Maybe it's a really simple movie

Kathryne 2022-03-25 09:01:23

In terms of style, in fact, this movie was made very mysterious, and it also used all kinds of mysterious things. But if you only care about the plot of the main line, or the love of the main line, as the director said at the time, this is a very simple movie.
When Dominic was young for the first time, because of work, Laura didn't want to spend his youth on such a workaholic, so he left him. Dominic chose work, and ultimately chose a painful life and death.
And when the second youth came, she met Laura again, even though Laura could help him complete and was infinitely close to the dream pointed by his life work, but when he found out that it was at the expense of Laura's Qin Chun , what he chose was not his own job, but to let Laura leave and give him back his youth.
Finally when Dominic saw the young Laura at the station, Laura was still young and beautiful.
Youth once again made Dominic understand what is most important to youth, that is not work, but a person he loves deeply. And even if the time turns, Dominic is destined to fail to give Laura the happiness of youth. And away from this workaholic, Laura is still young, beautiful and radiant.

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

    Such a mysterious story contains too many things, but there are still some that I like

  • Andre 2022-04-24 07:01:25

    I don't read much, so I can't understand some of them.

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.