[Movie Review] Midnight In Paris

My favorite movie is “Midnight in Paris.” This movie was filmed in Paris and contained beautiful background from Paris. I could see the artistic aspect of Paris from the first scene with the Eiffel Tower in Paris to the very end of the movie. After watching the movie, I fell in love with Jazz and dreamed of going to Europe.

I was impressed with the message in this movie. Gil is the main character who constantly admires the past of Paris. Coincidently, Gil travels to the 1920s and meets Adriana, who adores the Belle Epoque era. While traveling in the Belle Epoque era, even before the 1920s, Adriana suggests Gil remain in the Belle Epoque, and Gil refused to. He said:

“I was trying to escape my present the same way you’re trying to escape yours, to a golden age.

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Adriana, if you stay here, and this becomes your present, then, pretty soon, you’ll start imagining another time was your, you know, was the golden time.

That’s what the present is.

That it’s a little unsatisfying because life’s a little unsatisfying.”

He awoke from an illusion that living in the past makes him happy while looking at people like himself who weren’t satisfied with the present. I think that everyone has thought at least once, ‘What if we lived in the past than now?’ I also wondered that I would have done something more wonderful if I had lived in the past because this is an era that is so advanced. I believe that every period has its romance, which means the present should have romance, too. I hope that everyone including myself can find their romance in the given environment, not just admiring the past.

I wish Gil to be satisfied with choosing the present rather than the 1920s he admired and feel the romance of Paris today.