Night Listening | In this world, everyone is waiting for someone
"Waiting for an empty city at dusk, like coffee waiting for someone. Whose survival is fate waiting for? Whose testimony is love waiting for? The stars that have fallen souls , Is it cold to be alone? "
This is a Mandarin love song written by Zhou Huimin, the goddess who dominated the music scene in the 1990s, after many years of silence. It is called "Coffee is Waiting for Someone". This is also an episode in the 2014 Taiwanese love movie "Waiting for Coffee" starring Vivian Chow.
At that time, in this play, Zhou Huimin played a soul character throughout the play - a beautiful and mysterious proprietress who opened a cafe called "Waiting for Someone" alone. In the movie
, Vivian Chow plays a mature, beautiful and lonely coffee shop owner. She is an elegant woman with a story. This cafe called "Waiting for Someone" was opened by her and her boyfriend who died young.
After her boyfriend passed away, she guarded the store alone.
Every day, she sits in front of the sofa by the glass window in the coffee shop, listening to the wind outside the window, watching the rain outside the window, or basking in the sunshine from the window, seemingly doing nothing, but no one knows, she is holding the coffee in her hand, Waiting for someone who will never come back:
"The story is waiting for a passionate kiss, and that person will be reborn in tenderness. Stubbornness is waiting for the next possibility, and youth is waiting for someone to complete? Even if the years pass us by, you He will come and knock on my door to confirm his promise."
The boss lady in "Waiting for a Coffee" reminds me of Mr. Oldman in the Italian movie "The Best Offer".
Mr. Oldman, who has been shrewd and sophisticated all his life, and has never failed to identify authenticity and counterfeiting in his decades of top-level art auction career, was finally deceived by a young woman because of love.
In the movie, Mr. Oldman, who has devoted his life to the top art auction industry and has never been in love, one day meets a young and beautiful woman who brings a large amount of antique inheritance and comes to seek appraisal and authentication.
During the back-and-forth exchanges, Mr. Oldman found that he was slowly falling in love with this young female patron. felt as if he had returned to the innocent boyhood when he first fell in love.
In fact, she was a beautiful female liar. In order to make Mr. Oldman fall into the trap she and her accomplices set up, in the process of getting along with Oldman, in order to better capture Mr. Oldman’s heart, she He also made up an unforgettable experience of working in a restaurant called "Day and Night" in Prague.
At that time, the young woman promised Mr. Oldman, who had fallen in love with her, that one day, she would take him on a romantic revisit to her hometown.
Later, Mr. Oldman knew that he had been deceived and that his lifelong collection of famous paintings had been looted by the woman. But at the end of the movie, he still came to the distant Prague alone.
did not expect that there is actually a restaurant called "Day and Night" in Prague.
Amidst the bustle of people, Oldman sat in a corner. The waiter in the restaurant greeted him, sir, alone? Mr. Oldman, who was already gray-haired, had no obvious sadness or joy. He just answered the waiter's questions honestly and seriously. He said, no, I am waiting for someone.
I believe that Mr. Oldman will eventually wait for someone, maybe not at the restaurant called "Day and Night", but somewhere in this world. As for whether it is the beautiful female liar that he will never forget. , I'm not sure.
Just like the line in "Waiting for Someone's Coffee": "In this world, everyone is waiting for someone."
The beautiful landlady is waiting alone, and the gray-haired Mr. Oldman is also waiting. In this sometimes noisy, sometimes silent city, everyone is waiting. As for whether I can wait, I think it is no longer the most important thing.
In short, in the movie "Waiting for Coffee", the boss lady played by Vivian Chow did not wait any longer in the end.
One sunny afternoon, she smiled looked at the sky, made a gentle reconciliation and farewell to her past and memory, and then quietly left the cafe.
I don’t know, what happened to Mr. Oldman later? To be honest, I miss his story a little bit.
text/jianghang
