Qin is like flowing water, love is like jasmine——About "Secrets That Cannot Be Telled"

Vance 2022-01-24 08:04:05

At half past one in the morning, after watching "Secrets That Cannot Be Said", I lost sleep amid the grunts of my roommates, and my mind was full of the music and plot of the movie. Insomnia is painful, but the aftertaste is exciting.
In the following days, when someone asked me what movie I would recommend, I would recommend this movie without hesitation. In 2007, you can not watch "Harry Potter" or "Transformers", but you have to watch "Secrets That Cannot Be Said". That being said, it seems to be too high for the movie, but I can only use Taiwanese expressions of defense: I like it, I love it!
Some people say that this movie is a fusion of many movies. I totally agree and appreciate it very much. Douqin's "Sea Pianist", "Untouchable Lovers" that travels through time and space, "Blue Door" by the sea, "Zombie Bride" and "Scent of a Woman", "A Journey to the West"..., The fusion after learning from it is naturally beautiful and the finishing touch. When watching a movie, I feel very excited because of some deja vu. Perhaps this is the genius of the movie.
Some people say that Jay Chou is showing off his piano. I think the plot of playing the piano is very attractive to me. Playing the piano, playing the four-handed piano, playing the piano with one hand, and performing at the graduation ceremony... Every piano performance is fascinating. When you marvel at your superb talent, you are also overwhelmed by romantic music. So after watching the movie, I searched for original music everywhere on the Internet. When writing this text, it is accompanied by the beautiful music in the movie. For a good movie, there should be good music!

This is a story about first love, with the beautiful first love complex of the piano prince. It is also the first love of many people.
This is a fairy tale about love at first sight. What's more difficult is that the director makes it more difficult to fall in love at first sight, and has to see each other at first sight every time. Therefore, Xiao Yu is very hard. Every time he closes his eyes and walks one hundred and one steps, he may not be able to see it every time.
This is a story about youth growth. You can see many romantic shots of Taiwanese youth dramas. Shelter from the rain under the branches, cycling through the country, strolling along the beach, stealing kisses from the CD store, kissing on the rooftop, ambiguity in the piano room, giving apples to lovers and piano scores, etc. If you have a first love, you can find some shadow. The spread of 2/3 adds a lot of magic to the final reversal. In my opinion, the front is as exciting as the back!

I like this way of telling stories. The main theme is the attitude of storytelling! A lot of foreshadowing prepares for the ending. For example, Xiao Yu always said that this is a secret that can’t be told. Xiao Yu always feels uneasy about the piano room being demolished. For example, Xianglun’s father always tells his son: listen to more music so that you won’t be cranky, and be an ordinary one. Ordinary people. For example, Xiao Yu often did not come to class, and seldom let him into his home.
What attracts me most in the film is the parallel narrative technique of the past and the present. What happened in the past affects the present, and what happened now also affects the past. Just as Xiao Yu's mother finally found out that Xianglun's portrait was true, while Xianglun's father opened a corner of the music score 20 years ago and wrote: Ye Xianglun, it suddenly dawned on him. And the "past events" that are happening in that photo, and so on. They are in love, changing, across time and space, across space. Although logically criticized a bit, I feel that this kind of focused love expression is quite touching.

The ending surprised me the most, but the best! Xianglun returned to the past before the piano room was demolished. The time to go back was before Xiaoyu found the score. Facing the scarred Xianglun, Xiao Yu smiled faintly. It would still be love at first sight, I think. Then in the graduation photo, Xiang Lun and Xiao Yu appeared together in the 79th collective photo...
I particularly like this ending. If it were a Korean movie, Xiao Yu would definitely die. Then Xianglun will be with Qingyi. If it were a Chinese movie, Xiao Yu would die. Xiang Lun had no true love all his life, lonely, melancholy and old. If it were Hollywood, it would definitely be bold to let Xiaoyu stay in the modern...
And at the end of "Secrets That Cannot Be Said" is a fantasy ending, which makes people feel distressed and happy, and even more blissful. The piano room was destroyed and couldn't go back, Xiao Yu Xianglun finally got married. Xiao Yu's mother no longer grieves her life, but Xianglun's father has his own son twenty years in advance. All the extraordinary are happy, and the aftertaste is endless!

At the end of writing, I suddenly thought of a sentence, the piano is like flowing water, and the love is like jasmine, which is very suitable for this movie, so let's just make the title of this text. While writing and recalling the movie, the sound of the piano, the beautiful picture, the calm and elegant story is as refreshing as Jasmine. I have to pay tribute to the director again!
When I think of "Golden Armor", "Promise", "Night Banquet", not only the forehead is sweating, but the ears are hot.

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  • Antonetta 2022-03-18 09:01:08

    Many people criticized the movie as a "bad movie". When I first watched it many years ago, I just watched it casually. In addition, I only liked Gui Lunmei and had the right to support it, so I didn't have much experience watching the movie for the first time. Unexpectedly, I watched this movie three or four times accidentally afterwards (all watched on CCTV6). After entering the movie, I tasted it carefully and cried to the end every time. It's really a touching work of true temperament, and it's worth watching over and over again.

  • Curtis 2022-03-17 09:01:08

    Jay Chou is talented, with a temperament of Lun Mei