This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
“Ma che vuol dire boh?” “Boh vuol dire boh.”
Più o meno come lo spiego io ai miei amici internazionali.
Finale degno di nota!
E complessivamente, capolavoro di film, di cui mi sono rimaste impresse tantissime scene e dialoghi significativi.
Bellissimo come, nel tentativo di ricercare questo agognato amore, ognuno degli amici lo abbia vissuto a fasi alterne e a loro modo diverse: da chi è stato disposto ad abbandonare tutto pur di inseguirne uno personale, a chi ne ha…
Attaching this wonderful review because I'm too overwhelmed by my own emotions to comment. In the conclusion, I resonated completely with the author's vision and, as it follows, with the deep and compassionate message / incredible direction of the movie:
In the article, quoting:
"Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone", Ursula K. Le Guin wrote, "it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new."
In the movie:
Mrs. Chan asks: "Am I hopeless?"
"Not really", Mr. Chow says, smiling softly.
The article here:
mubi.com/it/notebook/posts/in-the-mood-for-love-again
the long silences after a question or a statement, the little details on the hands / eyes, say everything. In those open-ended conversations, and brutal honesty of the repeated pattern, I feel all the emotivity and confusion of falling in / out of love: sometimes they happen inadvertently, slowly fading constantly into each others.
