long faith...

Elissa 2022-03-24 09:02:21

Life is really wonderful, I never thought that I would come across such a movie that makes people feel so touched and left such an unpleasant taste on the weekend - "The Long Engagement". When I was drowsy, I picked up the remote control in my hand and was about to find some hypnotic programs to watch. I didn't know that I would endure for more than an hour before falling asleep despite the intense sleepiness.

It's really hard to believe that a movie can give me such a full range of rich feelings. Its plot has the twists and turns of a suspense movie. The whole play is a mystery. The war scene in the film is so shocking, we can even clearly see how the fragments of the bomb exploded into the soil in the trenches quickly, but the scenery of the French countryside in the film is so peaceful, warm and peaceful. Also, the meaning of the recurring "MMM", which is completely different from the way of switching shots in Chinese movies, the unfamiliar and fresh French-style interpersonal communication, and the French-style humor that can be found everywhere in the film...
I can't help it the most . Forgetting is Mathilde, a lame girl disabled by polio, an optimistic and obsessive girl who believes that her fiancé, Manek, who fought in the First World War, is still alive. , in the face of nearly dashed hope again and again, she continued her hope with her characteristic "if" method:

"If I get to the turn before the car, Manek will come back alive... If I To the turn..." When Mathilde said these words in her heart, she was running, running, running, with her crippled legs, in her characteristic posture with an indomitable momentum...
At that moment, I had a sense of shock. I felt that Mathilde was racing against death, against fate, against her beliefs—and with such a fearless aura.

Will there be miracles in life? I believe, but life has taken me farther and farther from it, and even the word "miracle" has almost disappeared from my daily thinking. Maybe there is a place for it in the vision of the future, but I have never experienced this feeling - I don't know if it is because I live in a small circle, a small world that lacks miracles, or my own lack of miracles beliefs and abilities?

Mathilde, who was holding the tuba and blowing the low trumpet again and again, must also be very sad and even a little despairing in her heart - despair over the increasingly ethereal marriage contract she was waiting for and pursuing.
However, when Mathilde, who had been through hardships, appeared in that quiet garden in white, feeling the warm breeze and the soft sunlight, and walked to her fiancé step by step, step by step, I felt the garden The fragrance of flowers, seeing the tears of joy soaked Mathilde's big bright eyes, as if contagion, it also made my eyes a little wet, I really want this moment to stop and make it permanent.

It started with a hell-like battlefield, and through tortuous and long pursuit, finally, Mathilde found the garden like a fairy tale - this is the power of belief

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Extended Reading
  • Marcos 2022-03-25 09:01:11

    Renet's style with this kind of war and love epic always feels weird and lacks a sense of heaviness. In addition, the long and numerous French names for Chinese audiences are also a major reason that hinders the understanding of the film. However, the picturesque scenes in the film, the devotion of French first-line stars and the full and solid script all make the film highly watchable. ps I didn't expect Foster to make a cameo. . .

  • Scarlett 2022-03-23 09:02:19

    Worth waiting for a lifetime

A Very Long Engagement quotes

  • Mathilde: [peeling an apple] If I don't break the peel, Manech is alive.

  • Mathilde: [after climbing out of her wheelchair] Miracles don't just happen in Lourdes, you know.