"Love Myth" comes from a recommendation from a friend, in fact, it was a bit confusing when I first started watching it.
Looking back at this movie, there are only three words left in the depths of memory - life.
If you want to add two more words, it is the details of life;
The film depicts the subtle sense of superiority between Shanghai natives and outsiders (what we call xenophobia), the subtle emotional changes between middle-aged men and women, the gender shackles of boys and girls (how boys should be, girls should be), and finally settle in the emotions between middle-aged men and women, ending with a poignant love story that seems to be mythological.
Personally, I feel that this film wins at the end and back and forth in their dinner table and wine game. This film has a feeling of not being in a hurry.
About love, about family affection, about friendship;
If you were to give love a metaphor, how would you describe it?
honey? arsenic? Or the honey of Ru's arsenic?
As we age, the so-called concept of love will also become more mature;
Is there pure love between middle-aged men and women?
I think there probably is.
Because the mother is not willing to let go of the divorce after the ex-wife still has a lot of intersections, through the introduction of friends who have had a failed marriage with children are not welcomed by the mother, Miss Li, a rich female student studying art, Gloria (the husband is kidnapped without home).
Three strange and very different middle-aged women because of the old white acquaintance, sitting at the same table, rubbing their fists;
Through dialogue, they can probably understand their different understandings of the same event, not to say this matter but not to leave this matter word by word, it is really a master move, pushing the cup to change the cup but beckoning the enemy;
A woman has never done anything incomplete in her life...
Their encounter may seem so dramatic, but does it really not exist in reality? Maybe!
The film shows details of life everywhere, such as the divorced Miss Li raising the child alone and being cursed by the mother, or the mother's strong random entry and exit and taking away the things of the son's residence;
And isn't that what's happening or happening to us or to everyone around us?
The mother thought she had taken the things away, and Lao Bai was not allowed to ask about the shoes because he helped others repair the shoes and lost them.
Because of a pair of shoes, there is a misunderstanding, and whether the shoes are true or false, it seems that it is not so important. Because the result lies in the outcome that its owner tells you and which answer you prefer to believe.
When the fake is true, it is true and false, and there is nowhere to do anything;
Isn't this world true or false, and who can tell how much is true and false?
The whole article mainly revolves around Lao Bai, which seems to tell the emotional entanglement between him and these women, but in fact, it is finally sublimated on Lao Wu.
The film ends at Lao Wu's memorial service, the "Love Myth" that he has never seen before.
Only because of the agreement with a person that year, the film that was agreed to be watched together was not seen because of various things.
Agree to do it together, then not with you will lose the meaning of looking at it, preferring not to touch it for a lifetime;
I think this is the story of Lao Wu;
Many of the words or stories that Lao Wu said may be false, but in the end this story I think must be true;
Whether this story is true or not, Miss Lee and Gloria have two diametrically opposed answers to this question;
Miss Li does not believe Lao Wu's story because she was injured in love;
What about Gloria? It seems to be alive and free, originally thought that she did not have too much affection for him (Lao Bai) only in the teacher-student relationship, but when she received the painting sent by Lao Wu and then closed the door, I thought all this would be overturned;
That subtle expression betrayed her, maybe she cared about him, maybe she loved herself the most;
Many times we will always be inexplicably put on some shackles, the so-called girls should have the appearance of girls, boys who wear hand cream, makeup are called "mothers" or divorced women...
etcetera
And these shackles are not only put on us by others, but also by ourselves.
Times have changed, and this deep-rooted thinking has still not been completely eradicated.
Many people hope to be able to be vigorous about love, but life is more about the mutual support between ordinary couples;
Never envy the little couples holding hands on the street, envy those old couples who are still holding each other's hands and relying on each other to cross the road despite their twilight years, because that is their commitment to each other for half a lifetime and will complete a lifetime of protection;
A life is long but short;
Miss Lee does not believe Lao Wu's story; while Gloria is willing to believe it;
So do you who have seen the movie believe the story of Lao Wu?
I think I believed it, and the director also tended to make us believe, so in the end, someone was arranged to take back the house that Lao Wu rented before he died.
Whether their stories are believed or not is actually less important. Because life is not a serial drama that never has a big ending.