People will lose the courage to have because they are afraid of losing. The movie "Elegy" is about such a thing. Under the appearance of entanglement of lust, "Elegy" is touching the fear in the depths of the human soul, and the danger of gain and loss.
The story is very simple, the forgotten love between an old well-known scholar and a young female student, the old man likes the girl's stunning beauty and young body, the girl is attracted by the old man's wisdom and grace, so the two people are naturally entangled together.
The erotic scenes of the old man and the girl show not only the beautiful carcass of Penelope Cruz that makes time stand still, but also the entanglement of the souls of the two and the constant closeness of their hearts. The erotic part reminds me of another movie about old people and young girls, Marlon Brando's "Last Tango in Paris". Compared with the sense of despair and emptiness diffused to every corner in "Paris", the erotic part in "Elegy" is delicate and gentle. When the lens gracefully crosses Penelope Cruz's perfect curves, this young and beautiful body makes the old man in the movie and the movie-watching me feel that the world suddenly becomes a better place.
When the old scholar found that he had begun to madly want to know the whereabouts of the girl, and began to feel uncontrollable jealousy after seeing the girl interacting with the young man, he began to be afraid, and being jealous of a person means caring. He will worry about gains and losses, and he will lose himself if he worries about gains and losses. For him who has always advertised himself and freedom, it is fatal. So when the girl expressed her love and wanted to go to her graduation party with him, the old man refused. The girl was sad and crying, and the old man was silent. At that moment, I was very sad, wanting but not being able to be a kind of pain, not even daring to have it is a kind of sadness. The old man's fear is easy to understand. Even if she loves him and worships him now, how will he face this a few years later, when time slowly eats away at his old body, and even when he can't even be happy with her? Young and beautiful life? This is a knot that can never be opened.
This knot was opened when the girl lost her most beautiful breasts to an illness a few years later. The old man embraced the mutilated girl, even though her face was still youthful, but he knew that he could accept this life calmly. The remnant of an old life found some kind of psychological harmony and balance in front of a young but incomplete body. The old man's fear also subsided with this balance.
This is the end of the story of forgetful love, but my heart can't be calm. When you clench your fist, there is nothing in it, and when you open your hand, you have everything. Taoism is free and easy to see the gains and losses of the human heart, but in the eyes of ordinary people like me, will such a truth be too profound, or Too cynic? In the struggle between possession and loss, how can I have a self-justifying reason in my heart to open up myself, so that I don’t have to care too much and can keep my inner calm and calm? I have no idea.
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