In his Love Disguised as Monologues, Malloy Sandor writes: "Lovers are respected by every age and every religion: whenever they throw themselves into each other's arms, they throw themselves into the fire."
In his Love Disguised as Monologues, Malloy Sandor writes: "Lovers are respected by every age and every religion: whenever they throw themselves into each other's arms, they throw themselves into the fire." ”
Perhaps as he wrote, the love story of The Cowherd Weaver Girl, Romeo and Juliet has become a song for eternity, because love is not changed. But we feel that in addition to breaking through all barriers, rebelling against established destiny, and even dying, love has more diverse forms.
So, today, we would like to recommend some works to you. There are books, there are movies, there are songs, there are games. There are reflections on love itself, and there are stories about love. There are perfections and there are defects.
Whether it is with a lover or alone, whether it is in the atmosphere of the Tanabata Festival, or simply thinking about the possibility of love and romance at a certain moment, we can solve an answer.
Recommended Books: Lovers Whispers
Author: [French] Roland Barthes, Shanghai People's Publishing House, 2016
Translator: Wang Yaojin/Wu Peirong
In 1975, Roland Barthes opened a seminar at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, which was based on Goethe's famous book "The Troubles of Young Werther", focusing on the way lovers talked and muttered, and discussed the various forms of love with young students.
Two years later, Roland Barthes combined the textual analysis of the course with his own experience, talking about the experience of love and the heart of a lover. He said, "I love you. This specific situation does not refer to the confession of love or the vows of the sea, but to the repeated call of love itself. After reading his whispers, I vaguely felt that I seemed to know more about love.
- Three-flower puppy
Recommended Books: The Testament of Montmartre
Author: Qiu Miaojin, Guangxi Normal University Press, 2012
In the summer of 1995, the talented Taiwanese novelist Qiu Miaojin ended his life at the age of twenty-six with a tragic suicide in Paris. The twenty letters in Montmartre's Testament are her confessions of life to the world.
Since then, her works have become the "bible" of several generations of lesbian circles in Taiwan because of their secret and profound female lust, and have become classic works that contemporary Chinese queer literature must read. Just recently republished, so recommended to everyone.
She not only writes about her own love desires, but also writes about the fragments of daily life and artistic feelings. Even if the reader cannot empathize with her identity, she can gain her own understanding from the texture and pain of love and pain she writes. As Qiu Miaojin said: "Love is not only emotion, emotion, enthusiasm, love is actually a kind of 'will'." We may feel the tragedy of grandeur and sorrow in vain, or we can pick up a whole new courage to look at the tragedy of love and recognize another kind of eternity.
Title: "If It Were a Man"
Director: Du Zhengzhe
Episode length: 10 episodes/60 minutes
The tempo of the ten episodes is just right. Real, bland but powerful, very healing.
Affection, friendship, love... Those about "one person" topics.
The lines in the play are very interestingly designed, sometimes like comforting, encouraging, or asking the audience outside the play.
If you have had a similar experience, you may be able to describe it with the term "empathy".
What about you in front of the screen? What kind of state is it in now?
"Whether it's one person or two people, finding yourself is the most important thing."
Learn to love yourself.
This Tanabata, I wish you happiness and happiness.
—— XY
Title: Lovers of Shinbashi
Directed by: [French] Leo Carax
Duration: 125 minutes
The love of the wanderer is also the love of two patients, and the occurrence of love stems from the physical eye disease and the blindness of the mind finding some kind of overlap in the fireworks night by the forbidden area bridge, but the truth of love is struggling. Possession, betrayal, beating, fleeing and sin may be the inevitable forms of love at its most decisive, and in love you will say, "The person you dreamed of in your dream should wake up to see him", and you would not be like a lover like an enemy. There may be some love that cannot be recalled, but under the same fireworks, there are always people who are beginning to fall in love.
- Plum Whale
Title: "Men and Women"
Director: [Han] Lee Yin-ki
Duration: 115 minutes
I occasionally think that the love story of the cowherd weaver girl is actually a love that is not tolerated by traditional ethics and order. Thinking like this, I always feel that Tanabata itself carries a hint of love and heroism.
The same is true of "Men and Women". In the vast snowy field, two guests from other places get out of the burden of life track and burn in love. The performances of the lead actor Kong Liu and Quan Duyan are excellent. Under the tired faces of middle-aged people, full of love and pain for each other. The transmission of each other's fingertips is more like loneliness than lust.
Title: The Story of Summer
Director: [French] Eric Houmai
Duration: 113 minutes
Late summer and early autumn are still hot and humid, and the residual summer atmosphere of tanabata is very compatible with the beach, shells, grass, and swimwear in the film, and the restless hormone is the eternal flavor of summer.
A quiet French town, Gaspard, a young boy who comes on holiday, is always alone. In just a few days, on the sunny beach, three girls with different personalities broke into his life at the same time, complaining that he had always loved him, and suddenly changed from a beggar to a rich man in love.
One man and three women, the round game of love is very interesting. Gaspard made me see the shadow of many boys, or the character is the image of a boy in his twenties, whose emotions are not yet mature, and youth such as you and me are the four protagonists of this story.
Arriving in town, Gaspard was an immature love fool, and when he left I believed he had grown a little bit. The story of summer ends with his departure, and the aftertaste of love is left to you of Tanabata.
- Summer Leaf
Title: "Love Before Midnight"
Director: [U.S.] Richard Linklater
Duration: 109 minutes
The first part of the "Love in" trilogy was released in 1995, and the last one ended in 2013. Many people revisit this 18-year-old classic from time to time, and the favorite is the first one - the romance of love at first sight on the train. But every time I re-watch "Love Is In" and after a quiet night, I always miss the last one.
After years and months, the feelings of the two people falling into love moments have been blurred, and love has become mutual accommodation, adaptation, and silence on the gravel road to the beach together. But real, why not romantic?
Title: Marriage Story
Director: [U.S.] Noah Baumbach
Duration: 136 minutes
There are no strange coincidences, unusual character settings, or seemingly inescapable so-called "fate" general twists, "Marriage Story" has simple scenes, real dialogue and life situations. The mutual giving, misunderstanding, compromise, quarrel, forgiveness, resentment and love in those intimate relationships, the anger and powerlessness that have been transferred to the lover, and the scars that cannot be broken and reunited, constitute the marriage story of ordinary people.
It is so ordinary and so real that many people think that "Marriage Story" can be called a marriage-phobic and parental education film. But even so, I would like to say that we don't have to fear love and marriage, and we don't have to panic about the ending in advance. Because perhaps, the end of ordinary people's love is: even if we are separated, I will gladly go to dinner with my new lover, but I will also stop you at the time of farewell and tie your loose shoelaces for you.
Song name: "Lover Animal"
Singer: Soda Green
Composer: Wu Qingfeng
Lyricist: Wu Qingfeng
The lyrics of the lyrics, "Animals become lovers / Lovers end up becoming relatives", inspired by the poem "Fusion Kitsch" by the Taiwanese poet Xia Yu, who I like very much, "Lovers who have become loved ones / Animals that have fallen into lovers".
Qingfeng sang: "Don't make me tremble / Say love to me quickly", "Until freedom is like a coastline / With the tides disperse"... The piano and strings are mixed, and it sounds earnest, fragile and sad. Listening in the season of love is perfect.
Song name: "Both"
Composer: Jiao Anpu
The songwriter's name is put here, and it seems superfluous to say any recommendation.
"Sober lover before sinking."
Grief in a century of love
Sleeping lover after kissing
Enjoy falling like a lonely dream
Passionate and ashamed
Can't tell the difference between left and right."
Is this a story about choice or about narcissism? In such a complicated and diverse song of intention construction, Neither An Pu nor Qingfeng gave an answer.
Song name: Before Kissing You
Singer: Xu Donglai
Love is not always "swallowing the wind and kissing the rain and burying the sunset", and the lover can not always ask Li Lisosuo "the sky is wide, the snow is long, who is sailing together".
But the wind and rain and the moon, are not absent. Staring, silent, but left and right, he exists. We hover illusoryly in each other's dreams.
You are sitting there in a row, where the wind and clouds are going, I don't know, but the moonlight is closed, and it's time for him to kiss you.
This is a song written by my lover and me, wishing you and your lover and doing happy things.
--Yao FatHead
Game Name: To the Moon
Production company: Freebird Games
Device/Platform:
PC/Mac/iPhone/iPad/Android/Switch/Linux
Sigmund has a technology capable of weaving artificial memories and providing people with a service to "fulfill their wishes". Staff dr. Eva Rosalline and Dr Neil Watts prepare to fulfill a lifelong dream for the dying Johnny Wales: to go to the moon. Johnny didn't know why he wanted to go to the moon. In order to accomplish this task, the two doctors enter Johnny's memory and retrace the time through the important items in Johnny's life. The two doctors discover that Johnny's wishes, past, and his late wife, Liva, are hiding huge mysteries. As time ticks by the minute, Dr. Rosaline and Dr. Watts must unravel the secrets of Johnny's past before he dies and send him to the moon at all costs.
"If you get lost, or forget, we'll meet on the moon."
Game Name: "Hustling Kitchen 1/2 Overcooked1/2"
Production company: Team17 Digital
PC/XboxOne/PS4/Switch
Hurrah Kitchen is a local multiplayer melee game. A team of 1~4 players, prepare your kitchen knives and chef clothes, and you and your chef buddies must complete different kinds of delicious orders before the guests explode!
"Hustle Kitchen" has a well-known nickname is "Breakup Kitchen", because the cooperation in the game has caused countless couples to quarrel, and the effect of testing true love is comparable to planning a long-distance trip together.
But the warm moments that may appear in the game must be as conspicuous and eye-catching as the quarrel, and on the day of the Tanabata Festival, have a different kind of "date", run a restaurant together, and give the result to true love and fate!
--Liang Ning
At the end of the day, perhaps love is one heart breaking through one's own boundaries and growing with another. It is the willing devotion, the protection, the support, the kiss, the hairs of the heart and the pink bubbles; it is also the unwillingness, the pain, the wear, the resentment, the tears, the farewell.
Whether you are reading our recommendations right now, single or in a relationship, we wish you self-sufficiency in your current state. I hope you have a lot of love that you can give, and you are good at giving love; I hope that you can harvest a lot of love and be good at harvesting love.
Finishing & Writing 丨Sanhua Puppy, Plum Whale, XY, Xia Ye, Liang Ning
Editor丨Sanhua Puppy Yu Hanxuan Liu Wenli
Vision 丨 Zhang Yuling
Typography 丨 Liu Chenxi
Proofreading 丨 Zeng Yun
Produced by The Children's Sex Education Research Group of Beijing Normal University