There are some movies where you just sit down and you can get right back up, you can get right back to your life. And after watching <One Day>, I sat alone and silent in the dark all night until tears almost came to my eyes.
The movie tells the story of Emma and Dexter over a period of twenty years, using time as a thread.
Emma is beautiful and smart, sharp-tongued and funny, the kind of girl who is a rarity. Yet she is also reserved and self-restrained, one might even say stereotypical. Perhaps that's why, even though she's long been in love with Dexter, she wasn't able to commit herself to him on the night of her graduation.
Dexter was a handsome man, a lover, and a young man. In the beginning, he embraced Emma, perhaps just out of the frenzy brought on by the graduation frenzy and the fact that she was different.
After that, they agree to just be friends, each trying to live without the other, trying to love someone else who is not the other. Emma clings to her ideals, but is forced to live and struggle at the bottom of the heap, unfulfilled in love and career. Dexter, on the other hand, is a game player, wasting his time in vulgar programs and unrealistic love and lust.
Only Emma doesn't realize that she can't devote herself to any relationship anymore, and Dexter doesn't realize that his so-called love is only lust.
Emma says on the phone to Dexter:
'I miss ?you, Dexter.'
In retrospect, it may not just be the man in the distance that she misses, but also the spiritedness of the man who was once Dexter, and the vision that was once her own.
In fact, he has always been a shadow in her mind, her definition of an ideal life. And she's not only special, she's the only one, the only one who can give him true love and get him back on track in life.
They meet on July 15 every year, but only to talk about each other's lives, and they are both strong people who do their best to hide their less-than-ideal moments at times like these.
Finally, when Dexter is no longer young and has suffered a series of changes in his life, a disillusioned and exhausted man drags himself to Emma.
At this point in her life, Emma has published her own work and has a new boyfriend in a foreign country. Life seems to have changed for the better.
I like Emma at this time, cut fresh short hair, wearing an elegant dress, with a confident smile, own a noble temperament.
I think this Emma has a Hepburn flavor.
But like all the past, her heart has always kept a place for Dexter. Finally she can't keep the smile on her face any longer and catches up with Dexter, making her feelings clear to him for the first time since their separation, and finally keeping him.
They fall in love, they move in together, and after twenty long years apart, they finally embrace each other and validate each other.
They had attended a classmate's wedding together.
At the time, Dexter was about to marry the blonde girl, who wasn't like the slutty TV chicks of old, but wasn't like Emma either. She didn't get the humor, but she was certainly beautiful, and more importantly, she came from a good family, which was more than enough for Dexter, whose career was suffering at the time.
Emma wore a cheongsam and couldn't stop crying at someone else's wedding.
When Dexter told her he was getting married, she naturally wished him well, despite her despondent expression.
Across suffering and time, they are finally getting married too.
The happiness is too short-lived in the face of the vast pathos of fate.
A sudden disaster claimed Emma, and he lost her forever.
Whenever I think back to Emma's ending, I simultaneously think of her attending a classmate's wedding, and feel the depth of sadness all the more.
But I was such a viewer that I grieved while secretly appreciating and even celebrating the ending.
On the last morning of Emma's life, she inexplicably loses it and has a huge fight with Dexter. If she hadn't died, and if they had gotten married, would they have lost their feelings one day, would they have eventually grown tired of each other over all sorts of banal trivialities?
'I love you, Dexter. so much. i just don't ?like you anymore.'
Emma once said this to Dexter.
Someone on Knowledge asked how to interpret Emma's quote, and I remember an answer that went something like this:
It's like if you like spicy food and you have a bad stomach.
I've always felt that love and liking are different, that liking is a matter of time, and that love is something you have to bet your whole life on.
I think of Mr. Chant in Tokyo Bakemonogatari with this Latin tattooed on his neck:
" I love you, we can't live together. "
Perhaps Emma's words imply just how much she will love him for the rest of her life, and foreshadow early on that they love each other but can't be together.
Perhaps there is such a person in everyone's life, longing for it but not daring to put in the effort to fight for it, getting it but afraid of losing it.
She left him forever, but she taught him to cherish the beauty around him, and taught him to live gently and well.
I think maybe I like this finale better.
The movie ended and I sat in the dark as one Emma after another flashed before my eyes. I suddenly thought of another person -
Jane Austen.
I like to watch movies, but never like to read reviews, because that more or less interferes with my recollection of the movie.
I don't know if anyone else has ever had the same associations as me. I'm prone to rambling, but such associations may not be unfounded.
Anne Hathaway, who plays Emma, is the star of another movie, Becoming Jane Austen, and Jane wrote a novel called Emma. What's more, they are equally beautiful, intelligent, articulate, harbor the same dreams of being a writer, and are even equally devoted.
In Jane's teenage years, in the picturesque English countryside, she met an Irish boy, Tom Lefroy (hereinafter referred to as Roy). Roy is equally clever and articulate, and in the joy of their rivalry, they fall in love with each other and are betrothed in the middle of the woods.
However Jane's clergyman's family wants her to marry into a richer family, and Roy's parents want him to marry a powerful young lady in order to qualify for the priesthood.
Eventually Roy succumbs to fate and leaves Jane, returning to Ireland to marry the rich lady.
After that, Jane encounters a number of well-heeled suitors, and even comes close to becoming the mistress of a large estate.
But even at a time when "marriage was a woman's second life," she chose to remain unmarried.
The movie ends with a flashback to the present, as Dexter takes his daughter up a hillside where he and Emma have been before.
His daughter is blonde and looks more like his ex-wife. But she's very smart, sharp-tongued without losing her humor, y in love with him but endearingly dishonest when confronted, all of which is like Emma.
Roy returned to Ireland and went on to a political career, eventually becoming Lord Chancellor.
He would tenderly tie the hairbands of his eldest daughter, also named Jane.
The movie ends with a flashback to the first July 15, when they walk together across the hill and part on the street corner, the scene frozen forever on Emma's departing back, just as her life was frozen forever in anticipation of happiness.
Despite the fact that things have changed, life goes on. Dexter did not let Emma down, and he would live on with his lovely daughter and the memories of her. In this way, they truly keep each other.
First time writing a movie review, purely personal opinion, as long as you think my understanding has a little bit of truth. I'd like to thank you for your time.