A Rainy Day in New York： Their Romance after Being Scattered by Heavy Rain

Special feature of 1905 film network The comedy love movie starring director,,,, was shown in China cinema on February 25th, 2022. The film tells the story of a couple who should have spent a perfect weekend in new york, but missed it frequently because of accidents. The heavy rain in new york poured the budding love into pieces, and finally they went their separate ways.

The film focuses on elements such as rainy day love and romantic love in marketing, but some viewers are not satisfied after watching it. Frankly speaking, the film is not romantic at all, and all romantic fireworks have not happened between the male and female protagonists. Why does A Rainy Day in New York cause such controversy? Zhou Guiyi, a film critic, said: "Whether this movie is romantic or not is divided into two questions: whether the first movie is romantic or not, and whether the love between the hero and heroine is romantic or not. I’m positive about the first question. The movie is still very romantic, but romance doesn’t happen between the hero and heroine. "A Rainy Day in New York" is a process in which a couple travel separately. They both take different routes on rainy days, and there are very few opportunities to frame them. It is a very special rainy day love movie. "

The romance of the film is everywhere, which can be seen from the actor’s line: "I like the piano in the bar. It’s raining in Mao Mao outside, and it’s gray. new york City is shrouded in light fog, and lovers are dating at six o’clock sharp." Such a romantic dating scene is very cinematic, but rainy days are bad weather that the heroine doesn’t like very much. Although the rainy day is just a weather, it also reflects their completely different value orientations. Their different attitudes towards rain actually imply their different outlook on life, values and love. The heroine was born in a remote American town. She enjoys pastoral culture and always hopes for sunny weather. She is very pragmatic in nature. The hero is just a model of romanticism. He was born near the Central Park in new york, and his fragility, sensitivity and literary temperament are more obvious in rainy days. Therefore, the romance in his mind is a rainy kiss under the clock in Central Park, and he also cares more about those trivial, beautiful and fleeting little graces.

A rain reflects their different three views, and also brings them different life situations and possibilities. The heroine witnessed an extramarital affair during the journey. The role played by Jude Law found that his wife was cheating. In this state, they were trapped in the yellow new york bus. It was raining all over the sky outside, but there were worries inside. The bus became a small island, and the rainy day seemed to be a huge unknown environment, which wrapped them together. Coincidentally, the hero also met his ex-girlfriend’s sister on a bus. This sister has always had a crush on the hero. In rainy days, the film gently presents interesting banter and mutual temptation between the two, which is the romantic spread brought by rainy days and makes their relationship warm up rapidly. The director used the size, atmosphere and meeting scenes of raindrops to make this rainy day full of rhythm and change. Every rain scene is a reflection of the mood of the hero and heroine.

So did this unsuccessful love between the hero and heroine have some chemical reactions in the movie? Zhou Guiyi said: "Every actor in the film has exerted his untapped potential to the greatest extent. Timothée Chalamet plays the prince in the film and is also a noble son in the film, but both the son and the prince are superficial. For example, his charm stems from his blood and sword, as well as his palace. When he became a high-class dude in Manhattan, I think his charm was really aroused. The hero played by Timothée Chalamet has always been wrapped in an extremely luxurious artistic, cultural and aesthetic atmosphere, showing the fragile aristocratic temperament caused by getting too much, and combining the possibilities of the actors and the characters themselves to the greatest extent. "

Zhou Guiyi added: "Elle Fanning has always been regarded as a princess since her debut, but in the movie, she plays the daughter of a’ chaebol’ in a remote mountainous area, and she has an inferiority complex in the big city, so from the beginning to the end, she only wears a set of thick sweater and woolen skirt that are out of date and out of tune with the whole atmosphere of new york. But slowly as the journey progresses, you will find that young people look at emotions and look at the city from some angles, which I think are still common, so they will all find themselves in this film. "

Throughout the films directed by Woody Allen, we can always bring some new words and fresh interpretations about love to the audience. In A Rainy Day in New York, Woody Allen, an old man, projected his yearning for love as a teenager on the hero. Timothée Chalamet played the role like a director’s imaginary teenager, pursuing youthful love, and youthful love is often composed of aimless details, which combines fleeting beautiful aesthetics, art and a moment together. This is the romanticism that the director wants to express. The movie is particularly romantic. In the end, the hero finds his true self, and finally ends with a kiss at six o’clock in the evening under the clock in new york Central Park.

This kissing scene is full of fun. In fact, lovers don’t have to express "I love you, you are the best". It is precisely the daily teasing and hitting such a relaxed feeling that is the interesting state of love. Similarly, romantic movies should not only focus on "making sugar", but should give the audience a little buffer and aftertaste of hormones and dopamine impulses, so that they can calm down and feel and resonate, so that romantic movies with aftertaste are more touching.