choose life or love

Dayton 2022-04-20 09:02:12

A chat on the ferry created the love that was destined to separate.
A 15-year-old difference doesn't stop them from falling in love. Jane was only willing to admit the fact that she fell in love with Tony at the end, but unfortunately, under the temptation of secular oppression and money, Tony had to carry out a family marriage and lost Jane forever. The poverty of Jane's family, the different personalities of the two older brothers, and the wealth and incompetence of Tony, both of them actually understand that this is just a short but profound emotion in their lives. But love is love, nothing else.
The film was released in 1992, when Tony Leung Ka Fai was 34 years old, he played Tony was 32 years old, Jane March was 19 years old, and the girl Jane played was 15 years old. This was also her debut and became famous. It is said that after Tony Leung Ka Fai appeared in this movie, many directors dared not ask him to act again for a long time, because his performance was too good. The naked erotic performances in it really feel the entanglement of spirit and flesh, and the emotions are sincere and warm.
Tony brought Jane to her house for the first time, and wanted to take her away again, because he didn't want her to be like the mistresses before. At this time, his feelings for her were no longer frivolous. At this time, Jane did not realize that she had fallen in love with Tony, and still said that she wanted him to be no different from her and his mistress.
Later, Tony and his father confessed the fact that they fell in love with Jane, but this powerless struggle is still no match for reality. He is used to the life of the rich and cannot do without money. We also can't deny that Jane and Tony's factors include money, which is also mixed with love. From the very beginning, we can guess the ending. People from two different worlds grew up in different family environments and experienced different things. These differences will still exist in the future.
In the ending, the fate of the two people is different, and the love that spans the long river of time is unforgettable.

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  • Clay 2022-03-28 09:01:08

    He sent me a paragraph from the original book today so I started watching the movie and it turned into a pure love story and we were concerned with an individual's self-discovery

  • Jimmie 2022-03-22 09:02:30

    As a fan of Duras' original novel, the movie is not easy to watch, for fear of ruining it. Liang Jiahui's temperament basically conforms to the prototype of the novel, which is cowardly, incompetent, violent and simple. I don't like the image of a girl, because it lacks a strong and resistant character. The second half of the film is noticeably better than the first half. What touched me the most in the novel was the picture of a Chinese man bathing a Caucasian woman. I didn't expect the film to be treated coldly and without beauty. "The Lover" can't be filmed, it is peerless.

The Lover quotes

  • [last lines]

    Narrator: Years after the war, after the marriages, the children, the divorces, the books, he had come to Paris with his wife. He had phoned her. He was intimidated; his voice trembled, and with the trembling it had found the accent of China again. He knew she'd begun writing books. He had also heard about the younger brother's death. He had been sad for her. And then he had no more to tell her. And then he told her - he had told her that it was as before, that he still loved her, that he would never stop loving her, that he would love her until his death.

  • Narrator: "Now and then I go back to the house in Sadek. To the horror of the house in Sadek. It's an unbearable place. It's close to death. A place of violence of pain of despair, of dishonour... But it's in this family's dryness in it's incredible harshness that I am the most deeply assured in myself. In the deepest of my essential certainties, all common history of ruin and shame, of love and hate is in my flesh."