Chapter 1071 1071 Moving Story
As we all know, Utah is one of the most conservative states in the United States, and Salt Lake City is known as Mount. Door. The headquarters of the teaching, more than 70% of the residents are Morocco. Door. This is the city with the most unified religious beliefs in the United States, so in this city, political views and artistic aesthetics have always been strongly religious, similar to the "Salt Lake City Tribune" (The. Salt. Lake. Tribune) Newspapers such as "Deseret. Morning. News" all have obvious religious tendencies. This also makes the influence of these media always limited to Utah, and it is difficult to make further breakthroughs.
But interestingly, Robert Redford set up the maverick Sundance Film Festival next to Salt Lake City, Utah. If the Sundance Film Festival wants to get enough attention, media coverage is naturally an indispensable part of it. Since the Sundance Film Festival was established in 1985, it has reached a cooperation agreement with the "Salt Lake City Weekly".
"Salt Lake City Weekly" is an emerging media. Compared with the "Salt Lake City Tribune" founded in 1870, the "Salt Lake City Weekly" established in 1984 can be said to be a rookie, even if it is compared to the Sundance Film Festival. Not to mention older. But it is precisely because of its youth that the "Salt Lake City Weekly" is not as conservative and serious as other old newspapers. It is more dynamic and bold, and is naturally more suitable for something new and brave like the Sundance Film Festival.
The Sundance Film Festival has reached a cooperation agreement with the "Salt Lake City Weekly". During the film festival, the "Salt Lake City Weekly" is published in the form of a special issue every day, and then develops a special feature every week in the newspaper's regular issue for detailed reports.
"Salt Lake City Weekly" can be regarded as the official publication of the Sundance Film Festival. In the past ten years, they have witnessed the step-by-step growth of the Sundance Film Festival, and at the same time, it has also grown with the film festival, but objectively Said that the influence of "Salt Lake City Weekly" is still limited, even in Utah, where the media is barren, it still cannot resist the strong appeal of "Salt Lake City Tribune", and it has no influence if it leaves Utah; The same is true of the Sri Lanka Film Festival. The name "Holy Land of Independent Film Festivals" shouted loudly, but it was thunderous and rainy. Ten years later, it is still tepid, just because independent films have never really entered the mainstream vision.
But this situation has been completely reversed this year. "Salt Lake City Weekly" as the official magazine, they are the first newspaper to get an exclusive interview with the "Before Sunrise" crew, walking in the "Los Angeles Times" such as In front of the big bosses in the United States. That special issue sold 830,000 copies—more than the Salt Lake City Weekly sold in six months in the second half of 1994 combined.
Among Sundance's feat of surpassing the Golden Globes, "Salt Lake City Weekly" bears the brunt, and many of their reports have even been reprinted by "Los Angeles Times" and "New York Times", making them famous in one fell swoop, really know what is called star effect, What is national influence.
Especially in the siege incident on the streets of Park City, "Salt Lake City Weekly", with the help of the landlord, completely restored the truth of the matter, including the crazy actions of the little girl's family against Hugo, including many film festivals The after-the-fact interview of the loyal fans who lost their minds that day was the only one among all the news media that could fully present the full picture of the incident, which made it famous in one fell swoop.
Utah has always been hailed as a news desert, and even a dominant "Salt Lake City Tribune" has no influence outside of Utah -- and many people even mocked it as a "Mormon. Church" special issue". But this time, the "Salt Lake City Weekly" has reversed this fixed impression of many people, making it famous in Nebraska and Texas next door.
Therefore, the "Salt Lake City Weekly" is like a chicken blood. They all know that this year's Sundance Film Festival is a good opportunity for them to rise, as long as they catch the "Before Sunrise" and Hugo bus, Not to mention extending its influence to the United States, at least it can occupy a place in Utah.
"Salt Lake City Weekly" reporter Jessie James (Jessie. James) has long made up her mind, she must rack her brains and do everything she can to compliment and praise "Before Sunrise", she thinks this is not easy Because of the variety of independent films that appeared at the Sundance Film Festival, it is very difficult to get the audience's love, but even so, there is no way to stop her, because she knows that this is the best chance for her to work in the newspaper.
But when Jessie actually finished watching the movie, she couldn't get back to her senses for a long time. She fell in love with "Before the Sunrise", fell in love deeply, fell in love with the man with a green childish smile on the corner of his mouth. , fell in love with the woman whose eyes were full of lazy style, and fell in love with the seemingly non-existent bond between men and women.
Jesse couldn't help herself, and kept sitting in front of the big screen and reminiscing, so that she missed the first opportunity to interview Hugo, but she didn't care at all, and then she watched "Before Sunrise" the second play and the third play. Most ordinary movies can't stand the scrutiny of repeated viewing at all, but "Before Sunrise" is different. Every time you watch it, Jesse has a new feeling. Listening to the same dialogue over and over again has a different harvest. She is so She loves this movie so much that she is immersed in the cold moonlight of Vienna and is unwilling to return to her senses.
So when Jesse was writing a review, her hands were shaking, it wasn't the brain talking, it was the heart and the soul whispering.
"It's a very moving love movie, but it's also a very simple love story: a man and a woman meet unexpectedly on a train, have a crush, spend a night in Vienna together, and that's it.
There are no ups and downs, nothing unforgettable happened, and no turning point and progression to sublime the relationship between two people, everything is so simple: normal date, casual meal, endless chat, shallow of drinking. It's basically a love story without any plot.
But it is precisely this kind of simplicity that restores the truest appearance of love. Without the pledge of mountain alliances, stormy waves, and vigor, can love still burst out? Hidden behind a simple story line, it explores two of the most important themes of love: the passing of love and the blossoming of love.
The beauty and eternity of this story, first of all, is because of the shortness of this love, which lasted only one night, fleeting, like a shooting star gliding across the sky, because good love often has to be short-lived, just like in a movie What the man said: We tend to tire of ourselves because we can't escape from ourselves and have to suffer with ourselves all the time. If both parties in love don't know how to take the initiative to let love pass or change at the right moment, then love will eventually lead itself to death: because if we can't even bear ourselves, how can we ask others to bear ourselves, and then How can you endure another person for a long time?
But the death of love and the passing of love are two very different things. When the flame of love has not been extinguished, to actively lose love is actually to perpetuate love in a sense - always stay in the most beautiful moment. Just like the thirteen-year-old girl in the unnamed cemetery: ten years have passed, the thirteen-year-old woman has grown ten years old, and the little girl who lost her life is still only thirteen years old. The lost life, instead, made her thirteen years old forever. People who didn't lose their lives made their youth die slowly.
Therefore, people always miss the youthful and ignorant first love, always miss the love in their youth, because they cannot be realized, because they died at the most brilliant and gorgeous time, so they will forever leave the most perfect gesture in their memory.
At the end of the story, the man and the woman chose to separate on the platform, so this love became a classic eternal. Before the love died, he took the initiative to extinguish the burning flame, but left a touch of eternity in the depths of the heart. Unquenchable starlight.
Another reason why this story is moving and beautiful is the natural and casual nature of this love. After two people meet, they naturally talk, naturally develop good feelings, naturally spark, naturally hold hands, and naturally kiss. They don't resist but don't force them. If they like it, they like it, and they speak out. When you fall in love with those lovely lips, the lips are already on your tongue, because she knows you long for her, and she also longs for your touch.
Such simple and natural love is the most difficult to encounter in real life: it is not because it is too complicated to be obtained, but precisely because it is too simple. Love in life often has too much scheming, as the woman in the story said: too much deliberation, too much self-preservation.
How many men would dare to invite a strange woman whom he met on a train to spend the night in a city he was completely unfamiliar with, and how many women would take the initiative to open up about their love and true feelings? Most importantly, how many men and women spend their nights embracing the exchange of ideas first, and the entanglement of their bodies second?
A kiss, a hug, a night, it's just the beginning of a love, fear of failure We always have too much fear before starting a 'official relationship', we have to find out everything before we want to start, but forget, There are many things that will never be known before love begins.
The simplest love is the rarest, and the simplest love is also the most touching.
The sincerity and wonder of this story, the last reason lies in the collision of ideas between men and women. Every conversation seems to be casual but hides its deep meaning. The two people discuss from philosophical issues to the reincarnation of life, and from the true meaning of love to marriage. In essence, from chatting about the difference between men and women to revealing their sincerity, the dialogue after dialogue brings two strange souls closer little by little. The whole process is so fast and so slow, but it is so real and beautiful.
Watching men and women meet like this, talk like this, stand side by side like this, look at each other like this, smile like this, kiss like this... We seem to be able to see the process of love bursting out little by little. Huan, fascinated, and in a trance, makes people lost in the time between light and shadow.
The movie is over, I wake up from the dream, but my heart is left in the story. This is true love, this is true film. "