At this time, however, the really difficult part of an intimate relationship has just begun. Does the ever-hot intimacy really exist? Is the love of madness doomed to die? When the passion is gone, how can intimacy continue to be maintained? Hollywood romantic films of course don't shoot these. The audience will want to see the sweet and sweet pink of the girls' hearts. Who wants to see the consumption of love? Isn't there enough of hearing, seeing and experiencing in life? Love in the first two of the trilogy did not exceed the theme of romantic romance. They were 20-year-old meeting in Vienna, chatting for a day and passionate night, falling in love with you but parting, and 30-year-old reuniting in Paris, chatting for a day and found that I still love you. Although the two have spanned nine years, they have only been together for two days. The topic to be faced in the third part is obviously much heavier: 40-year-old Athens vacation talk (big quarrel) Can you continue to fall in love after spending nine years together?
The hero and heroine seem to be a little older, and they are still familiar with the tuberculosis pattern. They talk about time, about life and death. The marriage between grandfather and grandmother lasted 74 years. "Oh my God, will you still be able to stand being with me in more than fifty years?" (The conversation in the church showed that they weren't married, they just lived together.) Celine told a tacky story that only a terminal illness The friend with nine months of life left felt relieved, because when death became a certain end not far away, he really began to enjoy life without any worries. The two watched the sunset on the sea setting down little by little, "It's still there, still there, still there...ah disappeared." The sunset became a moving scene because it is short and fleeting, and it will eventually fall. It is not that the sunset is infinitely good, "just" it is near dusk, but it is precisely because it is "near dusk" that the sunset will be "infinitely good". In this way, is love also the same as dying life and the setting sun. Only by passing away can it achieve its profoundness?
What's interesting is that the second half of the movie did not fall into this negativity. It was also full of vitality and strength in trivialities, conflicts, and predicaments. If we say that the walk in the ruins continues the style of the first and second parts, and is full of whimsical and interesting conversations, this is obviously not the norm in life. (Both of them feel: How long have we not been together like this? It's just nonsense.) That long conversation/arguing in the hotel is a truly imperfect but real life. Hey, a male Texas writer and a female French writer from Paris are weird if they don't quarrel. Celine quarreled with Jesse with her chest not strong enough, a sad nude scene. They quarreled a lot of things, their relationship with their ex-wife and their eldest son, conflicts between career and family, unreasonable distribution of housework, and old speculations. Although Jesse calls for rational consideration of problems from time to time, the so-called rational quarrel does not exist at all. The theme jumped from one thing to another like a snowball, accumulating more and more, and hurting words were thrown at the other party. At the end of the quarrel, Celine ran away and returned to the hotel and said to Jesse: "It's very simple, I don't love you anymore." At this time, the audience was as exhausted as Jesse, feeling puzzled. It's all for this, how should the storyline develop, and how their relationship should turn back.
The plot after that was very interesting. The heavier and unsolvable the contradiction, the more lightly it needs to be solved. Jesse found Celine and pretended to receive the belief of the 80-year-old Celine from the future to tell her: "You are entering the best years of your life. Looking back from me, the time in between is only slightly more difficult than when you were 12 years old. One point."
The content of those quarrels has not been resolved and cannot be resolved, but the only certainty is that the two people will face them together and go through these twists and turns together. They have truly experienced the magic of love in the parks of Vienna. In the Aegean Sea 18 years later, they summoned the continuous love from the past, and were softly soothed by the common vision of the future. Yes, the light heart will soon be defeated in the trivial life, and what can really be left is greater things. Love that is full of passion and freshness is a small seed. This seed can grow into a big tree only in a common life full of wear and tear. Under the moonlight, their relationship is stronger and heavier than in the Vienna Park 18 years ago.
Re-watched this movie at a friend's house the other day. My friend said that I used to like the second part the most, and I yearn for that kind of emotion. After meeting more people, I discovered that the experience is actually not difficult, and the interaction is full of heartbeats, similar smells, and full of tension. So now I prefer the third part, which is heavier and more real, and much richer. It's really interesting. The growth of the characters in the series of movies overlaps with the life experiences of the viewers, making each rewatch a brand new dialogue.
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