I believe that in everyone's memory, there will be a unique city that will leave a unique and colorful mark in life. That life, that inseparable memory, we can call it "sorrow."
In the poems written by Yu Guangzhong, he refines "melancholy" and calls it "nostalgia", and he compares nostalgia to stamps, ferry tickets, graves and straits to commemorate the times he can never go back to.
And every city where you have lived will become a person's memory point, no matter where you have experienced any sweet and sour, for the whole life, it is only the unique memory of that city. As a result, the city became an independent existence unlike other individuals.
The movie "New York, I Love You" is about how people living in New York discover the unique charm of a city in their trivial lives.
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The film tells 12 seemingly unrelated, but inextricably linked, stories that take place in various corners of New York.
The first story is the work of director Jiang Wen, which tells the story of a thief pursuing a celebrity, and it happens that the husband of the celebrity is also a thief, which can be described as a "little witch sees a big witch", which produces an electric flint-like game between the two. In the end, the thief was disappointed, but it is worth mentioning that the thief read a lyric of "Flower Room Girl" in English to attract the attention of this lady, and heard Cui Jian's confession love song and pronounced it in English, which still has a different flavor.
The second story is about a bride who is about to get married and shaves her 25-year-old hair for the wedding. She tried to resist, but in the end she did not succeed. At the wedding, she was ostensibly happy, but in fact she had lived to the point of losing herself.
The third story revolves around male writers and female editors, because the work needs to pull two people who were originally communicating by phone to meet in reality, and they have not only become the best partners at work, but also become partners in life. The typical story of an otaku falling in love with a new-age woman, but through the telling of the movie, this plot does not end up in the cliché.
The fourth is between the indulgent writer and the woman who is good at socializing, because of the hook-up story that happened with the light of the cigarette, and finally the identity of each other was broken, and the dialogue between the two was declared to end, and there is no doubt that this conversation was a failure.
The fifth story is about a high school student who has just graduated from high school and meets the heroine who is originally an actor, although the heroine has deceived him, but through this experience, the high school student has grown into an adult.
There are also several stories of emotional transactions, famous singers and waiters, little girls and fathers who mistakenly believe to be nannies, drug girls and painters, and happy dates for old couples on their 63rd wedding anniversary.
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These 12 stories may seem scattered, but in fact through the city of New York, they are connected. Their identities are also spread across all levels, including little girls, newly graduated high school students, young unemployed vagrants, frustrated women who are about to reach the end of their marriages, middle-aged and difficult painters, and old people who are old and still used to talking to their wives.
The protagonists in the movie seem special, but in fact, they are the epitome of each of us, and what we experience is more or less what we will experience, from young ignorance, to young and promising, to middle-aged frustration, faltering, their lives are destined to be inseparable from the city of New York.
Each city has a unique temperature, and the city leaves a little crowd for people, in fact, everyone finds what kind of dependence they find in it, if they are in a foreign country, then from a simple greeting or silent companionship, these people can feel warm. The life of each city represents a period of life experience, and the city is the basis of memory, so for life, it has an unusual meaning.
There is a classic sentence in the TV series "Beijingers in New York": If you love him, please send her to New York, because it is heaven; if you hate him, please send him to New York, because it is hell. New York always feels like it's bright and bustling, but on wet streets, in no-light corners, something unimaginably dark happens.
Because of this, New York means more possibilities. Maybe a woman you meet on the street borrowing a lighter is your next goal, or maybe a temporary prom companion can become someone close to each other. Inadvertently rubbing shoulders on the street, a sudden look back, may become a fate in the future destiny.
So some people love New York because the city always gives unexpected surprises. A person living alone is likely to have successfully walked out of the hardships of life because a stranger listens, the city is constant temperature, but the temperature between people can be adjusted.
We are always complaining about the difficulties of life, complaining about the cold-bloodedness of the city, but when you really leave the city and never come back, you will begin to miss the bits and pieces of life in this city, and even give up. Although it gives many people a cold slap, it has to be admitted that it carries precious memories for a period of time.
The reason why people do not like to say goodbye is because they have a memory of not giving up, and the city, as the bearer of memory, shows its maximum tolerance. And when we really say goodbye, in fact, that city, there is no going back.