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

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  • Giuseppe 2022-04-24 07:01:25

    It's Buddhist reincarnation and Taoism again, I don't know what to express

  • Palma 2022-03-22 09:03:04

    I can't understand it bluntly, but I also need to be fascinated by it... Matt Dimon also came to make a cameo...

Youth Without Youth quotes

  • 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.

  • [first lines]

    Dominic: [voice over] Sometimes... I admit to myself that it's possible... I will never be able to finish my life's work. My one and only book. And that in the end... without her... I will be nothing. And I will die alone.

    [cries]