This article is written by Chuan Meimei
Love Is Not Over, a love film directed by Victor Levine and starring Anton Eugene and Benanis Mallo, released in the United States on April 3, 2015. The film tells the story of an aspiring novelist and a married French woman.
There are comments on the Internet that "the American version of "Day Face" is extremely romantic and extremely asshole", I agree with the first half of the sentence, and the second half of the sentence does not agree. Where's the asshole? I'll say --
Brian (Anton Eugene), 24, is a penniless young writer with a faltering career and a bleak life, he is talented, but the letters of rejection are constant. On the day when he is not willing to always fail in his quest for self-breakthrough, he meets the beautiful and wise French woman Elle (Benanis Marlow), and the two fall in love at first sight and see each other again with irresistible attraction. So, according to the rules of the beautiful mother of 2 children, there was a date between 5 and 7 pm every week.
After some time, Brian felt that the woman he could not live without her, and he formally proposed to her. After hesitating, Ariel made a difficult choice to abandon this romantic relationship and return to the family.
According to an old Chinese saying that "hair is in love, stop at etiquette" is a very Western and Chinese style of a relationship between men and women, I give a definition of this relationship: very crazy and romantic and beautiful.
Thinking of the boring marriage between Katie Finn, the heroine of Maugham's famous "The Veil", and her husband Walter, she also cheated on a tall and handsome Hong Kong assistant secretary, Charlie. She thought he loved her, and walter, who really loved her, pointed out that "he's just playing with you." Later, when her husband died of an epidemic in the infected area, she returned to Charlie's arms. She was ashamed to see the dedication of the nuns moved by it, and eventually returned to England to reconcile with her father.
The Japanese film "Day Face" tells the story of Sasuke, who has returned to singlehood, and reunites with her former cheating partner Kitano and then falls into a whirlpool of feelings again. The hero and heroine of this movie have cheated on each other, but Kitano's wife loves her husband very much, and she tries her best to keep Kitano, and Kitano also makes a promise to never see Sawa again. But the hand of fate reunited them three years later, and their irrepressible thoughts rekindled their love.
There are too many books about extramarital love and infidelity in literature, and there are many things around us in life, which shows what it means.
Mr. Zhou Guoping once said: "I don't believe that people love only once in this life, nor do I believe that people must love many times in this life." The number of times does not explain the problem, the capacity of love is the capacity of a person's soul: you are a deep valley, a love is a river, many loves are like waves; if you are a shoal, a love is a thin stream, many loves, can only be bubbles. ”
Doesn't that mean you can't meet love only once in your life, and if you do, you're lucky. Because love contains at least 2 meanings 1 you feel sorry for him (her) willing to spend a lifetime with him; 2 you want to have skin kisses with him (her), you want to integrate into him (her) he (she) also wants to integrate into you, each other wants you to have me, I have you, which should be the component of sex.
But you might say that this sex component doesn't rule out the joy of fish and water between two people who don't love each other. I admit or deny that human instincts may be no different from animal instincts. But man is the most advanced animal, they have a mind and a mind, if the union of two strangers is only for some kind of pleasure in the senses, then the intercourse between men and women in the state of love is the perfect fusion of the soul's mutual caress and the body.
That day, After receiving several rejection letters in a row, Lane, who was a little frustrated, walked bored down the streets of New York, and walked to the corner, and he felt a cigarette and lit it, and just then he smelled a smell of smoke, his familiar smell of Spanish cigarettes, and turned his head, where a young girl was smoking. If it's an average woman or someone older smoking there, he doesn't count.
Fate allowed them to meet at that moment, and he hooked up with her. Brian introduced himself by name and occupation, and then said "Dare to ask fang's name", and the other person said that my name is Ariel, ah, mermaid? They had a great first conversation, Brian said, "Can I still see you?" The girl said I would smoke here every Friday afternoon from 5 to 7 o'clock, and you would come back here if you wanted to see me. Brian said he was extremely happy.
It was raining the following Friday, and Brian came to the street corner on time, handed over a lighter, and lit a cigarette for the girl, who had just exchanged some expectant eyes for surprise" "I thought you were not coming." Brian said "Why not, I hope to see you again".
After three weeks, Brian hesitated and finally came, Ariel was a little overjoyed, you still came? Ariel took the initiative to hug Brian, and could see her thoughts and waiting for these three days. They walked side by side on the boulevards of New York's Central Park, surrounded by huge canopy of green trees, like a couple. When they broke up, Ariel gave him a room card and said in his ear, "Room 2117 at 5 p.m. next Monday."
Since then, they often meet and make love at this time of day, also go to the hotel to eat, and guess the boxing to do games and watch movies, the topic between each other is more and more common language, Brian's creative passion is also bursting, and his novel has won the award.
His parents came to his awards ceremony and met Ariel, and my mother liked the girl and said I could tell from his eyes that she loved our son. Brian's father, on the other hand, was not optimistic about the relationship, saying that she was a married woman and two children, and that our son could not be the stepfather of other people's children.
Another incident occurs during this time, Ariel's husband Valery (Lambert Wilson) comes to Brian one day and introduces himself as Ariel's husband. He shook Brian's hand and said, Ariel said you are a kind and interesting talent, since she knew you, I have seen a light in his eyes that has never been seen before, I want to thank you, our family welcomes you to my house this Saturday.
It turned out that Ariel had told her husband about her relationship with Brian. Her husband is a French diplomat in the United States, and she has long had a lover named "Jane" (Olivier Thulby) And the diplomat and his wife have an agreement that every day between 5 and 7 pm, the two can exile themselves and find other emotional periods. The French do not hide their spouses from their lovers, this is French culture. So much so that Ariel said publicly to Brian that one day I would show up with her at my husband's funeral. Ha, this is French marriage, Ariel said to Brian you have to respect our culture, I will respect your American culture.
Brian was puzzled, how did your husband find out? I told him he was my husband and he should have known. Ariel continued to say naturally, "He invited you to come to my house, you wait, this evening must make you feel intimate and wonderful" Sure enough, Brian also met Jane, a beautiful editor of a magazine, and enthusiastically told him that your book will be edited and published by me later.
This is what Mr. Zhou Guoping said about "loose marriage"? This is absolutely not possible in Chinese-style marriages, and Americans don't seem to be so open. Brian gradually accepted Ariel's cognition, he came to her house, was warmly received by their whole family, including 2 children who liked him, saying that they were glad that you were my mother's boyfriend, and you taught us to play baseball.
Oh hehe, security subverted, no, called "updated" my Chinese view of marriage. Brian has reaped the love of other people's wives, broadened the social field, and laid the foundation for his career channel, which can be called a win-win.
Brian was happy like a bird, and one night at about 3 or 4 o'clock in the morning, he called Jane and asked her if she knew what kind of jewelry Ariel liked. Jane laughed and asked him, do you know what time it is? And you say that you are giving jewelry a play or a serious one? Brian, who was in love, said to himself, "Of course it's serious." "Dior" a brand, Jane hung up the phone.
Another 5 p.m., after the two of them made love, Brian looked at his lover differently, and he said I had something to say. He took out the newly purchased ring and put it on Ariel's ring finger, and he said, "I love you," and Ariel said, "I know," and Brian said word for word, "For two reasons, either because you have a charm that no one can resist; or because the beauty of the world always surprises you," the latter of which I remember Ariel saying when she first met him.
Lo and behold, every word of the person you love will be on your heart.
Brian continued "I want to be with you for a long time, not just 5 to 7 o'clock these 2 hours, this is not enough, marry me, I want to be your husband" He got down on one knee.
Ariel didn't listen to him and got up and walked around the room. Having said something to the effect that I am 9 years older than you, when you are 34, I am already 43 years old, and when you are 50 years old, I have been...
Brian said I didn't care, but were we doing arithmetic problems?
Ariel concluded by saying, "You think it's always best for your children to keep a marriage intact, right?" Brian continued, "I can't propose to you if you want to say that"...
This scene is very touching, I have watched it 3 times. 2 couples in love talk about marriage and children, so kind, rational, affectionate, inseparable.
Finally, Ariel promised to go home tonight and tell her husband that she would see you here tomorrow.
Tomorrow, Ariel didn't come. But that night, Valery came, knocked on the door and gave Brian a hard slap, and then he handed him a check with Brian's name on it, the amount "250,000" to take care of her! He dropped this sentence and the head would not leave.
Oh my God, what a gentleman.
Tomorrow, he went to the St. Reis Hotel, where the cleaner was cleaning the room, and the doorman gave him a letter written by Ariel with the ring in it.
Ariel writes: "We wrote down our vows when Valery and I got married, and he did a great job, and I couldn't help but keep my promise. When you have children one day, you will understand that to leave them is to abandon yourself...
Brian left the hotel in a trance, and he walked down the bustling streets of New York, watching the shadows in white dresses, all like Ariel, really, I felt sorry for this novelist. Whoever said it, how crazy love is how sad it is.
However, the anguished man's pen was unbridled, and he wrote several novels, including "The Little Mermaid", which was the inspiration given to him by Ariel. Jane came to see him and asked him to go for a drink to celebrate the publication of the novel, and he became a popular novelist for readers.
I suddenly thought of the Wang Jiazhi played by Tang Wei in "Color Ring", when she used her hue to seduce the traitor Mr. Yi, she actually fell in love with him, and when her companions carried out the assassination plan, she let him go, bringing herself the disaster of killing. It is said that women in love have a very low IQ and are almost negative. Ariel, on the other hand, can only be explained by the great mother's love and the sense of responsibility of marriage that made her finally stop at the lingering river of love.
I greatly appreciate Ariel's writing at the end of that letter, "There are still many unfinished adventures between us, and maybe we spend more days together, and I will find in you something that I don't like or even can't stand." People say love is perfect because they haven't met you."
Ariel is really a beautiful woman with intelligent talents, and she is soberly aware of the imperfections from love to marriage. But the responsibility of marriage and the great love and unshirkable responsibility of parenthood made her finally decisively end this sexual encounter and return to her husband and children.
I remember a trip to Thailand, I met a Shanghai primary school teacher, she seems to be a few years older than me, we complained to each other about the troubles in marriage during the foot treatment, she suddenly said, I only ask you, when you are old in front of the bedside is your family or your friend, the answer is yes, so I have no friends.
As Mr. Zhou Guoping said, "Ten thousand affairs cannot heal the wounds of love"; I would like to say: Ten thousand pieces of dew and erotic love cannot withstand the sincere companionship of the ear sideburns.
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