The most precious moment in life

Aurore 2022-03-24 09:03:21

I like this film very much, it has Hou Hsiao-hsien's delicate and long film style. I saw the director, a man named Robert Benton, born in 1932, this is a film from 2007, so in this way, when this film was made, the director was already in his 70s, which is amazing, but Perhaps it is precisely because of this that this film has a unique warm perspective.
The occurrence and intersection of multiple stories in the movie all happened in a small cafe, and the old actor Freeman acted as the "eye of God" in this cafe, observing a scene that happened in this cafe. The performance of the story is all about love. In the movie, he always seems to be a bystander. As a wise elder, he gives various life advice or advice to the young people around him. He is very gentle and good at conversation. But he also seems to be full of stories. In the movie, when he and his beautiful wife mention the name Alan, the atmosphere is always strange. As the plot unfolds, we know that he once had a very good son, but he died of an overdose of heroin in the end, and he and his wife didn't even know about it. The loss of a child caused the Freemans to suffer a great deal of pain. Imagine the bleak grief, they only had one child, and they were old.
At a wedding party, the beautiful Chloe and Freeman were sitting on a bench to rest. This was the first time Freeman told Chloe about his dead son. Suddenly Freeman turned to the girl next to him. Say, I have a piece of advice for you, once you get married, have a child, have one, have another, at least two. Then he raised his old hand, made a two gesture, and emphasized, 2, OK? The girl's eyes were full of tears, she nodded and said, well, two, old Freeman nodded in satisfaction, good girl. This is probably the scene that moved me the most in the whole film. And Chloe is also my favorite girl in the film. In the face of love, she is firm and courageous. She believed in the words of the psychic, and believed that her boyfriend might be dead soon. She took the initiative to ask for marriage, and soon became pregnant with a baby. It was this incident that brought relief to Freeman's aching heart, seeing so many pains and partings around him, especially the accidental death of another boy, Oscar, who was about the same age as his son. , at the time he felt like God had abandoned them and God hated them, but Bradley, the coffee shop owner, told him Chloe's story and gently reminded him that if God hates us, he won't let our hearts go so brave. She is indeed an admirable girl. In the face of all kinds of difficulties in life, she did not run away or hide. In the end, she also won her own good ending. The Freeman couple finally adopted her as their daughter, which was a perfect ending.
The love life of a coffee shop owner is a little joyous. The first wife left with the same sex, and then he married his real estate agent in a flash, but as a result, they still missed the ex-married lover, so they flashed away again. After setbacks, he cut off his own fingers, and to experience the same pain in body and mind, Freeman sent him to the hospital, where he quickly fell in love with his surgeon again. Hey, he sounds like such a fearless young man, and he feels like he knows how to seize opportunities at any time. Fortunately, he was lucky the third time, but who knew in advance? No wonder Freeman sent him back from the hospital and told his wife that there was two news, one good news and one bad news, the good news was that his hands were all right and it would soon be, and the bad news was that he was in love again. As an old man, he was probably drunk as he watched him go through pain and "unrepentant".
At the end of the film, Freeman hugged the pregnant Chloe and said, "I and Asley will give you and the baby all the love we didn't give, let's go home." The starry sky was bright and the breeze was cool that night... "The world is unpredictable, and among all the gifts I have received, this moment and this thought in my life are the most precious."

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Extended Reading
  • Gennaro 2022-03-25 09:01:19

    Love sketches, everyone is interpreting about love

  • Jules 2022-04-21 09:03:05

    very real. Gamble. Love. reluctant. hope. All kinds of feelings. It's all a feast of love.

Feast of Love quotes

  • [entering the coffee shop]

    Chloe Barlow: Hey, you need anybody to work here?

    Oscar: [to Bradley] Yes! Yeah. I mean, if that's all right with you.

    Bradley Smith: You... You have any experience with this kind of work?

    Chloe Barlow: No.

    Oscar: [interrupting] Neither did I when I started.

    Bradley Smith: Do you like coffee?

    Chloe Barlow: Not much.

    Oscar: [interrupting again] She'll learn to love it.

    Bradley Smith: But why here?

    Chloe Barlow: I don't know. I just kind of felt a harmonic convergence in this place.

    Oscar: She's right, you know? I felt the same kind of thing.

    Bradley Smith: [looking confused] Ah.

  • [Bradley and Harry are sitting on the bench by the football field reminiscing of the past year and a half]

    Harry Stevenson: God is either dead or he despises us.

    Bradley Smith: You don't really believe that.

    Harry Stevenson: Maybe. I saw the most remarkable thing just now. I wandered into the stadium, I thought I was alone but down on the 50-yard line there was a couple making love. I watched for longer then I should have. I was envious. And then I felt sorry for them. There's so much they don't know. Heartbreak they can't even imagine.

    Bradley Smith: [sighs] Well, even if they knew, it wouldn't change anything.

    Harry Stevenson: How so?

    Bradley Smith: Well, Chloe knew what was gonna happen to Oscar.

    Harry Stevenson: What do you mean she knew?

    Bradley Smith: She did. She went to some psychic lady who predicted the whole thing.

    Harry Stevenson: She believed her?

    Bradley Smith: Yes, Harry. She did. And she didn't run away. She didn't crawl into a hole. She found them a house, she threw away her birth control, and she married him. God doesn't hate us, Harry. If he did, he wouldn't have made our hearts so brave.