The noisy and lonely night will eventually pass

Tess 2022-03-26 09:01:10

Obviously love has disappeared but I don't want to face it honestly

So self-deception procrastinates a divided life

While talking about loving his wife, he is tempted by others

Wife is braver

I realize that love is gone but I don't know what to do

So aimlessly walk through the streets and the flow of people

Empty and confused

In a highly materialized society, everyone is desperate to get

Slowly wrap the true heart

Traveling easily between strangers

Smiling joking gentleman keeping distance

Every night in the brightly lit city

There are bustling receptions and socializing everywhere

But as the night deepens

The hilarity and laughter slowly fade

Emptiness and exhaustion emerge

The old city will be demolished, the old friends will leave, the old love will also disappear

Is everything as Faye Wong sings?

nothing lasts forever

Is everything as Wong Kar Wai said?

like a can of pineapple

Inescapable, Inescapable, Shelf Life

In fact, the scary thing is not the change

What is scary is a dishonest unwilling heart

The noisy and lonely night will finally pass

I hope we can face ourselves bravely when the morning comes

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Extended Reading
  • Nico 2022-03-20 09:02:23

    At the end of the film, the physical struggle after love dries up can only highlight the impoverishment and incompetence of desire itself. In traditional society (male power), this is actually male incompetence, but in modern society, it is actually a sexual incompetence after maximizing desire.

  • Newell 2022-03-20 09:02:23

    In Antonioni's film, there is a gap between people, either silent or pursuing but not understanding. Communication is not the beginning or promotion of love, but the end of love.

La Notte quotes

  • Giovanni: You bought it? I wanted to bring you a copy.

    Tommaso Garani: I didn't just buy it. I'm reading it too. I've only read 50 pages so far. I hope they'll let me finish it. I like certain parts very much, like the whole thing about the bath. It's your best work ever, if the morphine hasn't warped my judgment. Morphine makes everything seem important.

    Giovanni: Then it's definitely the morphine.

  • Tommaso Garani: Quite a place, eh? Everything I used to hate in terms of style. I never thought I'd end my days in such luxury. I feel like a fraud.