youth is an attitude

Isabel 2022-03-23 09:03:36

Talking about philosophy is indeed a kind of extravagance and misplacement for the director's career. What you do is what you do. The director's main work and creation should still be on the film itself. No matter how profound your content is, it will be in vain if it is not effectively expressed through the film.
Coppola didn't call it true on philosophical issues, and still wanted to tell a story, so to speak, as a pure director.
In a plot in the movie, the heroine and the hero came to a house in a paradise, but their happiness soon disintegrated when the heroine was possessed by a soul. Her seizures every night undoubtedly gave the study of the origin of language. He provided valuable research materials, but her apparent aging day by day turned this value into selfishness and sin, and the kind-hearted he decided to leave each other and keep her precious youth.
The two rely on each other but speed up the passage of youth. It seems that his rejuvenation is actually a kind of stealing. He steals the youth of the people around him, but she would rather grow old and die than separate from him. The snatch of youth.
What does youth really mean to us? A beautiful body, a spirit of energy and hope, and the privilege of being wrong. We long to leave something behind before our youth is gone, but what can we leave behind? Most are just memories. We do young things when we are young and old things when we are old - remembering youth. It turns out that youth is just creating memories of the future.
Wrong, it's all wrong! Youth is an attitude, and our beautiful body is a metaphor for youth, it lets us know that youth is beautiful, but our young mind always ages with the aging of the body, which is definitely a misreading of youth.
When we are young, we long for adulthood because it symbolizes freedom; when we are old, we reminisce about youth because it represents lost energy. But when we are really young, we don't care, one day... one month... one year... youth just passes by.
If you are allowed to stay young forever and live forever in the world, it will be the arrival of another kind of expectation, envious of the growth of children, and eager to grow old with others. Because the world is changing all the time, if you don't change, you will rub against the universe, and the energy released during this time will make you suffocate - life is better than death.
Just follow nature, don't envy this or that, be yourself.

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Extended Reading
  • Myrtle 2022-04-23 07:05:36

    Magical lightning strikes... Because of the time span, the whole story seems too dragged and the rhythm seems exhausted. After reading it, I feel like I'm in a fog. It's more fun than fun.

  • Uriel 2022-04-23 07:05:36

    Too many things, a movie worth thinking about

Youth Without Youth quotes

  • Dominic: I love you. I've always loved you.

  • Dominic: [records his voice] Geneva, 1941, May the 7th. Dominic Matei. Dictation. The documents in the Geneva safety deposit box summarize my life, which was profoundly changed in the spring of 1938 in front of the Gara de Nord railroad station in Bucharest. My first experiences were described and analyzed by Prof. Roman Stanciulescu, in reports which were confiscated by the Nazis.

    [now watching a cinema newsreel of 22nd June, 1941. V.O. continues]

    Dominic: The war rages around me. I'm a fugitive in neutral Switzerland, encircled by the Axis powers. My Romanian homeland has made a pact with the devil - Adolf Hitler - and may soon be under siege... I've lost contact with my dear friend Prof. Stanciulescu, which could mean that he's been killed... I live in fear, dreading what awaits in the alleyways, eluding capture by my wits, moving from hotel to rooming house, always working on my book.

    Dominic: [V.O. continues. Dominic forges his documents] November the 30th, 1941. Zurich. Dominic Matei. I have explained in Portfolio B how I instinctively found the talent to preserve myself. Living like a secret agent, I discovered abilities to forge documents, change addresses and prepare disguises...

    [visits a bank]

    Dominic: Shortly before he disappeared, Prof. Stanciulescu arranged a bank account for me. In Geneva. Under the name of William Patterson. Now, without him, his funds will be depleted... and I will have to find other means.

    Dominic: [V.O. continues. Dominic reads newspapers in a café] February the 20th, 1942. Bern. I must face the undeniable and chilling truth... that I am a mutant. Like a character in a science fiction novel. I am a strange Superman of the future. I have access to knowledge unavailable to mankind. Powers, I don't fully understand.

    [visits a library]

    Dominic: Despite this, I try to behave as an ordinary intellectual. Working to complete my book, documenting the origin of language and human consciousness. I began to realize that with any text I have before me, if I wanted to know the content, I simply... knew it.

    Dominic: [V.O. continues. Dominic plays roulette in a casino] Lake Campione, October the 23rd, 1942. I found I could augment my income. Winning just enough not to arouse suspicion. Nothing is as it seems. I am the proof of that... I trust... no one.