I clearly remember how I felt when I just watched the movie, and my instinct told me that this was an encounter. I regarded it as an encounter with the movie and at the same time as an encounter with the text. When midnight is about to end, the moment when the protagonist and the heroine are about to be separated, they came to the telephone of the time shuttle again. Nick asked the future self to tell the present self that you only need to stay with her, you will need more than her. You need her more, thank her, she let you know that you might fall in love with another person in this life. "Midnight Encounter" did not really let them sit on the time machine like "Midnight Paris" Paris, but I always felt that maybe they had already traveled back, just overnight, in this city where both of them are unfamiliar, Nick did not I have illusions about a girlfriend who hasn't seen her in six years, and Kylie has to face her cheating husband calmly. Especially when I watched the night when the two of them were painting graffiti in the hotel, I changed from confusion to relief, as if I had experienced the worst but also the best night in front of the screen. Maybe life doesn't directly tell you what you meet, but you can choose what you meet indirectly.
Compared to the romantic, casual and even passionate feeling of meeting on the streets of a foreign country that "Before Sunrise" brings to people, you can have a foreboding that you will encounter something on the street from time to time. Coupled with the chatting content of two literary and artistic young men and women constantly speaking out of their mouths, you can't help but imagine such a scenario. One day if someone is holding a book on the train, will someone come over to talk to you. "Midnight Encounter" has to be said that it also has the shadow of "Before Sunrise". Although it lacks the strong atmosphere of the exotic street, because New York is not Greece, but they chatter along the way, and when the male and female protagonists face each other. The look in his eyes at first sight can always make people expect that this will be a night that is destined to happen. It's hard to imagine what would happen if Nick and Kelly kept talking along the way, maybe we can all expect it. I’m even fortunate that Nick didn’t say the destructive words in his mouth. They are evaluating whether they will come to this hotel again. This column is empty. It’s more like another ending of "Before Sunrise." To look forward to whether they will meet again, the movie finally chose to forget, is it really possible to forget, as the poet Neruda said that forgetting is very long, but love is very short. When Nick and Kelly return to their respective lives again, will their long midnights after today be spent like the countless nights before yesterday, because of this encounter, and from then on in your life Just another pair of prying eyes, so your life has one more expectation beyond the scope of daily life. When you are bored, think about how that person is doing, even if you have given your best wishes to each other.
The psychic who met by chance in the middle of the night wanted to find someone to chat with, once said to Nick that nothing is perfect. There are always twists and turns in feelings. All you have to do is choose the person you want to experience the twists and turns together. I think chance encounters are not always perfect, because after a short encounter, we have to return to trivial and monotonous daily life, and our chance is after that we can choose how to live and how to solve the unresolved ones. matter.
I remember Kelly told Nick that our encounter was destined, and we were destined to find each other. Perhaps this is the meaning of encounters. It is not sublimated because of shortness, nor is it precious for long. It is enough to remember that there is a moment in your life when you gave your entire life to the other party.
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