There is only love in a boring life——Review of the movie "Magic Moonlight"

Missouri 2022-01-05 08:01:35

You do something to me, something that simply mystifies me. tell me, why should it be, you have the power to hypnotize me? let me live beneath your spell, do do that voodoo that you do so well, for you do something to me, that nobody else could do. The opening of the film, "You Do Something to Me", laid the foundation for the entire movie in the 1920s: a soothing, melodious tone, and it also implies a whole The theme of the film: the magic of love for a person. In the film, this tune is played many times when the two male and female protagonists are alone. The watchtower on the rainy night, the male protagonist’s proposal, every time the male protagonist Stanley feels that he is inexplicably attracted by the female protagonist Sophie, this song Flowing in the air like his inner monologue. In Stanley's mind, life is destined to be a tragedy. From the first dialogue between him and his friends, the film began to instill pessimistic world-weariness into the audience through his mouth. Regardless of the quotation: "Life is nasty, brutish and short." Life is dirty, cruel and short. ——Thomas Hobbes, "Leviathan" "Life is no longer weary, stale, flat and unprofitable. "Life is nothing more than boring, decadent, boring, and useless.-Shakespeare's Hamlet Still satirical words: "Aren't scientists the best to deceive?" "The invisible world must be a good place to open a restaurant, and ghosts have to find a place to eat." "I think Mr. Nietzsche has exposed God's remarks convincingly enough." "People never think about how unfair life seems. When a person is born and spends his life without committing any crime, he will eventually be sentenced to death. Then, the film borrows the supporting actor: a psychoanalyst, and objectively describes the actor Stanley, the background reasons for his personality formation, and his mentality: a typical neurotic and abnormal personality, obsessed with death, Without faith, life is meaningless, an artist with depression, a person who tends to escape reality, and a very unhappy person. He does not believe in the will of any gods, and does not accept any artificial deception, so he allows himself to be The person who confuses others, a magician who uses techniques to create illusions for the audience. Such Stanley was tempted by his only "friend" to come to the south of France, this sunny place, just to expose a "spirit" from the American countryside. "Medium" girl: Sophie. However, as he said, the closer he got to Sophie, the more shocked he was. When he discovered that he could not expose Sophie's psychic skills, he tossed and turned and could hardly fall asleep. At this time, "II. "Molto Vivace", intense ideological struggle, self-doubt, unbelievable, if he can no longer get answers from the truth and deceit, he simply can't live as before. However, Stanley admitted that everyone needs to find a reason to embrace life, and Sophie is his reason. When he realized this and described his feelings for Sophie to others, he used them separately: soul, spark and magic. A man who was extremely sensible, admired Darwin, and believed in science, said words that he could not explain. Love at first sight is a kind of magic. This kind of magic makes people love. This kind of magic is not magic. It has no skills and cannot cheat. It just happened in front of your eyes. No one can resist it, ignore it, or expose it. For everyone, life also needs reasons, even lies. Our lives and lives are like a designed labyrinth, seemingly random, and like being led by a certain destiny, seeming to be dominated by ourselves, but cannot escape the torrent of torrents. Although there is no unified answer, people from all sides All have their own opinions. For the meaning of life, everyone has their own answers in life. This is inevitable, because everyone needs an excuse to find a reason to live and live a meaningful life. The cutest one in the film is Bryce. He is playing the piano and sings a serenade, pursuing this mysterious girl. Because he believes that Sophie knows himself better than him, he longs to be understood, and falls in love with Sophie unable to extricate himself. The happiest person in the film is Bryce's mother. This silver-haired woman believes that this world is far more than what we see. Because she questioned, if all of this would eventually disappear, then why did God create them. So she believes in Sophie's psychic and everything that her husband's soul implies. She is an innocent child, waiting for the candy that falls from the sky, who can bear to expose all this and tell her that her husband does not necessarily regard her as the only one in her life? Even when she asked about it, she was so embarrassed. She clearly knew that she was not the only husband. All she needed was a comfort, and she was willing to believe in such beauty. Regarding this, Sophie also quoted Nietzsche's words to confirm: "We need our illusions to live." We need our illusions to live. . . . . . . "But we must, if we are to get through life. I can be a king I can be almost any old thing It all depends on you He is the real old man in life, the feelings and expressions of his life, and only love in a boring life. Love is unscientific, there is no logic to find, it cannot be reasoned, it is a magic that people have been unable to break for thousands of years. In the movie, perhaps Woody deliberately borrowed the first lyrics of the song "It All Depends On You": "Lovers depend on moonlight." and named the movie "Magic in the Moonlight", which is a metaphor for the birth of love. I believe that there is no more accurate analogy for magic that is made under the hazy moonlight. What kind of magic did she use when a boy fell in love with a girl? Written by Xiao Xuan Er on May 11, 2015

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Extended Reading
  • Clara 2022-03-27 09:01:12

    Give the King a walk in a Woody Allen movie and he can still stutter?

  • Aryanna 2022-04-23 07:03:11

    Love is sinking hand in hand.

Magic in the Moonlight quotes

  • Stanley: [to God] My aunt, whom I love, is in mortal danger. And so, I ask you... I ask you...

    [long pause]

    Stanley: Wait a minute. This is the stupidest load of twaddle I have ever heard.

  • Stanley: Happiness is *not* the natural human condition.