2/11/2024 1 Comment "Two to Choose"In Celine Song’s Past Lives, you fall in love with the actress, google her, and feel hurt when you learn she has a husband. Greta Lee does that to you. It’s hard to know exactly how. At two moments in the film, she gives the men attracted to her the very clear cue to act. One does, the other doesn’t. It comes down to: sometimes you have to kiss the girl. Before you make a choice, you have a thousand possibilities. When you make a choice, you lose 999 things. The rest of life is, you learn how to live with all those losses weighed against the one gain. In “Two to Choose” Charlie Feathers says, “I’ve got two to choose from today / One I’ll keep, one I’ll throw away / If I’m wrong somehow I’ll pay / There will be three instead of one heart I’ll break.” Past Lives presents us with one who chooses, three who lose. (“Two to Choose” is not used in the film. John Cale’s “You Know More Than I Know” is, and it’s sublime.)
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Marianne
2/11/2024 08:40:57 am
Nice comment. Loved the surprise ending. Will listen to the songs. Thanks.
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