love you silently

Deondre 2022-03-30 09:01:11


The soulful woman is never chatter, she must be deep and silent. It is the solemnity that relies on the energy nourished by the whole body to compete with the disturbance of the world, and still refuses to explain it to the end. In Il ya longtemps que je t'aime (Il ya longtemps que je t'aime), director Claudel constructed the entire plot with Juliette's own killing of her six-year-old son as the deepest secret, which is avoided under any circumstances. Events frame Juliette's present moment to the fullest, her understanding of the world, the people around her, and how it works. And death, the death given by one's own hands, in which its absolute desperation, which rejects dialectics, becomes an insoluble and unusable field, imprisoning a woman's soul. To a certain extent, the distance Juliette maintains from the world is the source of her strength that she will never forget, so she finally has to decide: how can silent mother love resist the forgetting that comes from trivial tenderness? When the unspeakable mother's love is complete and full of tension in a closed inner space, how can it endure the loose tenderness that it merges with the vast world?


Very typical french film. Looking at the world through the eyes of Kristin Scott Thomas, the world is neither chaotic nor frivolous. People and objects are solemn and contemplative. Juliette's situation made me try to understand Zhou Guoping and his Niu Niu again, the parents who I never forgave deprived their children of their lives for all kinds of aesthetic reasons. Innocent, they face the greatest punishment that a child's death can give. The guilt of forgetting is so deep that they cannot face each other.

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  • Monroe 2022-03-26 09:01:15

    It's a pity that the ending was too loose, it would be perfect if it had been boring to the end

  • Mustafa 2022-03-25 09:01:23

    I heard about this movie from a radio show. When the host was telling the story, I had already guessed the reason why the heroine killed her child. While watching it, I was thinking, my mother's concept is "it is better to die than to live", and she must choose to do her best to save lives. As for me, if it is me who is sick, then I think it is better to die happily than to live in pain. But if your loved ones are sick, you must try your best to save them.

I've Loved You So Long quotes

  • Léa: We were there! Didn't we matter?

    Juliette Fontaine: Do you think others matter then - that one cares what they think or do? You were all well and alive! You belonged to the kind one comes to hate for the mere fact that they are there.

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