We are all specks of dust in the vast space of the universe. We always hope to find something called love in a casual glance in the passage of time, so that we will no longer be alone.
Whether we believe in love or not, or know the illusory nature of love, we will have a place in our hearts for love. Probably have a preference for youth love movies, I think it is the kind of simple and clean beautiful fantasy, the kind of simplicity that believes that everything can be beautiful and unbreakable, and the kind of love that does not need to be so mature and can have impulses and fantasies to face it state of life.
Recently, I watched Ou Rong's new film "Midsummer of 1985", and its comments were polarized. Some people complained about it as "Street Stall Literature" or dog-blooded youthful love, while others praised it as "Guo Jingming has exhausted all his life and even dreamed of it." The type of film that was made", I personally feel that it still has Ou Rong's usual temperament, and incorporates simple but sincere qualities into the gaze of time and the care of youth, so you might as well watch it.
Based on British author Aidan Chambers' teenage literature of the 1980s, "Dancing on My Grave", the film tells the story of a boy who falls in love with a dream "friend" in midsummer, and they spend their time together. An unforgettable six weeks while the boy dances on the grave of his loved one who died in a car accident.
The first half of the film about the blooming of love is beautifully shot, as beautiful as "Call Me by Your Name". Two beautiful teenagers, one is Alexis who is sixteen, and the other is David who is eighteen. They met and fell in love at the age of flowers. They dived into the ocean of love like free fish, tasted the beauty of love, and enjoyed it carefree. with everything...
The second half of the story incorporates suspenseful colors and Ou Rong's discussion of desire and death. The whole plot takes a sharp turn. The sunny young David turns into a scumbag. Then, he changes his mind, cheats, death, women's clothes go to the morgue, and the graveyard dances at night. Things came one after another, which made us feel the temperament of "love is colder than death" like Fassbender.
Broken hearted and unable to heal himself, Alexis, with the help of his teacher, started writing (it's hard not to think of another of O'Rong's great works: Into the House), which infused the film with authenticity Fake intertwined ambiguous atmosphere.
Alexis said, "The only way to get back to David is to write. By telling our story, we can bring him back to life with words." In the process, he also healed his emotional wounds through writing and managed to find a way to escape to himself. story method. At the end of the film, he faded away from his youth and changed into a mature attitude and started to strike up a conversation with the next person.
It turns out that love when you are young can be so hot that you want to commit suicide through your thoughts to accompany you, or you can fall in love with others again after turning around, but I think the pureness of "because we are together, not because of other things" is unforgettable. Yes, maybe, there are some things that can't accompany a lifetime, but it doesn't necessarily cease to exist, it's just that it's relatively easier to accept everything when people are young.
Perhaps, in the long trivial life, some things, such as love in youth, come and go quickly, and eventually there will be a moment of disappearance, like a short moment in life, but we don’t know what is at the end of life. It's our last memories and smiles. I think there are those short moments in life that dazzle us and make us exclaim that life is enough for this one moment, and these are the most beautiful things.
In fact, the most beautiful thing is love itself, so just try to seize the moment of love, and try to love that moment. And I would like to sing about love forever, because it makes us obsessed and delighted, and it gives us the ability to believe in many things so easily, so simply, earnestly and with certainty.
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