"The Return" is one of the few movies that can get me in and out of theaters twice in two weeks. Although I am watching it with my friends, I am not at all psychologically excluded. From the beginning of the film, I can join the play. It's just that the first time I watched it, I was unconsciously brought into the plot, and I felt the joys and sorrows in it; the second time I watched it, I pulled away from the play and watched the play from a third-party perspective, but I was still moved. ,sigh.
The emotion brought by "Return" is due to the performance of the two leading actors. There is no trace of deliberate performance. The grasp of the characters is unbelievably accurate, and the truth is revealed. Every line, every look, every action is just right. It expresses the passion and the restraint of reality in the hearts of intellectuals in that era vividly and vividly. There are no long sentences in the dialogues of the characters, especially Feng Wanyu, the simple questions and answers, coupled with the look that is hesitant to speak, you can feel the hottest love in her heart, but due to the constraints of the times, she deliberately put everything away Classified as plain revealing and expression.
The story of "Return" is very simple. I think the climax should be at the moment when Lu Yanshi and Feng Wanyu's appointment at the train station was blocked, the people and their hearts were close at hand, but they were ruthlessly forced to separate by reality. The parting of more than ten years The most tragic meeting after that, scattered like broken glass, pierced people's hearts. When Feng Wanyu desperately called out Lu Yanshi's name, my heart was twisted into a ball - Gong Li did not use her voice to hoarse. She screamed, but a low voice but full of despair and grief. The voice made people feel that she had foreseen all the results, but still chose to fight in the same era, her hope was drowned in despair , pervades the entire station where it has rained. A feeling destroyed by the times and the irreparable and nowhere to complain sadness brought about by the times have become a brand that occupies the hearts of all people. Everything after that happened indifferently. After the outbreak, we can only wait. There is too much helplessness, which can only be attributed to God's will. Therefore, Feng Wanyu chose to forget and subconsciously hid her deepest emotions. All her expectations for the future life turned into a silent protest and a tribute to all the sorrows of the past.
The return of Lu Yanshi did not arouse Feng Wanyu's memory. She let her life only live in happy memories, and she only remembered Lu Yanshi who brought her a better life. Feng Wanyu's humble house has always been full of sunshine, which is an expression of the most real hope. In her heart, it is the most beautiful expectation and the beauty of rebirth. Lu Yanshi has become an image and an indispensable spiritual pillar in Feng Wanyu's mind. In the days when two people accompanied each other but could only wait for recognition, Lu Yanshi was tragic because all his efforts were not rewarded by recognition, but his grief was shallow because he knew what happened Everything, he can control the rhythm of the years. And Feng Wanyu's grief reflected by him is heart-piercing, a scar that can't be repaired for eternity. When a person chooses to take the initiative to forget the suffering, it shows the end of her past self.
Feng Wanyu would go to the station on the 5th of every month to pick up Lu Yanshi home. In her heart, the big iron gate of the railway station was a barrier between the old and the new. With a lock, the big iron gate of the railway station blocked not only the crowd, but an unspeakable era. The two people who love each other can't welcome the joy of sharing after suffering together. The return in their wishes and the waiting in reality can only be spent with each other in time, smoothing out the memory and helplessness. At the end of the film, Lu Yanshi holds a famous brand and accompanies Feng Wanyu at the train station covered with snow, waiting for the return of her lover.
I have returned for you, and you only choose to wait, so I decided to accompany me forever... I
really appreciate the director's use of the simplest expression in the narrative of the story, putting aside all the prosperity and focusing only on the softest presentation of the human heart. The hopeful bright lights throughout the play and the soundtrack, which uses only a single piano melody, leave enough room for the characters to express their emotions. The seemingly most inadvertent techniques are all intentional. Every shot is switched, every detail is presented, full of strong emotions, and it is worth savoring carefully.
Returning is a kind of appeal, a kind of emotion, and a kind of expectation from the bottom of my heart.
Just because of your strong waiting, so, I choose to return for you.
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