"How would you choose your life if you knew you could only live to 34?"

Lue 2022-03-24 09:03:20

Set in Paris in the 1930s and 1940s, the film tells the entangled stories of Charlize Theron, Penelope Cruz and Stuart Townsend after the outbreak of World War II.

As far as the plot itself is concerned, the movie boldly tells a rather open emotional model, and the attributes of friendship and love have become less important. When we meet someone, the ending is already doomed. At a glance, no matter how time passes, how the current situation changes, emotional things never make sense. Everything is destiny.

Combined with the background of World War II, the film seems to want to convey to us that no matter how much we love people, maybe they all need the harmony between their outlook on life and their sense of value. Emotions are subjective and perceptual things, while life is an objective existence. For a time, I didn't quite understand the male protagonist's choice to leave his lover and go to the front line for the sense of responsibility and guilt in his heart. Country and love, which is more important?

However, perhaps, we are born as human beings, a person who truly has an independent self and personality, and only having love is not enough to realize our life ambitions and ideals. And only those who have passion and faith are more worthy of great love and entrustment. There is simple happiness in a narrow life. People with great love will finally interpret love into a tragic mood, and then let us in front of the screen sigh and weep, and it is difficult to let go.

Been thinking about how to express my mixed feelings. After watching this movie before going to bed last night, my whole body is not well. A heavy state of mind, an unbearable ending, a heartache but not able to cry out of depression. This is the one that impresses me the most among the hundreds of films I've watched so far this year, and it's the only one so far that makes me skip the last two minutes and dare not face it. Lying in bed at night, I couldn't help but reminisce about the plot, and I was still so sad that I couldn't help myself.

The beautiful atmosphere of old Paris, the romantic feelings of old-fashioned lovers, and the soul-stirring love destiny. "How would you choose your life if you knew you could only live to 34?"

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Head in the Clouds quotes

  • Gilda Bessé: Beauty, bravery, and brains. What a catch. You also have a nice willy, and I hope to dream about it.

  • Julian Elsworth: [Guy and Gilda are on the pool table, naked under a blanket] What are you wearing under there?

    Gilda Bessé: As it's your big day, I'm wearing my Birthday Suit in your honor.