The greatest surprise of man is to find himself old

Winona 2022-03-29 09:01:10

Am I getting old?
Critics say the film is suitable for middle-aged people.

The man stood in front of the window with a very shy old lonely back, outside the window was the pattering rain~
There is nothing more worrying than this.
But looking at the back,
it turns out that this is not a story about a mid-life crisis or a strange middle-aged uncle or the seven-year itch.
It's about love itself.
Just like "Lan Yu" is also about love itself, that's all. (Sorry, I'm talking about the original "Beijing Story")

Yes, that's what makes me happiest about this movie,
it's love itself,
it's not a story of a knowledgeable old professor and an ignorant schoolgirl,
there's nothing in it "Worship", "Electra", "Lolita", "obscene"... a mess of impurities;
but there are "jealousy", "tears", "attachment", "ears and temples", "lies", " Out of control"
...and the seaside, the darkroom, and of course SEX (not pretending to be a B, but for fear of getting caught)
plus,
if Ben Kingsley always uses Sartre's language to talk about love, it's screwed Yes ,
but he didn't,
the beautiful breast is "this is the most beautiful breast I've ever seen" (not pretending to be a B, I'm afraid of being caught by a river crab), not Venus Helen or any other expression about the worship of matrilineal reproduction;
"As long as you're panicking, you can call me"
"I was just passing by to see a friend and stop by to see you"
"Want to go to the opera?"

um~~~~ That's love itself .
The only problem with their love,
aside from the man's need to act in harmony with the values ​​of the Puritan life,
is the 30 years of age sandwiched between the two.
Not only does the man always want to use this as an excuse to end the relationship, but
even the director thinks that this is an insurmountable problem,
so in the end, he ingeniously makes the woman get cancer, and forcefully puts
the distance between the two of them. Pulling closer, the
woman said: Now I think I'm older than you.
Well~~~ everyone is relieved, now they can finally be together.

I liked the look of Ben Kingsley, an old man,
a moderate and shrewd rational middle-aged man,
if only pagans were like this.
Penelope Cruz
was stunned. When her photos in the darkroom were revealed, they were about to become immortals~~

Ahem, in the end, love is:
"scatter, scattered
those things that appear
and sometimes disappear. Falling.
Those who can't be caught
are the real ones."

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Extended Reading
  • Kelli 2022-03-25 08:01:01

    "The future with you terrifies me, and the relationship of my life has passed in a hurry, because this way I can convince myself that I am not alone..." Except for the slightly clichéd cancer news at the end, the truth of the film It really hit me. The exhausted and decaying body has never compromised in the face of desire, but it is inevitable that it will gradually lose self-confidence. Aging is indeed a helpless and delicate thing, just like the beginning of the film

  • Christa 2022-03-31 09:01:09

    If there is more courage and affirmation, it will be happy. The blank space at the end is limitless to imagination.

Elegy quotes

  • Consuela Castillo: Beautiful picture.

    David Kepesh: Beautiful woman.

  • 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.