On the banks of the Mekong full of desire

Thomas 2022-04-22 07:01:45

Just came back from Cambodia and found this dvd to review.
The noisy and dirty environment on the Mekong River and the humid and sultry climate in Southeast Asia are like experiencing it first-hand. A hopeless love, he would rather her for money, and she never admits her love to him. It was not until the voyage of the cruise ship left the dock, and no one whispered in the middle of the night, that the truth of love was revealed.
I love this movie, it reminds me of myself. Although I do not have the financial status of the rich party, I am just as weak in pursuit of fruitless pleasure. unable to self.
The disparity in each other's background and the humiliation brought by each other cannot offset each other's attraction. There is no hope other than love. In the face of the inevitable parting, I would rather never love, I would rather just be addicted for a while, not involving promises, and nothing to do with feelings.
When the last waltz sounded, I also cried in my heart. It turns out that love can really start after the end, but I will never see that person again.

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  • Coby 2022-03-27 09:01:15

    There is always some love hidden in the corners that you don't want to admit. Subdued to responsibility, age, worldliness, family, self-esteem, race, and time, but it was never worth the repeated insults of memory. I love Jean-Jacques Arnold's shots, he always finds the angle that makes your heart hurt.

  • Kristina 2022-03-27 09:01:15

    Very mediocre movie, the character of Tony Leung Ka Fai in the book is the background foil, but it is much richer in the movie. Some scenes are very good, such as confrontation with pierre in the dance hall, such as forcing Loli in bed to say that she only loves money and butts Show, it's very energetic!

The Lover quotes

  • 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."

  • Narrator: Dusk one evening on board ship, crossing the Indian Ocean under the luminous sky. Suddenly the sound of a Chopin waltz came bursting out from the main lounge. I had tried to play it for months without success. That's why I gave up the piano. There wasn't a breath of wind and the music pervaded the whole ship. I stood up as if to go and throw myself into the sea. Then I did weep because I had thought of my Chinese lover, and I was suddenly not sure that I hadn't been in love with him after all, with a love I hadn't been able to see because it had become lost in the tide of events, like water seeping through sand. Thanks to that music, spreading over the sea and filling the calmest night I have ever known, I could see my love for him for the first time.