Of course, the movie will not give you a clear answer after all. Just like the end of the film, you only have to live, love, look forward to, quarrel, be confused, and suffer. Only after going through this process, Only then will you understand what kind of life you want to have and finally reconcile with your own life.
The whole film is made up of different conversations. What are they talking about?
Let's analyze it piece by piece.
——The
beginning of the talk video at the airport started with the conversation between Jesse and his son. A few words clearly explained that the relationship between Jesse and his ex-wife was very badly handled. The son did not want him to go to the recital performance at all, "Why not "Let me come" "because my mother hates you so much" including "Why does she hate me so much?" that Jesse asked his son later, but the son unexpectedly behaved very relaxed, but he said helplessly. I felt "she gritted her teeth to daniel even more" This sentence clearly shows that the relationship between the son and her mother is not very good, and in this way, her mother seems to be a very bad image of hysterical and constantly dealing with men. It is almost ready to come out and become three-dimensional.
Of course, the most important thing is that the son patted his father on the shoulder, and said indifferently: "Don't think about it, I will figure it out by myself." Although the son is small, he seems to have grown up. Manage your own life well, and deal with the relationship with your mother. But Jesse couldn't help feeling a little sad when he saw his son go through the security check and board the plane alone. He felt that he seemed to care too little for his son and owed too much. He is thinking about the problem of getting along with his son in the future (this directly leads to the biggest drama conflict in the film)
-the conversation in the car
After that, Jesse returned to the car with Celine sitting next to him. The two cute little daughters in the back were sleeping soundly. From the conversation, we knew that Jesse and Celine were already together and had two daughters, but they We don't know if they are married or not. (In fact, the two are not married, they just lived together in Paris, which will be revealed later in the video). Celine is observing the two lovely daughters and using her mobile phone to take pictures of their cute look when they sleep.
These shots explain their seemingly "happy" life, when Jesse takes food from the "children" and he asks for an apple (note that this is a foreshadowing).
"Ella, this is the evidence that your father grabbed food from you", Celine took this picture with a photo. These behaviors all showed the happiness and warm atmosphere of their family. The keynote of the film was swept away at the airport just now. The depression became romantic and bright. After that, the two talked about their parents separately, including the story of the cat named "Cleopatra". These conversations made us feel that they both seemed to be old husbands and wives, and they talked about some of their most intimate family affairs.
Then, Jessie was very happy to share his son’s sentence "This is the best summer he spent" with Celine. He thought it was a good time between father and son that would make his son feel such a perfect summer, but from Celine learned that it was because his son met a girl and kissed it.
This conversation directly shows that the relationship between Celine and Jesse’s ex-wife’s son is handled in a harmonious manner. It also brings up a question that Jesse thought about at the airport just now. He felt that he should spend more time with his son. He hoped that Celine would be with him. Going to Chicago, but Celine is obviously unwilling to give up her current life and that very good job opportunity, which ignited the fuse of their relationship rift, the atmosphere became embarrassing, and the tone of the two people's dispute began to rise. At this time The apple just now worked. My daughter woke up and asked if the site was there. Celine replied, "We will see when we come back." At this time, she used "us". The daughter seemed to be the lubricant of the relationship between the two of them. , The daughter then asked, "Where is my apple?" The apple that was stolen by the father suddenly eased and warmed the tension, but the problem of going to Chicago has not been resolved. This rift has been slow in the hearts of the two people. Slowly grow bigger.
——Talk in the restaurant
This is my favorite paragraph except the end. A group of people sitting together, enjoying the food, while talking about life comfortably and casually, this is the keynote of this type of film. The director arranges couples of different age groups here. There are 40 (Jesse and Celine), 50 (a man who is passionate about sex, an open-minded woman), and 70 (a writer who invited them to be a guest, and a good friend of him). Wife, there is no direct name for the relationship between the two people here, it may be soulmate), 20 years old (via young people to use skype, and then discuss virtual sex, then the relationship between humans and machines, to the interesting mouse experiment (satiric hedonism) , The world of entertainment to death)
Then the conversation turned to the establishment of self-independence and how to keep men? (to make yourself look stupid than them), the kind of big-headed mind that many men played by Celine in this place like The women are so vivid, laughing to death, and the lines are very humorous and ironic, and finally lead to the hidden machismo, which is the unpleasant part of the two people in the car talking about Celine’s giving up a good work plan. Give up everything and go to Chicago to help him with the child.
This is the second time that this problem has been brought up. As a very independent woman, Celine is obviously very worried about this, and the seeds of rupture have further sprouted. The topic was interrupted by the open-minded woman and talked about the story of the masculine and feminine nurse who woke up after the interrogation. It satirizes that the first consciousness of men is always sex and themselves, while women pay more attention to family. .
then the 20-year-old girl said her grandmother's stories about what I like and agree: "Do not consume too much on romantic love, friendship and work too can bring more happiness." of course, this story earlier The self-independence talked about echoes, emphasizing that a person can never lose himself. Both parties must learn to take care of themselves and have their own independent space. This is the most suitable relationship between the sexes. But why do you say this? This leads directly to The most important point of this restaurant conversation, the old lady’s concluding remarks: We appear, we disappear, we are so important to some people, but in the end we all just go through. So after all, life is our own, we have to understand others , To start from understanding yourself, to love others, and to love yourself first.
——Talks on the way to the hotel
Celine suddenly realized that they hadn't chatted like this for a long time. They had been entangled and troubled by family trivialities. She further emphasized the importance of female independence and emphasized that women must not be trapped at home for a lifetime, (for the final outbreak) To pave the way) Jesse, through the death of her grandmother, through their 74-year marriage, talked about the 98-year-old future of the two of them, which is almost unimaginable and unbearable, and of course it is also the last letter to return. Make a foreshadowing. After that, they came to a 1,000-year old church. The main purpose here is to explain the fact that the two of them lived together but were not married. For them, marriage is like a fairy tale. What is the meaning of marriage, after marriage, it must be like a fairy tale. Is it as happy as the story?
At the end of this conversation, they came to the beach and sat together in the evening to watch the sun slowly disappear. This is the most beautiful place in the whole film. The scene of their reconciliation is the same place at the end. The sun is like their love. I was constantly suffering from trivial life, "Still, still, still... Finally...disappeared?" But just like the old lady in the restaurant said, the sun will rise again tomorrow. Will reappear, isn't love like that?
——The conversation in the hotel room is
really long. Because of that phone call, all the questions are spread out. Celine has become unprecedented hysterical and paranoid, just as she said, "Women’s exploration of eternity, It exists in the vast garden of self-sacrifice." She is unwilling to give up those hopes. Her life that belongs to a person now is completely swallowed up by the family and corroded by the family. She does not want to be the compromised person.
And Jessie has also become irrational. After so many years, has he only now realized his lack of children? Now the suggestion to go to Chicago to accompany the child is obviously unnecessary. The child is already old and a good child. He has his own life and the way to deal with life’s problems. If he goes rashly, he will not only lose his fortunes and hardships. The established life may be an additional burden for children.
The two began to keep turning over their old accounts, entangled in the meaningless affair, and uncovered the hardship of being tortured by family life that they had never told each other. But in the end Jesse's words still touched me, "I gave you my whole life, I accepted all of you, the crazy side and the radiant side, I will treat you, my daughter, Be responsible for the life we create together. All of this is because, "I love you." "
-The conversation before midnight is
really a touch of magic, interesting, romantic and warm. It directly took the film or the entire trilogy to a higher level. Everything went back to the original point, back to the 1994 they first met. In the summer of last year, Celine met someone who would protect her all the way, get close, accompany her, try to make her laugh, and endure her temper. The most touching part of that letter was when the 40-year-old Celine was lost and helpless. Sitting there, thinking that the current self is terrible, but someone said to her, "Celine, I’m now, and looking back, you are entering the best years of your life. In the middle of these years, it’s just better than you. It's a little harder at 12 years old. "What a warm and kind encouragement is this paragraph.
They went around, after so many experiences, they realized that they were with them before midnight, and the person sitting next to them was still the same person.
Maybe by then, they will understand ——Life is like this. Although there are so many imperfections, it is real. It is precisely because of these quarrels, these hurdles that I thought I could not overcome, and these final reconciliations that constituted the flesh and blood that they really had to face. life.
maybe now they can appreciate,
young romance will eventually fall to those who need companionship with mundane spend in.
"do you think, that until the age of 80 still talking about that night, it would be tonight? "
"Well, what we want to welcome must be a wonderful night. "
This night will belong to you who are scattered in any corner of the world after watching the movie.
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