Don't expect too much
Just last year's final assignment
When I saw the name "Love Story", I thought the author was very arrogant. Any story about love can be collectively referred to as a love story. Dare to use a collective term as the name, presumably the author is young and energetic and thinks that this story can tell the intricate love clearly and represent ordinary love . story.
After watching the movie, I felt that the name was appropriate here. I have seen many love stories. It was the first time I watched "Love Story", but it seemed like a love story that I had seen many times.
Janney and Oliver meet at the Harvard Library, they are attracted to each other and fall in love. Their love is pure and beautiful, but at the same time they are facing many tests: the new life after graduation, the opposition of the family, the financial constraints... When they work together to overcome many difficulties and their life gradually improves, the ruthless disease is entangled again. young jenny...
This is a love story between a rich boy and Cinderella. The plot is as common as the title, but it is not just a love story. The family line of the rebellious boy trying to escape from his father's control runs through the whole text.
Some of the plots made me think a lot:
-01-
How to make an invitation when meeting with TA for the first time?
The first dialogue in the movie is also a dialogue that amazes me very much. It is very dramatic and very eccentric.
Jenny : "You look stupid and rich"
Oliver : "Then you're wrong, I'm actually poor and smart."
Janney : "Come on, preppy. I'm poor and smart."
Oliver : "You say you're smart, where's your smartness?"
Jenny : "I'm not going to have coffee with you."
Oliver : "Tell you—I won't ask you either."
Janney : "You're stupid for that."
(Once again, amazing!)
For the two people who met for the first time, the first few sentences of dialogue were a bit tit-for-tat, and the atmosphere was a bit rebellious. The hero and heroine of idol dramas are not like friends who don’t meet each other, but they don’t need a series of incidents that don’t know each other to melt the iceberg of each other, superb The author begins a love reading with a few short sentences.
A few short sentences well show the charm of the heroine's character. This kind of dialogue style with a bit of mutual confrontation is also the daily dialogue mode of the hero and heroine in the future.
Think about it, if I meet someone for the first time, what should I do so that I can invite him to have coffee with me naturally, or in a little extravagant way, how can I let him invite me to have coffee with me? I can't wait to have Jenny's wisdom! and beauty...
-02-
Couples with different life trajectories,
How can I not break up after graduation?
I remember a friend said something like "Don't think that you are sitting in the same classroom today, and you are standing on the same starting line as him." I have clearly seen the different lives of my classmates and I, and I accept it calmly. own ordinary.
The words of a friend are suitable for male and female protagonists. The future of an ordinary girl from a family that sells cookies is completely different from that of Oliver, the famous son of a family . Jenny got a degree from a music academy. With the scholarship, she will go on to study music, and the self-respecting Janney knows that they will start a new life, and their futures are not on the same track.
The male protagonist will attend the law school of the highest institution as his father wishes. She was the first to say the breakup, but what seemed to be free and easy actually needed more courage and concealment. Oliver feels incredible, the dramatic scene is that instead of agreeing to break up, he proposes marriage like Jenny.
He's going to take her to see her parents.
It's not just about falling in love, it's not just the ignorant love that arises with a good girl while you are young, it's not just a love that can be overthrown by graduation and different choices, she has always been in his future plan, there is no deviation, there is no difference The trajectory of life is to be together all the time.
In the face of the uneven graduation, if you don't want to part ways, you must give each other a full sense of security, firm choices, reliable vows, practical actions, and give love power.
-03-
What is the best medicine for a marriage?
If love is romantic, then marriage is fire. After entering married life, they began to live on their own. This is also equivalent to cutting off the chain of funds provided by the father.
For love, the heroine gave up her music dream and started a new life with the hero. Oliver was admitted to law school on his own merits. Jenny works to earn money to support the family, and the boy applies for a scholarship to the school, but because of his special status, does the Harley family still need to apply for a scholarship? Before he made a certain achievement, he could only rely on the money from Gianni's work to support the two of them.
Oliver finally became a lawyer, life gradually became clear, and Jenny did not need to work for the first week. When he was newly married, he carried her into the door, which should be the custom of the local newlyweds at that time. When he changed to a big apartment for the second time, he still carried her in the door. The security guard looked at their happy appearance and said: Newlywed, Jenny replied happily: We are forever newlyweds. It is true that most couples have long been diluted by life, but their love is as beautiful as ever.
When she was dying, Jenny's Paris dream was also the most guilt point for Oliver, she understood. She doesn't want him to think that he has made her lose something. I think that maybe that's where love is great. "She loves Mozart and Bach, she loves the Beatles, and she loves me." Maybe Oliver didn't let Jenny lose anything. Being with him was not a choice he regretted, but a choice and compromise he willingly made for love. She said "love means never say sorry." That's what Janney said and did.
If there is a good medicine to maintain a marriage, it will be infinite understanding and dedication, and unconditional love for each other.
-04-
If you get to know someone completely, will you continue to love them?
Some people say that true heroism is to still love life after recognizing the truth of life. "Love Story" is a good interpretation of true love. After seeing a person clearly, you still love him.
"I believe that you not only love me, but also my ordinary life." Oliver did not admit it, Jenny just thought so, she felt that Oliver's character wanted to be rebellious with her father, and she firmly wanted to marry after her father objected. She has this part of the reason, and she also said very clearly, "I love not only you, but also your name and your honorary status. After all, it's a part of you."
Seeing this, I think of Maugham's "The Veil": I have no illusions about you at all. I know you are stupid, frivolous, and empty-headed, but I love you. I know your intentions, your ideals, your power, and your vulgarity, but I love you. I know you're a second-rate, but I love you.
This is the most touching love story I have ever seen. Love makes people blind and sober. Blindness and sobriety do not conflict here. Love dissolves all contradictions.
"How can you see me and still love me?" is my favorite line in the whole movie.
-05-
If life is about to end,
Do you want your partner to hide or tell the truth?
We were as overwhelmed and unacceptable as Oliver when we learned that Jenny was running out of time. Their lives are just starting to pick up, and Gianni is only 25 years old, but this is an unchangeable fact. Life is always one problem after another. Oliver can't tell Janney the truth, he can only bicker with Janney and go about his business as usual. He can't show that something is wrong, how normal and relaxed he looks, how much forbearance and restraint he has behind his back.
If I were Jenny, I would definitely not be able to accept that my significant other was alone in this pain, that he would be in pain and be sad and pretend that nothing happened. You can't let your last days pass unknowingly, because you can only cherish it if you know your life limit. How much time we waste on meaningless things, if you realize that life has a limit, and the limit is approaching, I'm going to do what I want to do to my heart's content and spend today like there is no tomorrow. (I understand this now, but I'm having a hard time doing it. I understand that the twenties don't come anymore, but I'm still in the dark.)
Don't suffer silently, tell me, be by my side and accompany me to spend the last time of my life, I don't want to be unconscious, pain is just one of the emotions that life needs to endure.
-06-
Is a father's love really obscure and unforgivable?
It was said earlier that this is not just a story about love, but about family.
The way the heroine and the father talk makes the hero very puzzling. They are like close friends, while the hero and the father are so estranged that they seem to be two enemies. The father of the male protagonist wants to use his connections to let his son go to law school, but he does not agree with his son to marry a female protagonist from an ordinary family. But such an arrogant father, Harley II, only said in a good voice when his son took Jenny to drive away from the house angrily: Don't drive too fast, the most important thing is to arrive safely.
The always arrogant father took the initiative to send an invitation letter when his son had never contacted the family, just as he was approaching his 60th birthday. The young Oliver declined the invitation angrily. I was also very angry that he refused.
I don't know the relationship between father and son very well. I often quarrel with my father ignorantly and never give in. I am very confused, why my father could have a big fight a few minutes before us, he came back from a trip, You can carry a bag of things and say to me with a smile: I just went to the market to buy your favorite food. It's obvious that my anger has not subsided, and I don't know what I'm doing with this person who loves me so much. If you give me one step, I might go down.
The father is not purely for himself. He wants his son to go to law school in the hope that he can have a good future, but the wrong use of his own resources will damage his son's self-esteem and the fairness of education. He loves his children too much, and in the way he thinks is right, he's so wrapped up in his own ideas that he doesn't think Janney is worthy of his son. He wanted to do his best to give the best to his son, but for a father who has been proud of his life, what is the unforgivable mistake of loving his child like this? Besides, he has already bowed his head first.
When his father learned that Jenny was seriously ill, he went to the hospital to visit in person, although Jenny had died at this time. Although he didn't accept Jenny before, I think my father has already accepted this daughter-in-law in his heart after seeing his son's firm choice. The young Oliver couldn't see it. He didn't think his father would be happy to help Jenny, so he went back When borrowing money, I would rather admit that I had trouble with other women out there than tell the truth.
Harley II was not so inhumane, not so cold. He was just a seemingly proud but humble father. At the door of the hospital, perhaps finally realizing his fault, he apologized to his son, and Oliver said to his father what Janney had said to him: "love means never say sorry."
Did Oliver also understand and forgive his father's love, and did he always love his own father?
View more about Love Story reviews
