Thinking about it, the theme and emotion of the film's story really fit the description of Zhang Ailing's text. No one could say why, but at that moment, among millions of people, they met the man and woman who could accompany them. No one can say why, at that moment, in a place among millions of people, they met the man or woman that they loved so much but ultimately missed.
Some encounters can accompany them for the rest of their lives, and some encounters are for the final separation and miss.
There is no missing in the story of the film. It is such a secret arrangement. On that wonderful afternoon, Clare, a little girl in a beautiful floral dress, met Herry, a time traveler from the future. Not one step earlier or one step later, it just happened to catch up, not another girl but Clare. According to the logic of the time traveler Herry in the story of the film, it is because Clare is Herry's wife in the future, so he will travel back in time or go to someone who is important in his life in the future. According to Clare's logic, her encounter with Herry was the arrangement of fate. Because her timeline is always moving forward, and his timeline is indeed crisscrossed. Even though their timelines were not synchronized, the fate that surpassed the power of time made them meet in the end.
Aside from these slightly dizzying time-traveling plots, let's focus on the word destiny, and it will be simpler and clearer. The really beautiful and attractive part of the film's story is not the man who suffers from a mysterious genetic mutation and will suddenly travel through time and space uncontrollably, but that this is really a beautiful and pure love fairy tale, like the princess and the princess in the fairy tale. Like the prince, Clare and Herry's love was as pure and perfect as a flawless diamond from the moment they met, completely abandoning those parts of reality in material utilitarian temptation and power (the impurities that exist in love in this world), they There is nothing else in the love but love, a love that is devoted and loyal to each other until death.
Today, when love has become the first luxury in the 21st century, the love accident that misses the separation is always superfluous to accompany the love story of eternal love forever, we always turn all despair into hope in literature or movies, where we In a fictional world, there will be no helplessness to miss separation, no sadness that I love you but you don't love me, and no house, car and family problems. Everything should be pure, simple and beautiful in the first place. It is best that the other person is the most beautiful appearance outlined by the person you like. The character of each other is the most compatible state. I love you and you love me. That's right, from the moment we meet never give up on each other. We had this kind of love in the past, but now we are starting to be rare due to other factors in the world. Therefore, when we saw the love without guessing in "Flying House" last year, we sighed that we would not like that kind of love. Then again, when we saw the unchanging love in this film, we began to sigh again, even if we can really travel back to the past or go to the future through time and space, can we really save a relationship? Can it really change the fate of your life?
The answer is no. Although the film gave us a beautiful love story, love is only a part of our life destiny, and more parts are reflected in the irresistible laws of birth, old age, sickness and death. There are too many stories about time travel, but most of them are inseparable from an unwritten law. Even if you go back to the past, you cannot change the occurrence and progress of historical events, even if you know the time and time of your death. The reason, you can go back in time and still not change the fact that you will die. Therefore, the film also allows us to see the most helpless part of life and destiny, because the violence of time makes our body old, and the unpredictability of fate makes us encounter unexpected changes, which is caused by physical time. As for the inner time, it can be paused or moved forward. This is also the main core concept of the original novel of the film. The "wife" of the time traveler is a metaphor for our inner time. During this time period, we The love, family, and friendship included in the soul of the soul will not disappear due to the demise of the body, because we can recall the past, our brains, and our souls can take us to break through time. Irresistibility, use the form of soul to go back to the past or imagine the future, to communicate those important emotional events in our life and destiny, but we still can't change the occurrence of any events, we will have helpless regret and sad emotions Birth, this is the power of destiny, more than time, we can not defy.
Therefore, in the story of the film, a time traveler like that is fictionalized. He can travel between the past and the present, but he cannot control his ability. He is a patient, and the disease will occur at any time in unforeseen circumstances. While people are sympathetic, they are also somewhat enviable, because he can occasionally go to the future, and even after his physical death, he can see his wife and children who miss him. Audrey Niffinger, the author of the original novel of the film, discovered the beauty behind the sadness in a state of helplessness about the fate of life. Therefore, her story has a perfect love, but an imperfect life. Let us reminisce about the beauty of the past, but also soberly see the helplessness of life in this world. In this way, this story is not just a love fairy tale, but also an adult fable.
As a film adaptation of a best-selling novel, because I have not read the original novel before, I have seen online comments that the original novel is beautifully written, and the beautiful story is mixed with some sad emotions. The adaptation of the film can be regarded as quite satisfactory. The best point is that the beautiful text style of the original novel is maintained in the image language. The tone and image style of the whole film are clean and beautiful, and at the same time, it avoids too much entertainment to express time. The fictional part of Traveler, instead, puts more perspective on digging out the characters' emotions. Therefore, although the genre of the film has a sci-fi part, it is a pure love movie.
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