At that time we felt that love was that you loved me and I loved you. We will be together. There is only sweetness in love, and everyone in love is a princess and a prince. Princesses and princes will live the happiest lives, where there are no witch stepmothers and no monsters. No deception, only strong. Only romance. A poor boy will fall in love with a princess, and a prince will fall in love with Cinderella.
Love is as bright as a flower.
The beginning is a bit too much, in fact, I want to comment on the "Revolutionary Road" of this scene twelve years later. The translation of the play title is unsatisfactory. Although the theme of the plot is an old topic such as the seven-year itch, I always feel that the name can be translated better. The film is not as shocking as the director's first play "American Beauty", but there is a profound helplessness hidden under that kind of repression.
Twelve years later, Comrade JACK is strong and old. The years have made the small belly rise slowly, and the handsome guy from the Zhengtai Department has now become an uncle. The youthful Rose also has wrinkles on her face, and she can no longer see the beauty of youth. Oh, by the way, they're not JACK and ROSE anymore, they're the Wheelers. Have a pair of lovely little children. Their family, like all the families in the world, went step by step and looked so happy. The husband is the backbone, working day after day in a job that can support the family but find it boring. The wife loves fantasies, but she lives a life that is suppressed by real life and cannot be released. I touch your hand like the left hand touches the right, I live the life I live today, thinking about the same life tomorrow. Everything is calm, everything is boring, everything is normal, everything is calm, but there is an unusual chemical reaction.
Where is the exit?
My wife said, let's go to Paris. So youthful passion returned to the couple.
But they are not as impulsive as they were when they were young, they are not as passionate as they were when they were young, they are not as reckless and brave as they were when they were young. When you fall in love, you can stay together. It doesn't mean that people are not brave, it's just that people need to take risks to change and make choices in middle age. To go, not to go, everything is full of variables, the shifting gap between fantasy and reality.
Hesitation, selfishness, and then the truth and cruelty of the film appear in front of the audience. In fact, there are so many unpleasant things hidden under the calm middle-aged calm.
Betrayal, betrayal. Selfish. You don't know what the other person is thinking.
When selfishness takes over everything, when emptiness takes over everything, when all that is not good takes over everything, the ugliness of the truth is enough to disillusion a person's hope.
I don't want I don't want I don't want to grow up, grow up without fairy tales. I don't want I don't want I don't want to get old, getting old is no fairy tale
Twelve years later, I have grown up. No longer wearing a hat, "Gui Lunmei" went to the UK and came back again, and we have no contact. I often stare at her empty MSN profile picture. We will no longer salivate at handsome and beautiful teenagers, and we will no longer fantasize about lasting love. Because life is not equal to love, because the prince will still choose the prince, and Cinderella will be with the poor boy, this is the reality. this is life. Even the prince and the princess will encounter the seven-year itch together, and the old witch is not necessarily ugly and fierce. Although understand the truth. But we still have to believe in the existence of fairy tales.
Because only by believing in love and believing in the existence of beauty can we find the way out. Only by pretending to be happy and learning to forget can we bring true happiness.
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