Chinese people are about to usher in a wave of high-frequency reunions. The reunion of a long time away always makes people up and down, and the most turbulent and dramatic of them is naturally the reunion with the "predecessor". Therefore, this is also a favorite theme of the movie.
Fake Cool: Neither understand nor compassionate
Some time ago, Douban gave "Nocturnal Animals" a surprisingly high score, and there were several famous and surnamed film critics who had locked it as the best of the year.
This can also be seen as a movie about reunion. Although the male protagonist made a promise, only the woman sat alone at the table, experiencing the embarrassment of being released in the interweaving of others. Tony, her ex must have been peeping somewhere, right? He painstakingly designed such a "bureau" that he thought he could humiliate the other party, and if he could not witness it with his own eyes, wouldn't the pleasure of victory be greatly reduced? Extrapolating from the character given to him in the movie, he must not be able to bear it.
The story of the movie is actually very simple, one day, the heroine Susan accidentally received an email from her ex-husband, who sent her his latest novel "Nocturnal Animals", and the title page read "Dedicated to Susan". In the process of reading the book at night, the story in the novel, her present moment, their past year... The three narrative lines intersect and move forward, and the enmity between the two is gradually becoming clear. When she was young, Susan fell in love with her brother's best friend, the literary young Tony, and despite her mother's objections, the two married. But the conflict of their values slowly began to erode the sworn love, and she finally could no longer tolerate his ordinariness and weakness, and in the process of the dissolution of the marriage, she not only secretly removed the children of the two, but also witnessed her affair by her husband. After years of abandoning the old and welcoming the new, her second marriage has clearly entered a period of boredom with nothing to say. Immersed in the ups and downs described by her ex-husband, the heroine is also excited, and it seems that her love for Tony has been rekindled, so the two meet up, so the heroine constantly considers the clothes lipstick for this reunion, but Tony does not come...
The director of this drama was originally the top man in the fashion industry, Tom Ford, cross-border operations, and many fans. And it is said that I am a comrade, and there has always been a folk legend that it is easier for comrades to understand women, and this movie will prove that this is a fallacy also. It was a self-righteous man's revenge against a woman that was not deadly at all: he hadn't seen it in nineteen years, and the story he wrote was still so mediocre, and worst of all, he was still so weak in that mediocre story. Will such a story really make a woman with a very strong personal will regret not being able to do so? And the male protagonist also designed the drama of "I just want you to fall in love with me again and then I will ignore you" - honey, where has the time gone, I haven't seen you for nineteen years, you are still so naïve! Where will women be lost and only laugh, okay?
Well, it's a story that neither "understands" nor "is compassionate." Aside from the three-line narrative ingenuity, the rest is really lackluster. Just went to Douban to see it again, and the rating of this movie has fallen out of the 8 division.
True Warmth: Laughter reunion tearful separation
Therefore, when it comes to the gathering and dispersion of the spirit, it is better to honestly restore life than to bluff - after all, killing, arson, robbery and rape are small probability events, for the vast majority of people, an unsuccessful love, a long-term reunion encounter is enough to shock enough to be enough to recall, for example, "Blue Jay".
She had not been seen for many years, and she was married. One day shopping at the supermarket, as soon as I looked up, oh, a pair of former high school lovers met again.
For the sake of the beauty that was gained and lost, I thought that I would break up after thinking that I would not be able to think of the next intersection for a long time. It's a story that can be told in three words, the film is black and white, which is probably the only "literary" place, it is flat and straight like a light prose. The male and female protagonists are not beautiful characters, ordinary as you and me. To tell the truth, it is far from a superior work, but it has its own power to move people. Two people who were once intimate, looking at each other with surprise and quickly retracting their eyes, the embarrassment of being at a loss for what to say, and finally being able to calmly exchange memories after... He still remembers your favorite taste, and you just seal the memory in its entirety, and once you open it, you can remember it. They rehearsed the white head to the old children they imagined when the true love was fierce, and if they did not break up, how would Mrs. Henderson spend their wonderful lives?
Of course, the deduction stopped abruptly, because it was emotional, but more importantly, it touched the whining switch, where there was a resentment of each other that had never been put down: who was to blame at that time!
The best passages are at the end, and it's time to break up again, and it's a second separation. Laughing and crying, crying and laughing embarrassedly, there was still a faint innocence in the middle-aged lines. Everyone knows that this second parting is the real separation, but fortunately, the knot in the heart has been solved, and they can go on their own roads in the lightness of relief, and there is no need to say more about the wrong way, after all, once the youth was accompanied, there will always be a tacit understanding that does not open their mouths: cherish, goodbye.
Very warm and restrained, a model style of reunion after a long absence.
Speechless: Your decadence my embarrassment
The above two movies are both American, one is a bit forced to play cool, and the other is a little fresh. However, when it comes to the theme of reuniting with his predecessor for a long time, can you not mention the Most "dare to face the bleak life, dare to face the dripping blood" of the United Kingdom?
For example, Emma Thompson and Alan Rickman co-directed "The Luncheon Song."
It's based on a long narrative poem, and the movie is only 48 minutes long, but how ... embarrassed.
After 15 years apart, the two met again for lunch at a restaurant they used to visit. "He", who was looking forward to the banquet, found that the restaurant had changed its face, and everything that was once familiar was nowhere to be found. And "she" is still bright, he can't help but think about it, but looking at the sexy waitress is very undignified and unrestrained, and the little friend who wrote poetry has become a lewd monster "Shu" that can be seen everywhere in life. The expected wine quickly fell into the mud soup of non-speculative words, the ghost made the gods confused and drunk, the wine woke up where the Yi people had gone, and the spare middle-aged uncle was alone on the roof...
"The Song of the Luncheon" presents the loss and embarrassment of the long-lost reunion so unbearable to look at it. Is it just because "brother you are not a talent"? So what if he wasn't such a loser? "The Song of the Luncheon" is a movie of "his perspective", "he" is naturally collapsed and decadent, so is "she" really as good as it seems? After fifteen years of not seeing him, she rushed from Paris to receive an e-mail from him, just out of curiosity that "I just wanted to see how he was now"?
What a coincidence, "Double Ai" just played a middle-aged couple in another movie with more audience popularity. That's "True Love Supreme", which many people revisit every Christmas, the movie contains ten love stories, and the cast is amazingly luxurious, but what impresses me most is precisely the middle-aged couple.
If "The Song of the Luncheon" presents itchy and annoying lice, then this pair in "True Love Supreme" is the gorgeous robe. Men are successful people, women are exquisite housewives, a pair of children are well-behaved and lovely, and they look like the template for the perfect family – but unfortunately it is only "looking". She inadvertently found a delicate necklace in her husband's pocket and put it back with interest, full of confidence and satisfaction, and waited for the time to cooperate with her husband to perform a wife's surprise. However, after the gift was unwrapped on Christmas Eve, it was a CD, and the necklace was not for her. In the minutes that followed, Emma Thompson's performance was cosmic! In the face of this sudden blow, she forced her face to laugh as usual, and then hid in the bedroom in tears like rain, the husband and child in the living room laughed and swallowed, she answered their cries, while mobilizing the power of the flood to try to calm herself, and then wiped away the tears and "appeared" again, laughing exaggeratedly, facing the happy smile of her children. In this illusion of family reunion and happiness, no one knows that a woman has broken her heart.
"True Love Supreme"
How? So what? Some Rinpoches have said that it is wisdom to break through without breaking.
In fact, every soul who walks in this world—yes, every one—is struck by thousands of hardships in the river of time, and then stands firm in the east-west, south-north winds.
There are always children laughing at the chicken soup in the parents' group behind their backs, Too young, too simple you don't know, in order to deal with the life of this king and bastard, you need to fight chicken blood, and the tired elders need to drink chicken soup. And the harsh truth is: from you to them, it is actually a blink of an eye.
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