People often ask for recommendations for movies suitable for couples to watch together, and there is a very evil answer to "True Love Trilogy": American Beauty, Revolutionary Road, and Gone Lover. If you've seen any of them, you know. "45th Anniversary" also belongs to this series of excellent works.
After 45 years of marriage, whether or not there have been bumps and stumblings, in the eyes of many people, "evenness is also happiness", and it must be old and stronger. However, an accidental little thing made his wife discover that for 45 years, there was another shadow in her life. On an ordinary morning a week before the 45th wedding anniversary, the husband received a letter that the remains of an old love who had disappeared in Switzerland 50 years ago had been found. This delicate accident was the beginning of the disintegration of a 45-year relationship. . The slow unfolding of this secret is as trivial and meticulous as life, which is also the style of this film. There are no twists and turns and fiery emotional catharsis, only the normality of life and imperceptible tender emotions.
Imperceptible emotions are naturally not expressed through dialogue, let alone the inner monologue of a native turtle. The director uses many externalized symbols: life is as oppressive and gloomy as the dense fog in England in the morning, the loneliness of the wife walking the dog alone; the husband's 45-year secret is hidden in the attic, and the feeling is also hidden in the inner attic Until it was turned out; the wife played the depressive piano music unskilledly, just as the inner depression and loss were difficult to express; and the relationship between the husband and wife was as ugly and embarrassing as the elderly sex in the film. In many scenes of couples talking, even when the husband is talking, there is only the wife, implying that the husband's heart has long since left their lives.