I hope someone is waiting for me somewhere

Parker 2021-11-19 08:01:28

——Why do I prefer the American version of "The Untouchable Lovers" I don't like the translation of The Untouchable Lovers very much. The title of the Korean version is the sea, and the title of the American version is the lakeside house. Why should it be translated like this? I really like Lake House, a romantic movie with an unbeautiful heroine, facial paralysis, a slow pace, and unclear logic. From university to now, I watched it several times with different friends. Yang likes the Korean version. Later, he watched the US version again with me, scored three stars, and commented that "after the story is expanded too much, it will not be the original story." I asked him what the original story was, and he said that it turned out to be a simple love story about writing letters and communicating between two people. Unlike the American version, it involves family and more emotional entanglements. So I took a look at the Korean version. I agree with his comment. but... I prefer the expanded story. The Korean version is just a sad and beautiful love story, but I like the American version because it appropriately portrays the kind of personal "subtle uncomfortable loneliness". I have watched many movies of Sandra Bullock, and I think she plays the best in this movie. I can't forget that she was sitting in the square chatting with her mother: Valentine's Day is 60 degrees, it's not like Chicago. ——The kind of ordinary conversation, about the weather and sandwiches, but the words are sparse——She never said that she was alone, but in this movie, she laughed and sighed almost all of her gestures. The words "lonely". She is good-looking and successful in her career. She is a doctor. She is not boring. She is busy saving lives and healing the wounded. Once there was a boyfriend who looked good at everything-this boyfriend still loved her very much and took her very seriously. It didn't take long for her to start planning for the future, and introduced all her relatives and friends to her enthusiastically. In the eyes of others, what else is she dissatisfied with? But she is lonely: Why do you all live so vigorously? Do you all have such high? What's the point of all this? For example, after a tiring day, I just want to be warm and quiet. When I get home, I find that my boyfriend has invited people from all over the village to hold a birthday party for you—the barely smile when she turns around. The people in a room were happy, she slipped to the backyard and sat alone: ​​the excitement is theirs, I have nothing. So I don’t think it’s a bad thing for her to kiss a stranger at a party—someone sits next to her and asks her favorite book, as if she has a stomach full of words, but she cautiously doesn’t know how to speak, and chats with her awkwardly and hard. . She talked about the story of the first time she fell in love with someone else when she was a child-she was such a passionate, impulsive and courageous person when she was a child, and then became an adult, her inner enthusiasm was suppressed, and she led a calm, rational, and methodical adult life. Later she said, I don't sing, no one wants to hear me sing. But I can dance. Yang didn't like this plot very much-he said that he danced and kissed strangers at the party his boyfriend gave you. This is too bad. But this is exactly my favorite plot-I said I also think this is wrong, but I can relate it: If I've made some bad decisions, that's because i was very young and very lonely. Yang thinks the plot is very blunt, saying that a complete stranger came over and asked your favorite book unexpectedly, and he hadn't read it himself, and asked you what it was about, don't you think it is ridiculous? I said, yes, but what is the non-ridiculous dialogue-girl, how old are you? When are you graduating? Where are you going after graduation? I would rather someone come over and ask me, have you seen "The Moon and Sixpence"? I said, that is my favorite book, why do you want to mention it? He said, because a friend gave me this book, I want to know what it is about? I said, it's about inner pursuit. A person is free from the fetters of secular morality, abandons family business and everything that he has, just to do what he is passionate about, and leads a life of troublesome wandering to death. He said, why do you...like this? I laughed: Yes, this is too bad, and I don't know why I like this. ——This conversation is ridiculous, so are a lot of beautiful things. (But please don’t get the wrong impression: If you want to strike up a conversation with me, just ask me about the moon and sixpence.) That kind of loneliness is not because you are isolated from the world, but because you look at the people around you and feel I can't integrate with them at all, let alone get communication and comfort from them. And at this time, there is a person two years away, in a similar mood, you have an interesting conversation with him, and tell him, do you know what I like best? I like trees. So he planted a tree for you where you live. You two went for a walk together after two years, talking about the beauty of Chicago. Both of you are lonely that is not understood by those around you. But this is impractical, and it sounds like a joke. At some point, you feel that love is just an illusion, not because the people around you are not good, but because you want too much. Do you think this is your fault-why everyone else seems to be OK, but I can't? So you try to make some compromises yourself, give up those unrealistic ideas, forget those imaginary happiness-so you start to live down to earth, with a practical and reasonable man, ready to buy a house , Live an ordinary, happy, normal and lonely life. ——This is also the reason why Yang doesn't like the US version. "How can you know that you don't love and plan to marry that person?" he said. But I think this is extremely true, I don't think it is right, but we can see this kind of compromise everywhere, right? "We love some people, and those who have children and marry others are others." "Even if we raise the eyebrows, it's hard to settle down." Her loneliness is not because of the emptiness caused by broken love, not because of the major blows and frustrations. .. She was just suppressed by her inner enthusiasm and could not be projected in reality. This is why she likes to persuade, she said that this is a book about love and waiting. What she didn’t say was that the two people in the persuasion were as weak, hesitant, and puzzled like normal people. They were influenced by the people around them, compromised with reality, tried other options, but after a long period of wandering and waiting, they finally managed to Knowing how precious their love is for each other, and after all the twists and turns, they finally returned to each other-I like stories like this very much. I think this is the reality: we are all weak and self-defeating people, but love is still the best thing we know and the most worth waiting for. I don’t like many arguments. One of them is, "What about being with true love? After a few years, it will be firewood, rice, oil and salt."-There is a difference between this kind of firewood, rice, oil and salt and that. I also think that love cannot cure our inner loneliness. If life is a long pain, love is just an aspirin. However, a life without aspirin, I am afraid it will not be able to sustain it.

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  • Alex: [after he saw her at the subway station in 2004] I don't know if you remember but, we saw each other. That is, I saw you. You never told me... how beautiful you were.

    Kate: Well, maybe you saw someone else. That was a bad hair year for me.

    Alex: Long brown hair, gentle unguarded eyes...

    Kate: OK, OK. You saw me. But I still don't know what you look like.

  • Kate: It was you. Why didn't you tell me?

    Alex: You would've thought I was crazy or drunk. Or both.