Between Reality and Fantasy--Sex and Lucia

Jean 2022-03-24 09:02:53

The first time I saw this movie, I was a little confused because I couldn't tell which was real and which was fake. The second time I saw this movie, I found that the movie was actually very cleverly designed, as the lines in it said:

"This story has an advantage,
it has no ending,
because when it is about to end,
it will fall into a hole in the sea. Inside,
and then starting from the middle,
this advantage is its greatest advantage.
As long as there is time, as long as you give me time,
I can make it start again from the middle."

Lucia

I admire Lucia's courage, she secretly stalked the writer Lorenzo finally confessed to him one day and said that she really wanted to live with him. She said, "You will slowly fall in love with me in the future."

They were really together, Lorenzo was moved by her sincerity, and they lived together together. But after returning home from get off work one day, Lucia received a call from the hospital saying that Luo had been in a car accident. Before the other party finished speaking, Lucia was immediately knocked down, and she lost Lorenzo forever.

She fled the city and took grief to a small island in the Mediterranean. She had heard about the island from Luo many times, but this was the first time she had seen it. She met diver Carlos on the island, and he introduced her to Elena, the hostess of the island hotel. So, Lucia stayed on the island temporarily. Whenever the sun sets and the sun rises, she is alone by the sea, thinking about her past with Lorenzo.

Carlos said the island

is different because it doesn't have a rock that is connected to the bottom of the sea. It is a paradise floating in the middle of the ocean. The island is peaceful and beautiful. There are not many people on the island, but they all seem to have their own stories.

Elena, the host of the island lodge, is an excellent cook and can make a great paella. She has a tragic past: 6 years ago, on a full moon night, she met a stranger on this island and had a one-night stand. They had sex in the sea and had a child as a result, and she named her Luna - Satsuki in honor of the night. However, due to an accident, her daughter died, and she returned to this small island to settle down and never asked about the world.

Carlos' past is a mystery, and everyone knows where he came from and why he is here. Before he got to the island, he lived with a pornographic actress and her daughter. He was once caught up in the two mothers and daughters, and he was attracted to both of them at the same time, and he didn't know how to choose. That daughter, named Bei Lan, had tried to commit suicide.

Lorenzo

Lorenzo is a writer, and he was working with a bookseller on the next book that day, when he was going to buy cigarettes, he was stopped by a young woman, and they sat down. The girl said that she was a loyal fan of his books. She Read every one of his works. Her name is Lucia, she hopes to live with him, and says he will slowly fall in love with her. He was quickly attracted to the girl and they lived together. Encouraged by the booksellers, Lorenzo decided to write some of his experiences into novels, which he wrote every night and then slept while Lucia surreptitiously watched his unpublished work. As the days go by, the two are madly in love with each other and are fascinated.

Lorenzo's Novel

This is Lorenzo's latest novel. It is written that a man, on his birthday, on a full moon night, went on vacation to an island, where he met a beautiful woman, and they had sex in the sea. The woman later became pregnant with his child. The man later learned that the woman lived in the same city as him, and that the nanny would take the child to a square to play every day. He wanted to know what his child looked like, so he went to the square to see her. He met the nanny and the child, the child's name was Xiaoyue. The young nanny's mother was a pornographic actress who had an affair with her mother's lover.

The man was gradually attracted by the energy of the young nurse. One day, the nanny invited a man to guard the child with her. At the moment when the two of them burst into passion, tragedy happened. The child, due to the neglect of the caretaker, was bitten to death by a large dog. The nanny tried to commit suicide because of self-blame, but was unsuccessful. The child's mother left the city in grief and settled on the island.

Reunion - The novel begins again

as in the movie line "The story can be restarted from the middle." Lorenzo woke up from the coma, he came to the island, and met Lucia again. Everything happened in front of Lucia's eyes like a dream. Elena was so moved that she cried, she cried for this happy couple, and her story started anew. She took pictures with Xiaoyue in the square, and Xiaoyue never left.

The postscript

Paz Vega is very beautiful, especially the scene where the two of them are sitting in the open-air Cafe shop looking at their photos, she is really beautiful. She's a bit of a Demi Moore and Winona Ryder hybrid, but a little wild and engaging. The director shot Kojima beautifully, and the handling of the highlights made the place seem unworldly. The soundtrack of the movie is even better. The actor who played Elena played very well. Although she was a supporting role, she was very eye-catching. She liked the scene where she and Lucia stood in front of the hole. She kissed Lucia and said, "You are the best gift from God. Gift." She already knew L wasn't dead, and was looking for Lucia all over the island. Movies make it impossible to tell the difference between the real and the fake, the novels written by L and the real events, some people say that only Lucia and Lorenzo are real in the whole story, the rest are imaginary; some people say that the whole story is The truth is, Lorenzo is the man... I couldn't tell the difference between the real and the fake at the end, but I didn't hesitate to be confused by this story.

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Sex and Lucía quotes

  • Pepe: [At Lorenzo's birthday party] Well, the baby girl was born in Madrid. But she was conceived on a beach, on an island, a night like tonight, with a stranger from Madrid. It was his birthday. If you write this well, it'll be the story of your life. And my birthday gift to you.

  • Lorenzo: The first advantage is at the end of the story. It doesn't finish, it falls in a hole. And the story starts again halfway. The other advantage, and the biggest, is that you can change course along the way... If you let me. If you give me time.

    Elena: All the time you want.