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In a cramped audition room, two people play a record that doesn't need to exist. She's on the left, he's on the right.
The two had only known each other for a few hours, and after the first casual glance in this cramped space, she hurriedly closed her eyes, and he looked at the record player and smiled. Shy but curious, she turned her gaze to the other side, and unfortunately the other party came to her. He looked into the gap between the two of them, looking at the record, not knowing what to think, the corners of his mouth rising, and his face began to flush. Celina's gaze grew braver, but Jesse's began to dodge, and Selena moved her gaze to the roof.
The two grinned in unison.
Then Jesse went to see Selena. Her eyes slipped through the gap in her hair and turned from the ceiling to herself to the left, and Jesse turned her face to the wall like a child who had been caught doing something bad, adjusting her posture unnaturally. Selena thought about it and smiled, he sensed something as if he turned forward and tried to enter her sight, but in vain, he could only look up and down left and right, but did not know that she was looking at him.
It's "Before Sunrise," the first day in 18 years.
There are many kinds of love in the world. There is Armand's remorse for Margaret in "La Traviata", there is the deception of "Fang Siqi's First Love Paradise", there is the perfection of "The First Incense", there is the etiquette of "Green Snake", and there are countless pure desires that are forced to be hoarse, so we see the slimness of meeting the right person at the right time and place. "Love Before dawn" as a dialogue all supported by dialogue, although it enters the climax in the form of making love, it is a great humiliation to label it as a "sexual encounter movie".
01
part one
When the opening shot of the article is converted into text, the one-minute scene is repeatedly recorded and watched for 20 minutes. At first, like everyone else, all I noticed was a game of mystery between the two starring eyes. But if you bring yourself into Selena and swap Jesse for the right person, you'll find something more detailed than the details—everyone has a temptation.
Selena's temptation comes after feeling Jesse's gaze, and Jesse is after Selena laughs softly. If you divide this minute into two equal parts, the first half is undoubtedly Selena's home, and in the second half Jesse tries harder with the tilt of the body. In "The Knowledge of Lu Prisoners", Yan Geling wrote in the first person: "My grandfather was in love with my grandmother many years later than my grandmother was in love with my grandfather. "In the face of the same emotion, no matter how much the speed of receiving the signal between the two parties is, that emotion is always called love.
The only quiet scene in this movie plays the role of a small processing room. If before entering this space, the two people are connected by coincidence and speculation, then the relationship between the two people in this space has quickly heated up, opening up the possibility of becoming lovers.
This possibility comes from acquaintance.
Filmed in Vienna, the film takes place in 14 different scenes, from the bridge that just got off the train to the square before the parting, not counting the streets. Jesse's actor Ethan Hawke once said that Julie (the heroine) spent a lot of time outside of the dialogue in order to make the whole movie full of dialogue less boring.
And this gives a lot of scenes special meaning. For example, walking into that video store, what is exchanged is actually the taste of music; the fortune teller's interpretation of the palm of her hand, her thinking about life; the church is an occasion to talk about religion; the marble game can happily uncover scars... Literature, music, art, religion, the tricks that those around you can't catch can finally have a good time.
02
After-school life teachers in middle schools always like to engage in knowledge competitions, all of which are cold knowledge, based on groups. Topics are all interesting, such as throwing out a country that many adults have never heard of and asking where you are. I can answer a lot, and our group is always in the top few. But slowly, another group caught up, because there was one guy who answered a little more than I did. Maybe because of the type of questions, I was actually not convinced, but at that time, the only two of us in the class could answer so many questions.
Not knowing where he got my number, we started texting and chatting and later learned he liked me. The topics of conversation are very mixed, but there is always a vague outline. For example, for other students, on a miserable day when playing games or being overwhelmed by homework, he would specifically ask me if I was also watching the 3.15 party; for example, he asked me if I knew that "Mandarin Duck" first referred to as a brother, and I asked him if he knew that "living like a year" was actually about being happy every day like the New Year; for example, there was a time when he was very obsessed with Tang poetry and Song Ci, and he bought a copy of "Human Words" as a birthday gift; for example, two days before the middle school entrance examination, he asked me to listen to Mozart's double piano sonata in D major, "Improve IQ".
And that was the last chat in the next four years.
Later, he went to Beijing to attend high school with the first result in the whole school, and in the busy high school life, we broke off contact. Not knowing whether it was the influence of my subconscious, I chose a university in Beijing. Freshman year there were a few scattered chats, but they were all lost due to embarrassment, and the first time they left home to live a group life, they were still in a state of adjustment, and they never tried to restore contact. Until last semester, we all participated in the National Day parade, I accompanied Xue to his school to play, sent a circle of friends, he saw it and came to talk about me privately, and then there was a common topic before intermittently chatting.
National Day rehearsals are usually in the early hours of the morning, and we who participate in the mass parade also live a time that is not in line with the students around us. I remember that the official military parade on October 1 required a midnight meeting, and the roommate did not turn on the lights at night to take care of us, and the room was silent. I had trouble falling asleep because of an unusual excitement and picked up my phone to chat with him. Two hours before the meeting, at 10 o'clock, I felt like I had to get some sleep and said goodnight to him.
He said, "Can I ask one more question at the end?" ”
"Hmm."
"Do you think it's still possible between us?"
"If there really is a God, it will not exist among all people, not in the hearts of you and me, but between you and me. If there is really magic in this world, it must be two hearts. ”
In areas where people around us always have few footprints, we can always see each other.
03
6 years has not been able to consume this emotion, just as Selena and Jesse's love affair has gone through 9 years and 9 years. Douban netizen "Stone Wall" commented: "After almost 10 years of marriage, there are still so many words to say to each other, and sex life, this is not true love is what it is?" "There are more than two thousand likes.
My presentation in the speaking class was titled the first part, and many students immediately said that they had seen and liked it. I remember the teacher laughing and saying to me, "I tell you from a mom's point of view, do you know why it's so popular?" Because it doesn't exist in reality. ”
As if to refute the teacher's words, selena and Jesse's relationship in the last two films, "Before Sunrise" and "Love Before Midnight," increasingly returns to something simple. Literature and art and flowers before the moon are no longer all, their conversation joins the work and chai rice oil and salt, and the final "Love Before Midnight" is the choice of quarrels to end the ending.
Did they become the first couple on the train 18 years ago?
What starts out is nothing more than a one-night stand, but when love becomes a habit, it will always be real, though imperfect, and "just inches apart."
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