This is a movie about war, a sad story about love. The film uses flashbacks, interludes, and detours through time and space to show flashbacks, reproducing the love between the male and female protagonists when they were young. If it wasn't for war, they should love each other and stay together for the rest of their lives. However, the war cruelly separated them. From then on, the yin and yang were separated from each other. They would never see each other again in this life. Moreover, the heroine also harbored resentment and pain for her former lover. In the end, it was her old friend who invited her to return to the romantic place Sarajevo . She met many old friends from that year again, and only solved the mystery of her adopted son's life experience, which is very embarrassing.
Gemma (Penelope Cruz) is beautiful, intellectual and sexy. She is middle-aged. She has just received a call from an old friend from Sarajevo, inviting her to visit Yugoslavia, a small Eastern European country where she once left her romantic first love. Sarajevo, the capital. She sets off with her 16-year-old son ( Pietro Castellito ). When she got off the plane at the airport, she met Goiko (Adnan Haske), her tour guide friend who was more than ten years ago. He hugged her excitedly, saying that she is a beautiful woman. She said that she is an old woman. , Some people's beauty is lasting, he said.
When the camera turned, it was Jimma when he was young, with black hair like waterfalls, bright eyes and white teeth, and a pair of big flowing eyes looking forward to shine. She is writing her graduation thesis about Andrić, the Nobel Prize winner. The writer was born in Sarajevo. His life and works are related to the city. She wants to go to the countryside to experience the humanities and customs in person. The tour guide, Goiko, who acted enthusiastically as a guide, drove her there. He introduced her to a group of friends in the literary and art circles, including writers, actors, and photographers. He also likes to write poems.
So, fate was doomed to be reversed at that moment when the snow was falling. She meets American photographer Diago (played by Emile Hirsch), and they walk and chat in the snow. Diago was born as a literary and artistic youth, and he impulsively invited her to "drop everything and run away with me" to shoot child labor in the Kamaru mining area. She said, I will leave tomorrow to go back to Rome, and he will also leave tomorrow to go to Brazil to complete his photography project. Maybe the two will never meet again, and each will return to his original life track.
fate is destiny. That night, the tour guide Goiko arranged for the two of them to stay in their own home. When the tour guide fell asleep on the sofa, Diago knocked on Gemma's door. He enthusiastically declared, "I'm in love with you." That's how they rolled together. The literary youth said, "You are mine now, and I want to spend my life with you." The girl
is back in Rome and she is married to her boyfriend who has been together for many years. It is conceivable how dull the married life of this husband and wife is. There is a scene where she and her current husband are speechless, but Gemma's father (Lucard Filippo) is telling his daughter that the American photographer who hangs up long-distance calls every day is about to come to Rome. It was said that Cao Cao and Cao Cao were coming, and Diago was really here. He was downstairs on a motorcycle with a bag on his back. He has known the old man's portrait for many years, and said that I did not go wrong in the way you pointed me, and here I am!
is very interesting. My father-in-law likes this American son-in-law. Gemma has just divorced her husband. Diago said, "That's great!" That night, he filled the hotel with candles, and he rented the whole place, just Gemma and her Prince Charming. The warm and romantic atmosphere created by the flickering candlelight dinner is enough to win the heart of a girl from Gemma.
After being separated for a while, all their thoughts and feelings poured out tonight, and they were happily and legally married. Diago put his arms around the beauty and couldn't take his eyes away, and said, "Baby, you have fun with me every day, I promise! Yes, he has already thought about it, using his photography expertise to live to support his home with this beloved Italian girl.
Do you think that this love story will continue like this logically. "The prince and the princess live happily together", NO!
Life is always more complicated and full of thorns than you think. After the nearly long-lost couple reunited again, they fell in love like knees, and it was natural that heWe want to have a common baby. As Gemma said, I want his eyes to look like yours and his feet to be as strong as you. Diago said more poetically, this is our destiny, our river of life, I want him to listen to Mozart, Beethoven , you are his mother, I am a monk, I will kneel in front of you .
is too tender and sweet. Gemma told him that she was actually pregnant after that night at Goiko's house, but the child was miscarried. Diago kisses the ultrasound photo of the child's embryo, oh my Piet, I love you so much, you must come to report next time.
At the same time, under the supervision of his father-in-law, he worked hard to exercise, quit smoking and drinking, and was also preparing to take photos to take large orders to have better income. That day, he took photos of his wife's life from various angles. Gemma kept sculpting, and suddenly he saw blood flowing from his wife's legs in the camera. No, they went to the doctor, and the diagnosis was dismal: Gemma had ovary atrophy, which is a 97 percent chance of infertility. The husband asked the doctor that there was still 3%, and the doctor said "miracle"!
The husband persuaded the wife that we should try to live a life of two worlds, but Gemma was so desperate to have a child, she told the psychiatrist that I love him, I want a child to hold the man I love, I am now Wherever I go, there are pregnant women in their eyes, and they come to me like a vast army. So he applied for adoption again, but was rejected because Diago had a history of drug abuse.
It turned out that Diago's original family had problems, his father abused his mother, and he later started taking heroin to get out of the psychological haze, which is no wonder he. The couple started fighting because of the child. At this time, their old friend Gojko called. There was a riot in Sarajevo. As a photographer, he wanted to take pictures of the times. He had to go there. They went back to Sarajevo together.
Gojko suggested that they find a surrogate, so they found a guitarist, she is a good musician, she is a very cheerful Muslim girl, a girl with red hair. She wanted to go to London for further studies and she needed money, she said that my education told me to help others and I would. When Gemma asked her how could I believe you wouldn't keep the kids. She said don't worry, I'm a libertarian, I don't like family, I just love music, and I'll keep my promise.
Okay, it's mysterious enough that the movie has been unsettled at this point. Yes, let you drop your jaw in shock, and the one who destroys the three views is still to come.
originally said that with the help of the doctor, artificially inseminated , and only borrowed her uterus to conceive a fetus. But when the war came, the actual operation process they just talked about could not be implemented. There were long queues of cars on the road, people were panicking, and the doctors in the hospital fled. The rock girl (Sadai Aksoy) is calm, and she talks about going to my house and treating you to hot chocolate. She also said that we can take a natural approach, and she looked Gemma in the eyes and said, "Welcome to the audience."
God, this is really embarrassing. Diago, a husband who deeply loves his wife, you let him have sex with another woman he has no feelings for, it is really incredible. Gemma started saying I didn't agree and then at Esca's house they had a good conversation and she hugged this woman and danced to the music so intimately that she seemed to get rid of the mental block and she believed she was Really willing to help her get a baby.
She personally went to borrow a folk house. The landlord knew them and thought she and her husband were on their honeymoon. After she arranged everything, she left her husband and her in the house. shoulders she is gone. She went downstairs to meet her friend Gojko, and he hugged her and kissed her deeply, as if to give her thoughtful comfort. In the distance, gunshots rang out one after another. He said, "Beauty, let's have sex before we die." She pushed the other side gently, "Listen to Goiko, we won't die."
She rejected him. Can you feel how much she loves her husband, I'm even a little touched. At this juncture, her heart is mixed, her heart is broken, her feelings are also fragile, she has a painful expression on her face...
The camera changes, she is half lying on the bed of the hotel, her son (Peter Lo Castellitu) came back from outside, his name is Piet, the name that Diago's father gave him back then. He called Mom several timesWhen answering her father's phone call, she was immersed in the memories of the past and didn't hear it. She signaled that her son did not want to answer, and said that I was asleep.
The son is suddenly furious, what are you doing, come to this tattered town, mysterious, don't answer the call from dad, you didn't come to Sarajevo for me, you came to Diago for that! Because they saw a photography exhibition, there were a lot of scary pictures from the war. When she saw a picture of a bloody wound carved into a rose pattern, she read out the signed name: Diago. She blurted out "your dad", her son was surprised, she didn't know how to explain it...
The son slammed the door and went out, she chased after him, the son sat by the flower bed on the street, took out his passport, and said, why was I born Here, I'm Italian Roman and I don't like it here! She hugged her son tightly, tears blurred her eyes, what could she say?
Her current husband and child call him "Dad". That is the adoptive father. The child was born during the war in Sarajevo. It is the red-haired girl who loves music, Esca, who has fulfilled her promise after giving birth to a child. It is also a legal birth certificate that the tour guide friend Gojko helped the child with, with the words "Mother-Zima" written on it. But when she and Diago took the child to catch the plane, he lost his passport, and he couldn't go back to Rome with his wife. There are two possibilities: one is that he wants to stay to take photos of the battlefield, he is a photography artist ; First, there is another secret, which he deliberately lost.
The child's adoptive father is a captain officer. He saw Gemma alone at the airport with such a small baby. He felt sympathy for her, helped him take care of the child together, and took the initiative to let her take the military vehicle to Rome to send their mothers home. He was kind to her. And she had no news of Diago later, and then one day her father received a call saying that Diago committed suicide by jumping into the sea.
He loved her so much, why didn't he go back to Rome with his beloved wife, and finally embarked on the road of no return? This question has always plagued Gemma. She only remembered that they were all taking shelter from the fighting in Sarajevo. The streets were attacked by artillery fire every day, corpses were everywhere, and her husband went out to take pictures every day. After that incident, she found that her husband had changed. He was irritable and melancholy, and often disappeared from her field of vision. She followed him one day. In the smoke of the war, she saw her husband and the rock girl with a bulging belly At the same time, he took care of her and gave her food to eat. Could it be that her husband is empathetic. She asked Diago do you love her? He answered why he didn't love him, what about me? She is extremely aggrieved, you are my love, you bad guy! She cried and scolded him.
This reminds me of Sophie Marceau's "Heartfire" starring Sophie Marceau. She accompanied the rich for three days and became a surrogate mother. Seven years later, she became a tutor for her own daughter. She fell in love with the rich and wanted to recognize her own flesh and blood. Her emotional torment was truly amazing.
And the fate of the surrogate mother Esca in this movie is much more tragic than her, nothing happened to her that day with the photographer, but how did she get pregnant again? For the answer to this mystery, please watch the movie for yourself. When you know the ins and outs of things, you seem to be able to understand the photographer's later resolute, redemption and caring performance. He thinks that Esca's disaster was caused by his own weakness, and he wants to atone for his sins. In fact, he is also a very kind and compassionate artist. He loved his wife Gemma deeply and promised to have a baby with another woman for her, but he hesitated when it came to him, and he finally did nothing, but it was because of his weakness that Esgara brought the most trouble. A deep shame, he couldn't forgive himself.
The war destroyed his peaceful life. He looked back at the pictures he took of bloody killings and grief. He hated the war and could not stop it. The film was all exposed in broad daylight, and he looked at the rough sea and jumped off, and he was finally relieved. That's right, he is an uncompromising artist. He is passionate, vulnerable, compassionate, and trapped. He finally lost to his inner demon.
The famous French existentialist philosopher, Nobel Prize-winning author Albert Camus said, "The important thing is not to cure, but to live with the pain". "The real redemption is not the victory after the fight, but the ability to find the strength of life and peace of mind in the midst of suffering." This is goodMa did it. She returned from the war and riots, and she survived like a still water. She worked hard to raise Diago's children. She integrated the thoughts of her lover into her long-lasting life and found a certain balance. . Are you happy when an old friend asks about her married life? She said that it was a different kind of love, and I understood it to be an ordinary day as plain as water. His military husband gave her a sense of security, a peaceful life, for a war-torn, broken heart that had lost a lover, which was also a blessing.
As for Diago, who she loves deeply, he is too artistic, his character is like a burning flame, when his love explodes, he can melt Gemma; when he hates to the extreme, he can crush himself, and he will not hesitate to Give up the most precious life. And "Death is something that doesn't have to be achieved. Don't die first, then try to live." This is also a classic quote by the famous writer Shi Tiesheng .
In short, after watching this movie, we hated war even more. I remember watching "Walter Defends Sarajevo" when I was a child. Why don't you teach people to be terrified and disgusted? The background of the film is the siege of Sarajevo for nearly four years from 1992 to 1996 in the last century. How many people were homeless and corpses were everywhere. Thinking of the Russian-Ukrainian war that has been going on for six months in reality, I cry for the people of Ukraine, and I sincerely pray for peace.
Hong Kong singer Zheng Xiuwen has a song "Romeo and Juliet in Sarajevo" sings -
love never has to be divided into religion
no ethnic disputes
Chang would rather be in love with you all the time to death Still close to each other...
Finally, let's talk about the heroine, the beautiful Penelope Cruz, known as the "Spanish Tulip", once again gave her extraordinary acting skills, turning a woman through the years and fate for more than 20 years , a vivid reproduction. Even when she plays the middle-aged and elderly image of the heroine in the film, she still has the beauty that has accumulated over the years. Every smile and tear, every memory and meditation, has a certain sense of emotional substitution. The film won the 27th Spanish Goya Award 2013 Best Actress nomination; the 60th San Sebastian National Film Festival 2012 Golden Baker Award nomination - Sergio Castellito.
