Once upon a time, our summers were endless and long...

Thomas 2022-03-10 08:01:35

Once upon a time, our summers were endless and long

We roam under the bright sunshine, everything is boundless...

This is an excerpt from a poem by Swedish poetess Karin Boyer about eternity. As the poet said, summer always brings us a sense of eternity, especially in summer afternoons. Gao Pian has a poem that says, "The shade of green trees is thick and the summer is long." Indeed, this kind of relaxed and long-lasting comfort is inseparable from the beautiful and quiet environment.

The film narrative will also use the unique feeling that summer brings to people to "slow down" the rhythm. Imagine a scorching summer that slows the sun, and the days are much longer than other seasons. In the afternoon, people drink up the sweet fragrance of the noon sun, but they bring flawless confusion and weakness. In Non-Friends, the camera is constantly switching between childhood ambiguity and adult tacit understanding. Under the scorching sun of the Ibera swamp, time seems to have become a kind of reincarnation, long and long; and "Hawaii" If the story is set in a place where one lives in a hot summer, there will be a feeling of "everyone is bitter and hot, I love the long summer". At this time, the long summer has become a kind of enjoyment, because they can live in this long time. In the sense of the love, the little ambiguity that is not full of lovers can be delayed infinitely, and enjoy the process of chasing love, rather than the results of love full of firewood, rice, oil and salt. The same is true of "Call Me By Your Name", the original novel has such a sentence "What did one do around here? Nothing. Wait for summer to end...What did one do in the winter, then?...wait for summer to come..." Summer has become the deadline for two people's love, and this endless feeling can delay the end of love and prolong the sweetness of love in terms of feeling. Midsummer builds an eternal dream with bright colors, and the white snow wakes people up with reality and accompanies them to wait for the next summer. Similar winter-summer comparisons are also used in gay movies such as "It's Summer" and "Wipe Your Tears with Gloves".

Summer also released more "sexual signals", which provided enough display space for physical scenes. Whether it's the lust triggered by the heavy rain in "Love Not Friends" and "Water Colors", or the sultry agitation in "Southbound" and "Midsummer Light Years", or just "Taekwondo", "Hawaii" and "Moonlight Boy" ", these "sexual signals" have become the key elements to push the plot to a climax.

To be continued...

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Esteros quotes

  • Jerónimo: You thought he was my boyfriend, right?

    Matías: No.

    Jerónimo: Come on. You almost left.

    Matías: No way. He's not my type. And I don't have a boyfriend.

  • Jerónimo: [out on the marsh] My favorite spot. It feels strange to be here with somebody else.

    Matías: Didn't you bring anybody here after all this time?

    Jerónimo: This is Sleeping Beauty's castle, and nobody has ever come to kiss her.