when love is not love

Maximillian 2022-11-12 01:24:23

I don't know what love is, but I seem to have learned what is not love and what may be.
Love is so complicated, it would be a pity to stop at it.

The film throws you into a lot of mysteries from the start, with your head tilted and squinting at the screen. With the slow development of the plot, you seem to feel that the mysteries are being solved one by one, and your body slowly stretches out, but in the last one, your mind is blank, and you don't know what happened at that moment.


Regarding their love,
love is not because we need a simple company, not
a neighbor who is a perfect match for a professor grandfather, but a grandma who has never married and cared for a sick brother all his life. Her daily pleasure was watching what was happening on the street through the little window. Maybe the professor was always in her sight, and she thought it was love over time. She felt that they were neighbors, and their marriage was the best outcome: she could still take care of her younger brother and accompany her professor. And the professor had ignored her before, she was always so boring to talk about some boring right and wrong. She thought they were a good match, she was beautiful when she was young, she was single with him.
But this is not love. If love is only like this, life seems to be a little less colorful.

Love is not a far-fetched acceptance. A female college student who maintains her dignity
is passive about her boyfriend's love, or doesn't care about her. What she cares about is her image and reputation. She does have physical difficulties, but it cannot be used as an excuse to perfunctory her boyfriend. She may like her ex boyfriend, as she herself said, he is a 3rd dan black belt in karate, he is very strong, "I liked it before, now I don't know". When she didn't like it, she still kept her boyfriend and girlfriend. Her boss told her to get rid of this relationship, and she obviously wanted to get rid of it but still didn't explain it to him.
She is afraid that her boyfriend will know her job, not that she will abandon her. Her fear was deep into her bones. When she saw her boyfriend get into the professor's car, she was very, very impatient and asked the professor to tell her what happened.
This is not love, love is not far-fetched, not ambiguous.

Love is not bought.
The professor's grandfather paid for female college students to accompany him. Even took the time to cook dinner, make bisque based on her birthplace, and unplug her phone when she fell asleep. It all seemed that he loved her, but he might have loved his old wife, and the similar looks of the two of them. This assumes that he loves his wife very much.
Female college students do not like professors even more. When she was listening to her friends tell jokes at the bar, she was so inattentive, so inattentive. When I arrived at the professor's house, in order to "enliven the atmosphere", I was focused. Obviously, it's all fake. She didn't even want to try the dinner that the professor made with her time and the music she picked with her heart.
Love for each other is not love. No matter whether money is received or given, there is no love.

Is love a guilt?
When the female college student knew that her grandmother was coming to see her, and the taxi driver passed by the station and saw where her grandmother was standing alone waiting for her, she asked to pass the station again. She opened her eyes, but still shed tears. She felt guilty that she couldn't see her grandma who was only in the city for one day because of her work.
If it is said, the "love" mentioned before is not love, and it is not true. The feelings here are at least real, but is it love? Just shed tears for each other? Just because the boss said that the work is important, give up seeing one person less, and worry about the person who comes from a long distance?

Love may be not allowing others to say your bad, respecting your family, letting go of your dignity, and fighting for a better life for you.
The love of the female college student's boyfriend for her may be considered love. He's willing to marry her, even though he seems to be the most unsightly person in the whole movie: he dropped out of school at 16, has a small garage, is inexperienced in society even though he knows the city is dangerous, he smokes, like A little rascal. But he is so real.
He was so serious about revealing his true feelings to his "grandfather". He worked so hard to protect his girlfriend's reputation, even at the expense of his colleagues.
Maybe love is so imperfect, love just needs to be sincere and work hard to pay. Oh no, people are imperfect, but love can be perfect.

In any case, each of them is either trying to love or trying to be loved. But they are pitifully unable to find people who love each other.


Regarding music, when the
female college student came to the professor's house to go to the bathroom. The professor turned on the stereo, and the music was great! It's the ideal music for a candlelit dinner: lazy, gentle yet powerful, soothing yet rhythmic.
by Ella Fitzgerald, like someone in love! The director is naughty


about the camera . He knows what you want to see, so he deliberately won't show it to you. You want to see what the female college student is doing in the bar, but he will give you a call from the boss. You want to see what the female college student looks like on the bed, but he only shows you the restless professor. You have to look at the appearance of the female neighbor, but he just shows you an indifferent professor. You want to see what the boyfriend downstairs is doing, but he just shows you the professor who is pacing the room in panic. Finally with a loud bang, the professor falls halfway down, you wonder what happened after that, and he ends the film!





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Extended Reading
  • Jarrod 2022-04-23 07:06:22

    Surprisingly good! It is very successful as a narrative text, full of modernity, but at the same time it is a questioning of the ambiguous boundaries and moral order of modern ethics, and I think it is also appropriate to set the background in Japan, a place full of contradictions. The front-end of sex is at the same time unexpectedly conventional. Three confined spaces: bar, house, car, three sets of logic, collide with each other and are independent, make sense and make sense. Ambiguity itself is a manifestation of rupture. If it is placed in China, it must be completely inappropriate...

  • Josiane 2022-04-23 07:06:22

    Lost in Translation is essentially an American movie, but Abbas's one seems to be more adept than most native Japanese films. The emotion that this film focuses on is very strange. He actually focuses on some lonely people like you and me in big cities, but these lonely people are not absolutely lonely, they are also caring, but this concern Whether it's from family, friendship or love, it's a bit of a different time, and this kind of "not born at the right time" seems to be "like a river of love", but it's actually like sitting on needles, which will make people feel a little impatient. The encounter is actually a process of two-way escape. Although they had an awkward night, when the heroine was asleep and the hero unplugged the phone line, it seemed that the whole world was quiet; the ending part is Abbas's usual bad taste, the anger from the outside ignited these two empty bundles of hay, teaching people to suffocate more, but at the same time there is nowhere to escape, it can be said to be full of stamina.

Like Someone in Love quotes

  • Takashi: [subtitled version] Who said not to love her? I said not to marry her.

  • Akiko: [subtitled version] I'd rather not know all the mistakes I've made. I'm depressed enough as it is.