The deep blue ocean, the naked body drowning in the water, the white snow, the sculpturally frozen body, the out-of-focus blue eyes, the single shadow on the snow-white bed sheet, and the scattered ink.
I have heard of this movie for a long time. Because of Tony's starring, I thought it was probably another tragedy of teacher-student love, with the cold humor and extra cynicism of British films. Unexpectedly, the attraction of young flesh is not enough to become a life's redemption, and the abyss and desperation still cannot be climbed.
Inexplicably remembered, youth withouth youth, youth without youth, that old man inexplicably returned to youth, but in retrospect and confusion day by day, he had no direction and lost everything.
George, a university professor with a London accent, is rigid and self-contained, but he finally breaks down and despairs because of the sudden death of his lover Jim. The tears oozing out of his eyes were remembered after the camera was turned away, and Pentium's helpless cry in the rainy night was all hidden in Julian's warm embrace.
Everything froze, or was just pointless slow motion, weird, and irrelevant.
How to welcome a new day,
how to face every day with a smile,
every end of yesterday,
every loss of previous years.
Until the last moment comes,
this life has no vitality.
In the 1960s, the nuclear terror of the Cold War, the bomb shelter, the Cuban crisis, anti-Semitism, he said, we were controlled in these terrors, driven out.
As a digression, he mentioned that we are afraid that black music will dominate the arena, the commotion caused by Elvis music, and remembered an episode of cold case, the talented young musician of cagey disturbed the calm surface of the people around him because of his difference. Beautiful and sad story of being killed. Sometimes we don't know what we are afraid of, and sometimes we replace virtual fears with figurative ones, thinking that persecuting the tangible will make it easier to escape the ubiquitous shadow.
Speaking of "After many a summer dies the swan", it comes from the Danish poet Lord Alfred Tennyson's work "Tithonus" >. Aldous Huxley used this verse as the title of his novel. Because of the name, I probably still have to look for it.
At the beginning, there was a calm scrutiny in his tone, but later, he said, we were afraid of getting old and single, afraid that when we wasted our life, we would have sadness and vulnerability that could not be concealed. So that the students who have been watching him also noticed it.
A romantic person like him will sincerely praise the beauty of the young front desk and carefully smell the faint fragrance. He loves foxhounds, so he will go over to hug the dog tenderly, and tell the owner about the past in detail. He said, if the world doesn't need sentimentality, then I don't need the world either.
Instead of caring about the bomb shelter, it is better to take a closer look at the beautiful body dripping with sweat.
And the handsome Spanish guy who passed by the store approached and followed him. He was moved by his tenderness, but was surprised because he had nothing to do. The gold digger who came to LA was breathing smoke for his illusory modeling career, for his own Lives want to sell their beauty. It's a pity that his lover is not like a bus. You don't have to wait until there is another one. On his day, everything is for the end, not the beginning.
Whether it's the determination after waking up from a nightmare, or the last unintentional stare at the neighbor, or trying to talk about things in class that you can't talk about before, tidying up the office, tidying up the safe, meeting with close old friends, rehearsing yourself over and over again of death.
The lives of others will continue, and will inevitably move forward step by step, whether it is monotonous repetition, complicated chores, confused lost, or habitual complaints.
However, he decided to die today, so he remembered the lost love more clearly.
The determination when meeting, the temptation when communicating, the sweetness in the period of love, the warmth when the old couple is old. It wasn't a relationship that could be described simply as a minority, nor was it a fad that Julian questioned. That is irreplaceable and harder to replicate.
George was older than Jim, but unexpectedly, it was the sudden coldness of that young body that brought their relationship to an end.
There is a rare moment in my life when it's so fleeting, when I feel more than I think, and I'm attuned to another person.
The moment he saw the sleeping face of the student, his desire for death was pulled back to reality by this freshness, and he suddenly felt that it was not impossible not to die, but unfortunately, it was not vitality, he was destined not to live, or better, he In that dying dream, he was kissed by his lover again, so he was reborn in another world, but of course that was another story, another life.
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