The film that I have always longed to see in college comes from an expansion film that introduces Hollywood movies, and the hero and heroine reunite on the street after many years, staring at each other's eyes, and the attachment and helplessness in their eyes, accompanied by soft music, are unforgettable for a long time. It wasn't until the other day that I bought a DVD of this movie from Excellence.
This Hollywood film, made in 1973, was directed by two popular stars at the time, Robert E. Lee. Redford and Barbara. Streisand starred. The protagonists, Hubble and Katie, college classmates, are vastly different. She, serious and persistent, has a strong sense of mission for the defense of democracy and human rights; while he is an authentic American character, with a youthful and handsome face and a sunny smile, loose, fond of jokes, not interested in politics. In college, she was exposed to promoting anti-war and defending peace, while he was passionate about sports and chatting with his peers in cafes. Two people with very different outlooks on life, but both admire and appreciate each other's talents, she is deeply attracted by his handsomeness and talent, and he appreciates her eloquence and persistence.
From the very beginning, however, their love affair was fraught with conflict and quarrel, for they were of the same character, and their views on life and society were so different that she was at odds with his friends and could never fit into his circle of life, and the first confrontation was the death of President Roosevelt, who was full of sadness while his friends were teasing Mrs. Roosevelt. She angrily denounced them as a bunch of unsympathetic people with no ideals and no pursuits. She admired his talent, and she read every book he published, and told him that she loved it very much, but she thought that his books were favored by Hollywood, and that letting him go to Hollywood to develop was to cater to vulgar tastes. After a heated argument, Haber proposes to break up, and Katie puts down her self-esteem and tearfully pleads with him to come back. Promise yourself to change for him.
"No, you don't change, that's your characteristic." Haber was adamantly opposed.
"But it's not the type you like."
"Yes, we are not a kind of person, we have no moments together to relax and enjoy life, because you are serious about everything, so radical, all the time, your life is always full of principles." 」
"Isn't my radicalism also to make life better for everyone?" She played an eloquent eloquence. "You can't find a second person like me who is so good to you, who believes in you and loves you so much!"
"I know." Haber's voice lowered, but he quickly and rationally returned to reality: "But even if I come back to you, what is the point, and what is the difference?" Is it possible that all the problems will be solved? We will still make mistakes, and we will eventually lose each other. ”
"Why can't we win-win?!"
Eventually both sides made a compromise, with Hubble returning to Katie while she followed him to Hollywood. She tried her best to adapt to his social circle. They work together to try a win-win situation, he peacefully embraces her neurotic and radical thinking, she tries to relax herself, tries to increase her sense of humor to integrate into his social relationships. They did have a great time together. But the infamous "McCarthy Movement" doomed Hollywood. Different political views, different ideals of life, so that the two sides have been accumulating resentment for many years due to compromise, and finally erupt like a volcano. The heated quarrel was followed by a terrible calm and silence, living under the same roof, and the once beloved couple now looked like strangers, sitting alone on the veranda under the setting sun, a cigarette and a glass of wine, watching him jogging on the beach from a distance; late at night, one in bed, the other on the sofa, also tossing and turning in pain.
"You know, losing a woman like Katie is a big loss." Haber's friend JJ sighed heartily, even though he had not liked her for so many years.
Haber shook his head, speechless.
A pair of people who are deeply in love, in the end, It is Still Lao Yan who split up. It's a sigh. There are two details in the film that moved me very much.
One night in college, she hurried with a book in her arms and was stopped by him, who was drinking in an open-air café, inviting her for a drink to celebrate his selling of his first story. They teased each other.
"I'm really happy that you sold your work. I hope to read your masterpieces in the future. She got up and said goodbye.
"Put your feet here." His words seemed out of bounds. Lowering her head, she found that the laces of one of her shoes had loosened, and he put her foot on his lap and carefully re-fastened the laces for her. Then smile and say goodbye.
Another shot is that years after they broke up, they accidentally meet on the streets of New York, she smiles and runs towards him, he gently embraces her in surprise and surprise, hugs her like an old friend, and stands next to his new partner, all three of whom seem very restrained. After a polite greeting, she returned to her post, a mobile propaganda booth in the street against nuclear weapons.
"Never give up, right?" She looked up in surprise and saw him chasing him across the road, and it was just the two of them, and his eyes were full of approval.
"Unless you have to." She smiled at him, reached out and gently sorted out a strand of blonde hair on his forehead, and he embraced her again, and the two of them hugged tightly, the heroine's hidden tears, the forced smile; the hero's charming smile with loss and faint sadness. After the two sides finally said goodbye to each other, the deep attachment and reluctance in each other's eyes when they stared at each other, accompanied by the theme song of the movie "Feelings of the Past", Barbara. Streisand's slightly sad tone seems to be pouring out the helplessness of loving each other but not being able to keep each other.
The Way We Were
memories light the corners of my mind
misty water color memories
of the way we were
scattered pictures of the smiles we left behind
smiles we gave to one another
fore the way we were
can't it be that it was all so simple then
or has time rewritten every line
and if we had the chance to do it all again
tell me would we, could we
memories maybe beautiful and yet
what's too painful to remember
we simply choose to forget
so it's the laughter, we will remember
whenever we remember the way we were
remember, the way we were