In the cold winter, I wanted to watch a bright summer movie, so I turned to this 1996 drama by accident.
Most of the families in the play live as literary and art workers. They are unruly, and even seem absurd to ordinary people like me. Among several characters, the old man named Alex may be the most embarrassing. The heroine Lucy came back from abroad and went to the resort where she once vacationed to find her father and her first love. She was young, beautiful and full of vitality in her twenties. Alex is a writer with terminal leukemia, and spent his later years in a mountain village in his fifties.
Lucy first saw Alex by her window sill. It was a man shaped like dead wood, wearing a straw hat and hanging water, as if he was waiting to die. She just looked at it for a while and backed away.
One night they met and chatted, smoking marijuana. Although they were talking about sex, Alex didn't go overboard, even if their faces were so close for a moment, and she didn't hide. Alex just touched her slender ankle when he was sitting, and sniffed the back of her hand deeply.
Alex, who came to breakfast the next morning, looking refreshed and a different person, said Lucy was irresistible.
One day another guest came. The little girl brought by the guest took Lucy and ran away to play together. Alex looked at their backs, and Lucy looked back at him. It might be an unintentional action, but it made the slender and sentimental Writers are caught in deeper, unable to extricate themselves.
When he saw a man of his age approaching Lucy to talk, he tried to persuade her, saying no that person was not suitable. If Lucy likes someone in each age group of the old, middle and young, maybe Alex hopes that he is the only one in his age group.
The hostess of the villa has been taking care of Alex, like a close relative. Although she is no longer young and beautiful, she is steady and reassuring. Once Lucy got angry and left everyone, but was happy because the first love he was looking for appeared, and he forgot about his anger. But Alex was sitting outside her window still remembering, and asked the hostess if Lucy was still angry with him, that expression was cramped, nervous, disturbed, like a child who did something wrong, afraid that she would never take care of him again. .
Lucy broke his leg while riding his bike to find his first love. Alex carefully held his leg on his knee, carefully rubbed the wound, and carefully inflated the wound. Those playboys and swingers could play tricks on him, but he regarded them as treasures. However, the love was so careful and obedient that he was either ignored or regarded as a pervert. Lucy's attitude towards this was probably ignoring, and he didn't refuse his outrageous initiative (nothing more than kissing the cheek).
Alex knew that his time was short, and when he knew that Lucy knew a little French, he said in French "a frivolous indulgence before death", "you allow me to be a little frivolous", and Lucy just kissed him lightly on the cheek Walking away, Alex smiled helplessly. The uncle, who is so old and has a short life, has been wandering all his life, but he is still devoted to a young girl, and he is still addicted to her beauty, which is really frivolous.
Lucy showed Alex a poem that his mother left to him. This poem expresses the encounter and love between his mother and Lucy's biological father. Alex gently hugged her and half-laid on the bed and read the poem, no matter the light, the environment or the atmosphere. It was in place, but nothing happened. When Lucy asked Alex how many times he had been in love, he became a little manic, he didn't dare to tell her his love, but the mania ended in depression in the lightly stroking fingers, pinching her arm , Mosuo gently on the smooth skin and tell her not to give up. He wanted to be nice to Lucy and to accompany her to accomplish his goals, but he knew it was impossible.
When Lucy brought an unfamiliar young man back for the night with the help of alcohol, although Alex was at a loss, in the end he just said softly, let's go, and didn't let Lucy hear it clearly. After all, he is old, and what should come will always come. He just hopes that this man is good enough. The screenwriter showed his ups and downs step by step, and after the succession and transformation, it came to the end.
After that, the terminally ill day finally arrived, which may also be due to Alex's giving up on certain things, which can be said to be death of the heart but not a complete death. In the tangle of thousands of turns, God made a choice for him. The hostess of the manor kindly used her hat to shield Alex on the stretcher from the sun. At this moment, he was still the girl who couldn't let go. He even said that it was the doctor's fault and that he could have walked. This is for Lucy. , She hid behind the stone statue where they met for the first time, not daring to go forward to say goodbye, Alex was already pale and haggard like a different person, he knew that Lucy had left him, that he did not belong to him, and he did not need his care, and He can't do anything, he can't even manage himself, how can he manage her.
In the ambulance, he said he just liked looking at Lucy and thought she was beautiful. Lucy gave him a marijuana cigarette tied with a red bow, which was the medium that opened up their first communication. He joked that maybe he could use this to share with the nurses in the hospital. She kissed him lightly on the chin, so close to his lips, and lay on his chest for a while. She cares about her kisses very much, just like cherishing her virginity, thinking that she should leave it to the first love boy who kissed her for the first time. Alex has never kissed her or greeted her lips. The ceremonial marijuana smoke was squeezed tightly in his fingers, and then Lucy wrote a poem as the end of himself and him: "I feel like shit; You look like gold".
However, this farewell will not be long. The final outcome is that Lucy is with the real first love. Under an old tree, the sunset shines on the young face, and two young people full of vitality are leaning against each other. At the end of the scene, she is so natural when she accepts her lover's kiss goodbye, with a casual red short skirt, long hair stained with dead leaves, and a sloppy pace to go home. Life is moving forward after all.
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