"Midnight in Paris"
was opened by a brisk and lazy trumpet, switching the famous attractions of Paris every four seconds, the Seine River, the Eiffel Tower, Moulin Rouge, Arc de Triomphe, alleys, open-air cafés, postcard stands, Ferris wheel, waiters in bow ties, street flower shops, benches in the square, Notre Dame Cathedral, the Louvre Museum... Bright picture There are honey-colored bright and sweet, red very red, green very green.
It was raining lightly, with big black umbrellas and transparent raincoats, and pedestrians began to speed up, crossing the road and passing the Dior store. The light rain became pouring, and the rain passed the sky in a flash. There were more and more pedestrians on the street, and the sky gradually darkened. The purple and golden sunset light descended from the sky and slowly subsided until midnight. When the lights came on, the halo began to revolve. This is a Van Gogh painting. high-speed rotating stars.
Woody Allen made a Paris scene on four minutes of film, and every time the camera flickered, I would chant the name of the place, and my chest would jump.
The man started talking to the woman,
"Look, there is no city in the world like this. Can you imagine? This city in the rain can make you dizzy, imagine this city in the twenties, the artists and writers".
The picture lights up, full of green ponds, low-hanging willows and lotus leaves, the man said, this is where Monet lived and painted. In this scene in the movie, when I went to the London Art Gallery with Garman last time, I saw this painting by Monet. Just like wearing 3D glasses, the reflections of grass and trees suddenly become three-dimensional and dynamic. Yes, it is here, men and women, standing on the bridge in the painting. The camera cuts to the woman's face, then to the man's face, and the water in the teapot in my heart burst open. The woman is Rachel McAdams from The Notebook of Love, and the man is Mary and my Owen Wilson, all love. But when I saw this time, what I never expected was that the woman that a man met in the golden age was actually Marion Cotillard in Rose's life. In my heart, the lid of the teapot was overturned by the steam. so happy.
The plot of the movie is simple and lively, a man and a woman are in Paris and are getting married.
The male protagonist crossed after encountering a carriage. Traveling back to the 1920s, the golden age when literary works gathered, a hundred schools of thought contended, music, fine wine, parties, salons, and all the great writers and artists pointed at each other, the so-called most beautiful Paris era. The man not only came to the mythical place he dreamed of, but also met Hemingway and Fitzgerald, whom he had admired for a long time, and also met the girl whom he fell in love with at first sight and who looked at him for thousands of years, Marion Cotillard, who studied design with Chanel.
In fact, if you think about the plot, it's a cliché story of a male version of Cinderella and time travel, but it looks good, and you can see why.
Meet Hemingway
Hemingway said,
"Do you like my book, that's because it's a book that tells the truth, war shapes men like this, and when you fall down in the mud, you can only die calmly, without losing grace and dignity, That is not only noble, but also full of courage.”
"No material is bad, only the story is sincere, as long as the writing is clean and candid, and it celebrates courage and composure under pressure."
When Hemingway was talking, my blood was bursting, and I kept pressing the space to pause the screen, staring at his warrior-like eyes, and hurriedly using a pen to copy the words in the notebook. After copying the words, I doubt if the screenwriter made up these words or Hemingway really said them.
The rhythm of the film is brisk and the picture is psychedelic, the dim and luxurious Paris of the past, the bright and fashionable modern Paris, the film is deliberately to please the audience, facing the picture, the mood is happy.
After the movie praised the perfect era, it began to make the elated characters become depressed, and the plot began to enter a turning point. In the time of Confucius, they had already begun to sigh, the world is going down and people's hearts are gone. Up to now, it seems that every young literary and artistic youth with furrowed brows has a little retro plot. In the
ever-changing modern society, impetuousness drowns out profound creations, and roughness replaces exquisite beauty. is an ideal.
When men are excited to meet Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Eliot, and Dalí, but find that they are the same as themselves, even in the depths of their golden age, they are still disappointed and confused by reality. Gauguin, the greatest era in history, was also disappointed by the lack of imagination of the current era. They also wanted to go back to the past. They longed to go back to the Renaissance era and be able to create alongside Michelangelo.
There are crossings in crossing, and there is Paris in Paris. The male protagonist finally crossed into reality, faced himself, and made the most real choice. I broke up with my fiancee, who I knew was not suitable, and decided to stay in reality and not go back.
Some people say that we are the times.
As Gertrude Stein said,
"We are all afraid of death, puzzled by our place in the universe, not only the role of an artist is not to bow down to despair, but to seek the antidote to the emptiness of existence".
Living in the present is the best time.
Although it has always been disappointing.
Why do we fall in love with a place and find a sense of belonging in it?
Perhaps the connection of any city is like the connection between people.
Like a man's fiancée, suitable for fast-paced, fashionable and busy New York,
And Marion is only suitable for smoking a cigarette alone and quietly in a dimly lit bar.
The fiancée finds men dull and unreasonable,
but Marion Cotillard knows he is a man who is honest and not flamboyant.
People with different values are not comparable at all. And I think the so-called luckiest person is that in your limited life, you can have a partner with similar values to you, and find a place with the same aura to manifest.
At the end of the movie, the male protagonist returns to reality, and it rains again in Paris. The girl I loved broke up and the other passed away. But in Paris, in the heavy rain, another girl appeared. The girl is classical and beautiful, with a smile. , accompanied the man in the heavy rain and walked down the Seine.
How much a city can stretch your imagination, how much charm it has.
A city full of love and imagination is the most fundamental reason for people to linger.
When we come to the end of the world, travel through ancient and modern times,
we have no right to choose the time and space of life, and sometimes we have no right to choose the place to live, but we still love life.
It is life that teaches us to love, it is love that empowers us, and
ultimately, it is love that makes us real.
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