Chapter 1072 1072 Restore the Essence

"Salt Lake City Weekly" is not a professional film review newspaper, nor is it a newspaper with far-reaching influence, but as the official publication of the Sundance Film Festival, their reviews undoubtedly represent everyone's views.

In addition to Jesse James' film review, four other Sundance professional film critics wrote film reviews. All of them expressed their amazement at "Before Sunrise". On the one hand, they were surprised by Hugo's boldness and outrageousness. On the one hand, they lamented the smoothness and excellence of the story. Judging from the official publication of the Sundance Film Festival, they gave a score of 8.0 out of 10.

This score is not the highest, currently behind Edward Burns' "The. Brothers. McMullen" and James. Mangold's "Unspeakable" "Heavy", but it can be ranked third among the works that have been released, which shows that the evaluation is high.

According to the practice of previous years, the comments of the magazine basically represent the views of the entire film festival, but this is obviously not the case this year. Except for the magazine of the film festival, the major media that swarmed will obviously not continue to remain silent.

Nicholas McClen of "Los Angeles Times" wrote the film review at the first time. From Nicholas's comments, we can deeply feel that the seemingly boring movie "Before Sunrise" is actually full of exciting Countless details for deep thought.

"This is a movie without a story. Everything is clear and straightforward without any room for imagination, but it has nothing to do with the plot, only the details."

Nicholas' opening chapter is as full of character as ever, but also with a strong attitude, setting out the subject precisely and directly.

"The man and the woman met on the train, had a great conversation, got off the train in Vienna together, and started a night of conversation. That's the whole story, no need to say more, but it's just such a simple and boring Even a boring story has an unprecedented charm.

Many times, viewers don't even remember their names because they're only mentioned once symbolically out of habit, and then disappear into chunks of dialogue, blurring people's memories. But it doesn't really matter, because on this sleepless night, in this city where no one knows them, they don't need to use names to confirm each other's existence, they just need to use a confession to witness each other's life, this confession makes them not It belongs to a name, a social symbol, but simply to itself.

In this night of confession, everything was uncovered. They were honest and true to each other, and even to themselves without any cover. Those straightforward but memorable dialogues are not for the sake of the two. sex. Relationships are not for social entertainment, nor for showing off their deepness, but for comprehensive self-exploration time and time again, and profound soul conversation time and time again.

They say it to themselves, and are lucky enough to meet someone who understands.

The two people pretending to call their friends in the cafe is the most special. They put aside the cover and pretense between men and women, and let each other stand in front of each other truly and naked. They pretend that the other person doesn't exist in this space, and they pretend that they are talking about the man or woman around them, and their feelings about this man or this woman, to someone unrelated. Is this a boring conversation? Obviously not, this is being honest with yourself and being honest with the other person.

The significance of this encounter lies in this confession, the dialogue with each other, and the dialogue with myself. From this kind of confession, the one night's relationship is more profound than the ten years before they met and the ten years after they met, because this night's confession is at the cost of their past and future never meeting again. . This makes this night unique, a specific moment in time, not of the past, not of the future, but of the present.

Because this confession gives meaning to this encounter, the whole film chooses this way: from the beginning of the dialogue, to the process of dialogue, and then to the end of the dialogue, because the breadth and depth of the dialogue determines the meaning of this encounter.

Death, anger, fate, time, the social roles of men and women, politics, religion, life, etc., seem to confess all the values ​​and worldviews that have settled down in life, and the encounters along the way have become metaphors: fortune-telling Gypsy girls, homeless people who write poetry, etc., and their unintentional words can often be the catalyst for the inspiration of their conversation, which in turn becomes a hint.

This encounter developed a love, but the encounter is just an encounter after all, because if there is an encounter, there is a breakup. When the encounter begins, love bursts out, and when the encounter ends, love freezes.

The woman said she was most afraid of the last few seconds of consciousness before death because you knew you were going to die. And this encounter itself carries a metaphor of death: from the beginning they tacitly announced that the parting will come before the sunrise, but this clear awareness can not stop their conversation, she just put this The encounter was like a passing pass, so when they realized that separation was inevitable, the sense of fear began to breed, and the turbulent emotions brought out another proposition of love.

On the one hand, we hope to be able to hold the other half's hand to the point of life, but on the other hand, we are afraid that the boredom brought about by time will eventually precipitate love into a habit, disappearing together with the original beauty, leaving only obligations and responsibility.

Many times, human beings sincerely hope that this moment will be frozen forever when they are extremely happy. It is not so much to cherish the present as to fear the future, because we are not confident that the future can be so happy; but on the other hand, the turbulence of love makes People can't extricate themselves, can't give up long-lasting thoughts. So this forms an endless cycle of contradictions, which is also the most fundamental entanglement in countless loves.

The man in the story said that if he could just accept the truth and accept his inherently simple fate, he might be less painful and less angry. But the crux of the matter is that he is not willing to accept it. The same is true for love, doubting and hopeful at the same time, and praying even if you don't fully believe it.

Therefore, men and women are like this in the story. On the one hand, they want to lock all the good things in tonight, and then say goodbye to each other completely. They don’t need to think about the future or worry about their whole life. The beauty of it continued for a long time, so much so that the question of whether to meet again or not continued to be nagged afterward.

Before leaving, a woman mentioned to a man that the love she yearns for is not the spark of love at first sight, but the simplicity and the possibility of continuous continuation, which makes people simple and with good wishes to believe that the highest realm of love is plain but long-term. of. The coming farewell at the train station has further deepened the love derived from the encounter, and there will be room for further development, because they will be as trivial and tangled as all those who leave, and are reluctant to let go.

A reluctance is the true meaning of love.

But when they are confused about using 'disconnection' to maintain a relationship and seal up a kind of beauty, they forget another possibility to make love lose its original color, that is, when they return to their respective lives and meet People in their own lives, and then naturally forget about each other. Maybe at this moment they think the splendor of this encounter will make them unforgettable for the rest of their lives, but most of the time I don't understand where they come from this confidence: self-confidence memory can compete with time and life, and the weight of self-confidence emotions can resist the passing of time .

'Norwegian Forest' is a youthful, unforgettable cherry blossoms dancing, even a middle-aged Watanabe can only listen to the old Beatles songs and secretly confess to himself: It will take me a while to remember like this Raise Naoko's face. And, as the years go by, it's taking longer, which is sad but true. What started out as five seconds for me to remember, gradually became ten seconds, thirty seconds, then a minute.

This is a false proposition, because people can only confirm it after they have experienced it themselves, and can only understand it after they have really experienced the precipitation of time. There is no answer given in the story "Before Sunrise", but I can feel Hugo Lancaster's discussion of this proposition in his script, passing my ears like a dragonfly. If I have the chance, I would like to see Hugo discuss this proposition, maybe it will be another wonderful story.

The last set of shots of the film, slowly sweeping the places they walked together, the cemetery where the unnamed dead are buried; the bench they once sat on in the narrow walkway; the fountain where they met the gypsy girl; The silent river rushing to the shore; the green meadows where you drink and watch the stars and the empty bottles on the meadows.

At that time, I suddenly thought, if these fixed scenes have memories, would they be more resistant to the erosion of time and more durable than our memories; I will also remember the footsteps that a certain person received, and the laughter that floated in a certain river.

Movies come to an end, but life goes on. Who wins and who loses in time and love cannot be decided by a movie. But fortunately, Lancaster used this method to let people see the essence of love, and then silently watched the big screen for a long time and could not return to reality, not because the love in the movie was too beautiful, but because of the love in the movie too real.

'Don't let time deceive you, you can't conquer time, in troubles and worries, life fades away vaguely, time will have its own preferences, tomorrow or today. ’ The judgment of time on this encounter made me realize the fragility and uncertainty of love in front of it, which may be another meaning of this encounter. "

Nicholas analyzes the core ideas of "Before Sunrise" in detail in a realistic but poetic way, which is absolutely ingenious, and at the end of the review, he adopts a more special Methods.

"Finally, end with a poem by the wandering poet in the movie.

Immerse in the hallucinations of daydreaming, blinking thick eyelashes, oh dear, across your beautiful face, falling into a tear in my wine glass, staring into your pure eyes, knowing that you are my life The meaning of it is as if the milkshake is blended in the sweetness of the cake. I am like the angel that emerges in the trance, floating in the dream, how can I bear to watch your heart turn around again? But how to be happy with each other? I don't know where I came from, let alone where we belong. Just embrace life, just like the stream will eventually flow into the river. Going down, go with the flow, you have me, I have you, it should be like this, can you know my heart? "