About the movie

The first thing I decided to watch was her name "Paris Vacation".

Paris is the city of fashion and romance. All impossible loves have become possible here. I have seen many love stories that took place in Paris in movies and TV series before, and they are very interesting. Romantic and beautiful, such as "Lovers in Paris" and "Love in Paris". The "holiday" in movies and TV shows is a period of high incidence of love. It seems that when it comes to holidays, love is inseparable, such as "The Long Holiday" and "Love Holiday".

In view of these satisfactory classics that I have watched before, when I saw the four words "Paris Vacation", I clicked to watch without hesitation, and I was looking forward to encountering a hearty movie with great interest. love.

Love is waiting, but it is not vigorous, nor hearty, and even a bit old-fashioned. However, the theme that the film fully explains and conveys is on a higher level than love. It cares about the human soul and one's own perfection, and it actually gave me an unexpected surprise.

The film tells the novel story of JJ Lin, played by Louis Koo, who resigned from his job and went to Paris to manage a winery for a wealthy businessman due to failure in love and career.

Due to various objective reasons that cannot be changed, JJ Lin had to live in the same room as a gay with Ding Xiaomin, the "three lost daughters (broken love, broken marriage, lost money)".

Ding Xiaomin's depression and decadence touched Lin JJ, who was also a fallen person in the world. Lin JJ intervened forcefully to help Ding Xiaomin get out of the shadow of lovelorn, took care of her food and daily life, and auctioned off the wedding supplies and banquets carefully prepared by Ding Xiaomin to make up for the money. They lost money and took wedding photos that could not be auctioned as good best friends. Lin JJ also encouraged Ding Xiaomin to take to the streets to paint pictures for pedestrians, and they took a horse-drawn carriage to the Arc de Triomphe at night... There was no doubt that they fell in love with each other. At this time, the ex-boyfriend and ex-girlfriend appeared respectively, which brought twists and turns to their love. In the end, they finally cleared the fog, watched the sunrise until the clouds cleared, and came together.

Although the overall narrative of the film is a bit absent-minded, a bit unclear, a bit procrastinated and loose, and a bit bland, the flaws are not concealed, and this does not prevent its theme from shining brightly.

The word "soul mate" is mentioned many times in the film. The painter Ding Xiaomin never forgets soul mates. She said that everyone needs a soul mate. JJ Lin misheard "soulmate" as "summer fish" and thought it was a fish that Ding Xiaomin loved to eat. He searched everywhere and was finally found by him.

In this way, the image of "summer fish" has become a hint and symbol in the film, suggesting that JJ Lin is also looking for a soul mate, which echoes Ding Xiaomin's search for a "soul mate" and strongly And clearly conveys the theme of the film. It can be seen how eager the screenwriter and director want to tell the audience that the film "new wine in old bottles" uses an old-fashioned story to convey a new theme: everyone needs a soul mate, and if you find a soul mate, you will find love.

About soul mate

So what is a soul mate (called "soulmate" in English)?

? This word originates from Greek mythology. In Plato's "Symposium", the famous ancient Greek dramatist Aristophanes told a mythical story: In ancient times, the first people were spherical people, two individuals were glued together back to back, and they had two faces. , eight hands and feet, two sets of genitals. Zeus and the gods were worried that humans were too powerful and disrespected the gods, so they split the spherical man in half, so "each of us is only half a human" and "each of us is always looking for the other half to be combined with ourselves." "Love is the god who accomplishes this merit... restores us to our original state and lives in joy and happiness." Therefore, a soul mate is a person's "other half".

Someone later wrote a song based on the story.

The Origin of Love

When the earth was just a flat land

The clouds at that time were made of flames

The mountains towered into the sky, and even higher

The people walking on the ground at that time

were like rolling cylinders

They had Two pairs of arms, two legs

And two faces looking out from the same huge head

So when they talk, read

They can see all around them

But people never know what love is

Because everything happened before the origin of love

At that time, the world There are three genders

One is two men connected back to back

They are called the Sons of the Sun

The one who has the same appearance as them is the Daughter of the Earth

Made from the union of two girls

The Children of the Moon are like forks on top of spoons

They are half the sun and half the earth

Half daughter, half son

Later, our power became stronger and stronger

The contempt of humans frightened the gods

So Thor Said

"I will kill them all with my hammer

just as I killed the giants before"

And Zeus said

"No, let me cut them open with my thunderbolts

Just like I cut off the feet of whales

I cut dinosaurs into lizards"

Then he grabbed a handful of lightning and laughed

"I will split them in the middle

Divide humans into two equal halves"

Then, the storm clouds gathered in the sky

and formed a huge fireball

Like the shining blade of a knife,

The fireball Turned into lightning and struck the ground,

It tore the flesh and blood of men in two

The flesh and blood of the children of the sun, the moon, the earth

Then a certain Indian The gods sewed the wound into a small hole

and placed it on our abdomen

to remind us of the price we had paid

Then, the Egyptian god of Hades and the Nile The gods

raised a huge storm and blew a hurricane

In a flood of wind and rain

They were going to blow us away Scattered

In the tide of the sea

They will wash us all away

If we continue to disobey

The gods will To split us in half again

We have to hop on one leg to move

Look around with one eye

The last time I saw you ,

We were just split in half

You looked directly at me

I looked directly at you

Your face is so familiar , but I can’t recognize it

Because your face is covered with blood

There is blood in my eyes

But, from your face I can be sure of one thing with the expression on your face

The pain in your soul

is exactly the same as the pain deep in my soul

That pain marked A straight wound

split our hearts in half

And we called that pain love

So we hugged each other tightly

Rushing into each other hard, wanting to be together again

And that is called love, we are making love, making love

That was a long, long time ago One dark night

Jupiter's hand came between us

This is a sad story

A story about how we became

The story of the lonely two-footed creature

This is the story of the origin of love

And this is the beginning of love

Finding a soul mate and finding love

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Now we know that everyone comes into this world incomplete and spends his whole life searching for our "other half", our soul mate. And our souls long to be reunited far more than our bodies.

Thomas Moore said: "A soul mate is a person with whom we feel deeply connected, as if communication and communication with each other are not due to the deliberate efforts of mortals but to the power of God. The guidance of grace. This relationship is so important to the soul that there is nothing more precious in life." Aristophanes said, "Love is what makes this happen. This god of merit... restores us to our original state and lives in joy and happiness."

In other words, love is the magic potion that makes two incomplete people become one, or in other words. When you find your soul mate you find love.

There is a detail in the video. When JJ Lin first arrived in Paris, he took a taxi to find a place to stay. Along with the brisk background music, we followed JJ Lin to enjoy several iconic landscapes in Paris, including the Arc de Triomphe, the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre, and Notre Dame de Paris... When the car passed by the Louvre for the second time, JJ Lin shouted loudly Remind the driver, "Hey, you're on the wrong road. Why is it the Louvre again!" At this time, the driver said something meaningful. He said, "This is the road. I am the most familiar driver in Paris. I believe it." I, you will get there, sooner or later!" And they did reach their destination in the end, but JJ Lin paid a little more for the fare.

This seemingly unintentional statement appears again at the end of the film. Ding Xiaomin took a taxi to revisit the old vineyard where they had beautiful memories. Coincidentally, she also took a taxi with the same driver, and the driver also used the same trick and took her around again. Ding Xiaomin asked him politely "Excuse me, are you sure this is the road?" The driver replied, "It must be this road. I am the most familiar driver in France. Believe me, you will get there sooner or later!" Ding Xiaomin finally said Of course we reached our destination.

The taxi driver who appears at the beginning and end of the film is simply the director’s spokesperson. The director almost jumps out and tells you, "Believe me, you will get there sooner or later!" In other words, no matter what No matter how many detours you take, you will eventually find your "other half", your "soul mate".

The director of the film is optimistic, and the outlook on life that the film ultimately leads to is undoubtedly optimistic: everyone will eventually find their soul mate and achieve self-fulfillment, with at most some detours.

Sadly, real life is not like that. In fact, most of us will not be able to become one with his or her "soul mate" throughout our lives, either because we missed him in the vast sea of ??people, or because we have lost the right to have him or her when we find him or her, so some of us Most people are alone.

Those who find their soul mates in their lifetime are the truly lucky ones, and they should cherish them.