Not too late, just no direction

Anais 2022-03-22 09:02:21

Everything in the world is changing, and emotions are always changing little.
I also felt the same when I saw the black and white film "Brief encounter". Extramarital love in 1945, or just love, is basically indistinguishable from modern love. If you watch this movie carefully, if you happen to have experienced love seriously, you will not feel that the movie is old and boring at all. The simplified Chinese translation is "Meet Hate Late", I don't think it's inappropriate, the two of them don't feel "late", in comparison, "difficult to continue the relationship" is more accurate, because I think the pain of the hero and heroine lies in "difficulty". continued", not "late". IMDB says the movie is based on a certain drama. The story is simple, without profound truth, and the actors and actresses are not so beautiful, but they are worth watching. I don't know what moved the judges at the time, but I only know that it moved me, who has no personal experience of marriage and no unforgettable history of love. Maybe people who "have personal experience of marriage and unforgettable history of love" will instead. Think movies are boring? Huh, very likely.

-Thursday

Every Thursday, the heroine LAURA will take the train to the city, shopping, lunch, hanging out, watching movies, and then taking the train home at about 5 or 6 in the evening, and before the train leaves, I also go to the small cafe to sit for a while . *Actually, this kind of Thursday is really easy to go wrong...* It wasn't until I met the ALEC doctor on a Thursday that "Thursday" became less black and white. Three or four Thursdays passed, and the two fell in love with each other: LAURA frowned and said, "I always think that Thursday shouldn't come, but I still came." The doctor said, "Me too." Look at this dialogue, it has nothing to do with whether it is "out of marriage", only about love.

- A chance encounter, inevitable love

, LAURA and ALEC watched movies together, and didn't like boring movies; had lunch together, and couldn't help laughing at the ridiculous fiddler; drank tea together, and the electric lights flashed in each other's eyes; rowed boats together, walked through the scenery together The beautiful little stone bridge, how could this couple not have a beautiful love. ALEC says to LAURA: I love your wide eyes, the way you smile , your shyness, and the way you laugh at my jokes.

-Train fantasy

LAURA got on the train happily, looked out the black window, and began to imagine the situation of having fun with the doctor: driving and talking about life. At this time, she was like a child, like a girl who was hit by love. The little prince also said: On the train, only children looked out of the window with full imagination, and only adults stayed in the carriage lazily.

-How to say goodbye

The relationship between the two of them has become so strong that they are about to inevitably develop to the physical stage when they are accidentally interrupted. LAURA rushed to the rainy street, not knowing where to go, not knowing where to go, until she finally found herself spending three hours on the other side of the city. When the doctor found her, it was inevitable to talk about separation at this time. ALEC said, "I know that this is the beginning of the end. Not the end if my loving you but the end of our being together." It's too late, I just feel that it should not continue, and I want to stop, but it's actually very rational. The doctor accepted to go to Africa, and LAURA returned to her husband at home, intending to "don't tell her husband no matter how old he is, because he doesn't want him to be hurt". The doctor's train left, LAURA didn't even give him a hug, because she was disturbed by outsiders, she rushed out the door, as if she had to hit the oncoming train to relieve the lost depression and unspeakable pain, fortunately, she stopped . ALEC has a saying "If you'd die, you'd forget me. I want ti be remembered" Yes, both of them have always been sensible and have never wanted to destroy their family and regroup. They just encounter "love is difficult to continue".

-Coffee or tea

. Every time LAURA goes to the store, it is usually tea or brandy, but this tea also has milk and sugar! What does that taste like!

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Extended Reading
  • Ebony 2022-04-23 07:03:27

    Poetic and delicate, it allows the audience to be infinitely close to every psychological activity of the heroine, until they bring themselves in: you are her, you know that people will inevitably lose their minds, and now is that time, you are surprised and flustered.

  • Katherine 2022-03-24 09:02:51

    Oh, love!~… Oh, youth!~… Oh, romance!~… Just too good to be true!~… Alec & Fred are both truly nice!~… Trevor is really kind of charming!~… Cue the day before yesterday Johnnie in Suspicion, Billy in Kes & Carol & Therese in Carol yesterday… Keats

Brief Encounter quotes

  • Dr. Alec Harvey: I do love you, so very much. I love you with all my heart and soul.

    Laura Jesson: I want to die. If only I could die...

    Dr. Alec Harvey: If you'd die, you'd forget me. I want to be remembered.

  • Laura Jesson: [Secret thoughts] I had no thoughts at all, only an overwhelming desire not to feel anything ever again.