Images of Robert De Niro and Meryl Streep in the film Falling in Love (1984).
I don't know who was the first to say the vivid term "love network", which is manifested in the form of a network of emotions and the pain of the secret feelings of love. The so-called "falling into the love network" not only has the beauty of falling into the arms of love, but also the hardship of being caught by the love network and having nowhere to escape.
Both men and women are originally free beings between heaven and earth, accidentally mistakenly entering the love network, suddenly unable to move, and there is no freedom in the world, only the eight-legged insect called "love" in front of them cannibalizes.
Image of Robert De Niro in the film Falling in Love (1984).
Falling in Love (1984) was taken in 1983, when Robert De Niro's sideburns were not yet white, his face was steep and cold, and this multi-racial hybrid was born with a credible and malleable eyebrow, and he thought like a philosopher, laughing like a child and exuding a caring warmth.
Images of Robert De Niro and Meryl Streep in the film Falling in Love (1984).
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But Robert De Niro is still the boxer who has lost his self-esteem and is fat, or the deer hunter who points a revolver at his head in the hope that his best friend will wake up, and he is also an ordinary middle-aged man who is tormented by love in "Falling in Love" - Frank.
Image of Meryl Streep in the film Falling in Love (1984).
The story of "Falling in Love" is very simple, all conflicts are concise and powerful, even if it is hurt and parting, there is no bit of mother-in-law tearing, more is a clear and crisp break; even if it is love and reunion, there is no bit of lingering pity, at most it is to send a hug that points directly to the heart.
Stills from the movie "Falling in Love" (1984), Meryl Streep and Diane West
Frank is an engineer with a full-time wife and two boys, and a friend who is divorcing; Molly (Meryl Streep) is an amateur painter with a doctor husband and a lively dog, and a girlfriend (Dianne Wiest) who is obsessed with sex.
Frank and Molly meet in a bookstore, and the two take each other's books in the middle of the hustle and bustle, although this section has been used indiscriminately by later film and television dramas.
Stills from the movie Falling in Love (1984), Meryl Streep and Robert De Niro
But at the time, it seemed that it was indeed a divine stroke that made the lives of the two people intersect, and the choice of different books represented that the two people originally came from two completely different worlds, and the exchange of books was a kind of mismatch of information.
Men and women who are originally unrelated enter each other's lives because of books, and the information carried by books and books is like two tentacles, although it is a slight touch, but it is meaningful.
Images of Robert De Niro and Meryl Streep in the film Falling in Love (1984).
After the two found each other and themselves on the same train into the city, from time to time the coincidence made the hearts of both of them ripple, Frank plucked up the courage to start a blunt and brief conversation, nothing more than your name my name, today's weather, and finally Molly said: Tomorrow I will take this bus at five o'clock.
Poster for the Japanese version of the movie "Falling in Love" (1984).
Everything was different from then on, and the two gradually found that although they did not know each other, they did not know each other's occupation, origin, family, and even the two rarely called each other's names, but the god chat of the south sea and the north of the sea was enough to indulge themselves.
Both have their own worlds behind them, and these two unrelated worlds have a common feature, which is that they are completely closed and seemingly indestructible.
Location of the film Falling in Love (1984), from left: Robert De Niro, Meryl Streep, director Ulu Grossbad
If they hadn't met each other, the two would have been running steadily in their respective orbits, and this life may not be shocking, but at least it is decent and rich.
However, they met each other, encountered love, and the story continued to advance unhurriedly, and at a crucial juncture, director Ulu Grosbard (1929-2012) took a relatively gentle attitude to introduce the story into a direction that was easily accepted by the audience.
Images of Robert De Niro and Meryl Streep in the film Falling in Love (1984).
The two knew that they were in an irredeemable love, and the family behind them also fell into a collapse.
But in the process, Frank and Molly don't become the direct executioners of each other's family breakdown, but are dissolved in the background by director Uru Grossbad.
That is to say, the two cannot return to the original life because they meet each other, the state of mind no longer makes the original partner feel bored and leave on their own, and the most important thing is that the two do not come together because of this, but because of misunderstanding and separation.
Image of Meryl Streep in the film Falling in Love (1984).
The open-mindedness of the original partner and the sadness of the result dispel the audience's moral doubts about the hero and heroine's defection from the family, and the reunion at the end of the year suddenly soothes the audience's emotional need to see the lover eventually become a family, and conveys a powerful message: fate allows them to obtain the only love in life.
And the human factor made them endure the painful separation, and finally saved them is still a wonderful fate, that this love that has been protected by heaven, as mortals, they are not entitled to escape.
Image of Robert De Niro in the film Falling in Love (1984).
The reason why such a film with a soothing rhythm and a bland plot can become a superior work is that in addition to the perfect interpretation of Robert De Niro and Meryl Streep, it is more important that this exploration of family and love is a constant theme in the history of the human psyche.
Audiences may not be able to resist the film's desire to be a 1940s romance, because the director decisively puts this "coincidence" into a tried-and-true scene in Hollywood through the first "coincidence" encounter between the characters.
Poster for the Japanese version of the movie "Falling in Love" (1984).
Just as Rosalind Russell Rosalind Russell (1907-1976) and Gary Grant (1904-1986) left Macy's at the same time; they bumped into each other, dropped their packages, and bumped into their heads as they awkwardly bent down to pick them up.
In Falling in Love, Robert De Niro and Meryl Streep are in the bookstore, not the department store, but we still smile as their packages fall.
Image of Meryl Streep in the film Falling in Love (1984).
The vast majority of sentient beings walking in this society are lazy people who follow the rules, seeing the surging crowds of people rushing in one direction, even if they don't know where they are going, they will involuntarily take steps to keep up.
Society itself will reward its followers, every individual who conforms to his mainstream consciousness will get at least not bad results, and every maverick individual will invite all kinds of difficulties in society itself, if your heart is not strong enough, you are likely to become an outlier and a loser, a lifetime of estrangement from the crowd.
Image of Meryl Streep in the film Falling in Love (1984).
Marriage is the most mainstream family form of human beings, and every man is encouraged to find a good woman to spend his life with and pass on his surname.
However, the data shows that each man has 2,000 suitable partners in the world, which means that marriage is not unique, you can have 2,000 suitable wives.
Although each of them has a different face and a very different personality, you will feel the happiness of marriage if you spend your life with any one of these 2,000 people.
Stills from the movie Falling in Love (1984), robert de Niro and Meryl Streep
This shows that marriage is more consciously a social organization, it is a contract of common life and a group of mutual trust and mutual benefit, and marriage is a great invention made by human beings for the sake of making their society more stable and efficient.
And love? Love is irrational and obstinate, it is more often with a kind of paranoia and extremes, and in many noble minds, love is the only one, and a good mind may carry a unique lover throughout its life, even if it cannot stay with it, but every time it thinks of it, it will nourish its dry heart and gray real world.
Cover of the Japanese video version of the movie "Falling in Love F" (1984).
Love will not happen to everyone, many people will not have the opportunity to experience the joy of love until death, and this joy will carry a kind of destructive power once it occurs, and every person who falls into it can only be tied up and at the mercy of it, so love is essentially with rare and anti-social genes.
In "Falling in Love", the performances of Robert De Niro and Meryl Streep are admirable, and both show superb acting skills.
Images of Robert De Niro and Meryl Streep in the film Falling in Love (1984).
Especially such emotional films, there is no need for heart-rending shouts, nor generous and magnificent statements, deeply appreciate the emotional context and plot development of the characters, and feel the joys, sorrows, wandering, hesitation, determination in the world.
It was also the second collaboration between Robert De Niro and Meryl Streep, following The Deer Hunter (1978), and since Marvin's Room (1996), marvin's room.
Image of Meryl Streep in the film Falling in Love (1984).
And this "Falling in Love" is more like a rehearsal of "The Bridges of Madison County" (1995), but this film is different from the tragic ending of "The Covered Bridge Dream", it always gives the audience a thought on the screen.
So Meryl Streep's performance in "Falling in Love" is an unavoidable highlight in it, and the inadvertent temptation and proximity revealed by her eyes when she looks at a person very accurately grasps the change in the relationship between the characters from far and near, that is, the change of psychological distance, and there is a pure sense of comfort.
Image of Robert De Niro in the film Falling in Love (1984).
At the end of the story, Frank and Molly hug and kiss affectionately at the end, believing that every audience member will be swayed by the atmosphere created by the film and applaud it.
But their price is to destroy two otherwise happy families, to hurt two innocent men and women and a big dog, and these chips for love are heavy and inescapable.
Images of Robert De Niro and Meryl Streep in the film Falling in Love (1984).
But the reason why people are willing to send blessings to the heroes and heroines is more because of this tacit understanding of the soul, the miracle of fate is too rare in the human world, and the nature of people is to live for themselves by seeking benefits and avoiding harm.
When you find out that there is a single one in addition to 2,000 people, what you should do is probably give up one of the 2,000 people around you, because she has 1999 people besides you who can live happily together, and you should rush up and hold your only one in your arms and tell her, My name is Frank, we can always take this train, no matter where it leads.
Image of Meryl Streep in the film Falling in Love (1984).
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