Once "Boundless Sea of ​​People": The moment when five thunders hit the top

Alta 2022-04-20 09:01:44

A movie made by a DV, an unnamed male lead and an unnamed female lead, an unknown director, an actor with no star face, and won an Oscar with just six songs. The charm of Once lies in this. What happened in the movie has happened to anyone, it is the kind of person you meet in a vast sea of ​​people, and you feel very connected. You come together because of some inexplicable talk, like the vacuum cleaner being dragged on the ground in the movie. Then a certain thing or a certain action or a certain sentence suddenly makes you feel like a thunderclap, and you will say to yourself in your heart, That is it. That's it. Such a moment. That's how she or he is.

Once inside, Girl was playing the piano in the store, and the moment when Guy squatted down and looked at her, was the moment of thunder. Moments like this can happen to anyone. No matter who you are, celebrity or common man, Romeo and Juliet, Charles and Diana, Murdoch and Wendi Deng, Dublin vacuum cleaner repairman and Czech flower girl. You may be together, but for the most part, you end up separated. Afterwards, you bridge to bridge, road to road, become two strangers passing by in the vast world. It may just be that old piano or a thin CD that connects you all together.

But who says you haven't been in love? Although at the most passionate time, it was only four o'clock in the morning, saying "Let's go to London together" with tiredness and passion after the recording, or lighting up the lights to write lyrics for his songs on a winter night, the CD was out of battery, wearing pajamas, Take the piggy bank and go to the grocery store to buy it, and then, regardless of the eyes of others, listen to the CD and sing If you want me while walking. Who says you haven't been in love? At the seaside, he asked, do you love him? She said, Mam térád. In Czech, Mam térád means I love you. You have loved in languages ​​inaudible to each other.

The director was very smart and didn't let them pick up even the kiss. I think that in such a simple relationship, connecting kisses is ruining the atmosphere. It's not kissing, it's not going to bed, it's not getting married; you think that the moment when the thunder hits the top is the beginning of happiness; in fact, that moment is happiness.

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Once quotes

  • [first lines]

    Heroin Addict: Fuckin' deadly you are, man.

    Guy: Don't fucking... don't fucking go near that case.

    Heroin Addict: What? I'm just tying me laces, man.

  • [repeated line]

    Guy: For fuck's sake...