352 Stay up all night
“Take away or drink here？”
Elizabeth Weitzman was stunned and said, "Take it away." She had just finished watching the evening screening of "Crazy Love" and it was already 10:30 in the night. She had to rush back and write the film review..
As a film critic writing for "The New York Times", she must remain calm and objective when evaluating movies. However, after watching the premiere of "Crazy Love" in the afternoon, her thoughts were always in chaos. Can't figure out a clear idea.
The story told in this movie seems to be extremely simple, but when you think about it carefully, it is extremely complicated. Those trivial details give the movie a unique texture, which is reminiscent of "500 Days of Summer" and "Blue". These two movies are "Sexy Valentine". But as far as Elizabeth is concerned, she prefers "Crazy Love".”.
However, she is not sure whether it is because this movie has awakened her memories of her last relationship, or because everything in this movie is too real, blurring the boundaries between reality and fiction, and causing her to lose her judgment. standards. Although she is a film critic, she is first and foremost a normal ordinary person.
She tried to calm down, peel off her emotions, and write a movie review, but her turbulent thoughts couldn't stop at all. As long as she was quiet for a while, fragments from the movie would appear in her mind, fragmented fragments, incomplete, and violent. The emotions make me breathless.
The result of being bored in the hotel room for three hours was: I couldn’t write a single word..
This feeling is not unusual. Many classic movies can bring such a shocking response. This is also one of the greatest charms of movies. It calls for ideological resonance and triggers ideological storms. When she first watched "2001: A Space Odyssey" , I was stunned for three minutes and didn’t come back to my senses. After I went back, I thought about it over and over again for a week, and then I watched the movie six times. I clearly understood it, but I couldn’t stop thinking about it at all..
Thinking of this, Elizabeth showed a ridiculous smile. She actually compared "Crazy Love" with "2001: A Space Odyssey". It was really ridiculous. But the fact was that she really couldn't calm down. So, she Came to the cinema again, ready to watch this movie for the second time.
The tickets for the afternoon show were sold out quickly. She could only wait for the third show in the evening after dinner..
Five minutes ago, the movie viewing just ended, and the bitterness and emptiness echoing in my chest still didn't get much relief. However, my thoughts finally cleared up a little. After all, this is not a brain-burning movie. To be precise. Said, this is a movie 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 complicated thoughts was... "Brokeback Mountain". Yes, it was "Brokeback Mountain". Of course, "Crazy Love" is not as complete as "Brokeback Mountain" So high, but these two movies have one thing in common. They are too beautiful, but also too cruel..
How should she write a movie review?？
“It's Jacob's fault, I tell you, because he didn't love deeply enough! Otherwise he should go to London! He should abandon everything in Los Angeles and go to London！”
“That's not the case! If Jacob didn't love deeply enough, would he take the initiative to call Anna? Will he fly to London just because of Anna's words?？”
“Then why doesn't he want to go there? It was Anna who confessed her love in the first place. He was a nerd that no one liked, so he couldn’t wait to agree. His love was never as deep as Anna’s.！”
“You didn't pay attention to the movie, you didn't pay attention to the movie！”
“Where did I not pay attention? What I said is true！”
“No, you didn’t hear Jacob’s subsequent conversation. He tried hard. He flew to London many times. He and Anna applied for visas together and tried to find development possibilities together, but they all failed! Jacob's efforts are never less than Anna's！”
“So why doesn't he go to London?？”
……
A couple walked into the coffee shop, and the girl and the boy started arguing. Obviously, the girl was the one who fought for Anna..
The smile on Elizabeth's mouth couldn't help but rise slightly. This is why she likes movies - it can always build a bridge of communication between people, and process those realistic, surreal, and artistic stories into Then it becomes a medium for people to explore the spiritual world and real life.
Yeah, why doesn't Jacob go to London?？
Elizabeth couldn't help but ask herself this question, or even go a step further, "Yes, why was I unwilling to move from Manhattan to Brooklyn in the first place?？”
Just like the movie "The Squid and the Whale". In fact, distance and time have never been the biggest enemies of love. It's just that we can't find the answer, so we put the responsibility on each other and the fault on distance and time, and then we feel at ease. continue to live.
Even if it's not Los Angeles and London, just the distance from Manhattan to Brooklyn can still tear two people apart, or even tear a family apart..
She suddenly understood why she liked this movie so much, just like the argument between the couple just now, because like the director, they were both asking her the same question; and because they were the same as Jacob and Anna. , all at a loss.
“Miss？”
Elizabeth heard the call, raised her head, took her coffee, but did not leave the coffee shop, but walked straight to the seat next to her, took out her notebook, and started typing quickly.
“This is a heartbreaking, despairing and hard-to-put-down movie.”
When she finished typing the first line, Elizabeth was in a trance for a moment. Jacob's eyes in the last shot once again appeared in her mind. There was a bitterness on the tip of her tongue. She took a long breath and then pointed her finger. Just type quickly on the keyboard.
“Derek Doremus tells a very simple story, too simple to allow for superfluous characters：
American young Jacob and British student Anna fell in love, but because Anna violated the visa stay agreement, she was deported back to London and refused to re-enter. The two young lovers who fell in love with each other vigorously had to live on the Atlantic Ocean. Both sides of the Taiwan Strait, trying to find a way back to the past.
The shots of the entire movie are extremely gentle, extremely sensitive, and extremely fragile, and they stay on these two young people, building a world. Undoubtedly, this is a very personal, very self-centered, very petty bourgeois story. There is almost no room for too much social weight in the script structure, and it is completely based on the love life of two young people..
Therefore, when people hear this story, it is often easy to make an intuitive judgment——
Why couldn't Jacob go to London and start a new life there with Anna? Or, why can't two people get married and then reunite via a marriage visa? Or, why can't two people go to another country and start a new life? Or should I say, two people cannot end here, liberate each other, and also liberate themselves.？
Things seem very simple, and there are countless solutions. If you find any one of them, the ending may be completely different. However, "Crazy Love" uses this series of "whys" to explore the issue of belonging..
Why do people fall in love with someone? Is it the person we fall in love with, or the time and place when that person appears, and the feeling at that moment?.
People always think that there is the most special 'that person' in this world, and they are looking for it hard, but maybe, such 'that person' has never existed..
Life is surrounded by thousands of 'one people'. At a special time and in a special place, a person happens to appear, close at hand and within reach, so you will think that this is 'that person', so , fell in love like a moth to the flame.
But in fact, what is special is not 'a person', but time, place and feeling, which make 'one person' become 'that person'. Does that mean that when another time, place and feeling appear, In addition, 'a person' can also be 'that person'’？
In the depths of memory, there is always one person who cannot be replaced. People always have the illusion that this is 'that person', but perhaps what we miss is not 'that person', but the beauty and youth we have lost. , and the past that cannot be returned. People often think that they are deeply in love with someone. Sometimes, people just miss their past selves, the self that was wanton and blooming crazily..
Times have changed, even if we finally recover everything, that person is no longer 'that person'. At the moment of leaving, 'that person' is no longer the one in our memory, and we ourselves are no longer the same one. It’s the same one from before, and that similar feeling no longer exists.
The reason why Jacob refused to stay in London was because he could not find a sense of belonging in that strange city; the reason why Anna was willing to go to Los Angeles was because that land treasured her beautiful memories. However, Jacob still chose after all. Anna chose Jacob after all, because they once belonged to each other, but they no longer belong to each other..
This is the most realistic and exciting core idea of the whole movie. They once belonged to each other, they once loved each other deeply, and they still love each other deeply now, but they missed that time, that place, and that moment after all, so , they also missed each other.
Cruel, bitter, sad, but true and powerless.”
She picked up the coffee on the table and took a sip. The bitterness of the espresso exploded along the tip of her tongue, and even her heart curled up. Elizabeth turned her head and looked out the window. Snowflakes began to fall in Park City. , the entrance to the cinema is still very lively, a large group of spectators bustling in sight, ready to watch the midnight show.
In the distance, the staff was taking away the "Crazy in Love" poster templates. Seeing this scene, Elizabeth's eyes welled up with warmth. Tonight was another sleepless night..
Withdrawing her gaze, Elizabeth continued to type quickly on the computer..
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