youthful

Kennedi 2022-03-26 09:01:09

Translated as young and energetic, don't be fooled by the title of the movie and the body of the young woman on the poster. This movie is from the perspective of the elderly from beginning to end. Slow rhythm, bland plot, but this quiet movie has been praised by countless people.
If you don't experience the various discomforts caused by physical aging, you probably can't fully understand the feeling of despair and being punished by the years when facing young people. So I am very suspicious of the origin of the high scores. Those who can really understand are basically not rated, and those who can score are probably children's shoes who express their worries for new words.
Without exception everyone was queuing up to the grave, some going faster, some slower, but if I wanted to stop and catch my breath it was impossible.

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Extended Reading
  • Sammy 2022-03-31 09:01:04

    Many scenes with a sense of ritual have a sense of cumbersomeness, and the language of the film is almost expressed by the predecessors. The Fellini of the 21st century, dominated by the spectacle and the soundtrack. The old yearns for the young, and the young pretends to be old.

  • Sammy 2022-03-31 09:01:04

    Face your fears, go beyond your desires, and put your emotions above all else.

Youth quotes

  • [last lines]

    Fred Ballinger: [sitting in his wife's room] I waited till visiting hours to come and see you. They don't know, Melanie. The children don't know their parents ordeals. Sure, they know certain details, striking elements. And they know what they need to know to be on one side or the other. They don't know that I trembled the first time I ever saw you on stage. And that the orchestra behind my back was laughing at my falling in love. And my unexpected fragility. They don't know that you sold of your mother's jewellery in order to help me with my second piece, when everyone else was turning me down, calling me a presumptuous, inelegant musician. I think they don't know that you too, and you were right that you thought I was a presumptuous, inelegant musician at that time. And you cried so hard. Not because you sold you mother's jewellery, but because you sold your mother. They don't know that we were together, you and I, despite all the exhaustion, and the pain, and the hardship. Melanie, they must never know that you and I, despite everything, liked to think of ourselves as "A Simple Song."Look at me.

    [she staring blankly out the window in her dementia]

  • Miss Universe: I appreciate irony, but when it is drenched in poison, it is drained of its force and reveals something else...

    Jimmy Tree: [pregnant pause] What?

    Miss Universe: Frustration!