After visiting the patient's friend, Giovanni lingered on the bed with the neurotic woman. Whoever provoked this speaks volumes: Giovanni doesn't have much resistance to temptation. He was upset about this. He tries to get forgiveness by partially confessing to his wife—whether that forgiveness is his or his own. In fact, if a person is really aware of his mistakes, he should close himself and let his mistakes and pain torment him in his heart, in order to make up for the mistakes he made and guard his future behavior. Obviously, Giovanni wasn't like that. At the party on the coming night, he will kiss someone else's lips again.
Lydia hid more emotions in her heart, and she was reluctant to leave tears even in the face of her husband. Of course, she was still able to brace herself for Giovanni's important book launch — a wife's dedication, as she says — to witness and participate in her husband's moment of honor. However, melancholy covered her face, including not only her friend's illness, but also her emotional indifference to her husband. She forced a smile, but the sadness of being alone betrayed her state of mind.
Boredom and sadness forced her to leave the crowd, temporarily forgetting herself in aimless wandering. Walking passersby, crying children, and wet moss all caught her attention, and she stopped. She would watch the rocket launch and get excited when she saw young people fighting and meeting up to discourage her. What was her purpose—she was trying to fill this boring, gloomy afternoon with purpose that didn't need it.
Lydia makes two important reminiscences in the film, once returning to the place where the two lived before, and once reading Giovanni's love letter to him at the end of the film. These beautiful memories involve the happy life of the two people, but now they are different things, and the most important feelings have long been diluted by time. Remembrance can only bring bitterness.
At this time, Giovanni was anxiously waiting for his wife at home: why did she leave quietly, and where did she go? Lydia didn't leave the house now, her mood had left earlier, but Giovanni couldn't read Lydia's changing emotions, and it was all an afterthought. What numbs our brains and can no longer read the hearts of lovers? After a long time together, even the sexual attraction has gradually become cold. Showers and new dresses could no longer excite Giovanni, but the dancing girls at the bar kept his eyes on him. Maybe it is in response to what Gu Cheng said: When you look at the clouds, it is very close, and when you look at me, it is far away.
There are always suitable rainy nights that produce sultry hormones. Women appear more sober than men in the face of passion, and both Lydia and Valentina reject the man in front of them. Perhaps the woman with a delicate mind saw the nothingness in it and was even more desperate. Lydia tells us: You don't know the burden of the years, all in vain.
The rain that night washed away Lydia's feelings for Giovanni. Step by step, she verified the disappearance of the relationship, only to finally face the fact that I was not jealous at all, and that was the problem. Lydia said: "I feel like I'm dying because I don't love you anymore, so I'm so desperate. Lydia is the Lydia that Giovanni loved, and if the love is no more, both of them will die.
Lydia looks at the playing band at the end of the credits and asks: Do they really believe their music can make the day better? The person playing may not be able to give a definite answer because it's just a job. But this day is definitely not going to be a good day. After a tired night of carnival, what is left is this relationship between husband and wife that is on the verge of breaking. No matter how affectionately Giovanni kisses, Lydia will not take back the sentence: I don't love you anymore. And the slow Giovanni could only admit it in the end.
This day is not only meaningful to them, but also to the woman who just cried on the bench, to the mother who just lost her son, and to all the suffering people, this is another day of pain and despair.
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