Yes, I can only remain silent

Geoffrey 2021-12-11 08:01:28

"If you talk to a person and the person does not respond, then how long can you hold on? One day? One month? Or four years? If you love someone, the person does not respond, then, how long can you hold on? Three months Five years? Or a lifetime?"

This is the first paragraph of Jie Chen's film review "Tell Her, Tell Him", which is about Almodovar's "Tell Her". There are eight question marks in this passage, and I can’t answer every question mark. Maybe no one can answer.

Everyone in this damn world needs love, love, so noble, extravagant, so noble and fragile, yet it has to endure so many people's intake, defilement, and trampling by unknown reasons. This weak and innocent poor creature has no pity...

Love, what kind of person knows love? Does Benino understand? Doesn't Mark understand? Do the two women who were forced to lose consciousness and lose their minds understand? No one understands. It is just because they don’t understand that they need it. They have to say, to express, to use all their energy to do meaningless things, what a luxurious self-abuse.

I have loved a man. The way to love him is to wait for him, from early morning to dusk, and then to late night, so that waiting becomes the only surprise and loss in my life. Sometimes I let him know that I am waiting, sometimes I don't let him know, just because of his fear. But I am waiting, only I know that hiding in the dark is like hiding in a warm bed, nourishing self-righteous love, just like nourishing a festering wound.

Today, I still wait, but I don't know how long I will wait. Any tomorrow cannot be judged, so Jiechen's question cannot be answered.

But there are always people who ask and keep asking, as if every story needs a conclusion, a doomsday judgment, and a thorough self-examination. However, love or not love, in fact, can't stand such a sharp look at it. Love doesn't say a word, or can't hear a word.

Love is a self-expression, tell her rather than tell me.

This may be the sadness of people. It needs such confirmation, and even use death as a shackle. Benino, Lydia...In my opinion, Lydia also knows how to love, at least she needs it, just like Beni Promise, the people who need it will understand, and they will lose it. This is God's biggest joke.

"No matter where they take me, please come to see me, talk to me, tell me everything, don't hold it in your heart."

This is what Benino said to Mark in his suicide note, a gentle and sensitive man is weak to another What the man said. So soft and considerate, it turns out that needs can really make people learn everything. I just hate why the object is always so weak, Mark, Ashiya, slept full in the warm bed of love, the sun is shining. Yes, in the end, it is for them to stay in this world, comfort each other, and even love each other, of course.

The world is indifferent.

Because the people you love are dead.

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Extended Reading
  • Jedidiah 2021-12-11 08:01:28

    The "Song of Pigeons" in it is so nice

  • Bartholome 2022-04-24 07:01:07

    Almodovar's Male Perspective

Talk to Her quotes

  • [last lines]

    Katerina Bilova: Nothing is simple. I'm a ballet mistress, and nothing is simple.

  • Marco Zuluaga: Love is the saddest thing when it goes away, as a song by Jobim goes.