If you believe, love is the end

Berenice 2022-01-13 08:02:05

A 15-and-a-half-year-old French girl, a 22-year-old child from a wealthy Chinese family, played a love story in Vietnam in the 1920s and 1930s.
I can't forget the face of the girl standing on the boat, green, stubborn, rebellious, ignorant, and looking at the world before me in confusion. Then he appeared.

In the RV, he held her hand carefully and eagerly for a long time, just like every man with a bit of machismo, looking at this lovely person beside him, wanting to hold her tightly and possess everything desperately. She is driven by the curiosity of this age, and in order to escape the impoverished life of reality for a short time, she accepts him, and even takes the initiative to ask for his love, his caress, his kiss, his considerateness, and her warmth. Crazy and fiercely catering to him making love, she kept asking, he kept giving, tumbling on the double bed, rolling on the floor, at an age when she didn’t know how to love, she let her body enjoy it again and again With the pleasure of intimacy, I temporarily withdrew from the unbearable life of reality, so that my heart is no longer so sad, helpless and boring.

Most of the movie depicts scenes where two people are in perfect harmony and have sex, and they are full of joy again and again. His love continued to deepen, and there were clear tears in his eyes several times. At the beginning, I couldn’t understand why a man loves so deeply at this moment. He is just a young girl who is ignorant of poverty and ignorance, exuding a youthful poisonous breath. But for a rich family, these temptations are not necessarily temptations. , But the wonder of love is its own inexplicability.

He desperately sucked and looted every inch of her skin. Every time I saw this scene, I remembered what Liang Wendao said a few days ago, which might relieve a lot of my doubts. When he answered the question of whether love, sex, and marriage can be separated, he said: "Paz, the winner of the Mexican Literature Prize, wrote a book. He said that these three are chain relationships. Sex is human's animal instinct. Later, through the cultural package, there was a shell of love, and then society was institutionalized, and then there was marriage. So sex is the most fundamental, and there is inevitably sex in love and marriage. Of course, for this problem, various Cultural views are all different..." Some people say that men love because of sex. This is not unreasonable. Who says that loving a person’s soul is noble and complete, and loving a person’s body is blatantly sad? Love itself is an inexplicable thing, without much purpose and reason.

I didn’t think she loved him until the melodious waltz sounded in the tanker. I recalled the scenes where he and her entangled. He loved her so much. He wanted to marry her and explain his heart to his father. He must obey the family’s arrangement to marry a woman who does not love. He gave her his mother’s ring. He was angry that he did not have the freedom to choose the one he loved. The music was flying, and her love for him seemed to sleep for a century. When she was awakened, she began to cry more than...

At the end of the story, she realized her dream of becoming a writer, and his love for her has never stopped.

Love before it begins and after it ends, if you believe it, love is the end.

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  • Layla 2022-03-27 09:01:15

    Whether it is the book or the movie, I don't like it very much. But I really want to lie on the ground naked with my lover like in the movie, and feel the summer heat freely.

  • Roxane 2022-03-27 09:01:15

    The comments are always irrelevant to the movie: I came to the conclusion that as a female writer, you must first have the body of a prostitute, and then you can have the soul of a writer. Otherwise, what is written is the sermon of the nun, the boringness of the old maid, the self-pity of the complaining woman, and no one will read it. Duras's bitterness is the key to success, and he must have the determination to materialize himself, which is an essential destruction.

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."