Beginners

Hannah 2022-03-23 09:02:04

"The Beginner of Love", although the official translation is "Beginner", I don't know when this name I heard from elsewhere was preconceived and engraved in my mind.
Mike Mills, as a director, brought such a private and somewhat non-mainstream life experience to the screen, and gradually adjusted the core of his expression during the filming of the film. From the bizarre and topical story core to the protagonist's self-analysis and soul liberation, I don't know if it was intentional or not. This has a subtle connection with Oliver's role of Freud at the party at the beginning of the film. .
The loneliness has a long history. The child sees the short and perfunctory kiss of the father, the repression and resentment of the mother, and the games they often play are the imaginary shooting or hypnosis, the magic in the art gallery, cancer, and death.
The grand theme, does it mean to really live your life once, even if the time is short; does it mean to try to forgive yourself, try to accept happiness, try to get close, and bravely entrust the wailing Arthur, Fly to New York, set off immediately, immediately see the lover's cottage, livingroom, bedroom.
But I am still obsessed with the details, the pictures of the stars, the lions, the giraffes, the president, the smiling faces of people, the kisses, the crying, the gay people of the year, the fireworks. The world is full of vicissitudes, and the sky is changing. No one can live a life completely according to their own wishes. Often we will happily lead the giraffe and forget the lion in our dreams.
The anticancer drugs that disappeared in the toilet bowl, the withered flower branches in the mother's vase, and the black and white photo of them still standing together lovingly, not deceit, just like the mother did not know she was Jewish before the age of 13, but took a group photo in the swimming team Li smiled, his father didn't know his sexual orientation until he was 13 years old, and even if he did, he always thought that his mother could be "cured". We are all honest, but we are also toyed with by life.
I like Anna's hair, blond and slender, loose or rolled up at will, with Melanie Roland's delicate face, the literary atmosphere is blowing. Her red dress, her blue nightgown, her somewhat gruff voice in French, everything was just right. Also, Anna is honest, she says she doesn't know if she's happy or not, but doesn't want to leave.
I don't know if I'm happy or not, but I don't want to leave.
Even if I leave and go to LA, knowing that you are at the door of my apartment in NY, and I just threw away a bunch of flowers that I was going to give to me, I will happily tell you where the spare key is, and guide you there, This is my window, my bedroom, my wardrobe, my clothes. So happy that you can come to me and I will come back to you.
Arthur's little eyes are too hurtful, his little claws are too soft, and he is too melancholy to be quiet, one of the best actors!
Even when you were alive, I couldn't and would not be near your life, but when I lost you, I really cried.
You make me laugh but its not funny.
We are all beginners.

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Beginners quotes

  • Oliver: And what about the chair? Is it gay?

    Hal: The chair is not gay, obviously.

  • Oliver: We didn't know how we learned the stories in our heads, but sometimes they stopped running, and I can really see Anna's eyes in 2003. Her ears. Her feet. This is what it looks like when she says, 'I love you,' in 2003. This is what it looks like when she cries. When she tells me there's always a new empty room waiting for her. They used to make her feel free. Now they make her feel the opposite of free.