The picture shows the stills of "Love at the Dawn Breaks"
The train builds the structure of a small world of interpersonal relationships, bringing strangers together and dispersing them in specific places. Literature and movies like to make articles on the train. In the small carriage, there are human stories and unexpected encounters. It is like a utopian space, in a short journey, free to make some whimsical arrangements beyond the budget of life. If you have never had any adventures on the train, perhaps not because the people on the train are boring, but because of your attitude towards life.
In the movies during World War II, the train is like a scaled-down version of a concentration camp. In movies, visual impressions are often fixed on those from black?? A pair of desperate hands sticking out of the car window. In classic films such as Doctor Zhivago, The Train under Close Surveillance, and The Blue Bridge, the train is a symbol of sadness, creating a nervous, desperate, heart-wrenching escape or parting, a rejection of the stereotypical and boring present. But at the same time, it is also replicating every moment of life and leading us to the unknown future. The train is such a "basic" film element, such as south Korean director Bong Joon-ho's "Snow Country Train", which was released some time ago, which creates a utopian small world. The outside of the train is snowy and deserted, and the train becomes a final soul shelter, a perpetual motion machine for life, but in this so-called "paradise" there is still a social hierarchy, and confrontation and rebellion are staged in the narrow carriages. The most shocking scene inside is that the child who is treated as a mechanical part is locked up in a cramped space and becomes a substitute for the damaged parts. In these movies, the train is abstracted as a painful and sad memory element, but if you don't want to be sad and choose a beautiful intoxication, then you must not miss the movie "Love at the Dawn Breaks".
At the beginning of the movie, a strange man and woman meet on the train, and after chatting, they have a good feeling for each other. The train stops in Vienna, the two get off together, and the story begins. The difference between this movie and movies like "Soul Breaking Blue Bridge" is that they get off the bus together, and you think that it will be romantic and eternal from then on, but in fact, the short-lived story in the narrow space is changed to an open place, but it is still urged by the fleeting sense of time. Life is also going through the train time, it does not go out of the platform, everything is full of uncertainty and chance. The hero is going to fly back to the United States the next day, the heroine is going to Paris, and the two decide to visit Vienna together during this free time. I had planned to say goodbye without worry, but after this night, the two were inseparable. At dawn, the hero and heroine say goodbye in a hurry by the train, leaving no time to leave an address or correspondence, and they agree to meet at the same place at a later time: "Five years." "Oh, too long." "One year." "Half a year." "From last night or today." (Only those who really want to go to the appointment will think of such a fine ah.) "Oh, it was too cold then." "We saw each other here and could go somewhere else." This line can be designed too well, the bagpipe sound of the train becomes rigid and urgent, the breakup is imminent, the long words become short sentences, and the helplessness, nostalgia, and expectation are all condensed in the lines.
Time is the killer of memory. Whether it is joy or pain, when it happens, it is sharp and piercing, and when the soft brush of time is wiped over and over again, the details are abstracted and conceptualized. Despite the sadness, who can resist? The image fades in the background like a distant train. There is also the tramp poet by the river in the movie, who asks the tourist to say a word casually, and then he writes a poem based on this word. Of course, the poem is not very good, but this way of begging is really interesting.
This is the train movie code in the movie Love at Dawn. A romantic train encounter story. Knowing that reality is impossible, look at it, but you are willing to believe it.
Qiu Min