When in love, who can remember reason

Trenton 2022-03-20 09:02:28

This movie scares me.



I was very, very close to that state.
Crazy crazy in love with someone.
And therefore do not like to talk, love to be alone. Then write letter by letter that will never be sent. And become sensitive, anxious, resentful because one's own love cannot be reciprocated. Because I had to restrain my feelings, I became very easy to cry, often inexplicably sad.
When he calmed down, he also listened to the persuasion of others, but he would soon forget it.

what makes me so. I don't know.
If it is love, is there such a sad love in the world?



ANGELIQUE's madness is even worse. The other party didn't even know who she was, and she sent a living heart pierced by an arrow.

She said that her father did not allow her to keep cats when she was a child, so she made a collage of rice grains, fabrics, and buttons into a cat, which she called Mr. Cat. Today, she is in love with Loic, a doctor who has a wife, but he has nothing to do with her, but in her fantasy world they are close lovers, and his wife is just a small obstacle that will soon disappear. She not only thinks like this, but also uses actions to convince the people around her that this is the case. No one noticed her delusions because the doctors didn't respond to her love and they even saw him as a conscienceless man.

However, in fact, the doctor was suspected by his wife because of her steady stream of gifts, miscarried a five-month-old child before birth, beat up patients in a violent mood, was even suspected of murder, and was finally disabled because of him. Her love completely ruined his life.

She never realized that man was not her lover at all. Everything is for him, but it only brings endless trouble to the other party.
This is a mental illness with a very unpleasant name, eroticism.


Ordinary people may find it difficult to understand why they keep holding on to an impossible person. ANGELIQUE is so outstanding and beautiful, full of brilliant ideas, the boy who adores her is willing to steal her heart from the laboratory for her.

But none of this could save her from that hopeless love. If you don't get it for one day, you can't get back to normal one day.



What struck me the most about this movie was how crazy it was, and still remember to stay awake. In other words, she is not simply indulging in an emotion. When the audience is completely immersed in the hopeless love of the movie, she can also come out and analyze it in a hurry and say that this is not just a kind of love, If it hurts others in this way, it is also a disease.

When I saw ANGELIQUE was convicted of being mentally ill, I got chills from the top of my head to the bottom of my feet. You originally thought that unrequited love was just your own business, but you didn't know the destruction your so-called beautiful love would cause to others.

The film ends with a quote from a pornographic patient who has been hospitalized for fifty years: I love madness, but fortunately I can still maintain it with reason.

This is of course self-deception. Just like ANGELIQUE said to her attending doctor when she was discharged from the hospital: Everyone fantasizes about sweet love, but I think too much. The doctor answered conclusively: We have all seen your efforts over the years, and I am glad that you can finally understand. Then she was discharged from the hospital. However, volunteers at the hospital found a collage of Dr. Loic on the wall behind the cupboard while cleaning ANGELIQUE's room, made of pills after pills. At this time, I naturally thought of Mr. Cat from ANGELIQUE's childhood.

ANGELIQUE still doesn't understand anything.

If 50 years of infatuation can be called sensible maintenance, then there is no love that can be called crazy.

At this point the movie ends.




The film comes from Laetitia Colombani, a young female director who is only 26 years old in France. Not only does it have an excellent story, but the way it tells is full of genius, smoothness and ingenuity. It made me feel crazy and passionate, and what moved me even more was Laetitia. Colombani is calm and objective as a mature filmmaker should.

The splendid picture expresses emotion and even arouses contemplation.

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He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not quotes

  • Héloïse: But she's 5 months pregnant!

    Angélique: The baby is just to trap him. She flaunts her fat belly. It's just to stop him from leaving her!

  • Angélique: I have no one.

    Loïc Le Garrec: We all have someone... No?