love and time

Margaretta 2022-03-25 09:01:12

Yesterday I watched Hong Kong Embarrassment, and I read this film today. The previous film always wanted to make up for the incompleteness of my first love, and the latter film was two people who finally overcome a different place but can't go back to the past.
In fact, there is no comparison between the two films, but they let me see one thing in common. For many people, regret is the most beautiful. As for love, sometimes some people believe in some past clips so much that even after breaking up, many people will always say that I don’t think there will be a more suitable person in the future even if they start a new relationship. If you just think about a wound, it has just started to heal and you let it continue to bleed, so repeatedly reminding yourself how can you make the wound heal.
For example, Xu Lai in Hong Kong 囧中, found a goddess's first love, and they all had the same interests, but they separated because the goddess was going to study in Hong Kong, until there was a girl from the management school who was neither as beautiful as the goddess nor could draw with him. After taking care of her, she is about to get married. She has always had her first love in her heart, and she has always felt that no one is more suitable than the goddess. Another example is Anna in this film crying and saying to Jacob that no boy can enter my heart like you. In fact, in the end, Xu Lai of Hong Kong 囧 can finally kiss his first love but hesitated. Anna and Jacob in this film are in close contact with each other. But can't get close.
Talking about the shooting method of this film, the director did not focus on the narrative, but put together different time periods in a way similar to the MV. The scene is very simple, and most of it is the difference in the eyes, expressions and words of the protagonists at different times.
The director took 90 minutes to film a very complete process - the sweetness of falling in love just now, so much so that the visa was about to expire, but he refused to leave, endured the difficulty of communication caused by the time difference and the different life circles in different places, and then to each other. I can't stand the endless cycle of being lonely and derailed, and then reuniting and breaking up, until all my feelings are exhausted. It is very ironic that the director gave the last scene with good intentions. The two took a shower together, but they were very embarrassed. In the end, both of them remembered the sweetness and beauty when they were just in love, and hugged stiffly. Seeing this here is a kind of sad feeling, not because of the plot but human nature. We are not used to admitting loss, because we are unwilling to admit that it takes a lot of time that we should enjoy, not only love, but also a lot of family love and career, and relying too much on many things that we could choose has made us embark on many more twists and turns. journey.
Movies always like to shoot sweet and greasy pictures of lovers falling in love, and the shots are very gorgeous, so many people will feel uncomfortable or even want to get back together after breaking up. It is true that love is a small probability event. Think about it if there are only 100 people in a working environment. If two people like each other, there is only a 1 in 10,000 chance. The feeling that you like me and I happen to like you is very wonderful, and it is not sweet enough. Surprising. But how long is the shelf life of love, no one can say clearly, in such a complex space of time, there are too many possibilities for change. If the protagonists of this film who have broken up and reunited can think rationally, whether they like the wonderful feeling of liking each other or need more company, maybe we will find that many things are not irreplaceable, and there is no time span. But the hurdle of the past, if you really persuade yourself to lower it. There are too many important things in our daily life but only a short and limited time, whether it will be easier to think rationally.
Suddenly I thought of Hemingway and his first love. I read their story when I was in junior high school. I liked that story very much at that time. The love of war hurts. Hemingway's love ends with the other party getting engaged to someone else. , I also don't understand why Hemingway tried to get back with him on the eve of the nurse's engagement, but he said the end calmly. Later, I read his biography and learned about his several marriages. He may be just a person who can lower himself. If he can tell the difference, if he loses it, he doesn't want it. Think of the endorsement, love in real life or real human love is far less lasting and infatuated than the movie depicts. Even a legendary woman like Chanel, even if her soul mate dies, she still has countless couples, and she once said that wearing a black dress all her life has changed with the passage of time. People are impossible animals who will not try again if they fail in love, and they are far less innocent than the "only you are irreplaceable" that they said in their mouths.
The so-called great love needs the coincidence of timing and emotional chemical changes, and then embarks on the long road of holding the hand of the child and growing old with the child.

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  • Anna: [on the phone with Jacob] I just have to say one thing and it's really important that you just listen to me. I just... It doesn't feel like this, this thing is gonna go away, it's always there. I can't... I can't get on with my life.

  • Anna: It's someone that is very close to me and he's been quite an inspiration in my life. And i almost through my writing i wanted to give something back.

    Liz: Yeah, when i was reading it just made me think about the fact when i was working in NY, my husband was in LA, so he was driving across country. So, on the way over he would take all these pictures of himself and the dog at varies places. So, I sent photos of me and we got all them together and they were all the moment and time being separate, but yet we were together on these photographs.

    Anna: Yeah, that's the challenge!

    Liz: Yeah, it's hard. It made me missing more...