The story of the film begins on a dreamy golden sand beach, with a soft and low voice-over reciting a beautiful poem. A quiet and melancholy sad story. On the endless beach, two little girls played with conch shells and sand, and they ran wild with laughter. It was young Hillary and Jacqueline. Her older sister, Hillary, who studied the flute, worked harder than her younger sister, Jacqueline, since she was a child. She always performed on the brightly lit stage, gaining the spotlight and people's admiration. The willful and sensitive Jacqueline finally couldn't bear the loneliness and loneliness that she always stood in the audience, and began to frantically practice the cello, stubborn and focused as if possessed by a demon. Finally, Jacqueline surpassed her sister and became the focus of attention. With her superb cello skills, she became famous all over the world when she was still a young girl. However, her sister drifted away from music, and finally said goodbye to her career as a flutist and her beloved husband lived a happy life of seclusion in the countryside.
Under the battle of character and fate, one of the sisters went left and the other went to the right. One had been watching, but the other could not stop. The paranoid and crazy sister is like a lone dancer who wears red dancing shoes in the legend, and can't stop dancing. She ran day and night in one city after another, blooming on the stage again and again like fireworks. The huge spotlights were constantly changing colors like flowing water, covering her beautiful and agile figure. But in the Mood for Love, the streamer was flying, and Jacqueline was always accompanied by the silent cello. In the world of music, her selfless performance has thousands of pets and dazzling looks. But outside of the music world, she kept fleeing, turning her life into desolate fireworks that were instantly brilliant and annihilated.
Sister's peaceful and happy life is like a gentle big net, which captures Jacqueline's wandering life and brings her great longing and hope. However, the intense entanglement of despair and tolerance, jealousy and desire made Jacqueline transform her dependence and longing for her sister into jealousy and occupation of love. So she offered to share her sister's happiness, including her sister's husband. In fact, the ridiculous Jacqueline didn't fall in love with the man, she just wanted to prove that without the aura of music, as a woman, she could still get love. Maybe in the real world, Jacqueline has always been a fragile and willful child. She frantically asked for her desperate possession, and all this was just to resist the cold loneliness in her soul.
As much honor as music has given to Jacqueline, it has given her as much pain in life. Although Jacqueline's music interprets the various forms of beings in the world, human emotions, joys and sorrows, but in the end, she still can't control her own destiny in the world outside music. , to grasp her own future, she can only go to the end of her life step by step in the cold loneliness, and finally let the terminal illness deprive her of the love and warmth she wants most in life. At the end of her life, Jacqueline listened to her childhood poems in her sister's arms, and returned to the beautiful childhood paradise in a trance. Her sister traveled through time to return to the fairy tale beach when she was a child. Jacqueline runs in a space without past and future. Elgar's violin concerto floats between the sea and the sky. Two Jacquelines appear on the screen, one childhood and one adult. They meet in a long vicissitude between life and death. , the entanglement of love and hate, and the narrative that cannot be covered by emotion and fate are all turned into a sigh in the wind by the dreamy ending and disappeared between the vast sky and sea.
The film deeply excavates the dual influence of music on people with the help of the special family relationship between sisters. At the same time, in the clues of the story, the film does not simply revolve around Jacqueline's success and music, but neatly presents her inner world on the screen. On top of this, this film carries more life questions about human nature and destiny.
When stroking the annual rings of life, there is a rough texture across the palm, and the imprints accumulated over the years are timeless, like the flashing fireworks in the night sky, completing the splendid boiling. Leaving people with endless regrets and reverie, he interprets the deepest meaning of life with short-lived beauty. Just let Jacqueline forget the pain on that endless beach, never grow old, never be alone. The beauty after the prosperity is over will eventually condense into the sunshine in the sound of her piano, sublimating the loneliness after the end of the song.
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