"Take it away or drink it here?"

Elizabeth Wizman was stunned, "Take it." Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 Info" She had just finished watching the evening screening of "Love Crazy", and it was already half past ten in the evening, and she had to rush back and write the review.

As a film critic for The New York Times, she had to remain calm and objective in her assessment of the film. However, after watching the premiere of "Love Crazy" in the afternoon, her mind was always in confusion and she couldn't sort out a clear line of thought.

The story told in this film seems to be incomparably simple, but in retrospect, it is incomparably complex, and those trivial details give the film a unique texture, reminiscent of the two movies "500 Days with Shamo" and "Blue Valentine". But as far as Elizabeth is concerned, she likes "love crazy" even more.

It's just that she's not sure if it's because the movie awakens her memories of her last relationship, or because everything in this movie is too real, blurring the boundaries between reality and fantasy, making her judgment lose its standard. Although she is a film critic, she is first and foremost a normal ordinary person.

She tried to calm down, strip away her emotions, and write a film review, but her turbulent thoughts couldn't stop at all, as long as she was quiet for a while, the fragments from the movie would come to her mind, the fragmented fragments, incomplete, and the violent emotions made people breathless.

The result of three hours of stuffiness in a hotel room was: not a single word could be written.

This feeling is not unusual, many classic movies can bring such a shocking repercussion, which is also one of the biggest charms of the movie, calling for resonance of thoughts, triggering a storm of ideas, when she watched "2001: A Space Odyssey" for the first time, she was stunned for three minutes and did not come back to her senses, and after going back, she thought about it over and over again for a week, and then watched this movie six times, obviously understood, but the reflection of the mind could not stop at all.

Thinking of this, Elizabeth showed a ridiculous smile, she actually compared "love is crazy" to "2001: A Space Odyssey", which is ridiculous. But the truth is, she really can't be quiet. So, she went to the cinema again to watch the movie for the second time.

The afternoon one, tickets sold out quickly, and she had to wait for the third one in the evening after dinner.

Five minutes ago, the movie had just ended, and the bitterness and emptiness that echoed in my chest had not been relieved much, but my thoughts had finally cleared up a little, after all, this was not a brain-burning movie. To be precise, it's a movie as simple as a white shirt, but it does really move her.

It's been a long time, it's been a long time, and the last time the movie that gave her such mixed thoughts was ...... "Brokeback Mountain". That's right, it's "Brokeback Mountain". Of course, the completion of "Love Crazy" is not as high as that of "Brokeback Mountain", but these two movies have one thing in common, too beautiful, but too cruel.

How should she write a film review?

"It's Jacob's fault, I tell you, because he doesn't love him well enough! Or he should have gone to London! He should have left everything in Los Angeles and gone to London!"

"That's not the case! If Jacob didn't love him enough, would he call Anna? Would he fly to London because of Anna's words?"

"Then why didn't he want to go? At first, Anna confessed, he was an otaku that no one liked, so he couldn't wait to nod his head and agree. His love has never been as deep as Anna's!"

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

"Where did I not pay attention? What I said is the truth!"

"No, you didn't hear Jacob's later conversations, he tried, he flew to London many times, he and Anna applied for visas together, tried to find the possibility of development together, but they all failed! Jacob's efforts were never less than Anna's!"

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

……

A couple walks into the café, and the girl and boy argue. Obviously, the girl is the one who fights for Anna.

The smile on Elizabeth's lips couldn't help but rise slightly, which is why she loves 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.

yes, why didn't Jacob go to London?

Elizabeth couldn't help but ask herself this question, or take it a step further, "yes, why didn't I want to move from Manhattan to Brooklyn in the first place?"

It's like the movie "Squid and Whale". In fact, distance and time have never been the biggest enemies of love, but we can't find the answer, so we put the blame 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 from Manhattan to Brooklyn can tear two people apart, or even tear a family apart.

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 to themselves as the director, and because they were at a loss like Jacob and Anna.

"Ma'am?"

Elizabeth heard the call, looked up, and took her coffee, but instead of leaving the coffee room, she went straight to the seat next to her, pulled out her notebook, and began to type quickly.

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

As she finished typing the first line, Elizabeth was momentarily distracted, and her mind reappeared with Jacob's eyes in the last shot, a bitter expression on the tip of her tongue, a long exhale, and then her fingers tapped quickly on the keyboard.

"Drake Doremus tells a very simple story, so simple that there is no room for superfluous characters:

Jacob, a young American student, and Anna, a British student, fall in love, but because Anna violated her visa stay agreement, they were sent back to London and refused to re-enter.

The lens of the whole film is extremely gentle, extremely sensitive, and extremely fragile to stay on these two young people, and build a world. Undoubtedly, this is a very personal, very self-contained, very petty bourgeois story, and there is almost no social weight in the small script structure, which is completely based on the love life of two young people.

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

Why can't Jacob go to London and start a new life in London with Anna? Or why can't two people get married and be reunited on a marriage visa? Or why can't two people go to another country and start a new life? Or can't two people end there, liberate each other and liberate themselves?

Things seem simple, there are countless solutions, and if you find any one of them, the outcome can be very different. However, 'Love is Crazy' explores a question of belonging with the help of this series of 'whys'.

Why do people fall in love with someone? Do we fall in love with that person, or when and where that person appeared, and how they felt at that moment.

People have always believed that there is the most special 'person' in this world, and they are looking for it, but perhaps, such a 'person' has never existed.

Life is surrounded by thousands of 'people', and at a special time and place, a person happens to appear, close at hand, within reach, so they will think that this is 'that person', so the moth falls in love with the fire.

But in fact, it's not 'one person' that's special, it's the time, place, and feeling that make 'one person' 'that person'. Does that mean that another 'person' can also be 'that person' at another time, place, and feeling as it arises?

In the depths of memory, there is always a person who cannot be replaced, and people always have the illusion that this is 'that person', but perhaps, what we miss is not 'that person', but the beauty we have lost, the lost youth, and the past that we can't go back. People often think that they are deeply in love with someone, and sometimes, people are just nostalgic for their former selves, the self that was wanton and crazy to bloom.

At that time, even if we finally recovered everything, that person was no longer 'that person', and the moment we left, 'that person' was no longer the one in our memory, and we ourselves were no longer the same person we used to be, and that similar feeling no longer existed.

Jacob refused to stay in London because he couldn't find a sense of belonging in that strange city, and Anna was willing to go to Los Angeles because it held her memories. However, Jacob still chose Anna after all, and Anna still 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 exciting core idea of the whole movie. They used to belong to each other, they loved each other deeply, and they still love each other deeply, but they missed that time, that place, that moment, and so they missed each other.

Cruel, bitter, sad, but real, powerless. ”

Picking up the coffee on the table and taking a sip, the bitterness of the espresso exploded along the tip of her tongue, and even her heart curled up, Elizabeth turned her head to look out the window, and the snow began to fall in Park City, and the entrance of the movie theater was still bustling, and a large crowd of spectators bustled into sight, ready to watch the midnight show.

In the distance, the staff was taking away the poster template of "Love is Crazy", and when they saw this scene, Elizabeth's eyes welled up. Tonight, it's another sleepless night.

Retracting her gaze, Elizabeth continued to tap quickly on the computer.