does it hurt when you walk

Suzanne 2022-03-21 09:02:18

For French movies, the general feeling is that, to put it a bit louder, under the impact of the marketization wave, it still maintains its own unique non-commercial temperament, such as "Angel Emily" and so on. To put it mildly, while everyone is pursuing the traces of violence and blood suspense in American blockbusters, French films can often find the humanistic temperament in these gaps, or have been forgotten or ignored, And these are often able to exchange people's hearts.
So is this film.
It's actually about a very heavy topic, the First World War. It begins with flashbacks. After the war ended, the heroine Mathil wasn't looking forward to the return of her fiancé, but the bad news that he had died in the war. However, this weak woman, who even had a lame foot, started a long road to find her husband with the strong belief in her heart.
Through small clues and the help of many people, Mathil slowly pieced together a picture. From it we see the cruelty of war and the struggle of people in despair...
But in the end, her sincerity gave birth to a miracle.
Mane is not dead.
But he also made a little joke. He completely lost his memory and even had to learn how to write from scratch.
At the end of the film, Mathiere walks through the narrow and shady corridor, walking through the warm flowers, and she sees a back. She held back the tears that were about to burst out in an instant, and smiled at him. He turns around, and he says, as they did when they first met as children, "Does it hurt when you walk?"
She shakes her head.
She just sat in the chair and looked at him. The sun shone down on him. She looked at him, didn't speak, just looked at him, looked at him.
Even if he doesn't remember her anymore, so what?
Being able to watch him live in front of him like this, his heartbeat is still the same, and his fingers are still flexible. He can still talk to himself, he can still smile to himself, he can still say to himself "Does it hurt when you walk?"
With all this, why should he care if he remembers him or not?

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A Very Long Engagement quotes

  • Mathilde: [after climbing out of her wheelchair] Miracles don't just happen in Lourdes, you know.

  • Ange Bassignano: [writes] "Revenge is pointless. Try to be happy and don't ruin your life for me."