It would be wise for former lovers to be like Yu Hong and Zhou Wei of "Summer Palace" who are about to meet each other again after a thrilling love affair. After all, thousands of ravines have come, and it is better to stay yesterday forever. Bai Yueguang should stay somewhere in his heart, not beside him. With a little bit of smoke, the light is gone.
However, the talkative film "Conversations with Women" made the old terrier who reunited old love interesting and not at all bloody. It seems that the blade of facing the years is not so scary, and it is cute when it is old.
Life turns, and at a friend's wedding, a man (played by Aaron Eckharker) meets a woman (played by Helena Bonham Carter). The man picked up the wine glass and walked towards the woman. The middle-aged woman in her forties just lit a cigarette and took a breath. The story starts from this moment and ends the next morning when the heroine takes a taxi to catch a plane.
The man kept looking at the woman as if he needed some courage to come forward. He took two glasses of wine. After the woman was in a daze, she ran to smoke, spit out a mouthful and waited for him to come. They chatted up like new acquaintances, chatting indiscriminately about "how she became the seventh bridesmaid in reserve after the original bridesmaid got hurt" blah blah.
The most familiar strangers chatted and inquired about each other's current lives. It turned out that the woman was the man's ex-wife who had been separated for many years. She remarried, and he had a 23-year-old girlfriend. The boring and melancholy past of ordinary people in women's mouth is their "past". The flashbacks in the dialogue show the protagonist's past relationship, and the picture cuts back to the scene when they were young from time to time, paralleling the narrative of the picture, shuttle between reality and memory. There is an interesting dislocation of details in their recollections of the 19-year-old girl lying under a tree reading a book. As they say, "People always make up little details and mix up the real with the half-truths and it becomes a memory."
For the past time, they danced together to a song, which is still not enough. Although they each harbored guilt for their current lover, they walked into the room anxiously to spend the night together, knowing that they could not avoid it. So in this small space, they meet all kinds of narrow roads in the past and the present, unable to dodge, stumble, and be caught off guard. She laughed at his widening and fattening body, he stroked her less flat belly, kissed her no longer smooth skin and ugly scars. "Even if the people around him are young and beautiful, a man still remembers the girl he met when he was 19 years old. That's the way it is. She is no match." Helena Bonham Carter's decadent hair is full of charm, Aaron Eckhark's smile is slightly shy and charming. They are caught up in this future-less reunion, questioning each other's ended relationship, where there is only love. The split-screen technique is wonderfully used, and each time is a meaningful emotional expression or perspective contrast. The youthful face and love in the memories are particularly charming, but the night of reunion appears clumsy, cramped, absurd, subtle and sweet in contrast.
"People who love each other are very good at making each other miserable", so the age of blood destroys love, men are young and arrogant, careless and stupid, women are paranoid, sensitive and capricious, love dreams are broken, women go far away, but men stay Regret. On the rooftop, the man said to the woman, "If one day the cardiologist thinks that you are old, old and ugly, and you are not cute at all, I am willing to accompany you through the rest of your life." The beautiful and comical fantasy of the movie is moving you to tears, but when the time comes, the fantasy is broken in the thin air, and the heroine will fly back to her life.
Everyone wants to jump into the time machine, run back, make up for those unrepentant pasts, move forward and backward in time as the hero wishes, and the world will not change because of it. "I thought anything could be achieved, but now it seems that everything is fixed, and it seems more real and unchangeable." While helping the woman pack her luggage, he muttered to himself that he felt sad and ducked. , stammered, and finally spit out "I love you" and was drowned in the sound of the shower. Their love floats down like that pink skirt, and has nowhere to put it. After dawn, the taxis drove away, and at the end of the song, everyone disappeared without a return.
At the end, the splitting technique is very brilliant. The men and women go their separate ways again. The split-screen double images slowly and magically merge into the same image at the last moment of the separation in the car. The decadent and lost middle-aged men and women in the lens are exactly men's. A vivid expression of that epilogue: "It's good to be happy. But it's so fucking hard, you know."
Hello, old lover! Goodbye old lover!
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