I casually received: "Terms of endearment...Well, I just watched that film."
"Yes! Terms of endearment. Do you like it?"
"I wept half of the time."
Ellen said that one of her friends is one of the producers. His wife is also her friend. They were pregnant almost at the same time, and gave birth to their children not long after each other. Two years later, his wife died of lung cancer. When his wife was sick, he was making Terms of Endearment. Then, he lost his wife and Ellen lost a good friend. As a result, the movie has more or less the shadow of his own life and feelings.
Nearly thirty years later, at a dumpling shop in Guangzhou, a student accidentally mentioned the movie with the gray-haired Ellen. She was first overjoyed, and then talked about the past, as if to wipe away the dust of many years.
In Paradise Cinema, Alfredo told Toto that life is not like movies, life is much harder.
But some movies are so true that they are the reproduction of life. Some lives are as sad as movies.
That's why I like Terms of Endearment so much.
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