How should we face it!

Trystan 2022-03-27 09:01:23

In an old-young relationship, the younger one always has the upper hand, although that doesn't mean she or he will be hurt less than the other after the relationship ends.
This film has been on the computer for nearly a month, and because the subtitles have not been released, I have not watched it.
I finally waited for the subtitles. After reading it, I was only amazed. The whole film did not have any clutter and procrastination (unlike domestic blockbusters, which treat the audience as fools, and there are always redundant shots and dialogues), and the beauty is simplified to Extreme, and extraordinarily rich.
Just when I was reading another book "Legacy" by the author Roth, there were also thoughts and sentiments about the impending decline of human beings.
The male protagonist is portrayed as a realist, which means that no matter how splendid he is in love and career, how well he works, and how old and strong he looks, he is actually more incapable of facing the upcoming or upcoming events than the average person. get old.
No amount of experience can equal his sharp-edged youth. He lost his self-confidence. The feeling that the old house is on fire is not because of how beautiful the other party is, but because he can no longer take advantage of this relationship. The fate of being abandoned is like a sharp sword hanging over his head, and it may fall at any time, but he can't figure out how to bear the pain. Just imagining the result that will come is enough to torture people. . Interestingly, we are often intimidated by our own imaginations, and reality is never as euphoric or scary as our imaginations.
The absence of the graduation party is actually not because of the fear of being accused of "old cows eat young grass", but because of the fear that after the relationship is made public, the result of failure will only add a deeper sense of humiliation.
I can understand that when he received Consula's phone message a few years later, the feeling of being judged with a bang, the hand that was holding the microphone could not help shaking, at this moment, he had no choice but to muster up. Have the courage to face that already known problem.
Although I never saw Penelope as a real beauty, she showed me her beauty in this film. Although she is not really young, at least much older than the heroine set in the movie, but it is just right, too young beauty, can not carry such heavy emotions.
I remembered a movie I watched last year, "The Last Eros", which is also the theme of youth and old age. The larger age gap between the hero and heroine makes youth and old age more pure.

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Elegy quotes

  • George O'Hearn: Beautiful women are invisible.

    David Kepesh: Invisible? What the hell does that mean? Invisible? They jump out at you. A beautiful woman, she stands out. She stands apart. You can't miss her.

    George O'Hearn: But we never actually see the person. We see the beautiful shell. We're blocked by the beauty barrier. Yeah, we're so dazzled by the outside that we never make it inside.

  • David Kepesh: I think it was Betty Davis who said old age is not for sissies. But it was Tolstoy who said the biggest surprise in a man's life is old age. Old age sneaks up on you, and the next thing you know you're asking yourself, I'm asking myself, why can't an old man act his real age? How is it possible for me to still be involved in the carnal aspects of the human comedy? Because, in my head, nothing has changed.