I love the city, but does it love me?

Eliseo 2022-12-10 13:53:48

The last month of 2010.
The sunshine in Guangzhou City is unbelievably bright, and the flowers prepared for the Asian Games are still clustered together, filling almost any place you can think of.
I held a big bowl with a Santa Claus pattern, and while picking out the fungus hidden in the noodles and stuffing it into my mouth, I turned on the computer and plugged in the hard drive.
One hour and fifty minutes, "New york, je t'aime".
Once L was preparing the thesis, and at the same time, he was always trying to encourage me to take the G test and the IELTS test. He also repeatedly asked me to watch this so-called twelve-act play. According to him, it was to cultivate me to yearn for NY again, and to apply for an offer. spark. And as usual, I was perfunctory one after another, but the movie was downloaded from the VeryCD and saved on the hard disk for one year.
Now that L has received the DD, he said in a message on MSN: After the graduation ceremony, when he returned to the dormitory, he suddenly realized that he had become neither Chinese nor Western, neither local nor foreign, and seemed like a person without roots.
Across mountains, rivers, and the entire Pacific Ocean, he kept asking me, ViVi, where do you think the next stop should be? Where is home?
And I stared blankly at the Statue of Liberty and the Empire State Building flashing on the screen, as if I saw L open a door in a fleet of yellow taxis, and the driver with a middle-eastern face with maroon curly hair returned. Too much, English with a heavy reflex: where shall we going?

where shall we go?
Oh, just like a movie, it seems that the opening of all city stories can be told from a taxi, and the journey to a new city can also start from stepping into the taxi with luggage.
Paris, New York, Melbourne, Tokyo, Shanghai, Kuala Lumpur... Which city has no story?
In the similar joys and sorrows dramas staged in different cities, which person is not an actor?
So I like this kind of creativity. In the alternate plots, it seems that no one is the protagonist, no one has changed anyone's destiny, but there are always so many traces of emotion and sadness, which inadvertently penetrate into each other's lives.
In different neighborhoods of the city, in the scattered pictures, there are highly skilled thieves on the street, a producer wearing headphones to write the soundtrack, a down-and-out painter with blank eyes, a divorced father who is mistaken for a nanny, and a lonely China A girl, a young man who has no money but decides to realize his girlfriend's dream of Rome, an old couple who bickers all the way, but hugs each other and looks at the sea in the strong wind...

I love the city, but does it love me?
When I put aside this question that I have always been confused about, followed the example of little Teya, covered my eyes with my left and right hands, and looked at the world with one eye, I suddenly felt that I should tell L: In fact, every place and every city can be warm, You call it home, and it is home.
Because, drama is like life, you never know what's going to happen in the next second, right?

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Extended Reading
  • Martin 2022-04-27 06:01:02

    this is not the nyc i know. well at least not much.

  • Candice 2022-04-27 06:01:02

    Very awesome platter movie. . . The story line is a little more, but not messy. . need to look carefully

New York, I Love You quotes

  • Writer: [after lighting her cigarette] We share a flame, thousands of tiny molecules are heating up right now, they're penetrating our brain. Alright, they're stimulating our sexual desire. I mean, I don't know about you, but I find that shit very romantic. And you know, I'm so glad you walked over here because now I can feel a little bit more comfortable to tell you that I happen to be on the forefront of men able to find and locate a woman's G-spot, and I could - I could do that for you.

    Call Girl: [Sarcastically] That's really generous of you, thank you.

    Writer: Well, it's my pleasure. Well. It's your pleasure.

    Call Girl: And what makes you think I haven't located it yet?

    Writer: Uh, the way you hold the cigarette. It's a little high and tight. Y'know what you have to do, is you have to lower it. You have to bring it all the way down, in there, so it just sits. Comfortably. Y'know if it's high and tight like that, the whole body gets restricted and the... plexus? Gets closed off. Y'know and the vagina gets locked.

  • Anna: Have you ever made love to a perfect stranger?

    Alex: Now you're teasing me.

    Anna: I believe I am.

    Alex: Well, I mean... No, not exactly a perfect stranger, if you mean someone I wouldn't know at all.

    Anna: It's sad.

    Alex: It's sad? Why?

    Anna: Because there's almost nothing more exciting than fucking somebody you don't know. Right? You don't know their name, barely saw their face.

    Alex: Don't... Don't tell me your name.