Today, let's talk about the British film "Sublet".
It's a story of a five-day trip that happened.
What can I do in five days?
For Michael, visiting a city, meeting a young man, completing a column, and getting out of a wound.
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Michael, a columnist for The New York Times, came to Tel Aviv, Israel, to finish a column.
It was a city that was both familiar and unfamiliar to him, an Israeli who had only grown up in a foreign country and had last returned to his teens.
Time flies, decades go by, people change, Michael is no longer the teenager he was before, the city will change, Tel Aviv will change.
Confused, Michael originally planned to use the method of visiting tourist attractions to complete the trip writing, after all, most people do not travel this way.
Tommer's appearance changed Michael's trip, and he told Michael, I'll take you to the real Tel Aviv.
Tommer is the landlord of michael's rental apartment on this trip.
Tommer, who had mistaken the check-in time, hurriedly cleaned up his messy apartment after Michael arrived, and used "this is the sexiest neighborhood in town" to convince Michael not to rebook the hotel.
It was the first time Michael wanted to get out of the apartment, whether it was the sexiest neighborhood, and he didn't know yet, he was convinced.
However, Michael soon discovered that when Tomer rented the apartment to himself, he had no fixed place to live and could only linger at a friend's house, so Michael offered to let Tomer sleep on the couch, in exchange for Tomer to be his guide in Tel Aviv.
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What is it like to visit a city from a local's point of view?
Probably will go/do anything other than tourist attractions.
Tommer took Michael to the restaurant he thought was the best, but it wouldn't be until three o'clock because afternoon tea was half priced.
On a trip to a nearby beach, Michael saves a small child, but is misunderstood.
Went to shows by female friends, and bars.
This is the case with a non-tourist-style travel experience, engaging and immersed in local life.
Even if we talk about life, our respective views on life,
At this point, the relationship between the two is also the landlord and the tenant,
In Tomer invite Michael to his farm,
After that period of chat at the dinner table, it may have made a new change for the two,
This young man is a bit interesting/This old man is also a man with a story.
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These are two people who have nothing in common.
Different countries, different social environments grew up, different ages, different views on feelings and life are different.
Tommer, who studied filmmaking, shared his work with Michael, and apparently, it was beyond Michael's liking.
Is traditional romance and a happy ending bad,
Tommer just wants to make something different, like a horror movie with a bad ending.
It's like for some things in life, some people want to know and know what it is; there are people who just want to get a feeling, and the others don't matter.
A few young people want to move to Berlin, "Isn't it strange to move to Berlin, after all, it is a symbol of Jewish tragedy", Michael's question was exchanged for the laughter of the young people, who only thought that Berlin was a cool place, the burden of history? For these young people, there is none.
Michael is married and has a partner for many years, and for him, a person's love for you is the best gift in life and needs to be cherished.
And Tommer, he doesn't want to be in a relationship with just one person, he doesn't want to bind himself to anyone, he just wants to enjoy what the world has given.
These are two people who also have regrets.
After the marriage was legalized, Michael married his partner of years of love and planned to raise a child of their own. Long preparation and pregnancy, the child is about to be born, Michael has given his daughter a good name, an accident, the child is gone.
This trip to Tel Aviv is also a way for Michael to escape the pain, and he can't start over, even if he knows that his boyfriend is hiding from him, and he quietly prepares for the pregnancy.
Afraid of losing again, Michael used his age as an excuse, and he felt that he was old and no longer suitable for raising a baby.
Tommer grew up on a farm on the outskirts of Tel Aviv from a single-parent family. Without a father, her mother conceived and gave birth to him through a sperm bank. This was also a shocking thing at that time, even if it was criticized, the strong mother raised Tomer alone, but for Tomer, the absence of the role of father is still a regret in life.
A man who wants to be a father but fails, a man who lacks a father since childhood,
The spark of emotion still lacks a fuse.
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Michael plans to check out the next day and find a new hotel to stay in.
This was the second time he wanted to get out of the apartment, and this time he was persuaded by Tommer.
This is the huge difference between the two people on their feelings, not everyone is just pursuing a momentary pleasure.
The punch came quickly, and the night before the parting, Michael and Tommer said goodbye.
If Michael and Tommer have any feelings, I think it should be a relationship of friendship after mutual understanding and mutual attraction, or a hazy father-son relationship caused by mutual lack of affection.
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What is the meaning of travel?
From escaping from the city where you are tired of living, going to a place where others are tired of living, seeing some scenery that you have never seen, knowing some strangers, having some stories, generating some emotions, and when the time comes, then letting go of these and returning to your own place, everything that happened in those days is slowly forgotten, until it becomes a few symbols or clues, and when the memories are recalled, you will remember, Oh, I have been to this place before, and I know someone, and something happened.
Whether you admit it or not, what will be forgotten is actually unimportant to the individual.