The emotional life of a rational middle-aged man

Jermain 2022-03-25 09:01:13

This is a particularly bland story that records the life of masseuse Eva like a running account. Her work, her clients, the conversations she had with her daughter and her daughter's best friends, when they went shopping for clothes, was a little bit of a parental shorthand, but it wasn't very dramatic.
Even love is optional. It doesn't matter if you don't. It seems that there is no loss in talking. Kissing is a business. Fortunately, although the other party (Albert) is very fat, he actually has a bit of connotation, especially his love for his daughter makes them resonate all of a sudden. Although Albert doesn't talk much, he is not a rigid person. When the two got along, Eva kept talking and asking questions. As a smart, humorous, independent middle-aged woman, Eva has a lot of words and expressive expressions, and Albert can ask and answer Eva's various curious questions, or watch with focused and understanding eyes The other party is a good object to talk to.
The story goes on like this, until Eva is surprised to find that one of her female clients is Albert's ex-wife. She has heard a lot of descriptions and evaluations of each other from both sides. After the initial panic, Eva should have developed a voyeuristic smugness. The consistent rational character and the raging fire of gossip that can't hold in his heart. She continued to interact with the two of them, quietly spying on their perceptions of each other, but she didn't expect the betrayal and harm that this spying represented, it was really no zuo no die.
In the end, the double-agent-like illusion was of course exposed, but fortunately her life was not built on a client and a relationship. It's a little embarrassing, but life goes on. The end of the film seems to show that Eva has been forgiven by Albert, and they can resume their relationship. After all, it's not too old to love, who doesn't have some small shortcomings and problems, as a person who can talk to each other, isn't it easier to get along after recognizing some things?
There are a lot of award nominations for this kind of lukewarm film, but it's not my thing. My appreciation level is still more down-to-earth.

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  • Will: Eva was telling me that there are no men at this party that she's attractred to.

    Albert: That's OK, there's no one here I'm attracted to either.

  • Albert: So while you were, uh, being torn, she was poisoning our relationship and poisoning your perception of me. Now why would you want that?

    Eva: I don't know, I mean, except maybe I was trying to protect myself, you know, because, you know, we've both been married before. And you know how things can turn out.

    Albert: What about us? What about protecting us?

    Eva: I didn't protect us.