aging without aging

Vergie 2022-03-25 09:01:23

First of all, I have no knowledge of philosophy, linguistics, or ancient literature. I have a hard time watching this movie,
but even so, it doesn't prevent me from positioning it as a good movie.
I don't know any ancient Indian myths, and I don't know what the Gestapo is. How to persecute people, let alone how the various linguistics are related, the most I know is the story of Zhuang Shengxiao's dream of being a butterfly fan.
Leaving aside all religious philosophies, I have been thinking about why such a film is called youth without youth in the middle of watching the film, and finally I have some personal opinions.
After all, a good movie should be for the masses.
Leaving aside all religion and literature, this film tells the story of a young man who was obsessed with the linguistics he loved when he was young, and then the woman he loved left him. Because a flash of lightning was split back to his youthful appearance, he, Dominic's first youth was without youth.
Although Lightning brought him back to his youth and gave him many strange abilities, I think the abilities other than split personality are what all the students who took the college entrance examination in the past two days have dreamed of. Because of the persecution of the Nazis, he traveled to many countries and met the person he loved, perhaps reincarnation. The person he loved also fell in love with him, but because he was with him, he was often possessed by an ancient Indian god and grew old, losing her youth in her youth.
Dominic left her because he loved her. At the last glimpse at the train station, he was a married woman but smiled sweetly. He just left a photo and put it in the album. His second youth also came to an end.
Dominic returned to his motherland, returned to the old coffee shop, met a few old friends, and had a good time, but all this was an imagination, or a dream. Without an old friend, the bartender only saw him enter the house alone and stay alone for a few minutes.
In the end, he died alone in the snow.
At the end of the film, once again borrowed Dominic's mouth to reiterate the whole story of Zhuang Zhou Mengdie, what is real and what is dream.
Maybe he just went to a parallel world, another time and space, and like Zhuangzi, he couldn't tell what was reality and what was dream. Just because he has been living in his dream.
Since it is youth without youth, it is actually aging without aging

View more about Youth Without Youth reviews

Extended Reading
  • Christine 2022-03-28 09:01:13

    It's a story of rejuvenation

  • Autumn 2022-04-23 07:05:36

    Coppola is so old that he likes to play mysteries. After Apocalypse Now is over, the ending made me completely dizzy; after ten years, youth without youth, the whole film is amazing, from beginning to end Mysterious makes me foggy...

Youth Without Youth quotes

  • Dominic: In metaphysical controversies, empirical proofs... lose their value, but... wouldn't you enjoy receiving... a few fresh roses... picked from the garden?

    [smiles]

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