More often than a lifetime of stalemate, it is more often a momentary eye contact, without too many words, our hearts are so compatible; sometimes, love is not as expected, the muse that occasionally appears in life has occupied the hearts of others; or those long-lasting commitments often appear at the corner when they reach the intersection of life's path.
The order of love is like a Russian doll stacked up layer by layer, not opened to the last one, no one knows who the heart will belong to; and it is like you have held it in the palm of your hand but gradually forgotten the feelings that were once hot, allowing the fire of love burning with each other to slowly extinguish, and the one that remains, for you, transforms into another.
When you feel that there is no longer any nostalgia, a new life has sprouted quietly in silence; two souls have become one, and suddenly you are shocked to realize that you have not been allowed to cut them; if you miss that moment, regret will always exist in your heart, and you will unconsciously recall the courage that was not there at that time. It is also possible that you will embark on a new journey for yourself, and this journey you will no longer care whether you go alone or not, because getting a moment will stay in your heart forever...
"New York, I Love You" through 11 emotional interlacing strings together an eternal love, the gradual process from the infatuation that passes by, the comfort of the heart, the talented acquaintance and pity, the naïve thought that love is greater than bread, the charming little surprise of the fate arrangement, the one-night stand with a little doubt, the desire to keep the most beautiful moment, the joy of being a father, the throbbing at the end of the road between drunken dreams, when the marriage should be the most satisfactory ending, it has long since disappeared the waves of the past, even if they complain to each other, they frequently look back. In the bustling city of New York, where people come and go, all kinds of "love" are staged at any time and place; romantic, rational, impulsive, passionate, exploring the city and the story, piecing together a new York as the main axis, leading the audience to follow the footsteps of the characters to launch a journey of love. Because, we all crave love...
The more upscale gem shops in New York's Diamond District, the more they can find cultures, races, languages, and so on, even if they are different beliefs. Ivan Kahan and Natalie Portman talk about their shaved wives from taboo foods, and when Natalie Portman takes off a wig and says she must shave her hair at the wedding because she is about to marry a lover of the Jewish faith, the walls that had been built in her heart gradually disintegrate. Ivan Kahan gently approaches Natalie Portman as if he were reviving his past love for his wife.
In upper East Side, a composer and the director's assistant have a phone conversation, and the two reconcile after arguing and awkwardly. They are all quietly brewing and fermenting in the atmosphere of Japanese pure love that director Shunji Iwai is good at.
Late at night outside a restaurant in SoHo, a man gushed a conversation to a beautiful woman. Women occasionally cope with the response of a sentence or two, and the contrast between hot and cold between men and women also makes people more surprised by the results of the measurement of love and money.
At the college ball near Central Park, the boy is abandoned by his girlfriend, and when he is heartbroken, he meets the kind pharmacy owner who is willing to arrange for his daughter to accompany the boy to the dance. The pharmacy owner happily opened his wallet to show off his daughter's beauty, and the boy was amazed and arranged for the limousine to arrive at the door only to find the girl in a wheelchair! In an instant, a dance will make the boy's mood rise and fall, and finally find that the most charming secret has always been in his hands.
A couple of men and women who have just had a one-night stand can't figure out why they have a relationship with each other, in the middle of the night in the Greenwich Village subway, the woman constantly thinks back and chafies, the man thinks bitterly but can't help but let the self in his mind return to that night; this pair of men and women who feel anxious, afraid and defensive, have a chance to reunite again?
A mixed-race man and a white girl playing by the fountain in Central Park, while the ladies and mothers on the side even claimed that the male nanny was very competent and excellent; but when the mixed-race man stood alone on the stage and danced flexibly with sweat, a child's voice shouted excitedly: "Daddy"
The long-haired girl who works in a herb shop in Chinatown seems to be weak and silent, and this Chinese woman inspires an artist, always using napkins and sauces to compose pictures in the restaurants on the corner after turning around, and even after returning to the residence, she constantly tries to rely on memory to paint; finally one day the artist plucked up the courage to ask the Chinese woman to paint a portrait, although the woman was deeply moved, but she would only shake her head and refuse. When a woman is injured one day while cutting herbs, the blood gushing out of her index finger is like a symbol of a woman's desire to break through the existing rules and yearn for freedom! She ran to follow the address left by the artist, hoping that she would have time to grant his request...
The singer who has passed away stayed in the former hotel, nostalgic for the applause of the past but hindered by the old age, she looked at the open window and the curtains flying with the wind, thinking into the mind; the lame young man claiming to be the son of the hotel manager brought champagne to thank the singer for staying again, and the man accidentally fell down the building when he tried to close the window with his limp! The dreamlike situation seems to die in place of the singer who originally had a suicide in his heart...
On the seashore in Brighton, New York, an old couple chattered and argued, and the old lady kept repeating that the old man was walking in the wrong way, hurriedly walking in front, but from time to time she looked back at her wife. Although the pace of the story is slow, it most truly shows the mutual support of the husband and wife after the elderly.
Outside the restaurant door in Soho, the woman dressed as she entered smoked alone and looked at the man a few steps away, and the man only cared about talking on the phone but did not care. When the phone call ended, the woman told her about her unhappy marriage, her husband snubbed her for a long time, devoted herself to her career, and the fervent love between the two was no longer the same as before.
Among them, the favorite is the last paragraph of the story, the plot is completely completely flipped beyond imagination! Only this seemingly stranger-like love has been desperate in the end; perhaps it is only a long time, forgetting the passion that has been embraced around...