So he said to her: "I'm planning an escape. First escape from this bar, then this city, and then this country. Would you like to join?" So she smiled: "Count me." The
so-called Tokyo is just one. Under the guise. For lonely and empty people, the sense of loneliness and emptiness always exists in Sri Lanka, but the intensity sometimes changes. But Tokyo does have its special features. This typical international metropolis with heavy traffic and serious air pollution has more ways to fight against boredom than any other place: karaoke, game room, erotic bars, Japanese comics, Street fighting... If you think these things are too vulgar, you can even go to famous temples. Perhaps like the exaggerated female star in the film said, Tokyo is the closest place to the true meaning of Buddhism. It's just that no matter how it is, it can't really fill the void in the deepest part of the soul.
And Tokyo is where there is a contradiction: the polite red tape and the ruthless atmosphere, the puppet-like brides and the gaudy and coquettish strippers; the towering skyscrapers and the world's cutting-edge electronics Technology and Tokyoite short stature.
As for him and her, one is a film star in his 40s and 50s who is facing a midlife crisis. In order to temporarily avoid his wife, forgetting his son's birthday and accepting a two million dollar red wine advertisement, he came to a foreign country; the other is in his early twenties. A top student who just graduated from the philosophy department of Yale University came here with her husband, who is a photographer, at a loss for the future, even without a friend to talk to. Two confused Americans, strange Tokyo, the sense of occlusion caused by language barriers, and the strong impact caused by differences in background culture... So the loneliness and emptiness are maximized as never before, and burst out at any time.
This literary and artistic film without much storyline may have disappointed many audiences who love mainstream movies. It lacks the necessary shocking factors for Hollywood blockbusters, and the tone is like a light new tea. Moreover, the relationship between the hero and heroine is also ambiguous. It's not the extramarital affairs mentioned in some movie introductions, there is no sex, and there seems to be no love. But such a simple relationship with travel companions is not a bad thing. Life is a journey that leads to the unknown. We are all travellers who have no destination. We are bored. What is inevitable is the ultimate emptiness and loneliness. Yes, life is a game and a dream. It is the turquoise, seductive and deadly absinthe in Degas's paintings, revealing its truth in a moment of uncertainty as the existentialists say. The so-called understanding can be met but not sought. I really like a poster of this movie. The heroine walks on the bustling streets of Tokyo with an umbrella. Her expression is indifferent. Above the tall building in the middle of the background, she says: "Everybody wants to be found. (Everybody wants to be found." "The artistic conception is somewhat similar to a song called I'm with You: I stand on the sky bridge, I stand in the dark, looking at the expressionless, hurried crowd, waiting for someone to take me turn up. I don't know who you are, but I understand that I am with you. Just like who said, we are confidants in the rough, Qin Yue in the subtle, and there is an insurmountable gap between the people who love each other the most. To be able to find someone who can understand what I am saying when I am lost, what can I expect? nothing else needed. Just like this, like two unaccompanied, untimely children, leaning together to warm each other, so that the violent life will slightly converge on his hideous and terrifying face.
The movie is only 102 minutes long, and the touching encounter will soon come to an end. With gentle hugs, shallow kisses, her crying red eyes and an elusive smile at the corners of his mouth, from now on they are two irrelevant lone travelers, helpless, each exhausted their best to silently finish the rest journey of. But the fleeting encounter has become a part of life. I know you and will always remember you, Duras said by her Chinese lover. After all, nothingness and loneliness are the ultimate fate, you can't escape, and I can't do anything.
So I had to use the words he used to comfort her to comfort myself: "You are still so young, and everything will be fine in the future."
Will it be better, maybe.
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