"The Shape of Love"

Blake 2022-03-27 09:01:16

Love is -- elusive, illusory, and heartbreaking, and most people fall in love with good illusions. In the face of love, everyone will be stupid, stupid, and trapped. I guess this is one of the reasons why Dolan sets up the hero and heroine to fall in love with the same person at the same time. On this issue, gender equality is full of drama. In the transitional episodes, he set up a large number of interview videos with people talking about the disappointment, pain, disillusionment and depression of love. All kinds of fantasy love come in different shapes, and when the fantasy shatters, the love also shatters into a dagger or sharp knife that rips through your skin and leaves you bleeding. Like the moon chasing the earth and the earth chasing the sun, people's chasing of love will never stop - even if it breaks your heart. Like a poison that tastes like honey, pain and sweetness go hand in hand, but most people still remember the sweetness more. Back to movies. As always, Dolan's style - close-up slow motion + BGM, it can be seen that it is deeply influenced by the king of sunglasses, the BGM seems to be the French version of Bang Bang my baby shoot me down, I can only say that the selection is very good, the two secretly The competition is coupled with this BGM, and the picture is full of gunpowder and beauty. In terms of narrative, he is always emotionally charged with telling ordinary stories, but with the right details (such as the gift-giving part), it is not boring. I've always liked Dolan's endings, and in I Killed My Mom I had the same sense of sight, the problem was only mitigated, not resolved. In "Fantasy Love", it is a new chapter in the story. Nothing really ends. Before death comes, all stories will not really end, people keep repeating themselves, repeating love, repeating fantasies in a cycle. Repeat hate, repeat mistakes. Such is the story, and so is life.

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Heartbeats quotes

  • Nicolas: Eating your cherry, Terry?

    Francis: Cherries are too sweet.

    Marie: Fudge is 17 times sweeter than cherries.

  • Nicolas: You have a big bed, right?

    Francis: Yeah, I have a big bed. You can sleep here. We'll just... We'll just squeeze in.

    Nicolas: Thanks, man.

    Marie: Shotgun the side.

    Francis: I hate the middle, too.

    Nicolas: No sweat. I like the middle.