give me a second, still time

Mackenzie 2022-10-08 02:51:34

"Once upon a time I wondered what love
is. Love is there when you need it.
You just have to see it wrapped in beauty and
hidden in every second of your life force.

If you can't stop for a minute,
you'll miss it."

Sometimes, when looking forward to a movie or a wonderful story, the climax has already been vented in a quantitative appearance before the movie has started. When facing such a movie or story, there is no previous The pleasure of waiting for expectations; sometimes, you will follow the judgment of others inadvertently and choose a movie, without expectations, without hypothetical scenes, without thinking, without... Just like the opposite of the first situation, just a movie , a machine that tells a story to you.
Life is often full of drama, and when you throw yourself into any of these emotions, the other will inadvertently come close to you.
I know that "Sleepless in the Supermarket" was heard from the conversation between colleagues, and I watched it with a feeling of trying to see, however, I followed the boy named Ben into him. world.
The picture starts with a simple questioning narration, accompanied by the musical melody of the opera girl, the close-up shot of a girl gradually becomes clear, the angry expression and the dynamic of the speech, in the singing, it seems that a dancer is fully devoted... I like it This kind of opening, the simple, pure and strong dramatic conflict attracted me, and the narration explained everything I saw in front of my eyes. After breaking up with his girlfriend, Ben started to lose sleep. To pass the time, he decided to go to a local supermarket to work the night shift. There, he met various characters. During the boring night shift hours, he used his extremely rich imagination to imagine colleagues and customers as characters in the stories weaved in his mind. He fantasized about a "temporary pause" in time, able to freeze the artistic beauty of the world in order to appreciate the beauty of the world and its characters carefully and calmly.
To be moved by the film, in my opinion, is either seeing a wonderful story, or personally agreeing with the film on something like a commonality. Somewhat surprisingly, in this movie, I was struck by both. The director is a storyteller. Through Ben's narration, all of Ben's thinking attitudes run through, and the stream of consciousness penetrates every emotion. And those black and humorous lens interpretations let us walk through the left and right sides of fantasy and reality.
Time-Fantasy-Utopia, this is the word eye jumping in front of my eyes, maybe my understanding of this movie.
Time is a detail that the movie tries to discuss. Along with Ben's insomnia, time suddenly slows down. This state of temporary delay in time caused by emotional loss can be found more or less in the middle of every lost lover. Shadow, time seems to stand still, or the individual strongly pulls his conscious time back to the starting point of expectation, because that is the moment when sweet happiness begins, accompanied by bits and pieces of memory and details, enjoying a kind of feeling in consciousness. Emotions, always reluctant to leave, live in such memories, time is static, even if time continues to jump, personal ideology is still static.
To discuss time is to discuss the past and present of life, and to discuss everyone's choices and abandonment. You can't escape, and there is nowhere to hide, because time stores all the conscious information in your brain, it will It reminds you all the time, keep moving forward, whether you dare to face the time, maybe it is whether you dare to face the life you choose.
In the movie, he controlled his own time intentionally or unintentionally, and enjoyed the wonderful moments brought by the stillness of time as he wished. He could not sleep, and he could scramble to see this time 24 hours a day. However, in the real world, Time never stands still, life never stops, and the only way to stop time briefly is to recall the past in memory.
Fantasy, everyone has their own understanding of fantasy. The film is originally a student of the art school. The director intends to arrange this because the students of the art school can better bring out a kind of body of the fantasist. In the many narrations of the movie, I am often moved by some specific fantasy chapters and narrations, because these ideas even show that I and the people around me have encountered and tried it. Artists love fantasy, which is inherently restless and uncomfortable. Extremely excited emotional expression, because of the pursuit of beauty, most art college students have a fantasy world beyond ordinary people, they are even arrogant, completely divorced from life and lost in their own world of consciousness. Completely detached from the real world, and free in the fantasy form of illusory architecture.
Fantasy often brings a kind of pleasure to people. This kind of emotion that spreads up and down the body is killing time. The fantasy is uninterrupted, and time never stands still. However, in the life that is separated from reality, time has long been merciless to the fantasy. one strike. At the moment of disillusionment, reality will stand aside like a joke. And you or I or them, after the climax of the fantasy, may only be left with empty emotions and chagrined gestures.
Utopia, what is it? How to explain the utopia of love? The answer does not seem to be difficult, but we can't always find the answer. The film has always revolved around love, but it explores the details of the emotional growth process around love. Defined emotions, sometimes silent and sometimes excited, what is love? What does the utopia of love mean, there is no answer, because it is all in our own stories, love can be drawn on paper, love can be melted in wine, everywhere, hidden everywhere, the moment we fall into love, also I found a utopia that belongs to my ideal world.
Time continues, the film has already ended, but I was brought back to the past by the instant consciousness. In every second of my memory, I felt the short-lived happiness brought by every second, and gave me a second of still time, Maybe I'm walking down the street, give me a second of stillness, maybe I'm wandering in another world, give me a second of stillness, maybe, life is another illusion.

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Cashback quotes

  • Ben Willis: I read once about a woman whose secret fantasy was to have an affair with an artist. She thought he would really see her. He would see every curve, every line, every indentation and love them because they were part of the beauty that made her unique.

  • Sean Higgins: Two halves, please.

    The Barman: What was the other one?

    Sean Higgins: Two halves.

    The Barman: Oh, yeah.

    Sean Higgins: I just found the world's stupidest barman.