Why don't you just stay?

Why don't you just stay?

問了兩遍，劇情嘎然終止．．．

Night Train to Lisbon (2013)

里斯本夜車

Director: Bille August

Writers: Pascal Mercier (novel), Greg Latter (screenplay)

Stars: Jeremy Irons, Mélanie Laurent, Jack Huston

年邁的瑞士語言學教授戈列格里斯，某日意外阻止一名即將跳河的紅衣女子。然而神祕女子不告而別後，戈列格里斯在遺留的紅色大衣裡，發現葡萄牙作家普拉多的札記《文字煉金師》與一張前往里斯本的車票。書中記述的一段話，以及紅衣女子的召喚，誘發戈列格里斯毅然跳上前往里斯本的火車，追尋查訪普拉多的生平故事…

Quotes:

We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place. We stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there. We travel to ourselves when we go to a place. Now we have covered the stretch of our lives, no matter how brief it may have been.

Given that we live only a small part of what there is in us - what happens with the rest?

But by travelling to ourselves we must confront our own loneliness. And isn't it so everything we do is done out of fear of loneliness? Isn't that why we renounce all the things we will regret at the end of our lives?

A decisive moment of life, when its direction changes forever, are not always marked by large and shown dramatics. In truth, the dramatic moments of a life determining experience are often unbelievable, low key. When it unfolds its revolutionary effects and insures that life is revealed in a brand new light, it does that silently. And in this wonderful silence resides its special nobility.

What could... what should be done, with all the time that lies ahead of us? Open and unshaped, feather-light in its freedom and lead-heavy in its uncertainty? Is it a wish, dreamlike and nostalgic, to stand once again at that point in life, and be able to take a completely different direction to the one which has made us who we are?