Five years ago, I was watching After "once" and "before sunrise", the ignorant girl who will be deeply poisoned and not afraid to put the label of "little and fresh" on her body.
So I am obsessed with the formalism of "sharing a pair of headphones", "listening to your songs in your car" and "running side by side", and keep practicing it again and again.
On a night when the rain was so heavy that the umbrellas couldn't hold it, my students asked me, "Whether you dress so beautiful today, are you going on a date?" I left class early, and the expression on my face had already betrayed me.
Actually, I didn’t wear a plaid shirt, because I knew the person I was going to meet would look good in a plaid shirt. (However, the hot question on Zhihu now is "Why do plaid shirts become low?")
That night, the rain gradually stopped. We in plaid shirts walked through the wet late autumn. You said, "When we feel a When the work resonates deeply with yourself, you should know that when the author actually created it, perhaps he did not want to resonate with us, he just wanted to express himself."
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The director of the Sunrise Trilogy is obsessed with expressing time, so it took eighteen years to shoot "Boyhood", and only nine years and nine years to shoot a pair of lovers, probably because of reality In life, his Celine never appeared again, so he could only make up the plot of "If you are still here, I will tell you something" over and over again in the movie.
The director of "Begin Again" probably has too many incomplete stories to tell, so whether it is "once" and "Begin Again", they are all excitedly saying "We can go to London together, we can Make music together, we will be popular" and "Let’s go to the UK to do it again, bring friends, there are so many places where you can shoot MV and record DEMO", then silently look at each other-seeing too much impossible, seeing you And your family, your concern, seeing those obstacles that seem to be difficult to overcome—then the bright eyes slowly dimmed, and finally the piano or the splitter with the good memories stuck to the other party was left. Commemorate, and then pull away.
They repeated similar plots over and over, all telling the same "unobtainable" story.
The story of "not getting" is always similar:
it hits it off:
whether it's pulling you off the train or your song just touched me.
Continue to hit it off:
whether it's a chat, or walk into a music store to collaborate on a song, or say a crazy idea and get the enthusiastic support of the other party.
Heartbeat:
A kiss from a Ferris wheel, a lonely piano side, or sharing a pair of headphones to walk through the streets of a strange city.
Return to rationality and reality:
the lovers who have hurriedly separated at the train station, the true version is never seen again, the flower seller and the vagrant singer, the British girl and the American Luther will eventually return to their original lives.
Although everyone commented that if they are vulgar together, they will have a bad review.
They want to be together, but maybe the reality is that they are not together, not for freshness and refinement.
However, they are so lucky to be able to use a movie like this to express such a story that may be difficult to tell, regardless of whether the other party who wants to tell at the beginning can see it.
As an ordinary person, how to express these difficult emotions.
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When I watched "Begin Again" for the first time, I thought it was more refined than "Once". After it became popular, there would be no sincerity anymore. Especially at the beginning, in order to show how fateful their meeting was, they flashed back three times, saying the hypocritical and perseverance of the literary and artistic youth!
After half a year, I watched again, seeing those moments when inspiration and sparks collided, how did they respond immediately, and then saw the last parting similar to "Once", "Obviously I want to continue this journey but have to end it" and "Even the memorials will be returned to you", as if I saw the director's unwillingness as me, and suddenly felt so distressed.
Five years later, I have become very uncomfortable with the label of “little and fresh”. It is not cool or free and easy if it is not funny or cult these days. "Sadness flows upstream" and "cotton skirts" are both avoided for fear.
However, I am accustomed to electronic music, but this afternoon I can't help but use KK's "Lost Star" as a single loop.
Simple guitar strumming and simple piano decoration sounds are just like those simple "small fresh" and "unavailable" stories.
We will tell a good story, turn a good story into a movie, into a book, into a song, because there is no one who listens to the story around. Otherwise, why bother so much?
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