When we meet, it is difficult to say goodbye - "City of Angels"

Jeramy 2022-04-18 17:34:52

I thought that this line in Li Shangyin's "Untitled" poem, "It is difficult to see each other, is also difficult to say goodbye" can be the best footnote to "City of Angels". Because love is the common theme of human beings, it can travel through thousands of years and thousands of miles. Among all the love and infatuation from ancient times to the present, the most enticing one is the parting sorrow and parting resentment that has no fate, but fails to stay in love with each other in the end. Poems and movies are at this point in the past and present, and China and foreign countries meet each other.

As for the barriers between lovers, the world is often cruel and indifferent. As Hardy said at the end of "Tess of the d'Urbervilles": "It is not always easy for those who love and the timing of love to coincide. When two people can have a happy future just by meeting, God is very happy. Rarely guides those who are still searching." And that even counts as lucky. Because at worst, they just lost their whole lives, not to mention the possibility of finding them. The people who are really the most distressed are those who have experienced all the hardships and have already tasted that drop of honey. When they taste the sweet taste, and it is difficult to forget it, they will forcefully pull it out of their lives. .

"City of Angels" actually made me fear love.

It was a beginning that could not be prepared at all and would come suddenly, anytime, anywhere. It could be an eye contact, it could be a polite greeting, it could be a book, it could be a glass of wine... who knows? Even an angel falls in love with a female physician who fights against him as he guides the soul to heaven. Is there anything in this world that will not happen to love? But what happened, there are reasons for the existence of the Absolute Difficulties, as Descartes said, and some are doomed to be wrong from the beginning.

Blindness is one of the complications of love.

Those who bathe in love will not be stingy in giving. They pay affection, time, money, life, faith... just to get a look at the people they're after. An angel who wants to fall in love with a mortal must give up his angelic identity. What does this choice mean to him? Is it like we betray our beliefs, or throw our own lives away?

No hesitation! That's exactly what he did. Because for this moment, he has thought about it for a long time and prepared for a long time. The place that was so far away that he couldn't touch it has now become so close, right in front of him, because of this woman. So, it was his turn to do something for this woman he had never experienced before—a free fall in mid-air. The pain of the body's hard contact with the ground is the depth of his inner love. While falling at an acceleration of 9.8 meters per second, his heart was wrapped in warmth.

But perfect love is never as simple as just love. Although, after experiencing multiple ordeals from the body to the soul, the angel can finally return to the world. But so what? This does not mean that they will be able to love each other forever from now on. When the mortal angel knelt down beside the corpse of the female doctor who had already been buried, that was speechless about his fate, and he complained that God was playing tricks, this is the best thing about the movie. Accidental traffic accidents can happen without a reason, and are not aimed at anyone except the parties involved. The script let them go through the difficult process of "difficulty meeting each other", and then let them part ways. This was the moment that touched the audience the most, and it was also the moment when I couldn't help but ask myself if I dared to try again.

There is a saying in the ancients that "you give up eating because of choking". But when I was thinking about the pain at that moment, it was bound to be like strangling my throat, making it impossible to breathe and scream. Imagine that the body and limbs are twisting and struggling in the air, but there is no relief in the slightest, there is nothing to support, nothing to rely on, just slowly lose consciousness, and quickly touch death. If this is the reality of separation after true love, should we really think carefully before we fall in love, whether we are in danger of drowning in it?

"There is no way for Pengshan to go here, and the blue bird is attentive to visit."

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City of Angels quotes

  • Seth: I always asked the dying what they liked best about living. Wrote it down in my book. This is it. This is what I like best.

  • Maggie Rice: We have our whole lives together. You and me. Mr. and Mrs. Plate.