That's what happened to Stanley in the movie. As a science male, he has exerted his rationality and paranoia to an outrageous level. In his spare time, he devoted himself to practicing magic. He was critical of every performance like a Virgo. Live to expose their tricks, it is simply Holmes of the "psychic world"! Not being swayed by feelings is his most prominent feature. Like all science students who are confident in reason, Stanley's biggest misunderstanding is that his love is also the result of an equation.
The reality gave him a slap in the face with a smile. When Stanly asks himself, what is the result of beauty, sexiness, maturity, and logic? On the right side of the equation is his sane girlfriend, Olivia, who he takes for granted as his perfect match. But the fact is that the beautiful but immature, sexy but illogical "little psychic" Sophie is his true love (true love should also be beautiful and sexy, this face-seeing world!). For Olivia, who was a perfect match for him, he didn't even have the desire to propose, but for Sophie, he was clumsy and determined, dedicating his talent and fun to her.
It always reminds me of what Anderwood said when he proposed to Claire in House of Cards: "If you just want happiness, reject me. I'm not going to have a bunch of kids with you and retire counting the days. I promise you're safe from These pains are never boring." Money, travel, insurance, go to hell! What I will offer you is adventure and fun.
This is love, it is uncontrollable. We can choose our own classes, we can make our own career plans, we can be our own gods, and design our own life in this society - except for love. We can't decide when, on what occasion, and how we know who, and we can't control him to make him love us. These unexpected factors make love as wonderful as magic, filling the sweetest corners of our hearts.
I love this movie, besides its halo as a diehard Woody fan, because it reveals the relationship between love and death. Stanly's seemingly extreme words imply the question, when death is an indisputable result, what is there to expect in life? What is there to appreciate about flowers, what is there to go on a seaside vacation, the ending is a death sentence! Had no choice but to pierce other people's hope in God. Yes, without love, without accidents, without these uncontrollable factors, what's the point of living?
Humans have such a strong desire to control, and reason urges us to make everything in an orderly manner, and then overlook our own equation-like life like God, thinking that we are extremely happy. But what about after the plan? When we see the inevitable end of death? The best option at this time is to commit suicide with the vision of realizing this perfect plan, because after that, all accidents can only be a headache of "not going according to plan", and there will be no more happy days.
Fortunately there is love. After the atheists have planned everything, love gives us a reason to live, makes us willing to taste the fragrance of flowers, willing to go to the beach for vacation, and more importantly, makes us forget the death sentence we have been sentenced to from birth. In "Midnight in Paris", Woody uses Hemingway's dictation to tell the truth of love: when you meet true love, when you kiss her, you will feel as if you are immortal.
As Milan Kundera wrote, God exists in two ways. One is that he directs our lives like a puppet, and the other is that he just invents a series of rules for people and the earth. In the second case, praying to God is like praying to Edison for a broken light bulb. So, maybe God really exists. He designed a sure death and unpredictable love. Otherwise, where does this wonderful magic come from?
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