Text/Ye Qiuchen
The 1953 movie "Roman Holiday" has a Douban score of 9.1.
Ranked 52nd in the top 250 Douban movies, 930,000+ people participated in the rating, and 1.74 million + people marked to have seen it.
In film history, it can definitely be called a classic romance film.
The princess was tired of exhaustion and boring arrangements during the trip, so she ran away and accidentally met a reporter.
The two slowly fell in love with each other in the relationship, but finally chose to separate because of their identity and responsibilities.
The framework and structure of the story is very simple, but it does make it memorable.
To this day, Ye Qiuchen still remembers the feeling of watching the movie for the first time, marveling at the charm of Audrey Hepburn, admiring the temperament of Gregory Peck, and this short but beautiful love.
Later, Hepburn also won the honor of Best Actress with the film.
It's 2023 now.
70 years later, I stumbled upon a question about Roman Holiday.
What do you think is regrettable, is it that you can't stay together, or have you never met?
We all knew that in the end they were not together.
Doomed to be a pity.
Seventy years ago, people had an understanding of this problem.
After 70 years, can you answer the answer to this question?
Of course, this is not an exam question, and there is no such thing as a correct answer.
Everyone has their own opinion, so I'm just going to express my opinion here.
This is a "A or B" questioning pattern, i.e. choose one or the other.
When I first saw this question, my answer chose "can't keep each other".
The reason is simple.
If it is called a premise of regret, it must be that this love has already been produced, and it must be met to produce it.
Eliminate remote dating through online letters, phone calls, emails, etc.
But that's just that the body doesn't meet, and the soul is actually talking.
I have also heard in the past that although two people have not seen each other's faces, they can also achieve the degree of soul fit through other means of communication.
It's just another form of "encounter."
Since "meeting" is the premise of regret in love, choosing "unable to stay together" has also become the answer for most people.
But if the title focuses on the movie "Roman Holiday", then it is necessary to think deeper.
For the princess and the reporter, it was clear to the two of them that it was a fruitless love.
The princess is the heir to the royal family, and the journalists are the migrant workers who participated in the visit.
Even if they have a good impression, the distance between them is uneven.
It is not limited to the mundane things of status or identity, but if you think about love for a long time, then many problems will be exposed.
Like "Titanic", if the male and female protagonists really wait for the ship to dock and enter the life of firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce and vinegar tea, then love will soon deteriorate.
Gaps can never prevent love from happening, but gaps can become obstacles to the continuation of love.
Therefore, in "Roman Holiday", you should be glad that this is a regrettable love, otherwise it cannot be so beautiful.
So, after thinking about the above, I crossed out the answer "can't keep each other" from my heart to "never met."
If they had never met, they would not have been able to achieve this marriage in "Roman Holiday", could not make it into a movie for the audience to enjoy, and could not move everyone through this story.
In contrast, this is the real regret.
For the princess and the journalist, there are no regrets about being able to meet and have loved once.
For the audience, it would be a pity not to meet "Roman Holiday".
Text/Ye Qiuchen
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