Reality and Romanticism

Maxine 2022-03-22 09:01:11

"Midnight in Paris" tells a young man's love for Paris, and also expounds an exaggerated illusion that other people's past lives are always better than their own current lives. The protagonist Jill and his fiancée’s family traveled to Paris, the dream capital. One day Jill wandered alone on the streets of Paris. The bell rang at midnight and Jill was invited into a vintage car. After that, a series of bizarre encounters happened. In the past-the golden age of Paris in my mind, I met Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Picasso... and also met the pretty girl I fell in love with at first sight... There are always too many problems in reality, and in the past there was more romanticism in the construction of imagination. In the movie, Jill now thinks of paying homage to Hemingway and Picasso in the 1920s, while Adriana in the 1920s thinks that the 1890s are the best, while Gauguin, Lautrec, and Degas always yearn for the greatness of the Renaissance. Longing for history seems to be a common problem for mankind. Rather than saying that, it may be more accurate to escape from reality. Indeed I also want to be able to escape from reality, really, very very very want to escape from my world or go back to the past, especially the beautiful and carefree childhood (if possible, I would rather trade the rest of my life for it) or Go to a place where you don't know me or anyone I know. Jill in the movie seems to us that his reality is not bad. He has a successful career, has beautiful lovers, and lives in the upper class. In my opinion, this kind of life is simply a perfect life, a luxury and hope. , Is longing. But what different people pursue is also different. Perhaps this is not the life Jill wanted at all. That's why he yearned for Paris in the 1920s. He yearned for the artists in the 1920s, hanging around in the salon, smoking, drinking, and music. In, the freedom of human nature is shown in sex and art, love and fornication, and mutual satire, and creation is created in passion and debate.

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  • Tod 2021-10-20 19:00:36

    No matter what the role is, in Woody Allen's work, he has become like him, hesitating speech style, some acrid and humorous dialogue. Everyone is escaping from the present, looking for their own golden age. For the old admiration, the irony of the film is actually quite sharp.

  • Opal 2022-04-24 07:01:02

    One cannot live in the vision of legend.

Midnight in Paris quotes

  • Gil: I'm having trouble because I'm a Hollywood hack who never gave real literature a shot.

  • Gil: Yes, but you're a surrealist! I'm a normal guy!