Delicate film, which pays tribute to that wonderful stage in life that is youth, where momentum, vigor and instinct are in all their splendor and where you give free rein to your imagination and follow your heart.
That place where reason is forgotten, where one has not yet been dragged by the conventions of others, where one is still pure and where he opens his heart wide, in a channel, without fear or fear, because he still does not know him in that stage of life, where that first love permeates your whole being and makes you feel truly alive, makes you perceive the essence and meaning of life, which is none other than loving (in general, in the infinitive) even more than love. to be loved, because one will feel truly free when one loves and follows one's heart without caring what others think or say. It is at this stage of life that we should form our reason, our firm will and not give in to the reasons or wills of others, because they in turn were dragged and gave in to the reasons or wills of others and they did it for the conventions of others and so on until the eternity of time. How easy it would be if we all remembered what it feels like in that stage of life that is youth, because if we all remembered the splendor in the grass, we would not allow anyone to be deprived of feeling free and being able to love.
I wonder what makes the human being forget this beautiful stage of his life and not live in that permanent state? They cannot be our beliefs because at this stage of life they are not yet malformed by the beliefs of others, they are simply still delicate and fragile and one may get carried away, but let us not be confused by that fragility and delicacy because it is at this stage of life is when one feels more alive and at the same time more powerful and rebellious, let's take advantage of that power, that rebelliousness and that it always accompany us in that permanent state of splendor and that it does not happen to us like the protagonists of the movie who got carried away by the conventionalisms of others and they forgot their power to keep that sparkle in their hearts and they did not stand firm in their love, that love that always comes sometime in life and when it does it floods your reason to the point of thinking you will lose it, as you happens to the protagonist played magnificently by Natalie Wood, who will always keep that beautiful image in her heart, in her memory and that her lover seems to have forgotten, played in this case by a handsome Warren Beatty, in full splendor of his youth and if he loved he forgot about it or tried to forget it.
“Although my eyes can no longer see that pure sparkle that dazzled me in my youth. Although it can no longer bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flowers, there is no need to grieve, because beauty always subsists in memory.
Verses from “ODE TO IMMORTALITY” by William Wordsworth, which director Elian Kazan picks up in the film.
“Although the radiance that was once so bright is today forever hidden from my eyes”
Maintaining that flash of light, that sparkle in the eyes, should be our natural state, that glow that always accompanies us in all stages of our lives.
