled. The first love was each other's tie, and now, due to an encounter, after many years of separation, they have relieved each other of their half-life burden. This is a movie about separation, but it has written a graceful romance. Compared with drugs, a wanton cry and a happy laugh are more likely to heal people's hearts.
"Blue Jay" is a black-and-white film. The most contemporary landscapes are paired with distinct black-and-white tones, which make the stories themselves appear different from each other. The black-and-white colors are like memories, like dreams. Black and white are the past, and the past Like a mystery.
They said goodbye to each other and then returned to their respective real lives. This is the second farewell. Compared with the previous breakup, this time has a warm ending. The night they spent together changed a lot, but it seemed like nothing had happened. Did this really happen? Or is it just a black and white dream?
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