eighteen years of Update , life is not hypocritical thinking about
a film series that might have been only slightly experimental, but accidentally took nine years The speed of one came to this year, 18 years later. After the Sundance Film Festival this year, the five-star movie "Before Midnight" was full of expectations. After watching the USC screening, it even surpassed the previous expectations. In this seemingly idiotic theme, it perfectly talked about a satisfactory and lovely story.
Eighteen years later, Jessie and Celine came back to Greece to spend the summer vacation. The two have a daughter, and Jessie and his ex-wife's son are both 14 years old. In the long shot at the beginning of the movie, Jessie, the father, is very embarrassed to ask questions about his son Hank who is about to board the plane back to Chicago at the airport. It is unnaturally unlike a father in his forties. Back in the car, he told Celine that I felt that as a father, I didn't fully accompany him during his childhood when he was growing up. He went to high school and left me completely after going to college. In this way, Jessie and Celine drove all the way to a small town in Greece and began their summer trip.
The reason why I no longer tell the story is because as the third part of this series, "Before Midnight" has inherited the style of the first two works well. It is still a long shot followed by a long shot, and the background soundtrack is simple to the extreme but just right. , The style is not in a hurry to advance the comfortable film, more interesting points are in the dialogue and lines. Eighteen years later, Celine began to consider whether to work for the government from the non-for profit charity work of the year, because this one might be differnet, Jessie divorced and Celine's daughter always felt that Failed to fulfill the responsibilities of a good father, and failed to spend more time with his son Hank in Chicago. In fact, this is not necessarily a simple conclusion of "surrendering to life", but maybe as we grow older, they and we have learned to treat people and things around us with a more calm and calm attitude.
For example, the scene of having a conversation with people in Greece at the table is very interesting. The young people said, "Anyway, we will break up in the end, and we will be divorce in the end, right?" After hearing this, everyone was helpless, "You guys are too realistic." Jessie and Celine told the story of their encounter (the performance at Celine is very fun). What really moved people was the last story told by the grandmother: "My husband has passed away. When he was still alive, he always put his arm on my chest when he slept, and sometimes I couldn’t go well. I'm breathing, but I feel calm, contented and safe inside." After he passed me, I think he really disappeared a little bit. I tried to remember the color of her eyes, the shape of her lips, the touch of her skin, everything about him. But in the end it disappeared. But from time to time he appeared there again. Sometimes when I looked up at the clouds in the sky, they suddenly disappeared, his face appeared, and then disappeared again. Life is probably like this, we appear and disappear at the same time. We are important to some people, but we also rush past (We appear and we disappear, and we're important to some, but we're just passing through).
There are a lot of clever short paragraphs in the film, and this time it is not as formal and serious as the discussion of the previous two films. It is worthy of the audience to ponder slowly. For example, the middle-aged woman discussed at the dinner party said: "My grandmother is a nurse. She tells them after the severely unconscious patients wake up that you are fine now and everything will be fine. All female patients wake up. The first reaction after I came was to ask: Are my husband, son, and friends okay? All male patients, all, without exception, all asked: Is my cock okay?".
If I just started watching this film and I can’t help but feel sad to see how old Jessie and Celine look after eighteen years, as the plot dialogue unfolds, the audience can slowly and naturally accept the imprints of time and calm their hearts. In the play, they also accept the peace and calmness that time brings them. The ending of the film is more subtle. After the two people after the conflict and quarrel sitting at the table and chairs by the sea in the night and arguing in frustration, life becomes the same, still interesting and intriguing.
Finally, what time left at the end was no longer the emotion that made us sigh, but the motivation for us to live calmly and calmly.
PS: Finally, Julie's performance in this film is very large. This film has at least the rating of PG13... (I checked it a few weeks after I finished writing, and the rating of this film is actually Rated R...)
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Original comment before USC 05/13/2013 after Sundance Film Festival
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A dream of Yangzhou in ten years, it’s hard to say the hypocritical diarrhea.
Tuberculosis film "Before Sunrise" ("Love Before Dawn") in 1995 and "Before Sunset" in 2004 ("Love at Twilight at Sunset") series, the third "Before Midnight" ("Love Before Midnight") has been filmed in Greece. It is expected to be released in 2013, one nine years plus one nine years. Indeed, it has been eight years. A 90-minute film with a total of two actors like this, all depends on the skill of the screenwriter. As a result, many people commented on the first two films, "When I was young, my hairs were erected...every line makes you think "I think so too" a movie". It's kind of like a friend who grew up with you for so many years, and slowly grows old with you. Watching this kind of movie, listening to the thoughts in those lines, is also looking at my own changes over the years. When "Before Sunrise" was released in 1995, Ethan Hawke was 25 years old and Julie Delpy was 26 years old. In 2004, they were 34 and 35 years old, but now they are 43 and 44 years old. What should they say? I am looking forward to it.
The content of the first two movies was "stealing a floating life for half a day, in exchange for a life of mutual acquaintance" such a plot, but in the face of time, it seems to be more hypocritical and artificial. Happiness is short, and when it comes, you know it will disappear quickly, so you work hard to live every second of happiness. After it's over, either stop thinking about it, or occasionally show it out for yourself and smile. Through the countless beautiful and painful years ago, I always feel that I have forgotten, or a dream, or a scene, or a sound and a taste, always reminding myself of all kinds of things that I have experienced, whether happy or sad. everything.
Wang Guowei wrote "Human Words and Words". When he was in the first year of high school, he bought a book in a bookstore. The book is very thin and small. One of them is very impressive. I only felt that the beautiful confrontation had an artistic conception, and I looked at it many years later, but I only felt sad and desolate. The opening chapter of the novel "Lover" written by Duras reads like this: "I am old. One day, in the lobby of a public place, a man came to me. He took the initiative to introduce himself, and he told me. Say: "I know you and will always remember you. At that time you were very young and everyone said you were beautiful. Now, I am here to tell you that, to me, I think you are more beautiful now than when you were young. At that time, you were a young woman. Compared with the appearance of the time, I love your face that has been devastated more." A classmate said, "All experiences are the result of my original choice, no matter how good or bad, no matter what the result is, it is my own choice. the result of. Regardless of the development of life, it is also my choice, and I will bear it all." This is not humble or overbearing. It is just right in the face of time. It is always difficult for people to resist the unkindness of life, and the result is not "the only way to do this." "Follow the flow.
" Julie Delpy's impressive line in the film "Before Sunrise": "You mentioned the situation in the next few years. A couple will start to hate each other and know each other's every move. So I get bored. I I think I will have the opposite development. The more I understand a person, the more I can truly love him. He can comb a certain type of hair, which T-shirt he will wear, and a story he will tell on a certain occasion. , I believe that will be the most true state of my love for a person. "
Yangzhou dream for ten years, no matter how beautiful or terrifying the dream is, after waking up, I still have to go on.
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