At the end of the trip, Marianne temporarily decided to transfer to Paris - to take the pet cat fostered in her parents' house back to New York. They planned to stay in Paris for two days... The new work "Paris" by French talented Julie Delpy (Julie Delpy) Two Days of Love" begins here.
The film inherits the style of "Love When Dawn Breaks" and "Love When Sunset", there is no fancy soundtrack, no dazzling scenery, everything is ordinary, as ordinary as our daily life; the most representative. Still full of dialogue, Marianne and Jack are middle-aged versions of Celina and Jesse, happily continuing their endless conversations in Paris. However, this time, there are a few more friendly cameos, including Marianne's domineering father, cunning mother, eccentric sister, and romantic ex-boyfriend. They work together to intensify the thematic contradictions of the story— - Jack finally had a hard time accepting Marianne's past, and Marianne couldn't tolerate Jack's suspicion, and the two parted ways after a quarrel by the Seine.
After years of research, some good people in the West have come to a rather shocking conclusion that the love between men and women can only last for 18 months at most. No wonder Marianne sighed: "It's almost a miracle that modern people can be together for two years!"
When couples are in love, they always like to deliberately show their strengths and hide their weaknesses; at the same time, it is easy to focus on each other's strengths and ignore weaknesses; with the extension of time together, especially after living together for a period of time, a person's The whole picture will be exposed. "If you truly love each other, you must truly understand, even if the truth is not so easy to accept." However, we often habitually hold a sharp carving knife in our hands to "help" the other party to get rid of some old "bad habits" and persistently try to make The other party was sculpted into the ideal shape in his heart, and he didn't know the severity, and the knife saw blood. But who wants to passively become a "work" that loses itself? Who is not more enthusiastic about actively transforming others? As a result, problems and contradictions are springing up like bamboo shoots after a spring rain, rising steadily, and "incompatible personality" is the "finished product" under the carving knife. At first, it is a small fight, if it is left unchecked, it will develop into a big fight, and if it becomes serious, it will turn against each other. In the end, breaking up is the only solution.
Marianne and Jack chose Venice "because love movies are all played like this", "couples will go there", but unfortunately, Water City is only "a city that floats on water but will eventually sink", romance and passion are always short-lived of. In Paris, as soon as they got out of the train station, Marianne and Jack were back in a real conflict: Jack complained constantly while waiting for a taxi, Marianne was rude about Jack's show of photography, Jack's concern about home hygiene Harsh and critical, Marianne's unnamed anger at Jack's suspicions, the boredom of the two traveling together in Paris... It's easy to fall in love, but too difficult to fall in love!
At the end of the film, the two had another four-hour discussion in the apartment, and the conclusion was: "It's not easy to fall in love, especially to get to know each other deeply and accept their shortcomings and past."
Jack said frankly, through two days What happened here, he understood a basic fact, that is, "I don't know you"; Marianne also admitted, "find a real partner", "willing to spend a lifetime with him, try to maintain a relationship, meet Problems don’t run away right away,” which was very difficult for her. The two suddenly fell into each other from the romantic warmth of vacation and felt nothing at all, which was heart-wrenching.
Fortunately, they are both middle-aged people in their thirties. After a moment of silence, they all realized that they "can't stand another trauma of lovelorn". Can't lose each other, there is no other reason, just because the original love gradually evolved into a habit. In the West, there are good people who have devoted themselves to research and found that the most important reason why men and women can live together after their love passion subsides is that they are used to being with each other to a large extent. Is this a kind of affection, or a dependence, or a helplessness?
The former Soviet film master Tarkovsky said: Film is the art of carving time. The master knows that the face and essence of time cannot be changed, so he uses the way of film to describe the time, there are joys and sorrows, light and dark, laughter and tears, luck and regret, time will not change for the master, so the master Observing with artistic eyes and exploring with artistic methods, in the meantime, we discover "beauty".
At night, in an open-air bar on the streets of Paris, Marianne and Jack danced like a couple in love again.
Love, for both parties, is also an art...
(August 15, 2008, Shenzhen)
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