I think with envy, it turns out that people can be so sincere and frank - this is the Russian. The French are another way of doing it.
Two days ago, a friend recommended me to watch "The Future", starring the 2016 hit Isabelle Huppert. A "Her" won her the Golden Globe for Best Actress, but I still prefer her performance in "Something to Come" - this is also the Huppert film I've seen, the most "Normal" part.
Huppert plays Natalie, a divorced philosophy teacher. She was lying defenseless on the sofa when her husband confessed to her that he was having an affair. The husband said hesitantly that he was in love with someone else, but she just changed her posture and asked, shouldn't you take this kind of thing into your heart? Why are you telling me? - Really very French and very intellectual.
The director also loved the character and didn't make her hysterical.
Natalie, who was divorced, just said silently, I thought you would love me for the rest of my life... As the scene changed, she laughed at herself on the lawn with her friends: A woman my age has only the fate of being abandoned.
She didn't howl, the books she'd read wouldn't allow her to. She misses her deceased mother on the bus and sheds tears silently, but she accidentally sees her husband passing by with his lover in his arms, and half of the crying is replaced by a helpless smile; as if a person who thought he had reached the bottom of the valley was hit in the face, what else could he do? When I was sad, I hugged the big old and fat black cat left by my mother, curled up on the bed and sobbed - it reminded me of Wang Jiazhi in Lust, Caution, who cried while taking advantage of the darkness of the cinema.
Most of the time, he lives quietly.
Huppert was not beautiful when he was young, but it is difficult to get such a temperament and charm when he is in his sixties.
I thought later that a few things were important.
The first is frankness. When a person reaches a certain age, he always has to live in peace with himself—there is nothing hidden that is not revealed. Even if we can't be like Vera in "What to Do", we still have to be as open as possible. I often find that a person's hard-pressed emotions and hidden secrets are always revealed in a few words by others; think about why it is necessary. For me, knowing God is actually an important foundation for putting out the fire with myself.
The second is teasing. In fact, there are not so many kind people in life. It is inevitable for people to be mean to others. So self-mockery is often a form of self-preservation—there seems to be a lot of room for improvement in this regard.
The third is gratitude. This is what I often do now. The more grateful you are, the more you realize that there are more things in life that are normal and taken for granted. In fact, each state is not long-lasting, and we should be happy for the balance at the moment.
Just like Xiao Xiaofangfang in "Forty Women", no matter what the situation is, after all, he must work hard to stage a comedy in life. Her father-in-law, who had Alzheimer's, said on his deathbed, "You know what life is?—life is interesting."
I thought, maybe a cat.
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