A coming-of-age ceremony

Al 2022-04-24 07:01:15

"Once upon a time I wanted to know what love was, love is everything if you wanna it to be . You just see the striking beauty spread out in your every second of life. if you don't stop for minute, you might miss it. (Once upon a time, I wanted to know what love is / As long as you pay attention, love is everywhere / You will see its beauty in bud, blooming in every moment of your life / If you have no time to stop, you will miss it.)"
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"The common task of all art forms; perhaps, to preserve and pass on to future generations those things that are collectively called beautiful in their inherent form. After watching this film, I may be able to say, I have seen the most peaceful static beauty. Those moments that are frozen in pieces. Composition, quietness, tranquility and elegance.
Perhaps, it is not because we do not have the ability to discover the beauty of this world. It is because many times, we have ignored There are too many things that we should not have missed. And when all these are gone, we will suddenly realize it with regret."
- Vulcan Ji.


Any independent thought in each film that has shining points is worthy of recognition. I still look at it as a literary film, or a literary commercial film. Some say it's a warm and calm movie. I think it should be an imaginary serenity and stillness to satirize the impetuousness and powerlessness of the moment. Those shots that amazed us were when the frozen second came, and it made me feel like magic was coming - just a blink of an eye and a twitch of the knuckles, time was frozen. All the people and things around, the whole world and the whole universe are still. Sean began to do whatever he wanted in a world of pure love and beauty that he had been hiding in his body since he was a child: gently open the woman's clothes, the most perfect artwork in the world, the plump ketone body in the The frozen art under his pen is endowed with simple but noble value. In the blink of an eye, the world is turning as usual, everything is as usual. There are so many esoteric ideas in this movement and stillness!
There are two relationships, one after the other. The former leads Sean to the confusion of time in the whole world. It is precisely this kind of pain that makes him discover another pure and quiet girl in the helpless fear of insomnia and the passage of time - many times, maybe the person who turns the corner is the real one. people waiting for you. I am very happy to see such a beautiful ending. The half-moving and half-quiet snowflakes are floating and hovering little by little. Two warm people and a pair of warm lips are slowly approaching. Another clean space... The muttering continues throughout the film, citing the passage quoted at the beginning. In the past, I always liked a tragic ending, but now I prefer to see a perfect ending instead of being fragile. I originally meant to understand it as a kind of truth that gradually became honest and genuine expectations for the world.
The narration-like monologue that continues throughout the film makes it feel like Sean has been telling a painless story to himself. Things happen for granted, a boy's coming-of-age ceremony, a gradual clarification of sex and love. This approach seems to have become the hallmark of literary films, but I still like it. This sprawling plot like walking alone sets the tone for the quiet and simple tone of the film.

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  • Ben Willis: You can speed it up. You can slow it down. You can even freeze a moment, but you can't rewind time. You can't undo what is done. I thought about what she had seen. I thought about what she hadn't seen. I thought about how I could explain, but the more I thought about it, the more I knew nothing I could say would make her anger go away. How long could I just wait here, delaying the inevitable?

  • [first lines]

    Ben Willis: It take approximately 500 lbs to crush a human skull. But the human emotion is a much more delicate thing. Take Suzy, my first real girl friend. My first real break-up, happening right in front of me. I never thought it was going to be similar to a car crash. I've slammed the breaks, and I'm skidding toward an emotional impact. So, is this all my fault? Me, Ben Willis. It's funny what goes through your mind at a time like this. The two and a half years we spent together. The promises we made. The holidays we took with her parents. The lamp we bought at IKEA together.

    Ben Willis: It was my final year at art college. And in the weeks that followed the break-up, I tried to figure out what went wrong. Why did we break-up? It's funny, but when I think back now, the reasons seem so small. One day she's with me and she's saying I love you, and the next week she's with someone else, probably saying the same thing. So did she really love me? What is love, anyway? And is it really that fleeting?