I have a habit. After watching a movie, I find a quiet place to sit down, stare at my fingers or the window or the ceiling, and tell the whole story again in my mind, and think about what I can remember. All meaningful details.
There are some movies where you can stand up as soon as you sit down and go back to your own life. After watching "One Day", I sat alone and silently in the dark all night until tears almost burst out of my eyes.
The movie takes time as a line and tells the story of Emma and Dexter over twenty years.
Emma is beautiful, smart, sharp-tongued and yet humorous. She is that rare kind of girl. However, she is also reserved, self-restrained, and even rigid. Perhaps it was because of this that even though she had long admired Dexter, she failed to entrust herself to him on graduation night.
At that time, Dexter was handsome, rich, and well versed in emotions, but he was still young and frivolous. At the beginning, he embraced Emma, ??perhaps just because of the enthusiasm brought by the graduation carnival and her uniqueness.
After that, they agreed to just be friends, each trying to live a life without the other, and trying to love others who are not each other. Emma adheres to her ideals, but is forced by life to struggle at the bottom and is unhappy in her love and career. Dexter plays with the world and wastes his time in vulgar shows and illusory love.
It’s just that Emma didn’t realize that she could no longer devote herself wholeheartedly to any relationship, and Dexter didn’t realize that his so-called love was only eros.
Emma said when talking to Dexter:
'I miss ?you, Dexter.'
Looking back, she may miss more than just Dexter. Just the person in the distance, the high-spirited Dexter who was once there, and her own lofty ideals.
In fact, he has always been the shadow in her heart and her definition of ideal life. And she is not only special, but also the only one who can give him true love and get him back on track in life.
They meet on July 15th every year, but they only talk about each other's lives, and they are both strong people, and they try their best to hide their dissatisfaction at this moment.
Finally, Dexter is no longer young and encounters a series of life changes. Frustrated and exhausted, he finds Emma.
At this time, Emma published her own work and made a new boyfriend in a foreign country. Life seems to have gotten a lot better.
I like Emma at this time. She has a refreshing short haircut, wears an elegant little skirt, has a confident smile, and has a noble temperament. I think Emma has a Hepburn charm in her gestures.
But like everything in the past, there was always a place for Dexter in her heart. Finally, she could no longer maintain her smile and caught up with Dexter. She clearly expressed her feelings to Dexter for the first time after their separation, and finally kept him.
They fell in love and lived together. After twenty long years, they finally embraced each other and confirmed each other.
They once attended a classmate's wedding together.
At that time, Dexter was about to marry the blonde girl, who was different from the slutty TV chicks of the past, but also different from Emma. She didn't understand humor, but she was indeed beautiful. More importantly, her family was well off, which was enough for Dexter, whose career was frustrated at the time.
Emma wore a cheongsam and couldn't help crying at other people's weddings.
When Dexter told her that he was getting married, she naturally gave him her heartfelt blessings, even though she looked lonely.
After suffering and time, they are finally getting married. But in the face of the huge and tragic fate, happiness is too short-lived.
A sudden disaster took away Emma, ??and he lost her forever.
Whenever I think about Emma's ending, I also think of the scene when she attended a classmate's wedding, and I feel even more sad.
But I am such a viewer. While I am sad, I secretly appreciate and even feel grateful for such an ending.
On the last morning of Emma's life, she lost control inexplicably and had a big fight with Dexter.
If she hadn't died, if they got married, would they have lost their feelings one day, would they have gotten tired of each other because of all the trivial matters?
'I love you, Dexter. So much. I just don't ?like you anymore.'
Emma once said this to Dexter.
Someone asked on Zhihu how to understand Emma’s words. I remember one answer was this:
Just like you like spicy food, your stomach But not good.
I have always felt that love and liking are different. Liking is a matter of time, but love requires risking your entire life.
I remembered that in "Tokyo Ghoul" Mr. Bai had this Latin tattoo on his neck:
"I love you, we can't live together."
< p> Perhaps Emma's words just hinted that she would spend her whole life loving him, and also foreshadowed early on that they loved each other but could not be together.Perhaps there is such a person in everyone's life, who desires but does not dare to work hard to get it, who gets it but is afraid of losing it.
She left him forever, but she taught him to cherish the beauty around him and taught him to live well and gently.
I think maybe I prefer this finish.
The movie ended, I sat in the dark, one Emma after another flashed before my eyes. I suddenly thought of another person - Jane Austen.
I like watching movies, but I never like to read movie reviews, because it will more or less interfere with my aftertaste of the movie.
I don’t know if anyone has had the same association as me. I am prone to random thoughts, but this association may not be unfounded.
Anne Hathaway, who plays Emma, ??is the star of another movie "Being Jane Austen", and Jane also wrote a novel called "Emma". More importantly, they are equally beautiful, intelligent, and good at speaking, they also have the same dream of being a writer, and they are even equally dedicated.
In Jane's girlhood, in the picturesque British countryside, she met an Irish boy, Tom Lefroy (hereinafter referred to as Roy). Roy is also smart, cunning and sharp-tongued. In the joy of meeting his opponent in chess, they fell in love with each other and made a private life in the woods.
However, Jane's pastoral family hopes that she will marry a more wealthy family, and Roy's parents hope that he can marry a powerful eldest lady to obtain the qualifications to be a judge.
In the end Roy succumbed to his fate, left Jane and returned to Ireland to marry a rich girl.
After that, Jane met many suitors with favorable conditions, and even almost became the mistress of a large manor.
But even in an era when "marriage is a woman's second life", she chose to remain unmarried.
At the end of the movie, time returns to the present, and Dexter takes his daughter up a hillside where he and Emma have been.
His daughter is blond and looks more like his ex-wife. But she is very smart, her words are sharp yet humorous, and she loves him deeply but is cutely not honest when facing him. These are all very much like Emma.
After Roy returned to Ireland, his political career went smoothly and he eventually became Lord Chancellor.
He would tenderly tie the headband for his eldest daughter, also named Jane.
At the end of the movie, there is a flashback to the first July 15th. They walked down the hillside together and broke up at the street corner. The scene was forever frozen on Emma’s leaving back, just like her life was forever frozen. in the expectation of happiness.
Although things and people have changed, life must go on. Dexter did not disappoint Emma. He will live a good life with his lovely daughter and her memories. In this way, they truly retain each other.
This is my first time writing a film review. It’s purely my personal opinion. As long as everyone feels that my understanding makes a little bit of sense, that’s fine. Thanks.