Started with the quote “Hell is other people”, the film looks quite attracting with the aura of philosophical topic - Existentialism. A sense of absurd rose in my mind when I viewed verbal phrases from Sartre several times: I was confused how a youngster love story, a same-sex relation could be a theory-related and even could be a mental experiment as what Sartre did in the plot Huis clos exploring what is love.
I could read out the love of Chiu from the scene she glazed on her in the music lesson, but it seems she herself didn't take it as love. She could be straight-A student helping several students with essays and earning money but feeling embarrassed to write love letter for A, cause she didn't know what could be defined as love and whether her feelings to A is love, she also found it hard to sort exact words expressing her fuzzy feelings explicitly when she had no experiences of love and was not clear about the counterpart's thoughts.
But she still had to do something, to start, for the money, for the friend, for the appealing to know more about A. She sorted a lot of abstract concepts of love from books and she copied captions from movies. She did things like every novice could do for starting a new, unknown subject, through which she dug out her feelings, gathered more information about what kind of person A is and realized she loved her.
I remembered she asked Paul why he thought he had fallen in love with A. His answer is quite simple: she's pretty and smart, which is hard to persuade her as being into love.
I remembered the scene the rude boy performed love: he, as a charming, popular person could kiss her in front of her father, play dude game to show power and propose in the church naming love as patiences and so on, which is old and far from his thinking.
From their perspective, love could be pretended, love could be labeled with prize, but ironically, love as invaluable, even with fully thinking and efforts to explore, she could still not be acknowledged by the other.
Love is messy, horrible, selfish could only be defined by those people have truly experienced the uncertainty and sense of unsafe.
Love is bold. If I don't capture the chance to say it to you, I will feel loss, I will lose the passion toward outside world.so Do not be shame with who you are and how far you think the love is from you, be bold and define yourself and your love.
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