If you knew how you were going to die...

Skyla 2022-12-11 06:19:30

A girl, when she was three years old, was very curious when she saw the flame in the furnace, reached in and touched it, and was burned.

From then on, she knew that flames could not be touched.

Three days later, another girl, who also saw the flames in the furnace, avoided it and did not reach in and touch it.

It's just that she will never know what it feels like to be burned by flames.



This passage comes at the end of the credits when Veronica bursts into tears when the fairy tale writer she has fallen in love with tells her about the opening storyline of the puppet show.

When I saw this moment, it was as if a sap was hit on the top of my head by the Buddha, and I suddenly realized this movie. The next few days are devoted to the understanding and precipitation of "The Two Lives of Flowers".



Another translation of "Two Flowers" is "The Double Life of Veronica", directed by Kirchlovsky. (He also directed the "Red, White and Blue" trilogy, "Ten Commandments" and other famous classic blockbusters)

The plot behind the disc is as follows:
Two girls named Veronica, who lived in two cities twenty years ago Born at the same time, one is Polish and the other is French. They have the same face and the same music hobby, but they have never met each other, but their hearts seem to be connected, as if they feel that there is another self in the world.



This plot synopsis is completely irrelevant to an understanding of the entire movie.

I read the synopsis over and over ten times while I was watching the disc, and I still couldn't understand it. I thought the movie would depict the lives of two girls in parallel, and then eventually they would meet.



It didn't take long for the movie to start, so that I hadn't figured out who the two girls were, when Veronica of France was traveling to a small town in Poland, she was taken by Veronica of Poland who was walking on the campus. Nika saw - this girl from abroad who looked like her.

At this time, when the French V had hurriedly boarded the return tour bus, he was still happily taking pictures out the window.

The Polish V watched V in the car curiously and emotionally. The French V did not see her, but the camera in her hand unconsciously took in the Polish V.

This was the only and last time they saw each other.

Later, Veronica of Poland died of a heart attack while singing high notes.



When she died, I couldn't believe it for the next 20 minutes, because I didn't know how the whole film would develop next, where was the focus?

I've never been so overwhelmed by any movie.

I went to the end of the movie still stubbornly thinking that the French V would at least go to see the Polish V's grave.





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This is a rare good film.



It would have been nice if I had known in advance the film's alternate title, Veronica's Double Life.

The two Veronicas are actually the same person, but they live in different places and have similar lives.

But approximation does not mean exactly the same.

They are like two puppets made by God, one is just a backup of the other in case the other fails, and the remaining one can be used to continue the performance.

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Both girls love music very much, but unfortunately, they both have heart disease .

Both girls were given the opportunity to be lead singers in a major opera.

Veronica of France suffered an angina after a practice session and sat down on the back of a chair in the street. She began to hesitate whether to seize the opportunity to realize her dream.

Poland's Veronica didn't think about anything, and happily took over the job. During the audition, she went to the highest pitch, held back her heartache, and sang the high pitch beautifully and smoothly.



During the performance, Poland's Veronica had already started to feel heartache when she was in the middle and high notes, but she held on to the pain, and vividly exerted the greatest limit in her body, singing, even if she ran out of blood.

Nightingale weeps blood.

She loves music so much, when it was raining in the sky at school, when the chorus classmates went to take shelter from the rain, she still sang, and sang so deeply that she laughed.

No one looked at her, she just loved, wishful thinking, loved.

She went to the opera house to listen to the rehearsal of the boys' troupe. She sat in the back by herself and sat down involuntarily.

She has a talent, and she can control her voice so smoothly and freely.



By this time, every moviegoer couldn't help but fall in love with her.

I fell in love with a girl whose heart was full of noble feelings for music.



In her first performance at the Ten Thousand Opera House, she fainted when she sang the highest note.

A few minutes later, he was pronounced dead.

She is dead.



Unbelievable. I always thought that the doctor was wrong. Even when people gathered around her cemetery, covered the glass of her sleeping coffin, and sprinkled dust, I still stubbornly believed that she could Like a sleeping beauty, I woke up suddenly, knocked on the transparent coffin lid, and told everyone that I am not dead, and I will continue to sing.



Then, Veronica in France felt as if a familiar friend in the world had left.

She went to the music tutor's house and told him: "I decided to quit, give up." The

old man screamed and scolded: "You are giving up your talent, how can you be so selfish!"

She stood outside the door, waiting for the old man to give Another response.

The old man suddenly asked sadly, "Then I will never see you again?"

She nodded, turned to shut the old man's house, and left without looking back.



She became an ordinary music teacher, no longer singing, just teaching children to sing, listening to the melody of the children's singing, pointing out one or two, boring, day after day.



A girl, when she was three years old, was very curious when she saw the flame in the furnace, reached in and touched it, and was burned.

From then on, she knew that flames could not be touched.

Three days later, another girl, who also saw the flames in the furnace, avoided it and did not reach in and touch it.

It's just that she will never know what it feels like to be burned by flames.



Veronica of France is the smart child who knows that flames cannot be touched. She has never touched flames, but she will never know what it feels like to be burned by flames.



Under the guidance of her lover, she finally found out that the girl in the previous photo looked exactly like her, but was not hers.

"It's not my coat, I don't have such a coat, it's not me."

Then, she was uncontrollably sad.

She knew, that was her, that was herself who she always knew existed but disappeared.

The Veronica who dared to touch the flames, even if her hands were scorched, had to experience the taste of the flames.



At the same time, she also knew that she was dead, and now there is only another backup of her, Veronica.

She's just a backup puppet for Veronica.

She thought she lived her whole life, but in fact she was just a backup.

BACKUP.

She still laughed, at least, she found love, even without the flaming singing.



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that, I was completely stunned by the profound meaning given by this film.



A person, if he has a double life, will be like Veronica. One chooses to realize his dreams and ideals desperately until they burn out;



But reality is reality after all. From life to death, we are the only one, one life, how to go, that is your own choice.

We are constantly struggling between ideal and reality, miserable.

We don't have backups, so we don't dare to risk our lives.

We are too greedy. In addition to the realization of our ideals, we always want more and want to live to the fullest, but we are so greedy for life and fear of death.



A girl, when she was three years old, was very curious when she saw the flame in the furnace, reached in and touched it, and was burned.

From then on, she knew that flames could not be touched.

Three days later, another girl, who also saw the flames in the furnace, avoided it and did not reach in and touch it.

It's just that she'll never know what it's like to be burned by fire

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The Double Life of Véronique quotes

  • Alexandre Fabbri: [kissing Veronique's forehead when she's lying upside down on his bed] Let's check and see if we're still bad for each other.

  • Weronika: Not long ago, I had a strange sensation. I felt that I was alone. All of a sudden. Yet nothing had changed.