A fresh love story of The German style, sad but not sad, poignant but not miserable. - "The Moon of June"
It is said that the moon in June is the roundest of the year, because the moon is the closest to the earth at this time and it is also the most real to see. However, from an emotional point of view, it is easier to be infatuated with the beauty of the full moon, but it is easier to hurt the soul.
After revisiting the German film "June Moon", I deeply realized how apt director Hannor Hankford's name for the film was. The moon has clouds and sunshine, and people have to get together and separate, which is a natural law that no one can escape. Therefore, when the lovers around us have to disappear, we should not be overly sad, because this is also a natural law, and no one can change it.
The plot of the movie is very simple, it is about the love story of two lonely and lonely urban people. The film presents a simple, gentle sense of love ritual, clean pictures with simple and gentle piano music, elegant with a faint sadness.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > Paul</h1>
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > a melancholy young German man who is delicate and sensitive, loves music and the kitchen</h1>
Paul always walked silently through the crowd, like a transparent fish and shrimp on the bottom of the sea, and it seemed that he had nothing to do with the world, or that the world had nothing to do with him.
Because I had witnessed my friend die around me in the Kosovo War, the painful memories were like Paul's shadow, and those flashbacks of the past were like abscesses at the bottom of my heart, and I felt pain when I touched it, and I didn't know whether to touch or squeeze the last remaining place. He carries deep pain, is the eternal nostalgia for his lost friends, and he is even more lonely and desperate after he cannot believe in human nature.
In the ruined memory, Paul retained his last dream, which was to drive from Berlin all the way to France and see the rising sun in France. Due to the emergence of "post-traumatic stress disorder", for Paul, who is in an anxiety disorder and mental depression, the dream is only a dream, and he only dares to let it appear quietly in the dream.
Paul moved himself out of a strange little city and decided to be the loneliest of the lonely, staying in an untied apartment and taking some work on the computer. He went to the supermarket to buy the cooking materials he needed to make minced meat rolls, cut them slowly and cooked them carefully, and methodically waited for the time of his life to slowly pass little by little. As the wind rustled in his ears and the song whispered from the record player, Paul sat on the windowsill and looked out at the city, the road, the house... He saw her.
The distance between the two glass windows may be described by one of the most attractive words in the world, magic, and the original two unrelated strangers have a beginning in an instant, he looks at her quietly in front of the window, and a thin line slowly grows in his heart to connect with the world.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > Nina</h1>
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > a beautiful girl born in a troubled family, not good at socializing, taciturn, and kind-hearted</h1>
Nina was disturbed by the quarrels of the family, and after being slapped hard by the pressure and burden of life, only numbness remained, and the pain she slowly felt began to swell little by little. And in the face of the cold and static world, she seems to have lost all language.
She didn't know what to do, whether to cry out at the world in the sun or to hide her face and curl up in the dark. Like a kitten who does not want to be seen by others knocking over the milk, hiding all the trepidation and pain in the heart, one person is disappointed, one person is desperate.
Her figure was repeatedly imprinted in front of the window day after day, and she did not know that in the opposite room there was a man looking at her silently, watching her roar angrily, watching her helplessly crying, looking at her lonely back, watching her silence alone. Standing in front of the window, she occasionally looked up and saw him equally lonely across from him.
Separated by two glass windows, Nina slowly emerged from the corner of her mouth with a shy smile, hesitant and shy with kindness. The two urban strangers who had rubbed shoulders at the door countless times and then left separately at that moment had a little closeness. When Nina saw Paul, the hard shell that wrapped around the fragile heart began to melt, and life began to have some temperature. This is the beginning of a lonely man's connection with the world, and it is also about the miracle of countless strangers in the world that is exclusive to two people: the vast sea of people, and thus meet.
Nina is like every lonely you and me in real life, about the expectations of life, has long forgotten when it began to disappear, like quicksand leaking out of her hands, more and more lonely away from this world, becoming a lonely person. Walking through the streets, lonely in the room, sad when there is no one to complain, so that the language is less and less, facing the city in front of you, only silence remains.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > heat each other</h1>
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > walking too long in the long night in the city, seeing the same people also hesitating forward, will naturally produce a little sense of closeness</h1>
Whenever Nina occasionally looked up in the midst of her repressed life, there was a hint of comfort as long as Paul's figure could still be glimpsed. That kind of breath does not need to explain to each other, and two strangers who originally looked completely different can come together.
Just like the unspeakable affection between the bow ruler and Li Qi in the struggle in a foreign country in "Autumn Fairy Tale"; like the door that Leon opened for Mathil in "This Killer Is Not Too Cold"; like Teresa Teng lijun who has been singing low in the heart of Li Xiaojun and Li Qiao in "Sweet Honey". Paul and Nina's deep loneliness, desire for communication, and simple attachment to each other, sad and warm, also deeply touched me.
Human beings are born lonely, in the ocean of life, everyone is like a suspended iceberg, the parts exposed to the surface of the water look at each other, and the hidden subject hides the code of life and sinks under the dark water. But people's desire for communication and love is also innate, to remove or get rid of the sadness and fear of a lonely passerby, even the iceberg needs to warm each other.
Paul and Nina stood in front of their respective windows motioning for a communication, a small question mark, a few simple words. On the cardboard, I write out the intimacy little by little with a colored pen, from smiling to text to telephone communication, which develops so quickly and naturally. In this city, two young people with pain are lonely, but they feel pity.
Paul came to Nina's room to borrow a phone, and Nina made a cup of tea for Paul, and the two of them chatted lightly, saying trivial words, trying to get closer to each other, and the same breath brought them closer and closer. When Nina rummaged through Paul's shopping bag at her house and found that it contained a small car model and all kinds of food and condiments he had bought in the supermarket, it inadvertently opened a bridge to Paul's inner world.
Paul invited Nina to dinner at home, told her the secret of making minced meat rolls, told her about the car model and his dream of driving to France, and sat on the floor with Nina looking through old photographs. At this time, the snail dwelling in this strange city began to have a little peace, and everything scattered on the floor gradually became orderly. The heavy past returns along the timeline in the photo, and finally it is no longer about painful memories and escapes, but has a hope for the future.
When Nina came to Paul after another heated argument with her drunken mother, the unspoken resentment and grievances finally poured out. She asked him, can I sleep with you? He said okay. She lay quietly asleep under his blanket, and when she woke up, she opened her eyes and looked at him equally quietly.
I think that such quiet closeness is more necessary than an entangled body. Two lonely souls finally know how to warm each other in the indifferent world. This kind of faint warmth is also more easily accepted by us, there is no luxurious romance, there is no ups and downs of the plot, like those fragments of life that each of us have experienced, real and familiar.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > deliver life</h1>
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > life will always give you a problem when you are inadvertent, and there will always be some cruel tests on us, just like the full moon is also covered by dark clouds</h1>
When Paul was diagnosed with leukemia, at first he showed real fear and nostalgia, lying on Nina's lap seeking comfort and protection. There may be a new pain, because emotions in a lonely world have only just sprouted a little new shoot.
But I believe that deep within Paul was more of a relief. Don't doubt a person who stays in pain for too long, when pain becomes a shadowy part of life, death is more like a gift.
Paul reassured Nina, don't cry. He took her to church and played her the beautiful organ, his face hidden behind the piano in silent tears, and he told Nina that he should cherish this last moment.
So Nina bought fresh potatoes and pumpkins and stir-fried them quickly along with the cut sausages, and she took the minced meat rolls to the hospital, stuffed the crisper box into Paul's arms, and told him it would be warmer. Paul was glad he had told her, and she remembered it all. A happy smile blossomed on Paul's face, and that good night stayed forever in the hearts of the two men.
Seeing this, I can't define this emotion in terms of the pure and simple word of love, which is more like a kind of delivery and giving without any demands and demands. Paul loves and appreciates Nina because of nostalgia in life; Nina is attached to and grateful to Paul because there is hope in life.
Determined to try to help Paul achieve his last dream, Nina secretly takes Paul out of the hospital and into a car that resembles his. Nina took Paul on the road and she said to him, I'm going to take you to France, where we'll see the sunrise, and we can have breakfast there. The end of life is getting closer and closer, but the sunshine of life is still shining.
In life, there are always some overly cruel realities that make people's hearts cold, but there are always some incomparably warm moments that make the heart soft. When Paul left the world, Nina regained her faith and courage to agree to associate with the father of the child she tutored.
Paul and Nina, two strangers with their own pains and wounds, came to this remote town from different places, and he appeared briefly in her life, but healed her helplessness and lack, and glued the broken places of her heart little by little with the glue of emotion.
Regarding marriage and family, Nina also began to have a beautiful imagination and expectation, life is no longer a lie of her father and mother, nor is she a mother who will always argue with her after being drunk. Nina is also the last light in Paul's life, allowing him to see that there are other good things in life besides painful memories, and gradually release the annihilation of humanity in war and the death of those around him.
I think that when warmth and hope emerge from the lives of two lonely urbanites, it doesn't matter what the outcome is. Whether it is a restrained liking or a strong deep love, as long as you gaze at each other, rely on each other, warm each other and deliver to each other in the days that have been spent together, life will not stay in the abyss forever.
All the heavy past, even if the heart is broken, there is no trace. In any case, the moon will always be by our side, accompanying us to send away wave after wave of people along the way.
Finally, I want people to meet their own Paul and Nina, because it's a blessing to be needed and have the opportunity to take responsibility in this world.