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Twice. In this film where the plot keeps jumping and switching, and the context becomes clear inch by inch, such a sentence appears twice. I almost thought the director was showing off something called 'end-to-end echo'.
It begins with Woolf's monologue. When one person speaks, it is only for one person. Say I'm sick, say I know you love me, say I can't continue torturing you and drag you down, say I've decided to leave you and leave this painful world, say in the end I firmly believe that our love is better than the rest of the world all.
It can't be regarded as a monologue, because she really didn't have the courage to look into her husband's eyes and say such tender and cruel words. She wrote this love letter, a suicide note, with trembling cold and pale hands. The world is nothing but noise to her. Survival is no longer a blessing, and every breath only adds to despair. Just, just my dear Leonard, how can I bear it. How can I bear to abandon you. But how can you bear to continue to delay your life.
Towards the end is Charlie's monologue. One person speaks, but only one person listens. Said that the weather this morning was so good, said that I thought of that morning when you were eighteen and nineteen on the beach, said that you were the most beautiful thing I have ever seen, and said that in the end, I firmly believe that our love is better than everything else in the world.
Those blue eyes that were no longer clear, looked deeply into his Mrs. Dalloway's eyes. There was no hesitation, no unease at all. Just sitting by the window like that, smiling and saying his final confession. Of course, he copied Woolf, otherwise it would not be so word-for-word and even the background and ending of the plot are so amazingly consistent.
Woolf let the rushing water take her away forever while her husband read the note. After Charlie finished speaking, he leaned back slightly and fell out of the window. At the end of their lives, they left the most perfect farewell to the love of this life.
What I want to tell you is that I miss you the most in this world. Even if I was about to leave, in my heart at this moment, and for the endless time thereafter, you will be the only one left.
Such a confession, so cruel, but so touching in my opinion. The shortness and fragility of life, the fascination and confusion of life, and the eternity of a moment of life are all in one sentence.
Sometimes I beg for a peaceful life, and sometimes I crave for the bizarreness in the blink of an eye. My mind went back and forth, and I hesitated and did not know how to choose. Tears flowed to the end of the movie, nothing more than thinking about whether there will be anyone who is so affectionate at the end, there is no one in this world who is happier than us.
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