If you know that the end of love will be to look at each other and torture each other, are you willing to start over and repeat the same mistakes?
The 2004 film Warm With Light explores this topic with a slight philosophical implication. The first fifteen minutes of the film leave me a little puzzled when a man wakes up from his bed and, with an obsession that comes from nowhere, gets on the train to Montagnac and meets a blue-haired woman with an assertive personality. Everyone could tell they were a misfit couple — introverted, sensitive, wooden, living an ordinary life, a woman fickle, enthusiastic, uninhibited, impulsive like fire. I had foreseen their end—their love, like a fire lighting charcoal, blossoming into a brilliant spark that crackled and burned and left only a pile of sawdust and debris.
Sure enough, with an impulsive personality, she first chose to erase her memories. He hated her for making such a choice, so he made the same decision. I want to forget you, you woman who likes the new and hates the old, the watery Yanghua, he chooses to forget her with hatred.
However, all the endings that are shattered into pieces and cannot be looked back on have actually had a beautiful and charming start.
To forget her, we must recall her again. The dried-up river re-ebbed, the evaporating snowflakes re-landed, the dim star buckets shone again, and the withered flowers re-budded. When I met you again, I remembered how much I loved you.
Under the night sky, they lay on the frozen river, looking at the stars in the sky. He said he was willing to die on this day. Romance to the death, but ultimately lost to time. I fell in love with you because you changed myself. In the end I hate you, and it's also because you changed myself. This is love, there is only a line of separation from hate, the positive view is love, the reverse view is centrifugal separation.
He regretted it, in the collapse of his memory, and wanted to keep her. They run, they dodge, they hide in the depths of their memories, they go back to their childhood, back to the beginning. He unfolded all his selves to her, including those things that were not honest, and all the sincere love. Eventually, she shouted in his ear, Remember me, come to Montag for me.
I suddenly realized that the beginning of the story was already their end. After forgetting her, he followed her final guidance, boarded the train to find her, and met her again in a different way. By fate, they were attracted to each other and fell in love.
At the end of the story, the tape from the time they chose to erase their memories was returned to each of them. They hear how they will evaluate each other after the love disappears, and use the most vicious words to speculate about hurting each other. They were a couple who had just met, but they had seen their past, the broken and withered past, or their future, the future that had already happened. So, the question came before them:
At the end of the film, they still chose to try it and start over. What about the outcome of the restart? The film doesn't give an answer, and maybe we don't need one. Is it to once again exhaust love and quarrel with each other and hurt each other, or to learn tolerance and understanding and take a different path than in the past? None of this matters, the beginning of the story is too beautiful, it is too beautiful to meet you, it is too beautiful to fall in love with you, so even if it is scarred at the end, you have to start again, because this beginning is worth it.
The film, which won the 2004 Oscar for Best Original Screenplay, is undoubtedly a romance film, but also has a little element of science fiction. I think some of the settings for memory erasure may be helpful for films like Inception. Let's talk about the actors in the film, there are not many actors in this 2004 film, but they are all familiar. Although Jim Carrey is known for her comedies, she was also very successful in playing a melancholy and introvert in this film. Kate Winslet is beautiful, I think she is more beautiful than she is in Titanic, whether red, green or blue, she is like a bright flame, destined to disrupt all ordinary life.
The Chinese translation of the film is "Ambiguous Contains Light", which is derived from the Eastern Han Dynasty Cui Yao's poem "Motto": "In nirvana is not entangled, ambiguous contains light". It means "the surface is dim and unclear, but the inside contains light", which is exactly the case with love, the broken place contains beauty, and when it is beautiful, it means withering. In reality, memories are destined to be impossible to delete, and resentment cannot return to the beginning, it does not matter, pain and sweetness are all evidence of love, they are one, can not be separated.