Allegory of the Moonlight

Rozella 2022-04-21 09:02:05

Look around us and look at your life. When we go online, we receive a lot of information but care less and less; we talk a lot about life and human nature, but we refuse to clean the corridors of our homes on weekends. The accumulation of wealth makes people's lives better; but are we happier? On the contrary, many people feel that they are becoming more and more empty.
This movie gave us a dream, a dream of finding freedom. In a quiet night, do you have time to look up at the sky, "People today don't know the ancient times and the moon, but this month once looked at the ancient people." If we don't have subways, fast food, and the Internet, what will the world be like? Is the life of the ancients more leisurely? In the moonlight, Tao Yuanming's small courtyard, Li Bai's singing and dancing, Zhuangzi's leisure travel, Laozi's Tao Te Ching. If we ride the moonlight and go back in time... Of course, that's impossible. But the movie gives us hope with his unique magic.
The people of the past have come to the present, and they have interpreted the relaxed and romantic 18th-century love story in the present. In the hustle and bustle, the roof was used as the dance floor, and violin artists were invited from the street. Under the dim candlelight, the two of them waltzed. All of this can be done in the real world, and our beautiful world is all around us, as long as you carefully discover it.
I love this movie because she taught me to see life in a different light. I can't travel through time, but when we get real joy, it doesn't matter anymore...

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Kate & Leopold quotes

  • [last lines]

    Leopold: Well, let us proceed. Please raise your glasses so we may toast to my bride-to-be, the woman whose welfare and happiness shall be my solemn duty to maintain. The future Duchess of Albany...

    [Kate catches his eye]

    Leopold: Kate McKay. Of the McKays of...?

    Kate: Massapequa.

    Leopold: Massapequa.

    [to his uncle's confusion, Leopold goes to Kate]

    Kate: I love you.

    Leopold: I love you.

    [They kiss, then begin to dance]

  • Charlie: Victorian dude, who has never seen a Met's game, watching TV. Scene: "I say, are those little people in that box of phosphors. Crikey, I believe it is. This game is more beguiling than cricket"