Chapter 353

"To go or to drink here?"

Elizabeth - weizman Leng Leng, "take away." She had just finished watching the late show of "crazy love". It was already 10:30 in the night. She had to go back and write the film review.

As a "New York Times" writer and film critic, she must keep calm and objective, and make comments on the film. However, after watching the premiere of "crazy love" in the afternoon, her mind was always in confusion, unable to sort out a clear idea.

It seems that the story of this movie is very simple, but it is very complex when it is tasted in detail. Those trivial details give the movie a unique texture, which reminds people of "500 days with summer" and "blue Valentine's Day". But as far as Elizabeth is concerned, she prefers "crazy love".

However, she is not sure whether it is because the film awakens her memories of her last relationship, or because everything in the film is too real, blurring the boundary between reality and illusion, making her judgment lose the standard. Although she is a film critic, she is a normal ordinary person in the first place.

She tried to calm down, peel off her emotions and write a film review, but her turbulent thoughts could not stop at all. As long as she was quiet for a while, the fragments in the film would come to her mind, fragmented fragments, incomplete, but the violent emotion was breathless.

After three hours in the hotel room, I couldn't write a word.

This kind of feeling is not uncommon. Many classic movies can bring such shocking repercussions, which is also one of the greatest charms of movies. It calls for resonance of thoughts and causes ideological storm. When she watched "2001 Space Odyssey" for the first time in those years, she was stunned for three minutes and did not recover. After going back, she pondered over and over for a week, Later, I saw the film six times, and I understood it clearly, but I couldn't stop thinking about it.

Think of here, Elizabeth showed a ridiculous smile, she actually put "crazy love" compared with "2001 Space Odyssey", it's ridiculous. But the truth is, she really can't be quiet. So she came to the cinema again, ready to watch the film for the second time.

In the afternoon, the tickets were sold out quickly. She had to wait for the third show after dinner.

Five minutes ago, just after watching the movie, the bitterness and emptiness echoed in my chest still didn't get much relief. However, my mind finally cleared up a little. After all, this is not a brain burning movie. To be exact, it's as simple as a white shirt, but it really moved her.

It's been a long time. It's really been a long time. The last movie that made her have such mixed thoughts was "Brokeback Mountain". Yes, it's Brokeback Mountain. Of course, the completion of "love crazy" is not as high as "Brokeback Mountain", but the two movies are the same, too beautiful, but also too cruel.

How should she write a film review?

"It's Jacob's fault, I tell you, because he didn't love deeply enough! Or he should have gone to London! He should abandon everything in Los Angeles and go to London! "

"No! If Jacob doesn't love deeply enough, will he take the initiative to call Anna? Will he fly to London because of Anna's words? "

"Then why doesn't he want to go? It was Anna who confessed at the beginning. He was a homeboy nobody liked, so he couldn't wait to nod his head and agreed. His love has never been as deep as Anna

"You didn't pay attention to the movie, you didn't pay attention to it!"

"Where did I not pay attention? I'm telling the truth! "

"No, you didn't hear Jacob's later conversation. He worked hard. He flew to London many times. He and Anna applied for a visa together and tried to find the possibility of development, but they all failed! Jacob's efforts have never been less than Anna's! "

"Then why didn't he go to London?"

……

A couple of lovers came into the coffee shop. The girl and the boy quarreled. Obviously, the girl is the one who fights for Anna.

Elizabeth's smile rose slightly from the corner of her mouth, which is why she likes movies - it can always build a bridge between people, process those realistic, surreal and artistic stories, and then become a medium for people to explore the spiritual world and real life.

Yeah, why didn't Jacob go to London?

Elizabeth could not help asking herself this question, or even further, "yes, why didn't I want to move from Manhattan to Brooklyn?"

It's like the movie squid and whale. In fact, distance and time are never the biggest enemies of love, but we can't find the answer, so we put the responsibility on each other, put the fault on distance and time, and then continue to live with peace of mind.

Even if it's not Los Angeles and London, just the distance between Manhattan and Brooklyn can tear two people apart, or even break up a family.

She suddenly understood why she liked the film so much, just like the couple's argument just now, because they were asking the same question as the director; It's also because they, like Jacob and Anna, are at a loss.

"Ma'am?"

Elizabeth heard the call, looked up, took her coffee, but did not leave the coffee shop, but went straight to the next seat, took out his notebook, began to quickly beat.

"It's a heartbreaking, desperate and heartbreaking movie."

When she finished typing the first line, Elizabeth had a moment of trance. In the last shot, Jacob's eyes appeared again in her mind. There was a bitter feeling on the tip of her tongue, she took a long breath, and then her fingers quickly knocked on the keyboard.

"Drake doremus tells a very simple story, too simple to accommodate redundant characters:

American young Jacob fell in love with British student Anna, but because Anna violated the visa agreement, she was sent back to London and refused to re-enter. The two young lovers, who fell in love with each other, had to live on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean and try to find a way back to the past.

The lens of the whole film is extremely gentle, extremely sensitive and extremely fragile. It stays on these two young people and constructs a world. No doubt, this is a very personal, very self, very petty story. There is little room for too much social weight in the small script structure. It is completely rooted in the love life of two young people.

So when people hear this story, it's easy to make intuitive judgments——

Why can't Jacob go to London, and then he and Anna start a new life in London? Or, why can't two people get married and reunite through a marriage visa? Or, why can't two people go to another country and start a new life? Or can't two people just end up liberating each other and themselves?

It seems that things are very simple. There are countless solutions. If you find any solution, the ending may be quite different. However, with the help of this series of "why", love crazy explores a sense of belonging.

Why do people fall in love with someone? What we fall in love with is that person, or the time, place and instant feeling of that person.

People always think that there is the most special "that person" in the world, and they have been searching for it, but maybe such "that person" never exists.

Life is full of thousands of 'one person'. At a special time and place, a person happens to appear, close at hand, so they will think that this is the 'one person', so they fall in love with each other.

But in fact, what is special is not one person, but time, place and feeling that make one person become that person. Does that mean that when another time, place and feeling appear, another 'person' can also become 'that person'?

In the depth of memory, there is always a person who can not be replaced. People always have the illusion that this is the 'that person', but maybe what we miss is not the 'that person', but the beauty we lost, the lost youth, and the past we can't go back. People often think that they are deeply in love with a person, sometimes, people just miss who they used to be, the wanton publicity and crazy blooming of themselves.

At that time, even if we finally recovered everything, the person was no longer the one. At the moment of leaving, the person was no longer the one in our memory, and we were no longer the one in the past, so the similar feeling no longer existed.

Jacob refused to stay in London because he could not find a sense of belonging in that strange city; Anna is willing to go to Los Angeles because the land holds her good memories. But Jacob chose Anna after all, and Anna chose Jacob after all, because they once belonged to each other, but they no longer belonged to each other.

This is the most realistic and wonderful core idea of the whole film. They used to belong to each other, they used to love each other deeply, they still love each other deeply, but they finally missed that time, that place, that moment, so they also missed each other.

Cruel, bitter, sad, but real, people can do nothing

After taking a sip of the coffee on the table, the bitterness of espresso burst along the tip of the tongue, and even her heart curled up. Elizabeth turned her head and looked out of the window. The snowflakes began to float in park city. The gate of the cinema was still very busy, and a large crowd of audience appeared in the line of sight, ready to watch the midnight show.

In the distance, the staff are taking away the poster template of "crazy love". Seeing this scene, Elizabeth's eyes are filled with warmth. Tonight is another sleepless night.

Taking her eyes back, Elizabeth continued to tap quickly on the computer.