Midnight in Paris (2011) is a cinematic travel to the city that is beautiful in the rain. Makes you want to fall in love…
The film’s opening credits which was accompanied by Sidney Bechet’s Si tu vois ma mère will ignite nostalgia to those who have lived in Paris in the 1920s and a feeling of wonder and desire to those who have not.
The rich artistic culture of Paris in Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Stein and Picasso among others will leave a moviegoer reminiscing on literature as the film was interestingly and impressively converged to create a unique plot.
The writer in Gil (Owen Wilson) longs for an experience of the beauty of the past but eventually realizes and decides to live in the present when he told Adriana (Marion Cotillard) that staying will soon become the present and that at some point she will start imagining another time that might be again the “golden time”.
In an era where satisfaction is hurriedly transitory, Gil continuously convinces Adriana that the present is unsatisfying because life is unsatisfying.
Aside from the dazzling views of the City of Lights and Love, this film is a lightbulb reflection to appreciate and be grateful of the past and to live the present.
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Midnight in Paris’ Hearty Mind Flicks
Hemingway: Love that is true and real creates a respite from death.
Hemingway: All cowardice comes from not loving or not loving well.
Stein: We all fear death and question our place in the universe. The artist’s job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence.
(4, 2.5/5)
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© rooks 2012
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