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After reaching middle age, what will be the definition of love?
You may say that love is a mysterious and mysterious thing, and now, even young people will not take care of it, let alone middle-aged people.
Today's film will give an unexpected and reasonable answer.
First, the flexible concept of love
Middle-aged Lao Bai looks like an honest man, Shanghai native, divorced, the baby has reached adulthood, and there is a talent for art and superb cooking. Thrown in the club of middle-aged people, it can be regarded as the ideal type of man in the female perspective.
And just as the so-called "man forty-one flowers", Lao Bai did not expect that his old self could rejuvenate twice, and two peach blossoms bloomed in a daze!
One is Miss Lee.
Ma Yili plays Miss Li
Miss Li has a gorgeous purple short hair, and the temperament emitted from her body is the same as that of Shanghai, fashionable, exquisite, and romantic.
But I didn't expect that after a night of windfall, Miss Li picked up her high heels and ran away! This makes Lao Bai a little confused. Then, Lao Bai stepped into the camp, and he was taking the baby and repairing the shoes, and even wanted to rent his house to her for free, this operation not only did not impress Miss Li, but frightened her into fleeing into the wilderness, and a sentence of "breaking away" eliminated all the thoughts of Lao Bai.
The other is Gloria.
Ni Hongjie as Gloria
Gloria is the youngest student in the old white art class, in her own words, "rich and idle, her husband is missing." The days are not moist.
Catalyzed by alcohol, Gloria and Lao Bai also inexplicably spend the spring supper together! Gloria woke up like a wild cat, "after eating and wiping her mouth, she ran away." Even left more than 20,000 "painting fees" as "prostitutes" in a breeze, leaving two big masters stunned!
The mess here has not been cleaned up, and the ex-wife Bei Bei has broken off the connection with this family in the name of her son.
Wu Yue as Bei Bei
In the words of her ex-wife, she was nothing more than "making a mistake that men all over the world make", but "there is a principle, the family is always in the first place", and she was dumbfounded for a while.
The film takes the middle-aged life of the old white rush as a clue, and connects the swaying and colorful views of several women's love concepts.
Spirit and flesh, sex and love, these things are undisguised on the table by "Love Myth", and dissolved as the inverted identity of men and women, in a one-night stand, it is the woman who runs away, it is the woman who compensates for the money, and even the perfunctory after the fact is also the woman.
Stills from the movie "Love Myth"
In the middle-aged people's concept of love, these are no longer troublesome things that need to be handled in a hurry.
Middle-aged women's view of mate selection is no longer like that of young people, only "rich and handsome", as beautiful and delicate modern girls, they have long been soaked in a set of their own life philosophy in the siege of marriage: men are no longer a necessity of life, "do not get the best, willing to do nothing." ”
In the most wonderful table scene in the film, the scene of the three women is no longer the female competition of the Shuluo field, they are anti-guest-oriented, and several verbal battles make the male owner of the dinner bureau dumbfounded.
At first, Bei Bei led the conversation, and it is incomplete for a woman who has not had a child in her life.
Gloria then retorted, "I would make up this kind of deception, and it is incomplete for a woman who has not lived for herself in her life."
Miss Li is not to be outdone, and it is incomplete for a woman not to earn 1 million in her life.
Between gags, the initial sword tension suddenly disappeared.
The three women expressed their opinions on the definition of "woman", what kind of discipline a woman should be in a lifetime was suddenly dissolved by jokes, three "love enemies" suddenly unified alliance into the "three sisters of cat's eye", while the two men were completely left aside and reduced to spectators.
This is also the most spiritual place in the film, one meal after another, the personalities of men and women jump on the paper.
Second, the agile female characters
In the movie, the portrayal of each female character is also amazing.
Miss Li is romantic by nature, loves drama, and loves Fellini, but she has long passed the age of romantic excitement.
Outside, she is a glamorous multinational advertising agency producer, inside, she is a single mother, divorced and cheated out of two apartments, baby is still British mixed race, every day for her daughter to fail the English test and tense nerves...
She always maintains restraint on love, Lao Bai casually draws a sketch for her, she will also set the girl's heart attack as a mobile phone wallpaper, and then faintly hurt, politely refused Lao Bai's rental offer;
She also had a young age of obsession with love and a heart higher than the sky, but in exchange for a tragic marriage with scars, she lived with her mother and let her blame;
When she heard Gloria say at the dinner table, "It is incomplete for a woman not to live for herself in this life", she also had her eyes dim and depressed for a moment;
Only when the bustling city ends at night can she borrow a cigarette time to think about life on the empty windowsill.
For Miss Li, love is just a brand-name shoe with broken high heels, and if she doesn't want to go downhill again, she has to endure the pain of cutting love.
Gloria, who seems to have a lot of money and leisure, has the most elegant attitude towards feelings.
She did not care about her husband's imaginative reason for disappearance, and when she was lonely, she called a male model to sing domineeringly in KTV, and when she was emotionally superior, she had a night affair with Lao Bai, and then gave Lao Bai a good man card and compensated him with the "name of buying paintings".
Even if there is more bitterness in life, she never shows the surface.
There is also the ex-wife Bei Bei, even if the feelings no longer exist, but a husband and wife, everyone is not so embarrassed to tear their faces, on the contrary, the relationship between the two after divorce is more like friends, relaxed and natural.
Despite Lao Bai's accusations of cheating in her marriage, she jokingly said, "I just made a mistake that men all over the world make."
Bei Bei has always put the family first, excellent family management ability, so that the former mother-in-law has been thinking of her, and even every three to five to persuade her son to remarry.
She also wears a cheongsam from time to time, nostalgic for her passion for dancing in her youth. The flesh ages, but elegance never goes out of style.
These indigenous residents in the Shanghai Tube Building, exude the temperament of a little bourgeois in their bones, live freely and confidently, and their gorgeous lives reveal the city well, and their strong personality reveals weakness, just like Zhang Ailing's Shanghai "mezzanine".
Third, the flexible Shanghai characteristics
Shanghai writer Zhang Ailing wrote in "In the End is Shanghainese": "Shanghainese are traditional Chinese coupled with the tempering of modern high-pressure life. The exchange of deformed products of old and new cultures may turn out to be unhealthy, but there is a strange wisdom here. ”
This strange wisdom is reflected in the seamless connection between "literature and art" and "fireworks", and the film always exudes a strong Shanghainese style.
People speak Wu Nong soft language, praise people will praise "taunt", scold people will scold "13 points";
Everyone's bones are engraved with coffee time;
Imported foreign trade stores are also filled with large pants of pure cotton;
The little shoemaker on the side of the road can also say two words about Amsterdam and philosophy;
The street café is called "Night Run", and the small supermarket is called "Red Breeze" (PS: Wang Xiaobo has a book called "Red Breeze Night Run"). ）
The narrow alleys of Puxi are inhabited by both fashionable hipsters and aunts with broken mouths;
Young people in Italy speak a proficient Shanghainese and eat Western food with chopsticks;
Mixed-race British dolls are also clueless about the English test.
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As director Shao Yihui herself said, the Shanghai she portrayed is actually a space mixed with romantic imagination and realistic details, in order to serve the tone of the whole movie - a group of middle-aged men and women who do not want to get married but only want to be happy, can accommodate such a group of people and will not be scolded suspended and ungrounded city, all of China except Shanghai, really can't think of a second place.
And this kind of romantic reproduction is also fully reflected in Lao Wu.
Zhou Ye mang plays Lao Wu
In Lao Wu's mouth, he seems to carry most people's fantasies of love, the most legendary of which is his affair in Rome.
In this story that is difficult to distinguish between reality and reality, Lao Wu is in rome, the capital of cinema, and the heroine of the story is Sophia Roland, a goddess actress in the history of Italian cinema.
"20 years ago, I had a romantic encounter with Sophia Roland in Italy and gave my first, and Sophia Roland gave me the whole of Rome and took it with me."
This fabulous love story is too dreamlike after all.
Sophia Roland's authenticity does not matter, the mysterious woman Amway's "Love Myth" to Lao Wu is a key to deciphering life, full of metaphors.
Lao Wu got drunk on a whim, and even drank to the emergency room, and finally died in an ineffective rescue.
Those love that existed in words became the tsunami of his life, the waves that overturned a city, and in the end, love belonged only to myths.
Write at the end
At the end of the film, everyone sits on the couch and watches Fellini's "Love Myth" to mourn Lao Wu.
Inside and outside the movie, there is no difference.
This group of middle-aged men and women who have lived most of their lives still can't understand this incomprehensible life.
One by one, they collapsed on the couch, snoring and snoring, shaking their heads, as if they were sometimes happy and sometimes depressed in the face of life.
The light of the projector is directed at the camera, and at that moment, the screen is long gone, leaving only the actors and the audience looking at each other.
The question at the beginning of the article seems to have an answer:
How to maintain the ability to love a lover in a trivial daily life?
How do you rebuild an equal and trusting intimate relationship with others in a scarred situation?
This is a compulsory subject for men and women in love.
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