After watching this movie today, I can't control my emotions for a while. I want to write this movie review under the pressure of having an English test tomorrow morning but I haven't reviewed it yet.
The first time I saw Greer Garson was in the movie Pride and Prejudice. She played the protagonist Elizabeth. She is beautiful and intelligent. Although she is more mature than my ideal Elizabeth, she is my favorite among many versions. . And this time, she played a tragic woman, her lover disappeared without a trace after giving birth to her child, and the two sides were strangers when they met again.
There are thousands of women who are chasing love, and she is not the most moving one (although she is my favorite actress in black and white films), nor the most painful one, because she and her lover finally meet each other , a happy ending, everyone is happy. However, everyone has their own love. When their lover has become the most familiar stranger, who can deal with it calmly? I was really taken aback when Paula showed up as Charles' secretary, because I didn't expect her to show up in this way with a lover who has lost her memory again. She chose the most rational way to deal with this relationship, and became better because of this love.
No matter how bloody the plot of this movie is beyond my imagination, no matter how incomplete the characters except the male and female protagonists are, the screenwriter still integrates the stories that can’t be told in thousands of chapters of romance novels. within two hours. This movie is in black and white background, there is no excessive color rendering, no filter, sometimes I can't even tell whether it is day or night, the decorations in the movie are just one color in my eyes, at this time, What attracts me the most in the film are the characters, and their emotional changes are no less impressive in black and white shots.
There are not many close-ups of characters in this movie. At the beginning, Smith was sad and lost because he was mistaken, and then the hero and heroine met for the first time. When the two met each other, Paula expressed sympathy for Smith's experience, and then, I don't remember much, but when Kitty made eye contact with Charles, I could clearly feel her initial euphoria and her gradual loss, which I think is one of the best details in the entire movie. Even though there aren't many close-ups, I still get caught up in it. I have never known what the criteria for evaluating a good movie is. I only know that there are plots, pictures, even emotions and sounds in the movie that can move me, and these are enough to make me give a good rating to the movie.
Perhaps, after watching a lot of colorful movies and TV shows, it is not very natural to watch black and white movies. But after the colors are stripped away, the purest parts of the film are left: the characters and the plot. People's joys and sorrows have nothing to do with the color of the movie or the way of expression. No matter how the years pass, we can still feel the pure emotion in the old movies.
Another: The plot of this movie is really like what netizens said, and it can be used as a bridge for many romance novels, amnesia stalks, car accident stalks... The screenwriter's brain hole at that time was really not that big!
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