Once in a lifetime, have a soft spot

Charlie 2022-03-23 09:03:08

I like this film, I don't know if it's because of the black and white film that it feels purer and sadder. I've seen Lao Xu's version before, it's inevitable to compare each other, and I like this one more.

Lisa's tenderness, compassion, loyalty, and self-esteem moved me. From a little girl to eighteen-year-old youth and then to a mother, the heroine grasps it properly. Especially when the male protagonist starts to recall her, every look in her eyes has the taste that she should have at her age, and the soulless love that hesitating to speak always runs through it. That last night, I thought she would stay. But she didn't. On the way, she met an alcoholic who said the same thing to her, and she really sobered up.

The handsomeness and charm of the male protagonist is indeed more in line with the image of the crush in the hearts of most girls than Jiang Wen. When he finished reading the letter, the tears in his eyes made me read his pain. He was trying to remember everything about her, but he still couldn't remember. The housekeeper wrote her name on the paper. When the camera pulled towards that name, I was so sad.

In my eyes Lisa is actually happy and loved because she is true to her love. Her whole life belonged to him, only him, and he reborn him twice, once to meet and once to have their child.

I also had a deep crush on a person, because I tried a lot to get close to him, and he wanted to know what he liked. When I saw him getting close to other women, my heart was so sad that I could barely beat. Inadvertently, the moment the two of them meet their eyes, they will be crazy, as long as they are within two or three meters, they will be betrayed by the blush on their faces... Maybe this is the only time in this life to love without asking for anything in return.

Lao Xu's version would be better if he could lose some other people and things. Secret love has always been plunged into loneliness, and irrelevant and inhuman feelings are superfluous. However, I like "Pipa Language" very much, "Xianxian covers the voice and thinks", she wrote all her thoughts in the letter, and this song made me understand it even more.

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  • Sandrine 2022-03-27 09:01:19

    There's just enough dialogue to give the movie a classic flavor. But such a long and heavy love makes a woman haggard, and this man is not worthy of it. It is understandable to see that the comments turned out to be the old-fashioned atmosphere of Austria-Hungary, but the film did not show it, it can only be said to be limited by the times. Orpheus, whose lens is not aggressive, is always less interesting. Time to read the original.

  • Kiarra 2022-03-17 09:01:08

    The heroine is much happier than the original, no longer just a faint wind, a sound of music from afar. Qiong Fangden played the countless expressions of the heroine in the three stages too real. Pushkin's Onegin is another ending. Please stop talking about this as a secret love. Is there any fucking secret love in the world? What the heroine pays is an act of lasting love. She only maintains her dignity in front of the stamp collector, and recognizes her, that is, when she sees a special individual in the crowd, it is considered to be love, so this love produces shocking beauty. In Opheles' eyes, accepting a duel to die is a male sacrifice for love. But what is the reason why stamp collectors are flat on their emotions and career? Life is too easy so empty?

Letter from an Unknown Woman quotes

  • Stefan Brand: Honor is a luxury only gentlemen can afford.

  • Stefan Brand: Promise me something.

    Lisa Berndl: Anything.

    Stefan Brand: And I don't even know where you live. Promise me you won't vanish.

    Lisa Berndl: I won't be the one who vanishes.