You have everything and still feel meaningless

Lexi 2022-03-26 09:01:12

People who are in love for the first time often fall into a kind of hallucination about love. They will go out of their way to find life for love, but they often turn around and devote themselves to another fiery emotion. Their imagined love is crazier than it actually is. At the same time, there are other people who have gone through a thousand sails in the sea of ​​love, but sometimes they love more deeply than they imagined. Maybe it's because they can't believe it, and don't want to admit that they're going to have real feelings. They seem so unrestrained in love, it doesn't matter. But after they broke the love in their hands with their own hands, they suddenly realized that they had already been deeply involved in it. In the end, they can only spend the rest of their lives repenting and punishing themselves.

Shelley and Leigh in the movie are both battle-hardened people. At first, they approached so casually, as if they were going to a training class that they had to attend. Everything was just a procedure. But then they fell in love more deeply than they thought. That unforgettable figure can only be seen when the sun is shining. That is to see you in the swaying posture; smell you in the arms of others. The more lively, the more lonely, the more I miss the person I love the most. This is true love, the gold seen after the waves wash the sand.

You have everything and still feel meaningless. Because he is not here.

What if they keep going?
Li was a mentor to Shirley, and in his mind she was the perfect goddess. But in love, where can there be a saint? Who can avoid selfishness and possession in love? Eventually he would see her perfect image collapse. This is a contradiction. They will hurt each other, the more they love, the more they hurt each other. Until one of them is no longer in love and reverts to a calm distance.

The ending now is poignant, but of course.

May every love end well.

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    Narrator: He was unable to suppress a sense that he had been able to escape from something. That he was a free man again. A feeling he eventually came to realize was entirely misguided. It was many years before he understood that both of them had been quite unjustly punished. Léa for being born so many years before him, and Chéri for having failed to grasp that Léa was the only woman he would ever be able to love. And once he was settled in his mind that this was the case, he took out his old service revolver, and put a bullet in his brain.

  • Lea de Lonval: You came back here and you found an old woman. Yes, you found an old woman. Don't cry. Why are you crying? I'm so grateful to you. Were you really in love with me? Did you really think I was such a good person? If I had been a truly good person, I'd have made a man of you instead of thinking of nothing but your pleasure and my happiness. I wouldn't have kept you all to myself. Look at me. You're right. The qualities you lack, I expect it is my fault. But 30 years of easy living does make you very vulnerable. So no, I never did talk to you about the future. Forgive me. I loved you as if we were going to die the same day. I carried you in my heart for such a long time. I forgot you were going to have to carry your own burdens. A young wife. Perhaps even a child. And so you're going to suffer. You're going to miss me. And you're going to have to try to find enough wisdom and tolerance not to cause suffering to others. The thing is, now you've had a taste of youth. It's never satisfying, but you'll always want to go back for more. You must go. I love you. But it's too late. So get dressed. And go away now.