A must-see for ageing syndrome, Hopkins's classical, elegant, rational, as well as the humor and sensibility gradually released in the film, are fascinating in countless facial close-ups and golden sentences. Of course, the density of the so-called "golden sentences" is too high, and I thought it was one of the few flaws in this film, which affected my understanding when I first watched the film. In fact, this is an emotional growth film of an old man. His need for emotion came to an abrupt end when his mother died at the age of nine, and he froze himself until he was awakened by love magic, and then stopped abruptly because his daughter-in-law died; Like a joke, being a god doesn't care about the fact that humans are footnotes...
The death of his mother in childhood made his emotions not echoed, so he used magic and theory to build a perfect castle for himself. I understand this is the so-called the boy choose safety; in the theoretical castle that shields the emotional world, He is omniscient and omnipotent, the authority of the stars holding the moon. The theoretical experience and practical experience they talked about when they met for the second time involved this attitude towards life. Jack believes that the theoretical knowledge in the book is also an experience, so he can teach students what love is even if he has no children. Write children's magic stories; Joy prefers actual experiences.
Until he began to fall in love with Joy, the castle collapsed,,, he found that human emotions are too complicated, and theoretical knowledge does not work when falling in love with a person. The 9-year-old young tooth was driven out of the nursery and was baptized by love. After being tortured without love, a shadowlands finally appeared in his world. He could not predict the future of his feelings. When the sun shines, his love is in the shadows. Not responding.
When you want to love but can't, everything is wasted time.
As his student Whistler said: For the first time I hear a question from your mouth that you don't even know the answer to. Humans are all alone at this time, even Jack is no exception; We love, to know we are not alone. When Joy returned to the United States, the Mediterranean hairstyle of Jack and his brother at the entrance of the courtyard was very lonely in the farewell shot. . . When he finally began to face his true self in the midst of Joy's attack, when he finally expressed his remorse and love in the grip of missing and sickness, he and Joy finally stood on the equal side of love.
The section where they found the Golden River Valley together has an extraordinary symbolic meaning, the intersection and boundary of the shadowy land and the sun shining. Jack said I don't want to be somewhere anymore, Not waiting for any news happen, Not looking around next corner nor next hill, here now, That's enough. But the real human emotional world is that when you choose love, you also choose uncertainty, you choose to get out of your comfort zone, and you choose to enjoy the present even if you foresee the pain of the future. The pain then is part of the happiness now. This is the power of love. The man chooses to suffer.
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This film and "The End of the Day" filmed in the same year can be regarded as a model of Anthony's classic abstinence love film, full of restraint, rationality, elegance and hypocrisy (big fog). In him, you can see both the beauty of love and the beauty of love. The struggle to love, but all love seems to be the sweetness that can only be enjoyed by the accumulation of gray hair in the wandering. Just, it's disingenuous...
If you want to fall in love normally, you still need to read pornographic novels. Can't look at classicism.
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