Coincidentally, in Hungary, at a special time, a special place, and for a special reason, I watched three films about the pianist: "The Pianist", "Love in Budapest", and "The Piano on the Sea" division".

The three films are all beautiful, two of them are classic anti-war films, and two of them are beautiful romance films.

The day I watched "Love in Budapest" happened to be March 14th, White Valentine's Day. Recommenders said: You must watch it, the heroine is very beautiful.

In fact, the most beautiful one is not only the heroine Ilona, ??but also conquered the audience and the heroine with her melancholy personality, handsome face, and amazing piano skills as soon as she appeared on the screen, and also made many in the film Andernaci, a poor pianist who is jealous of men; Rashlow, a music restaurant owner who is worldly, calculating, but full of chivalrous spirit; and Hans, a crazy and paranoid German young man who later became a Nazi officer.

This is a love story of three suitors and a piece of music called "suicide".

The love of a down-and-out young man

Like many specialty restaurants today, in a quiet alley in Budapest, the capital of Hungary during World War II, there was also a high-end restaurant famous for its "thin-sliced ??meat rolls" Dining room.

Lashlow, the Jewish owner of the restaurant, is personable, slightly overweight, kind and philistine. The beautiful waitress Ilona in the restaurant is both his employee and his close lover.

There is a black grand piano in the restaurant. Ilona, ??who loves music, and her boss are worried about selecting pianists: the candidates are either secular or craftsmanship; they are either vain or gorgeous?

A melancholic, thin, handsome, and unkempt pianist Applicant Andernassy unexpectedly met Ilona, ??who was holding a bouquet of purple irises in the sun. After playing a piece of music, Ilona was deeply fascinated. The down-and-out young man was surprised to find that the girl who caught his eye was the waitress in this restaurant.

The restaurant owner noticed the sudden admiration between the two, and after hesitation, agreed to keep the pianist.

A strange and ambiguous triangle began, just like the grand piano in the restaurant lobby.

The talented Andernassi composed a poignant song for Ilona's birthday: "Gloomy Sunday".

Although the restaurant owner Rushlow is a philistine and calculating, he has an aristocratic spirit in his heart. On the crossroads in Budapest late at night, he saw his lover Ilona's love for the pianist. Although it was painful, he said very gentlemanly: "I will continue to move forward. You can choose me or him."

Ilona chose where her heart belongs.

When I woke up the next day, the pianist was in a narrow rental house, holding a small bag of sugar cubes in his hand: "I'm afraid you can't get used to the bitter coffee, so I went to borrow some sugar."

The word "borrow" means all the embarrassment comes out of it. But this kind of embarrassment also truly shows the sincere love of a poor boy.

Beside the pianist’s scattered desktop, piles of piano scores and his own works, there is a manuscript given to him by his mentor: "To my poor student who cannot excel".

The beautiful Ilona fell deeply in love with the pianist.

Love Triangle: The Chivalrous Spirit of the Secular Boss

The restaurant owner felt pain in his heart when he saw the pianist and Ilona having sex with each other, but he accepted the reality: everyone has two A pursuit, a beautiful soul, a secular life. He understands that Ilona pursues the art of being a pianist, but likes the secular life of a restaurant owner.

Ilona and Andnassi began a tacit but peaceful love triangle: the pianist continued to use his music to find the value of life and the meaning of love every day; the restaurant owner continued to use his music every day to find the value of life and the meaning of love; Busy and happy with business and life; nourished by love and cared for by two men, Ilona is like a happy bird every day.

The kind and intelligent Ilona also inspired the two men with her wisdom and love.

Ilona noticed that there were several special guests from Vienna in the restaurant and told the boss.

Although the worldly boss and the down-and-out pianist are love rivals, they are also aboveboard. The boss glanced at the pianist, and music flowed from the pianist's nimble fingertips. The entire restaurant was suddenly filled with elegant and melancholy melody.

Music is like a reluctant lover’s hesitant farewell; full of calls from heaven, mixed with nostalgia on earth. The guests who were chatting were instantly immersed in the charm of the music.

At the end of the song, there was a moment of silence, and the restaurant burst into applause. The guest from Vienna asked: What is the name of this song?

The boss lost no time and told the guests with a bit of pride: This is a song specially composed by a musician for this restaurant? "Melancholy Sunday".

The guest handed the boss a business card: the music director of a famous record company in Vienna.

At the end of the song, the boss, the pianist, Ilona and the Viennese guests sat at the table and discussed releasing a record for the fledgling composer. The shrewd restaurant owner argued hard for his friend and increased the royalties from 6 to 9. At the same time, he added a condition: the record cover should mention that the song came from his restaurant.

This beautiful music has caused countless people to escape reality and commit suicide

The pianist's music was on the radio, and the records carried the beautiful music to various places. The restaurant's business began to be particularly prosperous, and the three friends strolled through the streets of Budapest carrying bottles of wine. The pianist is still struggling to find the source of life in music. His boss advises him to follow his feelings, because "musicians only care about their feelings, not their brains".

The pianist said: I would rather just deal with my feelings than manage a business. This was the inner world possessed by the true artists of that era.

This short but beautiful time was also a rare period of tranquility in Europe after World War I and before World War II.

When we admired the pianist, were happy for the music director’s discerning eye, and admired the generous heart of our friends, the war broke out. Europe is once again plunged into the destruction of war, strangulation of ideology, and ethnic cleansing.

It’s much more than that!

The tangled world and the hypnosis of music have caused one soul after another to be infected by this piece of music and choose to commit suicide, hoping to enter heaven with the company of music. The pianist who knew the news was in great pain and left without saying goodbye. The soul-tortured pianist tore up his piece on the Chain Bridge, and the fragments of music drifted into the Danube River.

Two friends advised: You did not lead them to commit suicide, music just makes those who decide to leave happier. "You still have a lot of things to do. You must decipher the life code in your music. If you want to jump into the river, the three of us jump together?

Friendship and love bring back the lost life. On the beautiful Danube River On the other hand, the restaurant owner confiscated the poison that Andernashe had brought with him.

Evil and insult, purity and dignity, life and vicissitudes of life

Rachlow rescued more than just An. De Naci.

The melancholic beauty of this piano music stunned the audience, and it also made Hans, a young German businessman who had always had a crush on Ilona, ??muster up the courage to take a beautiful photo of Ilona. , and proposed to her. Hans was heartbroken when he was rejected. Under the urging of the music, he jumped into the Danube River and committed suicide. He was rescued by Rushlow and used the secular "barbecue roll" to temporarily awaken the German youth's single-minded desire. A dead paranoid soul. Before Hans returned to China, he said to Lashlow that he must repay Lashlow for saving his life.

Many years later, Hans returned to the restaurant from Germany and changed. Becoming an SS colonel, Hans's arrival was like a vulture in the dark clouds at dusk, bringing the lingering shadow of death to the entire Budapest and this restaurant. He put his gun on the chair and gave a condescending order. Let his rival in love, the melancholy pianist, play "Melancholy Sunday"

How could the proud heart of the pianist Andernassy and his head full of music fall for the proud and bullying Nazi officer Hans. Play!

When the situation was about to break out, Ilona, ??who had never sang in public, walked quickly to the pianist, picked up the music sheet, and sang softly, hoping that the pianist would accompany her and resolve the crisis.

Andenasy looked at Ilona with sad and affectionate eyes, and began to accompany his beloved with music. At the end of the song, Ilona looked at Andernashe tenderly, walked to the back hall and secretly shed tears.

There was a sudden gunshot in front of her. Ilona ran over in horror and found that Andernasch had picked up the gun that the Nazi officer had placed on the chair and shot himself.

Only then did Ilona truly understand Andernassi’s melancholy eyes. His last playing was not to bow to power, but to let his pure heart use life, music, and love. , give a reluctant kiss goodbye with dignity. In order to resist the humiliation and maintain his self-esteem, Andernathy would rather die than cater to the powerful.

Hans finally sent the restaurant owner Laszlo to the concentration camp, and raped Ilona who tried to rescue Laszlo that day?

The heartbroken Ilo Na returned to the restaurant and found the poison on the piano and a letter left by Rushlow.

The closest friends and lovers left one after another. Ilona was pregnant with an unknown child at this time, and could only choose a life of humiliation.

In this difficult world, from a girl who was once as happy as a bird to a woman who bears the pain of life and death, unbearable humiliation, and has experienced all the vicissitudes of the world, she survives with difficulty, And barely maintain the restaurant that records their pure dreams and youthful time.

Three Bridges of Love: "The Blue Bridge", "The Bridge of Lost Dreams", and the Chain Bridge in "Love in Budapest"

Decades later, he is already the boss of a multinational company Hans revisited his hometown. When the musicians played "Black Sunday", Ilona and her son cleverly used the poison left by the two friends to kill the notorious Nazi officer who had done many evil things.

Three men, three pursuits, different performances in front of Ilona, ??nobility, magnanimity and wretchedness. Hans, a young German businessman, jumped into a river when he was unable to court love. He easily went to extremes and destroyed his love rival, conscience and himself with his paranoia. And the embarrassed pianist Andernassy met with sincerity, fearless of poverty and death, and was loyal to his purity. Soul, regards Ilona as an angel as beautiful as the music he pursues in his heart; although the worldly restaurant owner is sophisticated, he is sincere and magnanimous about love and friendship.

The true story behind the movie: Music was once banned

"Love in Budapest" is adapted from Niko Bakov's novel of the same name, and the writer was inspired by a song "Black Sunday", known as "Forbidden Song", is also called "Melancholy Sunday". This piece is said to be a song composed by the Hungarian self-taught composer Rezs? Seress (1899-1968) because of his broken love.

This piece of music presents an entanglement of yearning for heaven and nostalgia on earth in the swirling and undulating music.

Because of the despair expressed by the beautiful music, hundreds of people quietly ended their lives after listening to it. The music is also called the "Hungarian Suicide Song". During World War II, this song spread all over the world. Some people regarded it as a plague and a drug. It was banned by the BBC and other radio stations for decades.

Many people wonder why so many listeners committed suicide because of this melancholy song. In fact, what is really sad is not that piece of music or that pianist, but that turbulent era, complex human nature, and the haze of war.

What surprises me is that a movie can actually use light, shadow, story and music to integrate with this city, this bridge, such a girl, such a friend, and such thinking. So touching.

I was even more surprised that this film was co-produced by Germany and Hungary and reflects on World War II. Germany played a crazy and evil role during World War II, and Hungary also experienced a dark period with the Arrow Cross Party, which cooperated with Nazi Germany during World War II.

"Love in Budapest" can reflect on this period of history through a musical romance film, making us believe that the light inside human beings will eventually defeat the darkness outside.

In fact, this is an excellent film that uses music as a clue to show beauty and loyalty, love and music, freedom and dignity, forbearance and death. It uses tragic techniques to allow beautiful souls to endure cruelty. The weak resistance in the face of war and the evil world allows the nobility of human nature to be brutally destroyed in the face of vulgarity.

However, greed and evil are not as lasting as love and kindness, dignity and freedom. Year after year, there are always people who continue to sacrifice for love, dreams, and qualities worth pursuing, without fear of rape. .

Although in real life, the love story of musicians is not like this, the audience hopes that this is the truest story in their hearts.

I believe that all viewers will have a heartbreaking love for the heroine Ilona who dares to love, hate, pursue, and sacrifice humiliatingly to rescue her beloved. Born for love, lived for love, suffered humiliation for love, tolerated it for decades, and finally avenged love skillfully, bringing justice to a perfect end.

After decades of peace, today’s world is once again becoming more confrontational. Today, when local wars continue to destroy regional tranquility and economic confrontations may escalate into alternative wars at any time, "Love in Budapest" may be able to use Another way to remind people: Cherish peace and cherish life.