Narrator: Mathilde leans back against her chair, folds her hands in her lap, and looks at him. In the sweetness of the air, in the light of the garden, Mathilde looks at him. She looks at him... She looks at him...
After finishing the movie, A Very Long Engagement, it is clear to me the impact of what love and hope can do for someone struggling to find truth. In the movie, the lead character Mathilde is on a constant journey to find the truth about what has happened to her beloved fiancé. Throughout the movie, there is no support from those surrounding her. Her family and the investigator she hires thinks that Mathilde is on an endless quest to only get her heart broken. It is through her willpower and strength that she finds him and proves everyone wrong.
I honor Mathilde for keeping hope in her heart that she would find the truth. There was countless times where it seemed as though she should have accepted the inevitable – that her lover had died in No Man’s Land. I’ve been struggling these past two weeks to let go of my love for someone else and find in me, a love for myself. It’s difficult to let go of the shadows of the mind, as it was difficult for Mathilde to escape the hopeless words of those puppeteers around her. Finding the strength to move through the shadows that plague my mind is a fight, minute by minute. It is through my family and best friends’ hope for the better and love for me that I break through the chains that tie me to my cave. I’m inspired that one day I will also find the truth. I aim to find happiness in the person looking back in the mirror.
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First off, I would like to say that I like you picked that quote out of the movie and made it a focal point as your header. I love that quote. A Very Long Engagement is one of my favorite movies of all time. I feel like Mathilde determination stems from her heart seeking what is true. I feel that even if her fiance had died then at least she would have closure from it instead of giving up from the start. Her intuition also helped in keeping her need to find the truth alive
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