I first watched this film when I was in college, and I watched it twice after work. The movie channel was playing last night, and I reviewed it again.
This is an American movie. When I first saw it, it was hard to imagine that passionate Americans would shoot such a subtle and introverted emotional film that they always thought it was an Italian or Spanish film.
One is Victoria, a beautiful girl who was abandoned by her lover when she was unmarried and has nowhere to go back to her hometown. The two met for the first time on the train, and then began a beautiful story.
At the beginning of the film, some plot preparations were made-four years ago, Paul, like many young soldiers, hurriedly concluded a marriage before rushing to the battlefield, jokingly called "Meeting on Friday, getting married on Saturday, and separating on Monday." On the battlefield, Paul, who was tested by blood and fire, took daily letters to his wife as his only spiritual comfort. However, her young wife had never opened it before, and only bundled them into a book and placed them in a large wooden box. The reason is that he is afraid of the war and killings described in the letter. In fact, Paul wrote about the vision of a good family life after the war. Four years later, when Paul came back from the front line, her wife never came to meet him on deck because she had not opened his letter predicting the return date. When Paul arrived home, his wife didn't show any longing, but kept instilling in him theories on how to make money, and got him a job selling chocolate.
So, according to his wife's wishes, Paul wore a military uniform—a status symbol of a veteran, carrying chocolates and luggage, and boarded the train. Thus began the encounter with Victoria. A picture frame fell off Victoria's luggage rack, and Paul stepped forward to help. In the frame is a photo of the father and daughter. The glass broke. Paul was trying to comfort her, but the sudden acceleration of the train caused the two of them to embrace each other and fall to the floor under inertia, so they had the first place. Close contact. It's a pity that this intimate contact was so disgusting because of the girl's sudden vomiting in his arms, and his whole body was covered with the smell of decadent sorrow.
When the train arrived at the station and changed to a car, they met again. A sense of intimacy developed between the two of them, and they began to talk to each other. However, the two hooligans who came up soon disturbed the peaceful and warm atmosphere between the two. They tried to molest the beautiful Victoria. Paul stepped forward and taught the two gangsters severely, but was driven out of the car by the female driver.
Paul was walking on a path surrounded by green trees, and suddenly he found Victoria deep in the path. She was sitting on the luggage rack with her head down, thoughtful and sad. After careful questioning, I learned that the peacekeeping professor fell in love and became pregnant accidentally unmarried, but the professor abandoned her in the name of eager to keep a free soul! The desperate Victoria had to return home with luggage, but was afraid that her father would punish her severely after learning the truth. Victoria's father is a vineyard owner. He loves his family deeply, but because of his always serious temperament, he never expresses his love to his family easily. He regards the honor of the family more than life, and Victoria's behavior will undoubtedly make him furious. "He will kill me! He will kill me!" The frightened and helpless Victoria murmured and repeated these words, but he dared not take half a step further away from home a few steps away. The kind-hearted and upright Paul suddenly felt compassionate and offered to pretend to be a husband and wife with her and return to the manor together to help her through the most difficult moments, and then leave after spending a night. In order to make the two look more like a couple, Paul took out a golden yellow ring-like ring from the chocolate box and put it on each other's fingers.
Victoria's hometown is located on a flat foot surrounded by mountains, shrouded in a hazy cloud all year round. When they stood on the top of the mountain and looked down at the panorama, Paul couldn't help but revel in the beauty. Victoria told Paul that her hometown had a beautiful name-"Wonderland in the Clouds".
When they returned home, Victoria's father was furious and strongly opposed their "union". He could not tolerate that his own daughter, a prominent Mexican family with a family history of four hundred years, married a poor orphan who had no past without asking for his permission.
But the kind grandparents and Victoria's mother recognized their marriage and sincerely congratulated them.
That night, the vineyard faced a frost before the harvest. People raised a raging fire, put a pair of transparent wings on their hands and arms, and gently fanned the heat to the roots of the vines to prevent the grapes from catching cold. Victoria taught Paul how to wave his wings.
Victoria's grandfather is a witty, humorous, tolerant, and intelligent old man. When Paul decided to leave for the first time, he involuntarily asked the servant to take Paul's luggage, and took Paul to see the manor’s lifeblood—a huge and unworthy grape root enshrined on the hillside. He used this to tell Paul that this is the root of the manor, the root of the family, and it will become the root of Paul's life in the future! Paul couldn't help being shocked. At the same time, the old man also played a trick. Like a gluttonous child, he asked Paul for chocolates. He ate one after another, and then he did not forget to tell him honestly-now you can't sell chocolate! You can't help crying or laughing because of his ingenious intentions! So Paul decided to stay and participate in the grape picking festival the next day. At the picking festival, the grape picking competition between Paul and Victoria's father also caused the two men to begin to cherish each other.
When Paul decided to leave for the second time, it was Grandpa who came forward to keep him. He invited him to taste the brandy brewed by himself. When he was drunk, his grandfather also taught Paul to sing a Mexican love song-"my lover", and asked him to sing under the Victorian window. If the light on the Victorian window was on, then he succeeded! It was precisely because of Paul's singing that Victoria's father believed in their love, and the cold heart began to melt. Once it melts, it immediately transforms into enthusiasm.
The way people celebrate the harvest is quite enthusiastic and unrestrained. When the picked grapes were all poured into a huge round wooden barrel, all the men played musical instruments and surrounded the barrel, while all the married women climbed into the barrel to sing and dance to their heart's content. The plump grapes spattered viscous juice under the feet of the women. In such a hearty scene, the two gradually approaching hearts finally clung to each other irresistibly in the crowd and booing of people. However, Paul, who was in the marriage contract, restrained himself with reason and morality in a timely manner at the critical moment.
But when he embarked on the journey, he was still immersed in the dreamlike experience. When the driver asked him where he came from, he replied: "I was walking in the clouds just now." The driver's answer was also wonderful: "Welcome to land!"
Victoria's father finally accepted Paul from his heart. At the gathering to celebrate the harvest, he announced loudly in public that he would hold a wedding for his daughter that night and invited everyone to attend. He is trying to express his love for his daughter.
Victoria had to tell her father the truth about their pretending to be a husband and wife. This blow made his father faceless. He drank all day long, using alcohol to numb himself.
Paul returned home, but found that his wife was having an affair with a man. The wife took out a divorce agreement and told him that there was too much difference between the concepts and pursuits of each other, and it was better to get a divorce. The frustrated Paul held the agreement and couldn't help but gradually burst into a smile.
Paul hurried back to "Wonderland in the Clouds" overnight and saw his father who was so drunk. He woke him up loudly and told him that he was divorced and would like to marry his daughter.
However, the angry father fought with him. The gasoline lamp that was thrown out by mistake ignited the grape rack and caused a raging fire. All the vines were destroyed in the fire. The people in the manor cried bitterly in the face of this sudden disaster, and the grapes they depended on for survival no longer exist!
When Paul looked at the crying people, he suddenly thought of the vine at the root of the manor that his grandfather had shown him. He uprooted it and asked his father to check whether it was burnt inside. Fortunately, the inside of the root of the manor whose skin has turned into coke is still alive! The people of the entire manor cheered and celebrated the rest of the manor’s life.
And the rest of his life is more than the manor, the love between Victoria and Paul has also been reborn like a phoenix after the fire!
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