The prototype of the story in the play comes from a real story in the New York Times column. Each episode is only half an hour long. This length is just enough to fully tell a story with foreshadowing, turning points, climaxes and endings, but it also hides the protagonist in the story. The more turbulent life experienced outside, thus forming a layer of subtle filters, like the time when the autumn is the most intense, bleak but bright, cold but not cold, enough to be in the coming severe winter, Indulge in the aftertaste of mulled wine and wait for the next spring to bloom. In this way, the condensed episodes are not to produce chicken soup, but to try to highlight the highlights, because it is this highlight moment that is the gift that every emotion leaves us, allowing us to experience hurt, struggle, despair and even loss. After that, I can still not say sorry to myself, be magnanimous to the past, and be calm and brave to the present. The second episode took this delicate romance to the extreme: it was only after a lapse of seventeen years that the female reporter reunited with her true love at the meeting of her new book. It turned out that the man did not deliberately miss the appointment, but when he bought it After receiving the ticket, the book with her address was taken away. Such a coincidence made their lives bifurcated and formed a family. After the reunion, they talked all night until dawn. The man chose to relax and continue his current life, while the female reporter chose to end the cold marriage and wait for the next love. She said to the man, "Just thinking of you has brought me through many moments in my life." As an audience, it's hard not to imagine that if there was no misunderstanding in those days, they would have lived the life of an immortal couple or would have been I'm exhausted in the scraps, so I can't help but feel fortunate to have a person who can let him go through the low ebb and live a good life once he thinks about it. It is precisely because we met once, we put our hearts into it, and we finally failed to get each other, everything was sealed. The most sincere, perfect and intense moment of existence becomes the amber treasured in our hearts, shining in the dark moments of life.
As conveyed by translating "Love" as "love" rather than literally "love", the stories in each episode may not all be called love, and may be beyond love itself. In the modern era, people no longer follow a single value to judge right or wrong, and they meet more people than ever before, so they seem to experience more complex feelings, but this drama is not advocating the supremacy of love, let alone demeaning The single state is about how we get along with ourselves first, as the gatekeeper in the first episode said to single mothers, "Do what you want, but don't do it out of fear." Therefore, what everyone in the show does The relationship between them may be bizarre, but everyone does not shy away from their true self, does not give up easily, is not afraid of being hurt, and who does not take care of themselves must be taken seriously. Perhaps the meaning of love lies in: I know how to love myself, Also know how to love you.
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