You and I meet on the dark sea

Annabell 2022-04-19 09:03:06

The encounters between people are often "accidental". We call them "probabilistic events" when they are boring, and we call them "opportunities" in terms of romance. So, by chance, an arrogant genius boy and a down-to-earth beautiful woman met in the director's arrangement. They are of different ages, different genders, different identities, different backgrounds, and different experiences. At first glance, they have nothing in common. In the dark, they meet.
Under the flower wall, she stopped the boy who was walking alone with a cello box that was taller than others, and reached out to hold it with him. A handshake full of respect and equality, an adult-like kindness that children yearn for. If the friendship between them had a beginning, I think it began here.
I like the portrayal of their emotions in the film, not from scratch, without foreshadowing and sublimation, nor from qualitative change to quantitative change, but natural and spontaneous. It is natural to eat popcorn together on the sofa, to eat everywhere together, to watch art exhibitions together, naturally to share each other's pain and happiness, to share experiences, to speak to each other, and to imagine the future. He was willing to invite her to a personal island, she was willing to land on this shore, that's all.
Have you ever had an emotional experience like this at some point in your life? When you meet someone, you feel familiar and familiar at the first sight of him, and you want to get close to him, get to know him, become friends with him, and have an intersection with him. Such a feeling is different from love at first sight, because it does not contain any purpose, and it is simpler, purer, and broader. As Reggie sighed: "It's really hard to believe that I've only been with you for a few months and it feels like I've known you for a lifetime." But Eleanor said to Reggie, "Intuition tells me that after a year you will forget me." So she left him a kiss when she left, a kiss that existed in adolescence, a kiss that had no impurities and no desire. . A year later, no one will know whether the boy will forget the woman who met by chance, but Wendy also left this kind of kiss to Peter Pan, she said to Pan: "This is for you, this is yours ,Always will be……"
When I was young, I was always afraid that the sky would be sunny and rainy, and people would come and go. And the more people you meet with a contract, the more afraid you will experience a painful separation one day. But happy times are only short-lived after all, and there is no lasting banquet in the world. As we grow older, we have to admit reluctantly that even if there is a deep relationship between people, there is a time limit. The company between people is never an endless straight line, but a line segment. When we meet, we can only accompany each other for a long or short period of time. After that, we each secure our destiny and make our own living.
Gathering and parting, separation and reunion seems to be the normal state of life. What we met, however, was that once we both thought we were a lonely unicorn, foraging for food in this damp forest alone, with no one of its kind. But at this moment, we know that in another forest, perhaps very far away, there is also a unicorn wandering just like ourselves. The roads we have traveled together, the scenery we have seen, the tears we shed together, and the happy smiles have all been carved into each other's skin and hair, accompany us for a lifetime. No matter it is sunny or rainy, we are confidants of each other. At every moment of caring about each other, you can murmur in a low voice: "I only tell you these words, you are different from those people. You are my relatives thousands of miles away, and you must guard my distance. At the end of the
movie, Reggie went back to the pool to play the cello, the only background music in the movie played slowly, and then Eleanor played the Cornepipe in another place. The two melodies are superimposed together in different time and space, and the deep and pitiful voice of the cello becomes thicker and more powerful.
Xu Zhimo wrote "Accidental" in this way: "You and I meet on the sea in the dark night, you have yours, I have mine, the direction; you can remember, it is best that you forget, the light shines on each other when they meet..."

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  • Reggie: I guess right around 4 I figured out I was sort of a math prodigy, solving pretty intricate math problems.

    Eleanor: Like What.

    Reggie: Multiplying 7 to 10 digit numbers in my head. I could give you the cube root of pretty much any number.

    Eleanor: Like Rainman.

    Reggie: No, he was an autistic savant. As you can tell, I'm alert, extroverted, affable and articulate...

    Eleanor: Of course.

    Reggie: ...and not to mention devilishly handsome.

    Eleanor: Not to mention.

  • Eleanor: What was the name of that piece you wrote for the recital?

    Reggie: Like Sunday, Like Rain.

    Eleanor: So beautiful.

    Reggie: I'll write a part for the cornet.