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Midnight in Paris 재개봉 소식을 듣고

Scribbling _ Actually, I was supposed to see that film with my 'some-one special' though,

unluckily, I had to watch it alone beforehand. Hmm, by the way, it was far better than I expected that it would be :) How fascinating time travel was ! It felt like some light reading at first but I was getting quietly and deeply inspired.

I was into the film as soon as I first heard of it. It was there in the title itself. As I thought wonderfulness would be involved in that, whenever the midnight bell rang, Gil was transported to the 1920s, an era he was admiring in his work and then he came back to the present, 2010 again and again. The protagonist was a Hollywood screenwriter, but he was tired of it. He just got himself absorbed in finishing his novel even in the BIG time slip. I loved how he cared so much about his own stuff anyway!

Ernest Hemingway, Cole Porter, F.Scott Fitzgerald of Great Gatsby (parenthetically, I was getting interested in Scott Fitzgerald, Zelda Fitzgerald couple. Zelda also seemed to write some stories. She was kind of distracted and difficult to get along with, but his husband acknowledged her talents and artistic temperament, I thought then.

Hemingway didn't like her and her works, so she was very much displeased. Anyway, after watching this, I reread my favorite parts of Fitzgerald's,

Pablo Picasso ( I'm sure his muse Adriana played an important role, I mean, She was quite lovely enough for several artists to be hooked ㅋㅋ

Gil also had a crush on her, and he finally learned it would be possible to love both women in different way after coming back to his era, which was a french style anyhow.)

Gertrude Stein, T.S Eliot, Mark Twain, Salvador Dali, Gauquin and Degas bla bla bla... A bunch of 'amazing' figures of literature and art were just in there! Of course, I have to say at this moment that all were wonderful but forgettable just like a fantasy... Aha, I almost forgot ; it was also another interesting thing to converse with the surrealists such as Man Ray, Bunuel (? I didn't apparently know about them) and Dali...I thought sometimes we need to be imaginative or illogical like them.. It's not funny to be too realistic, is it ? In that way,

the unbelievable close encounters were as fantastic as the scenery of all the way to Paris.

According to Gertrude Stein in it ; The artist's job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence. It was kind of impressive to me in some ways. And I figured out there has always been a little unsatisfying in each era, you know, which is we're admiring though. I've got to keep in mind that we're in the golden days NOW !!

And when it comes to the romance, Gil starring Owen Wilson had a little problems dealing with her fiancee Inez starring Rachel McAdams, who was very charming though.

They both liked each other, but there was always some disconnect with the big things.

At the end, Gil broke up with Inez and stayed in Paris alone. I liked his choice. Everything moves so fast. Life is not easy but even sort of complicated. So he decided to give a shot to make a difference or be kinda crazy about something attractive to him.

That rainy night he bumped into Gabrielle, a Parisienne, over that bridge. This was one of my favorite parts of this film. ( I don't like getting wet, by the way ) Maybe they'd have a sort of heart-to-heart talk all through the night!

I'm just hopping he worked it out with her :)

C'est fini, a review written by Sarah

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