I originally wanted to see Notre Dame de Paris in the movie, but it turned out to be "Love Before Dawn" at the beginning, and then I watched the trilogy of 18 years before and after in order.
In each film, two people talk together, walk and talk, walk and talk, and after more than an hour, the movie is over. Love is a dream before dawn, the joy and surprise of reunion at dusk, and the crisis of middle age and the feathers of a place before midnight.
When watching these three films, you can actually feel the embarrassment in each of them. In Vienna, two people who are not familiar with each other are walking on the street and talking to each other. I think they must be trying their best. Thinking about what to say next so that silence doesn't fill the space around them. In Paris, two people chatted about each other's recent situation, but you have a wife, I have a boyfriend, and we reminisce about that night, bringing only resentment about life. In Greece, we fought over our lives and we even felt like we didn't love each other anymore. This is the story of two people, from dream to life, no step is easy.
These three, have been weakening the concept of time, from the first I have to leave when the train starts to the open ending of the second - I stayed on your sofa, to the third - we are together Sitting in the midnight moonlight, maybe that's how love will last forever.
Let me tell you what I think.
As I watched love before dawn, I kept thinking whether such an encounter was love. For a long time, I have framed love on the basis of time and full understanding. I always feel that love at first sight is unreliable, short-lived beauty. Our memory has the function of beautifying reality, turning all the sweetness and suffering into a candy for you to savor the rest of your time. I myself don't know whether we love the person we fell in love with at that time or the memory in our memory when we look back on the love at first sight.
It is also because of the function of beautifying reality in memory that we will have the kind of pain in "Before Dusk". I imagine that the person who can enter the marriage hall with me is you, and the person I dream of is you. I know that maybe when we get married, our marriage, like many couples, will gradually lose enthusiasm. But I still want to give it a try. The most painful thing for me is not that I lose you, but, I know, you are there but I can't have you. When I saw the third part, I was in a panic. I would think of many couples in reality who live under the same roof but have nothing to say. The marriage can be divorced or not. Anyway, that's how it is. I'm not going to have sex with you again because I have no interest in it, so I'm just going to keep the marriage in name. I also wonder what I would do if I had chosen someone to spend my life with. But I know myself, I'm terrified to think about it, I can't imagine what it's like to just have one person to spend my life with. I was afraid of my emotional exhaustion and the loss of the ability to love and receive love.
Maybe, it's like in the movie, "In the last days you will find that you are not in love with a person, but in this life." I don't know how much my parents love each other, I know they will Worried about losing each other. What maintains the relationship between husband and wife in the end, I don't think it is love. It may be the child, who serves as an emotional bond that binds two people together; it may be mutual support and tolerance. "Before Dawn" has this passage: "It is said that men lose their ability to hear high notes and women can't hear low notes, and I think they are running away from each other's mistakes. I think it's the law of nature so that they can grow old together. "I liked the scene in the first movie where two people were on the phone with each other face to face, pretending to tell a friend to be sincere, but in fact secretly confessing. But I prefer the ending of the third part, let me read you a letter from forty years later. I have seen compromises and concessions in the marriage relationship. The male protagonist said, "I put up with a lot of your bad temper. If you think I am a dog and always come back to you, then you are wrong, but if you want true love, this It's love. This is life, imperfect but real, and if you can't see it, you're blind." Yes, this is life, there is always someone to back down, there is always a compromise to be made.
Love is always beautiful and life is always realistic. So what can I give you? All I can do is give my life to you and not to others.
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