I often have a certain kind of expectation when watching a movie, so I will also look at it according to the category. My favorite is the drama. For big productions, violent movies have always looked lethargic. Probably the reason I like it is because I can see the flow of emotions, and I can vaguely catch people. In fact, what you see is an itch, an instinctive itch. No matter how you experience it, you first experience it with your senses, not your heart or mind. And the itchy films will have a strong sense of substitution, you will stand in the scene, not any protagonist. But you're on the side, listening to their clamor, watching them bow their heads and knees.
"Like a River in Love" is an itchy film. If you want to analyze it logically, it couldn't be easier. It is the story of the call girl, the old professor, and her boyfriend. There's no superfluous conflict even in the picture, but you get nervous. When Xiaoqiu's boyfriend got into the car, he first borrowed the fire, and then thought that the old professor was Xiaoqiu's grandfather. And he wasn't sure about his identity either. When he said that he was Xiaoqiu's fiancé, he couldn't help but tremble in his heart. He probably didn't ask Xiao Qiu's opinion, he just kept in mind the words of his grandfather, if you've identified your other half, you should marry her back home, and at the same time, don't be critical.
The same nervousness also happened when Xiaoqiu got in the car and saw her boyfriend sitting in the old professor's car. She was worried that the professor had leaked something. The professor said, I said I was both your grandfather and his grandfather. And when Xiaoqiu was asked, what did you like about him? She didn't know how to say it, maybe it was the energy in her thin body. Not sure, just if. But the quarrel between her and her boyfriend on the phone at the beginning of the film shows that the relationship between the two is not harmonious. Even her boyfriend knew the fact that Xiaoqiu was a call girl, but he didn't want to believe it. And only the ones that appeared in the recording and on the train station square, the elderly grandmother also knew what Xiao Qiu was doing, and didn't want to believe it.
The person Xiaoqiu has concealed from beginning to end is actually just herself. Others have heard of her situation, but she thought others did not know. Her boyfriend and grandmother are also worried about her and bear public opinion. It is even more impossible to say that the professor likes Xiaoqiu. The professor was just commemorating the dead, and the candles and dinner he carefully prepared could not please Xiao Qiu. He just wanted to relive old dreams, and the painting in his house might be the proof. Xiaoqiu said that he was said to be like the person in the painting since he was a child, and Xiaoqiu was similar to his deceased wife. That one-hundred-year-old painting was obviously even more haunting for the old professor.
So everyone lives in a kind of image, and he is always on the back of these possessions, suffering loneliness. It has been written that knowledge is an irresistible legacy that presses on us. Likewise, we cannot reject the culture before us and the paths it offers.
Writing here, it seems to understand the assertion that "movies stop at Abbas". He has brought the "if" and "illusion" to the extreme, and the image is actually the back of the light. And just what we can achieve, but what we can never catch up. The real painful situation for people is that we are behind and lonely. Instead of actively hiding yourself, you must hide yourself.
2016.07.08
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