"So when the morning comes, we'll be back squash, do not you?"
On my travel experience, Vienna is not a romance began Great place, although expensive as the millennium capital of the Habsburgs, with magnificent palaces and notes in the air, but I would prefer to choose the much smaller Salzburg, where really you would expect what happens, will you? At least I will. isn't it? When Jesse asked Serena what would happen if she didn't drop him off in Vienna, she joked that maybe she would drop off with someone in Salzburg. The beauty of Salzburg goes without saying, the train encounter between Jesse and Selina, the night in Vienna, and the reunion in Paris nine years later are also movingly beautiful, but also feel melancholy, warm, knowing and helpless.
It seems that the American boy Jesse and the French girl Serena do not have much in common, with different cultural backgrounds, gender characteristics, psychological states and life experiences, but maybe people are always easy to be attracted by the other pole or their own. There is nothing to attract it, the so-called opposite attraction. Jessie is handsome, humorous, sensitive, self-deprecating, with a little American childishness and wildness, and a little melancholy and neuroticism. I think this is enough to kill those young literary women; Serena is a typical European intellectual girl, good Education and upbringing, beautiful but not vulgar, independent thinking, sensitive but restrained. They are all on the road, which means they are not in the familiar and accustomed environment, relatives and friends are not even present, so they are open psychologically and physiologically, and are prone to affair, not to mention, few Facing the picturesque scenery outside the car window on Sunday, it will naturally make people not intoxicated and intoxicated. Their conversation started by asking about the books the other person was reading, and soon it involved feelings, experiences, family and even beliefs. Come out with your own thoughts and feelings, maybe those heart-to-heart conversations that have been stagnant in your heart for a long time, without restraint, without the fetters of interests, are like confidants who are cooking wine with candles, although they have only just met.
Jesse won in the American way, and Serena changed her plan and got out of the car in Vienna with him, and they spent an entire evening and an evening together before sunrise the next day. They didn't stay in a hotel, the straight-forward one night stand was the most boring. They strolled through Vienna hand in hand, talking as they walked, they explored the city in the twilight, and each other explored each other, two wandering souls, not the wanderers in Baudelaire's Paris, they were free and idle spirits , a little lazy, as if out of time, walking on the fragments of fleeting time, kissing on the Ferris wheel for the first time, feeling the fleeting life in the unknown cemetery, chatting on the wooden frame of the narrow street, on the boat In the coffee shop, they made an appointment not to see each other again, maybe they were afraid that they would get tired of each other with their daily life, and thus lose the eternal good feeling of this one night forever.
With the luminous cups of wine and wine earned by a little bit of money, they use the sky as the bed and the ground as the bed, lying side by side on the lawn, not having sex, why? Maybe, a man is afraid that such actions will hinder further communication and the subtle affection between each other. As for a woman, she said that she decided to sleep with him when she decided to get out of the car, but the more you know each other, the less such urges you have. . Remember that a psychologist said that men have sex to feel good, and women only have sex when they feel good. So, for Serena, she didn't feel bad, but felt that things were too complicated and needed too much brains, and the simple physical temptation was obscured. Of course, she still asked for a kiss.
Time, before sunrise, before sunset, time seems to decide everything, if their night together can be stretched a thousand times, then they will have a few drinks at leisure, maybe even go fishing, or listen to a few chamber music, Everything will be different. While time is urgently sneaking, it also makes their one night an immortality and eternity in each other's memory and life. Who dares say eternity? Doesn't time dilute or even erode memory? Maybe a few years later, we can only vaguely remember a few fragments of details. Details, the difference between men and women. Jesse thinks that the biggest problem with marriage is that it cannot last for a long time, and will gradually get tired of each other's details; while Serena believes that only the details of each other can be understood in detail, such as how to divide the hair, what to wear, in a certain What kind of story will be made up under the situation, she can really love him.
Dawn was about to break, they were sitting in front of the statue in the square, the woman's head rested on the man's lap, and in the dawn light, a slightly tired Jesse imitated the voice of the Irish troubadour Dylan Thomas. A poem he'd heard, "When I'm Walking Some Night" by WH Auden:
All the city bells
start to ring, chirping with each other
Don't let time deceive you
You can't conquer time
When you have a headache, in
Life slips away in sorrow
and time has its own imagination
Tomorrow or today
On the final platform, they let go of each other's restraint and self-preservation, they don't really want to walk away from each other forever, as Serena said , this beautiful night would never have happened, it was created by them, the real miracle is not in him, nor in her, but only between them, so we are full of moved and melancholy, and we have one more hope: six months After, old place, old time, will they meet again? Isn't our original ordinary life illuminated instantly because of such encounters, such nights, such expectations, such warmth, such aftertastes?
If that night gave people more beautiful and even surreal beauty and warmth outside of time, then their reunion nine years later tells us what is helpless, what is vicissitudes and what is emotional distress.
The two films were filmed nine years apart, the stories were nine years apart, and the actors were nine years older. This is the vicissitudes of life, life. Life shapes us and is shaped by our experiences and moods.
Instead of reuniting on platform six in Vienna six months later, as we had hoped, they had to wait until Jesse's signing in Paris nine years later. The story of their night became a bestseller, supposedly for memory, so is private experience still precious when it is externalized to some degree of collective memory? Will it be a bubble-like soap opera? Obviously they don't have time to think about these somewhat metaphysical issues, because time, damn time, there's not much time left for them to be together, and at sunset, he's going to jet off and go home to America, and it's not very nice. Family.
They get along fairly easily, although they are a little deliberate, they are careful, what they say, what they avoid, but what they want to know. Finally, in the car, Serena poured out her distress and injury, as well as her grudge against him. They each have their own problems, and they are unhappy, but they are not willing to admit it first. Jesse got married just to have a family, and as he had always suspected, marriage didn't bring happiness. Even at the moment of going to the wedding hall, he still thought of Serena. And Serena didn't have a wishful partner, and she didn't have the feeling she had when she was with Jesse at all. This can't help but make people think about the truth of the marriage landscape. As a broad and ancient social contract, marriage is indispensable in maintaining the existence of human society. However, in modern society, it is increasingly questioned, and the great and eternal love is becoming more and more Increasingly a myth, while living is a reality for most families, modern people are increasingly lonely. Since great love can be met (with a very low probability) and cannot be sought, shouldn't those occasional flashing moments be well grasped and cherished? Enjoy the heart-pounding process, why calculate too many results?
Jesse came to Serena's house, sat on the sofa, smiled and watched Serena play and sing the waltz she wrote for him (of course she was reserved, but she didn't admit it, but they knew each other), laughing It is not without a bit of bitterness and helplessness. In the end, Selina imitated a female singer they both liked. In the buttocks, the time seemed to return to the night nine years ago. At this time, Serena remembered the time, rather the time remembered herself, and she reminded Jesse in a lazy tone, Baby, you are gonna miss that plane. Yes, between them, it is the vicissitudes of nine years, the scars carved by the nine years of time, go through it? not easy. But maybe. It was certainly not that night nine years ago, though, although the details of that night may still be vivid in my eyes and ears.
Can't help but be moved by a movie like this.
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