Although I love to watch movies, I don't like to watch movies repeatedly, especially when I still remember the plot. In order to watch "Love Before Midnight" this time, I pulled out "Love Before Dawn" and "Love at Sunset" that I watched a long time ago. I have always known that many friends around me especially like it, but I have no special impression of these two films before. It turns out that some films really have to reach a certain age, or have a certain life experience, it will be easier to resonate. These three "Love in" series are movies that are worth watching again and again. Different moods and different gains can be seen at different stages of life.
"Love Before Midnight" inherited the style of the first two films, with long shots, multiple dialogues, simple and vivid performances, and close-ups of emotions and sorrows. Like Roger Ebert commented, it is very close to real life, as if Use an invisible lens to record every moment. I think the reason why this series of films is liked by so many people is because in your life, you have more or less said the same dialogue as in the film, or the protagonist accidentally talked about it when walking through the streets of Europe What are the propositions that you have spent a lot of time thinking about, but still have time to communicate with anyone in the future? In addition to these, I like to hear Jesse talk about the characters in the novels he conceived most. No matter how wild they are, they have practical significance. They are an exaggerated version of some ordinary people in the world-women who continue to experience déjà vu, who have facial recognition barriers. Men, people who have the ability to remember faces... their stories can be made into a movie.
The performance of the hero and heroine is still so natural, like a couple who have been together for more than ten years. When they walked side by side, the scene where Selena pointed at the goat on the side of the road suddenly reminded me that in "Love Before Dawn" she also pointed at the bunny in the grass casually, so lifelike, but every move And the personalized label is obvious. Julie Delby is so lovable. Several times in the play are really wonderful, and she also dedicated large-scale performances. She is very surprised why she has not been nominated for some important performance awards. Jessie's son also gave a good soy sauce, and I can still see his cute expression faintly.
From the lines to the plot, there is too much aftertaste, and too much repetitive thinking. Everyone can find the most favorite and most emotional lines in the film. When watching "Love Before Midnight", although many people laughed constantly during the movie watching, in my eyes, this story is a human tragedy. It is not the sad or pessimistic one, but a kind of eternal struggle and the reality in which we all have to live compared to accidental human comedy. The so-called quarrel in the climax of the film is the most real trivial and interesting quarrel I have ever seen on the big screen. But when it comes to the ending of the quarrel, some people may say that the problem that caused the quarrel between the two has not been solved at all, but that there will be other problems after this problem is solved. When two people are together, no matter how romantic, no matter how happy they are, and no matter how tacitly they are together, there will still be differences in all aspects of life. The so-called male chauvinism and feminism, your misunderstanding, my responsibility... never There is a happy ending. Here, perhaps there is no need for a solution-stay in Paris or move back to Chicago, as long as the love is still there. On the Aegean Sea in Greece, watching Serena again playfully asking Jesse how the time machine works, I began to believe that maybe not every love will wear out with the complexity of time and reality; I also believe that as she said in the first movie, as she grows older, her true temperament will not change.
From the perspective of the story structure, "Love Before Midnight" is actually a very different movie from the previous two movies. If you read these three parts in succession, it will be very interesting to find that many of the things Jesse and Selena talked about have become reality. You are afraid that what will happen is unavoidable, the ambiguity is absent, and the romance diminishes, you can't help but go. Think it's only been together for eighteen years now, what about afterwards? Then it depends on whether the actors are willing to shoot or not. The story must be told, and our audience will definitely buy it. In any case, after ten or twenty years, I will watch "Love Before Midnight" over and over again. I believe I will resonate more and appreciate the beauty of the lines. The film style is so real and dramatic, how does this combination work?
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