"Stolen Heart" - Andante of Love

Clementine 2022-03-19 09:01:03

If you believe in love at first sight, you never stop looking.
It's a trap that sucks people's hearts in.

1. The feeling of betrayal
DH Lawrence said in his book, "The note itself is good, but playing just one is terrible. A note, always a note, it will make your ears calluses." The four people in "Stealing the Heart" are all people with scars in their hearts, unsatisfactory careers and unsatisfactory lives. Such people are more hopeful of redemption, so they keep watching.
Like the woman weaving on the patio that DH Lawrence meets in the story, he sees her as fresh and timeless as the first morning of Genesis. The moment Dan met Alice was also so wonderful. He said she was his, his inspiration, and he protected her like a pure child. However, he only regarded her as a precious and fragile item, and only kept the beauty of her appearance and did not pay attention to her inner sorrows and joys.
Actually, that's not love. Can't make an oath, don't want to take responsibility, it's a willful possession, just like putting up a sign on Alice is his pet. That kind of love is as humble as those souls who hide in the shadows.
Dan, a cowardly man, has too much selfishness and an unstoppable beast in his body. If the beast in his heart gave him a contemptuous glance, he would fall at its feet. The rush of desire and passion devoured his heart like those thirsty vampires. So Dan fell in love with Anna again, in the blink of an eye. And his reason for his betrayal was that Anna didn't need him, and Alice was too dependent on him. This reason is selfish and bordering on shameless. No matter how beautiful a note is, if you keep playing it, it will turn into a forgiving noise. For Dan, so do women.
For Anna, a man like Dan is irresistible because he is more gentle and because of his incredibly beautiful face. Throughout the ages, no matter in myth or in reality, how many people have suffered a series of failures and lost their families or cities because of their beauty. Remember the fox waiting to be tamed in "The Little Prince", where love is a kind of redemption, where love is just a mutually beneficial relationship. Yes, people also need to be tamed, not to be loved, but to be tamed by themselves—the ego. But when they settle down and become the tamed, it seems that everything is out of control again, and when they are distracted by the control of life, they will once again break the reins and let their feelings loose. Maybe it's a little unreasonable to say that, but in this movie it makes sense.

2. Love at first sight
Many people have a wonderful fantasy about love at first sight, and many romantic movies and novels spare no effort to render this wonderful feeling. If you only look at a person's appearance, it is easy to fall in love with him (her) at first sight, and people will unknowingly beautify that image and keep moving closer to the perfect image in their hearts.
"You fell in love with someone, but you didn't fall in love with a real person, you just fell in love with someone you imagined." Maybe that's why when you get to know someone, only to find that love has fallen into dust. , no longer glamorous as new, there is always something unsatisfactory and unbearable. Although it is said that to love a person, you must accept everything about him, including his shortcomings, but love is also conditional, and it is not easy to love.
In "Letter from a Strange Woman", the woman silently loved the man for so long and was willing to give everything until the end of her life. It looks brutal and romantic. But that's also the romance built in an ideal situation. If the woman marries the man, she will inevitably fall into the cycle of marriage again. Sometimes, those beautiful stories always have a hideous side. The reason why the love of "Covered Bridge Last Dreams" can last until death may be because they were not together in the end, so their memories will always stay on that beautiful path, the warm afternoon, and the beauty of a few small flowers. Every marriage may begin with these romances, but not every one of them "sits in a rocking chair and grows old," as in "Golden Pond."
Strangely enough, people are always chasing the unattainable.
Perhaps, people are too lonely, and they need a little crazy fantasy to enrich themselves.
Thoreau said, "Most people live in silent despair."
Then there will be scenes of Larry and Dan flirting in online chat rooms, two men playing emotional games, and whoever wins, that loneliness deeply engraved in their lives. People who share loneliness, when is the end?

3. The destination of the heart In the end
, everyone's feelings will find their destination. Anna returned to Larry's side, and Alice returned to New York, walking on the streets with indifferent and inviolable eyes. She knew what she needed, and she didn't have to look back to find her home.
Only Dan stared at a tombstone with Alice written on it, and he didn't even know the girl's real name. A real loser. Everything reflects the saying, "Love is not a redemption, but a relationship."
What do we get out of this relationship? Anna tried to be strong in a failed marriage, but faced the impact of the other end of the relationship, and all her sanity was thrown behind her. What has she learned? Her last look betrays her inner desire. What about Dan? He was all and only—selfish love, love only for himself. He couldn't get true feelings like this, and even if he got it, he would lose it like going to Ellis. He will always be the one who is loved, and he will never be loved if others don't love him. He is the one who was abandoned, the one who was abandoned by his "pet".
Anna and Dan are the kind of people who never stop looking at the streets looking for love at first sight. There are always such people who pass by every day and keep looking around on the street corner. And the destination of their hearts will not be too far or too good, it will not be forever and not necessarily an abyss.

About the movie:
Based on the 1997 stage play of the same name, Clive Owen played Dan, a role he ceded to Jude Law seven years later to play a very different character himself Larry.
The story takes place in the emotionally conservative Britain, and many times the effect of repression is to make people more eager and unable to stop. Dan's ideal is to become a best-selling novelist, and his handsome appearance also makes him have the suaveness of a novelist, but the ideal is an ideal after all, and he can only see his own works in the obituary column of the newspaper; Natalie Poe Mann's Alice was thrown into Dan's life like a baby in a basket. The mysterious identity gave Dan endless inspiration. Behind Alice's series of lies seems to be unspeakable sadness. At that strip club, Larry met her, tried to find solace in her, but found it all in vain; Larry, a dermatologist who seemed strange to others, should feel confident in his profession , but always stay away from love. Until he met Anna at the aquarium and loved this woman with all his heart. According to Julia Roberts' impression, the role of Anna should be suitable for her - a photographer with a successful career, but also experienced emotional pain, just ended a marriage.
If they each enjoyed their lives and wondered what it would turn out to be, it might still be a mess because they were both constantly looking for their next goal. In the exhibition of Anna's works, it was the only time that these four people got together together, and the love flowed between the eyebrows and eyes. Anna couldn't resist Dan, leaving Ellis and Larry to hold on to this painful relationship and refuse to let go.
After watching the movie, I kept pity that Cate Blanchett missed the role of Anna due to scheduling issues. Even if Julia Roberts won the Oscar, she still can't prove that her acting skills are enough to control various roles. At least in this play, she did not show Anna's sentimentality and longing, and the contradiction between fear and desire. Many times the camera closes up her for her to express, but she only leaves the audience blank. It seems that she doesn't know how to attract the camera without letting her show a smile, not to mention the level of performance. Jude Law has always wanted to prove his ability, but he threw himself into the blind spot of playing the handsome vase again and again. For him, Dan only needs to show his face and charm, and the rest doesn't need much. The one who best conveyed the director's intention in the movie is Clive Owen. He portrays a man who wants to seek emotional stimulation, but is afraid of being hurt. The part of chatting on the computer can even be described as wretched. Him: Excited and immersed in obscenity happiness, ridiculous and pitiful. As for Natalie Portman, I really can't bear to say anything. Her stiff face and unrealistic eyes limit her expression, and her still childish face is only capricious and has no mysterious past, that strip show. There is nothing glamorous and charming to look at. In this point, she is far worse than the "lover", a girl who can sway people's hearts with just one gaze, and she does not have the magic power of Lolita that makes people go to the abyss.
The story's exploration of emotions is deeper and more thought-provoking than the actors' performances, but this can only be guessed by our own imagination and the blank space of the film. Just like the English name "Closer", we must get closer and closer. to see clearly.


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  • Michel 2022-03-22 09:01:26

    Chasing and tired, love is really too virtual. Does trust alone work? After all, it is human nature to doubt. In the final analysis, love is based on taste and feeling to maintain mutual attraction, and trust is just an excuse that people use to convince themselves that they love or not love inexplicably. Tsk, the word love is probably the most absurd creation of linguistics.

  • Krista 2022-03-24 09:01:29

    The most wonderful movie I've seen these days, Natalie, very beautiful, like a genie.

Closer quotes

  • Larry: A good fight is never clean.

  • Larry: Of course she enjoyed it. As you know, she loves a guilty fuck.