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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Extended Reading
  • Adolf 2022-03-25 09:01:23

    The old man fell in love with the girl, loved everything that her youth and body symbolized, but did not read her soul and thoughts. He didn't cherish what he thought would be lost from the beginning. It never occurred to him that she would fall in love as his righteous lover.

  • Alexane 2022-04-02 09:01:14

    I don't know, I just came to see the show. But the director is very good, and there is a scene in the back where leaves fall, which makes me sad.

Elegy quotes

  • David Kepesh: [interview on the Charlie Rose show] We're not all descended from the Puritans.

    Charlie Rose: No?

    David Kepesh: There was another colony 30 miles from Plymouth, it's not on the maps today. Marymount it was called.

    Charlie Rose: Yeah, alright, you mention in your book...

    David Kepesh: The colony where anything goes, went.

    Charlie Rose: There was booze...

    David Kepesh: here was booze. There was fornication. There was music. There was... they even ah, ah, ah, you name it, you name it. They even danced around the maypole once a month, wearing masks, worshiping god knows what, Whites and Indians together, all going for broke...

    Charlie Rose: Who was responsible for all of this?

    David Kepesh: A character by the name of Thomas Morton.

    Charlie Rose: Aah, the "Hugh Hefner" of the Puritans.

    David Kepesh: You could say that. I'm going to read you a quote of what the Puritans thought of Morton's followers: 'Debauched bacchanalians and atheists, falling into great licentiousness, and leading degenerate lives'. When I heard that, I packed my bags, I left Oxford, and I came straight to America, America the licentious.

    Charlie Rose: So what happened to all of those people?

    David Kepesh: Well, the Puritans shot them down. They sent in Miles Standish leading the militia. He chopped down the maypole, cut down those colored ribbons, banners, everything; party was over

    Charlie Rose: And we became a nation of straight-laced Puritans.

    David Kepesh: Well...

    Charlie Rose: Isn't that your point though? The Puritans won, they stamped out all things sexual... how would you say it?

    David Kepesh: Sexual happiness.

    Charlie Rose: Exactly. Until the 1960s.

    David Kepesh: Until the 1960s when it all exploded again all over the place.

    Charlie Rose: Right, everyone was dancing around the maypole, then, make love not war.

    David Kepesh: If you remember, only a decade earlier, if you wanted to have sex, if you wanted to make love in the 1950s, you had to beg for it, you had to cop a feel.

    Charlie Rose: Or... get married.

    David Kepesh: As I did in the 1960s.

    Charlie Rose: Any regrets?

    David Kepesh: Plenty. Um, but that's our secret. Don't tell anybody.

    [laughter]

    David Kepesh: That's just between you and me.

  • George O'Hearn: Life always keeps back more surprises than we could ever imagine.