A divorced woman, Francis, has lost the focus of her life. Under the repeated urging of friends, I embarked on a journey to travel to Tuscany, Italy. According to her original intention, she is one hundred unwilling to go. Her experience taught her that travel did not help her recover from sadness and disappointment. This is an accident. She accidentally strayed from her usual life track.
As a result, during the trip, she saw a garden house at a glance. Even if it was only a glimpse for a second, though the old house was in an unfamiliar place in an unfamiliar country, and had fallen into disrepair, by any measure of sanity, it should not have stayed there. The heroine has to get out of the car paranoid, walk into the old house to inquire, and discuss the possibility of buying it with the owner. This second glimpse also accidentally hit his dream. She strayed from any routine and thought rationally that she should stay here and live a life very different from the one she already had.
It took a lot of effort to deal with the owner, and she finally won the house. That night, when she was living in a strange and broken house, she was hit by a heavy rain, and she was scared to death, and once wondered: why did she buy this broken house in this strange place?
This doubt was the reality that forced her to wake up from her dream.
But only briefly. After all, the real price has been paid. The dream has to go on. After all, back in American urban life, life is still broken.
This second glimpse is like a divine light, illuminating a soul unwilling to live a mediocre life. It penetrates the iron walls of reason. This is often the inner light of our lives: the motives for our actions are rooted in irrational desires within. In fact, the most splendid flowers of life are cultivated with the help of irrational soil. And the passage where Francis returns from the dream to reality and has doubts is also very dramatic and very real. After all, we still live in the daily trivial reality and have to consider the basis and basis of survival.
Next, she found workers, repaired the house, and built her dream residence. She blended into the different Italian rural life and different customs, gradually adjusted herself, won the favor of the people around her, and gained a new focus in life.
A new dream appeared. It comes from an encounter between Francis and a Prince Charming-style man on vacation. She quickly fell into "love". Or more realistically, a physical intimacy swiftly arises and a spiritual hope arises. A heart full of longing, loses objectivity, does not observe and judge calmly, this is just an affair, and should not put too much emotional expectation.
Next, because she was entangled by some offices, she did not go to the next romantic date as scheduled. When she had the opportunity to meet her desire to meet again, she dressed up and went to the other party's place, trying to have a surprise and romance. When they met again, they found that the other woman was already holding another woman in his arms.
It can be said that although Francis was middle-aged and suffered a marriage failure, he still maintained the nature of a little girl in his heart, and he was the same with the house and the lover who fell in love at first sight. But reality is not a fairy tale. Simple, unsophisticated people will suffer.
At first glance, this film looks like a chicken soup piece about "Poetry and Distance" and "Romantic Love". But fortunately, after the heroine's dream arose, the movie quickly pulled back to the real level, breaking down the dream. This makes the film thicker.
Francis was not overwhelmed by the cruelty of life. After questioning her impulsive and crazy decision on a stormy night, she put aside her doubts and still earnestly implements her dream life plan - repairing the house and starting a new life in an unfamiliar environment. Despite the occasional vulnerability, it needs a warm hug from a friendly male landlord. After the disillusionment of the new love, she is still firmly moving on with her new life. Of course, the movie arranged for her best friend to come to live with her from the United States due to emotional changes, making her look less lonely in a foreign land. This provides a comfort.
Francis also listened to a mysterious prophecy: "There will be a wedding in this house", and he was looking forward to his own wedding. The result failed. This didn't knock Francis down. She was frustrated in her own love scene, but she did not look down on love because of this, and still believed in the importance of love to life. He also single-handedly facilitated the "true love" between the daughter of the foreman who helped her build the house and the migrant worker. Because the foreman and his wife did not believe that their daughter would be treated well by her beloved wage earner, they believed that the young couple was just having a fever for a while, and the "love" between them was not sacred, but absurd. Soon life will avenge this blind passion. In addition, for the wage earner, he is not worthy of their daughter without a father, mother and no guarantee. Seeing the whole process of this love fermenting and forming, Francis stepped forward and endorsed this love, saying that from now on, she will be the guardian of the wage earner. So, a wedding was really held in her house. Although not hers, it is equally precious.
Francis himself did not reap new love, but acted as the Virgin, and contributed to a pair of young lovers.
The movie has come to an end. It also looks like a good ending, albeit with a hint of sourness. I believe it also leaves some confusion for the audience.
For example, whether the heroine's behavior to promote young people's marriage is a good thing or a bad thing. Is she a compensatory psychology out of emotional longing.
When the foreman couple used some reasons to question the love of the young couple, to be honest, those reasons also fell on my mind. Based on their life experience, they are obviously very reasonable. Like Francis's dreams of a poetic life and a new love, both take a hit.
Adults always tend to disapprove of the love of young people who are just beginning to love. The unbelief of love and the cruelty of life constitute the life experience of adults.
In this film, the message that "love is unreliable" is indeed shown everywhere. The foreman couple obviously did not feel happy in their marriage. Francis's marriage failed, and even when she thought she met a new love, she found it was just a wishful joke. Even the best friend who prompted the heroine's trip to Italy at the beginning of the movie is a shy lesbian who is soaking in sweetness with her gay man. However, in the second half of the movie, she was heartbroken by her lovelorn and came to live with the heroine. The reason for the breakup is that her homosexuality does not approve of her behavior of using sperm to conceive and have children.
From the dimension of love, the world is full of frustrated people. Life can be hit by love from time to time.
As a viewer with a little life experience, seeing the wage earner and the foreman's daughter begin to play young people's physical intimacy and missing games, it is not difficult to draw a conclusion: it is the hormones of young people.
All kinds of information add up to make people wonder: Is Francis a "Virgin" who helps people or a "bitch" who harms people.
It is simple to draw the conclusion that Francis was doing bad things, but it is also easy to make one become a bystander in life, watching everything from the sidelines, because if you are involved in it, you will be injured.
The characteristics of emotion and life are the same: both are unstable and full of variables. The way we look at the world cannot be too rational, because rational views come from experience, and experience may be wrong. There are too many rational rules and regulations, and the natural energy of life is constrained, and there is no beauty and passion in life. Of course, one cannot be overly obsessed with sensibility. Necessary rational reflection, summarization, and adjustment abilities are indispensable, otherwise they will be killed by the "dream".
From this point of view, Francis is really a good life. They have their own routines in life, but they do not reject an unexpected journey. At critical moments, they even rely on one second of intuition to make major decisions in life. Although I have doubts about my temporary dream, I can still follow the direction of my dream seriously and persistently. He has been repeatedly attacked by love, but he has not lost his faith in love. He has not become a love strangler like a foreman couple. He has even cherished love very much. He does not hesitate to involve himself in it to promote a pair of young people's love. .
After all, it is better to love and lose than to never love.
To fully devote yourself to life, to invest in your dreams, is stronger than a lifetime of trembling, daring to take risks, and never having a profound life experience.
Thinking about it carefully, in fact, most people in this world have not really lived. This is the sadness of most people. In contrast, Francis' attitude towards life seems invaluable.
Maybe the love between the wage earner and the foreman's daughter will eventually burn out one day, or even this day may come soon, but this can't be seen as Francis doing something bad.
The seed of love, like life itself, is too rare and worthy of care.
View more about Under the Tuscan Sun reviews
