The white light reflected in the curtains, the bright sunlight outdoors in the park, and the orange lights at night, the alternating light and dark of all kinds of light reflect the mood of the characters, and also add a beautiful soft light to the whole movie.
The only music that repeats in the movie is "Like a sunny day, like a rainy day" composed by the talented male protagonist. The low tone of the cello is accompanied by the accompaniment of the piano and the cornet, which makes the heart blow like the evening wind, peaceful but sad.
Not to mention the two leading actors of the movie, one is Queen B, who has gained countless infatuation on and off the screen with "Gossip Girl", and the other is the lore Xiao Zhengtai, who is young, but her looks and temperament are against the sky.
However, all the elements of beauty weave a piece of mind about loneliness.
The boy came from the upper class, and as the stories of the upper class always tell, the family was rich but the family was indifferent. His biological father died early, and his mother was strong and remarried. In addition, there is a genius soul living in the small body of the young man, which gives him insight and wisdom beyond the average adult, but knowledge and wisdom often induce "rich pain" in the soul. At a young age, boys can calmly analyze human nature, and can rationally analyze "art is dead". He stands out from the crowd, so there is a kind of loneliness that is overwhelming. He couldn't step into the lives of the people around him, and the people around him couldn't understand him. That cold and empty mansion was his castle and his isolated island. But at that time, he often looked out of the window, and his habit of "liking breathing the air outside" revealed a certain longing in the heart of this young and mature teenager.
Eleanor comes from the bottom of society. Her family was poor, so she had to give up her music dream and start working as a part-time worker to survive. She has a home and can't go back, the complexity of family relationships makes her disgusted, and the ruthless indifference of her family makes her despair. Eleanor's loneliness is the loneliness that emerges from the mud and is not stained. In the numb and chaotic family, she still has dreams, she is still kind and loving. It's just that no one can understand this kind of insistence, no one can cope with it, and reality is even more powerless to support.
So when Eleanor was the most destitute and almost sleeping on the street with a small suitcase full of luggage, she met the boy Reggie. She became his nanny, but not just a nanny. Because she will be deeply moved by the songs he composed, she can follow the music to find him who is practicing the piano at the bottom of the drained swimming pool, she will take him to watch popcorn movies together, and dislike the difficulty of the servants together Eat the food, and then take the subway together to eat delicious Chinese restaurants piled up with MSG. And he slowly walked into her life, asked about her hometown and family, saw her quarrel with her ex-boyfriend, and then cooked vegetable cold noodles for her when she was sad, telling her, "Life is a series of mistakes like this. ”; when she panicked because of her father’s serious illness, he offered to accompany her home to visit the doctor; when she was distressed by all the chaos at home, he encouraged her to leave home and live in a hotel. He had talked to her about his equally intelligent and artistic father, who was unfortunately killed in a car accident, and told her that he would idealize him as some mythical figure to make herself feel better; he also listened to her talking about Her own father, dreams, family, love, saw her crying face in front of her father's bed.
This kind of encounter and acquaintance seems to be a bit of a domineering president who falls in love with me. In particular, the boy's feelings for Eleanor should indeed be mixed with some budding feelings of adolescent boys. Otherwise, he is so elegant and deep, and he would not examine his body in front of the mirror to see if he has manly muscles. But after a short 6 weeks, they parted. At the moment of parting, for the first time, we saw the expression on the boy's face that was always calm, but he was still trying to suppress it, but he still wanted to cry.
At the time, like the boy, I was very puzzled as to why Eleanor had to go. But looking back on it all, I understand, because this movie is always about loneliness. In the movie, Eleanor is more cold-hearted than the boy's more proactive words and deeds. At first she was very resistant to revealing and sharing her personal affairs. When they were lying on the grass and the boy had begun to show his remorse for her, her reply was: "Intuition tells me that you won't remember my name in a year." At the moment of parting, facing the boy so affectionately She was still determined to leave. I think that although the boy is more knowledgeable and smarter than Eleanor, Eleanor, who has suffered more real pain in his life, knows more about loneliness than the boy.
At the moment of parting, the boy said to Eleanor: "It's really hard to believe that I've only been with you for a few months, it feels like I've known you for a lifetime. At this moment, I have a lot of words, a lot of things I want to share with you, some of the past words without the courage to say", this is the self-evident glance of two lonely souls at the moment of meeting. Eleanor's answer was: "You know that I can't be with you forever, these are only temporary." Eleanor knows better than Reggie that in a long life, loneliness is eternal. We may meet some people who can sympathize with each other, rely on each other, and encourage each other in our lonely resonance, help us to face and accept life with more courage, and find and cheer ourselves up. But the road to self and life can only be taken by oneself.
Before the two met and after they said goodbye, the director used a parallel montage technique to interactively show the lives of the two. Just after saying goodbye, although they continued to return to the loneliness of being alone, and their souls echoed each other from afar, life was no longer so lonely. After confirming the existence of the other half of his soul in this world, even if the body still needs to walk alone, the heart will have enough warmth and strength to pass through the long silence.
It is for this reason that I am so sad to see these beautiful pictures and beautiful stories. For all the suffering and silence, we can feel the same; however, this lucky encounter, we look for it, when will it end!
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