Where is the love in the elegy

Joesph 2022-04-21 09:03:51

This is not a love movie at all, it is much bigger than love.
First of all, from the perspective of the male protagonist, it involves the following themes: freedom from escaping the system and responsibility and the loneliness that accompanies it; the aging body and the desires of the youth; his relationship with the woman is just a time-lapse fate A tragic corner of helplessness.
As for the female lead, she is also an independent existence. In the film, the relationship between their teachers and students is not emphasized. At best, it is only a way to know each other.
In this relationship, there is no benefit, worship, and worship, and she appreciates him because he's an attractive man, isn't he? He is indeed a charming and unique man. In the movie, except for the uncomfortable part when he lied to his old lover, at other times, he is calm, kind and tender. In her eyes, he has nothing extra. The character is just a lover who gets along well.
he to her? How can it be purely physical and youthful love? Beautiful things make people fascinated, she is such a beautiful and special woman, he is so moved by her that he forgets his age. The aging body still has a heart and eyes that are sensitive to beauty.
He studied art, all kinds of beautiful and ugly things, and she was the best work of art he had ever seen. Does he need any other reason to love her?
And she, this special woman, I don't think those young men can impress her and conquer her. There must have been many men who said to her, "These are the most beautiful breasts I've ever seen," but no man said, "I don't like them, I adore them." And no one gave her this unique But full of safe love.
She loves him, and she loves her own good soul.

So, where is there love, I only see the endless loneliness and powerlessness of people in the long passage of time. When George died, I fell on his wife's chest and cried bitterly, and my tears fell. This old poet, writing poetry, cheating, pursuing a romantic and uninhibited life, but at the end of his life, he is so helpless and seeking nothing more than It is the most mundane touch of warmth.
He also cried when she said he had been scared for a whole month.
It was already a feeling that was integrated into the blood. Pain is connected.

After they parted, she didn't find a boyfriend because she was not interested. He said that he had lived for the past two years just to wait for a phone call from her. I believe this. There are some people who should stop when they encounter them and move on, only desolation and loneliness.


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  • Dora 2022-04-03 09:01:11

    Coincidentally, both this movie and the EYE OF THE BEHOLDER that I just watched yesterday said: BEAUTY IS IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER, many people translate it into a lover's eyes.

  • Shana 2022-04-02 09:01:14

    There is an illusion that it is a bullshit; life is only cherished at the end; that is, it is only when it is about to be lost that you know how to cherish it.

Elegy quotes

  • Consuela Castillo: Beautiful picture.

    David Kepesh: Beautiful woman.

  • David Kepesh: [interview on the Charlie Rose show] We're not all descended from the Puritans.

    Charlie Rose: No?

    David Kepesh: There was another colony 30 miles from Plymouth, it's not on the maps today. Marymount it was called.

    Charlie Rose: Yeah, alright, you mention in your book...

    David Kepesh: The colony where anything goes, went.

    Charlie Rose: There was booze...

    David Kepesh: here was booze. There was fornication. There was music. There was... they even ah, ah, ah, you name it, you name it. They even danced around the maypole once a month, wearing masks, worshiping god knows what, Whites and Indians together, all going for broke...

    Charlie Rose: Who was responsible for all of this?

    David Kepesh: A character by the name of Thomas Morton.

    Charlie Rose: Aah, the "Hugh Hefner" of the Puritans.

    David Kepesh: You could say that. I'm going to read you a quote of what the Puritans thought of Morton's followers: 'Debauched bacchanalians and atheists, falling into great licentiousness, and leading degenerate lives'. When I heard that, I packed my bags, I left Oxford, and I came straight to America, America the licentious.

    Charlie Rose: So what happened to all of those people?

    David Kepesh: Well, the Puritans shot them down. They sent in Miles Standish leading the militia. He chopped down the maypole, cut down those colored ribbons, banners, everything; party was over

    Charlie Rose: And we became a nation of straight-laced Puritans.

    David Kepesh: Well...

    Charlie Rose: Isn't that your point though? The Puritans won, they stamped out all things sexual... how would you say it?

    David Kepesh: Sexual happiness.

    Charlie Rose: Exactly. Until the 1960s.

    David Kepesh: Until the 1960s when it all exploded again all over the place.

    Charlie Rose: Right, everyone was dancing around the maypole, then, make love not war.

    David Kepesh: If you remember, only a decade earlier, if you wanted to have sex, if you wanted to make love in the 1950s, you had to beg for it, you had to cop a feel.

    Charlie Rose: Or... get married.

    David Kepesh: As I did in the 1960s.

    Charlie Rose: Any regrets?

    David Kepesh: Plenty. Um, but that's our secret. Don't tell anybody.

    [laughter]

    David Kepesh: That's just between you and me.