"Millennium Actress": If you don't love me, I'll be old

Wilbert 2022-03-24 09:03:06

The 2001 movie is only watched now, which is a bit late; but if you watch it a few years younger, you may not have such a feeling.
When love becomes immortal, it's in the movies; when love becomes hysterical, it's self-inflicted in life. There is such a curse in "Millennium Actress": Chiyoko drank the Millennium Tea and fell into the fate of "being burned by the fire of love forever". The phrase "I must go to meet you again" in Girls' Generation has become a vow that has been entangled for thousands of years. After pursuing it for a lifetime, she has to be indifferent before her death: "What I love is the process of chasing him."
Pursuit keeps her young forever . . So, since when did she begin to age.
When she discovered that the ugly, old witch had the same hemorrhoid on her left face, she was shocked: it was herself. Yes, the person who cast the spell is herself, and she has always been afraid of herself, the self that she is afraid of aging, and her doubts about herself. She had long known that they would never meet again, she didn't even remember what he looked like, she said: I don't want him to see me getting old.
Undoubtedly, Jin Min is kind and has a good heart. The movie didn't let the woman who had suffered for a lifetime end her life with an old face. At the end of the movie, although the elderly Chiyoko closed her eyes, she sat on a rocket with the appearance of a girl and flew to the space she had been going to. "I said I was going to see him!"
So, you see, no matter how unwavering love is, it cannot escape the test of age. Maybe, maybe the Chiyoko in space will meet her lover and share the front line, but why, why does she still need to use the beautiful face of a girl to achieve this consummation in the end.
Yes, the viewer sees hope here and thus affirms the existence of the dream. And I, but hopelessly paranoid into a deep sorrow. It denies my Duras' aesthetic love thinking again. Is there really Andre Young in this world? Is there really an Andre Young who would say to your aging face "I love your devastated face more than your youthful beauty"? Would you believe it if there was a man who said this to you so affectionately, and how would you tell that he wasn't a sophisticated man in Andre Young's gorgeous coat and talking nonstop, take off his coat , and can only reveal a weak and artificial body, unable to escape the captivity of the flesh and reality.
Like Chiyoko, I am afraid of getting old, I can't get rid of my pessimism, and my best vision for love often becomes my lingering demon. It's so beautiful, it's so luxurious that it breaks into pieces with the slightest touch. Because of its preciousness, some people regard it as the most elegant drug to pass the boring life, absorb, integrate, embrace each other, dance, and the soul can sneak out and sneak around.
For me, the most important life experience is the interaction with others, the collision of souls. If there is anything that can support the meaning of my life, I think it is love, and the mutual understanding and sympathy in the soul. My dear darlings, you see, this is a bloody extravagance, and you can always see my problem most clearly, just like you always advised me: be responsible for yourself and not be too casual. And I can never get rid of it. I always face life with such a bloody attitude, so life always throws pots of blood on me. Maybe one day, when I'm too old to face myself in the mirror and all despair hits my face, the poison curse will be unlocked, and the price will be broken dreams.
Aging is destined to happen in life, and dreams are indeed eternal existence. It's a sad pair of contradictions.
So, as I said earlier, too self-willed, doomed to lose.
But, I never gave up willfulness.

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Extended Reading
  • Logan 2022-03-27 09:01:15

    I take this as Jin Min's representative work, because I think that in this work, Jin Min downplayed the desire to use the editing of time and space as a puzzle, and turned to a kind of daily life (this consideration may also directly lead to the most Unlike Jin Min's "The Godfather of Tokyo"), in this way, while retaining its own image characteristics, it also seems a little more approachable to the viewing experience of mainstream filmmakers or film critics.

  • Elwyn 2022-03-22 09:02:31

    The plot is far-fetched and weak, but the shots are really infectious. You and I wake up in a dream, Chiyoko wakes up in a play: always in love, always in pursuit. When she met the painter in her girlhood, it was Clarissa's "beautiful, eighteen-year-old summer morning" in the hours, the same thing that supports her life, the most beautiful thing that has ever bloomed in the dark night Fireworks. The echoes of reincarnation are also expressed very well.

Millennium Actress quotes

  • Old Woman Ghost: I hate you more than I can bear. And I love you more than I can bear.

  • The Man of the Key: Then I'll show you that starry, starry sky, like I promised I would.