Desperate screams, powerless defenses, heartbreaking. They were once a couple who couldn't help themselves, but the depth of love was disintegrated in each other's suspicion.
Is passion love? Should there be a clear definition?
I don't know. But when love comes, there must always be a form in order to continue this kind of emotion. As to how it will end, there is no way of knowing.
Alice, a woman who came to London alone, met her boyfriend Jack. I could have lived a simple and comfortable life like this, got married, and had children. It's true that such a turbulent life is less exciting, but it's not too boring. But she had an ordinary encounter with Adam, just in front of the signal light, in a gesture of touching each other's fingers. It's like touching the switch of fireworks, making the silent night sky show gorgeous fireworks...
Everything came too fast, and it was too late to savor it. Of course, she didn't want to savor the reason. Because, the frenzy hidden in her heart exploded instantly with a touch.
Her life lit up. She left her boyfriend desperately and threw herself into Adam's arms. Maybe something out of the ordinary. But in this way, the hopeless love for each other went to the temple of love.
The power of love is strong, so strong that you can give up everything for it, so strong that it gives you enough strength to resist everything...
But sometimes it is also fragile, so fragile that it is not worth the effort of others, and it is shaken, so fragile that you don't need a single blow
... Anonymous threatening letters began to suspect each other...
She doubted his past, suspected his infidelity, and did everything she could to find clues that could prove it; his sensitive and vulnerable behavior because of fear of losing and being abandoned, It exacerbated her suspicions and fears...
and the ultimate truth, Adam's sister was the director behind the farce. And the bromophile sister also died in the chaos.
I want to love fiercely, but why is it so powerless...
We love each other so much, but why can't we get along...
Is it because the love is too hard, or the original love is not enough...
After the fireworks dissipated, the night sky returned to calm again, to the endless black.
At the end, when Alice and Adam meet in the airport elevator, they only stare at each other silently, and then they go their separate ways with obscure expressions. Leaving Alice's incomprehensible question...
"I do not know...Maybe a flatlander like me...can not live at that altitude...Maybe it never would have been possible to sustain what we had... "
I often wonder...what would have happened...if I had not looked up that moring..."
It's not a masterpiece, but it's eye-catching. Somewhat surprising is that this is an old work from Chen Kaige.
Perhaps it is because of Director Chen's consistently gorgeous big productions, that such a simple film comes from his hands, and it doesn't feel good.
Xing Ying never leaves to write 2009.08.09
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