Remembering is a form of meeting, forgetting is a form of freedom

Fiona 2022-10-03 14:55:35

. Stumbled upon this 2019 Caesars Award-winning film, surprisingly good-looking, with a wonderful French light comedy love story. Out of curiosity about an anonymous "company" invitation, the old male protagonist, who has lost his enthusiasm for life and love, started a journey of experience in the old days. In a series of carefully planned memories scene stories, the male protagonist can meet his lover at that time every night, indulge in the illusion of the good old days, not only gradually restart his passion for life and love, but finally win his lover again fragrant. In the setting and arrangement of the story, the film can be regarded as a combination of "Accident" and "The Truman World". As a customer, the male protagonist can freely let the "company" set up coincidences according to his memory and preferences, while The "company" can influence the emotional feelings of customers through surprises and details through God's perspective. In addition to the main line of love for the male protagonist, the film also developed a side story for the director of the "Company" (played by Guiyom Cane) and the actress of the "Company". In the two love samples of the film, the love of Negative factors: dullness, derailment, quarrels, etc. after the passion is gone, the film uses such a set of pseudo "traveling" plot logic to gradually resolve these barriers to love, leaving the audience together in the "beautiful era of love". ". In reality, in the face of a frustrated love, we do not have this kind of corporate service that can heal people's emotional wounds. There are only two choices we can make. Either we can work hard to break through the situation with the comfort of good memories, or we can't be sadder than to forget our hearts and hearts. , just as Gibran's motto "Memories is a form of meeting, and forgetting is a form of freedom." As for whether to remember or forget, the film does not provide a clear answer at the end. When the heroine deliberately left the scarf as in the past, The male protagonist did not pick it up in time, but smiled knowingly and calmly extinguished the cigarette in his hand, and the film ended. And the last dialogue of the old couple still lingers in their ears, "Will you marry me again?" "No, because I know you will hate me in 25 years" "25 years is not too short, and I hate it. It's you in 25 years, not you."

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La Belle Époque quotes

  • Marianne Drumond: Everyone kicks you out... You are the archetype of the kicked guy.

  • Margot: I'm scraps of sketches of lines... Scraps of a woman you love...