![]() ![]() Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2023 This meta-melancholy subtext rises to the surface late in the movie, when Sonny delivers a deal-clinching, throat-tightening boardroom speech about how few legacies endure and how few legends are remembered. "To Taylor, as the writer and, I think, the character, it's very clear that this is the one real thing either of them had ever known," says TikToker to Taylor the director ," she continues, "putting this shot over this line, looking back on those lyrics now, I think this might be one of her ways of acknowledging that this was never as real to him, and in fact, he might have even been trying to recreate the type of relationship he had when he was her age.Recent Examples on the Web Each year on Passover, Jews around the world retell the story of Exodus during the seder, remembering when the Israelites fled Egypt in search of freedom. In "All Too Well," the upside-down kiss between Sink and O'Brien - initiated by O'Brien's character - plays over the line, "Back before you lost the one real thing you've ever known."Īccording to one popular TikTok, which currently has 4 million views and nearly 800,000 likes, this shot was an intentional nod to Gyllenhaal's previous relationship with Dunst. In "Spider-Man 2," released in 2004, Dunst's character tries to recreate the upside-down kiss with a different love interest, in an attempt to recapture the magic of her previous relationship. The couple went on to share a home in Los Angeles and even adopted a puppy together before they split in 2004. Mere months later, she began dating Gyllenhaal, who was 21. "Spider-Man" hit theaters in 2002, just before Dunst turned 20 years old. In the film's most iconic scene, Maguire hangs upside down and Dunst removes the bottom part of his mask to kiss him. Sam Raimi's "Spider-Man" stars Tobey Maguire as the title character and Kirsten Dunst as his love interest, Mary Jane Watson. The scene suggests that Swift was trying her best to understand her ex and see beyond her infatuation with him, while he was falling in love with an idealized version of her. It could also be a nod to the projection described in the third verse: "The idea you had of me, who was she? / A never-needy, ever-lovely jewel whose shine reflects on you." This seems to depict the song's fourth verse, when Swift sings, "'Cause there we are again when I loved you so / Back before you lost the one real thing you've ever known / It was rare, I was there, I remember it all too well." When he asks her to clarify, she replies, "I don't know I just feel like, maybe I made you up." ![]() In their first scene together, Sink's character asks O'Brien, "Are you real?" Sadie Sink, 19, and Dylan O'Brien, 29, star in the short film, apparently reinacting the ill-fated relationship that inspired Swift to write "All Too Well." Their characters are listed simply as "Her" and "Him" in the film's end credits. Sadie Sink and Dylan O'Brien in "All Too Well." "Tonight I Can Write," the penultimate poem in the collection, ends with a half-hearted promise that Neruda won't write about the woman he lost anymore ("Though this be the last pain that she makes me suffer, and these the last verses that I write for her.") It was included in a collection titled "Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada," or, "Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair," which is now known as his most celebrated work. ![]() Neruda was 19 years old when "Tonight I Can Write" was published in 1924. The two were first linked in October 2010 and reportedly split just before the new year, shortly after Swift turned 21. Much of "Red" was apparently inspired by Swift's relationship with Jake Gyllenhaal - which, to the public's knowledge, lasted just three months. "They are the moments you saw sparks that weren't really there, felt stars aligning without having any proof, saw your future before it happened, and then saw it slip away without any warning." "And when we're trying to move on the moments we always go back to aren't the mundane ones," she continued. "It's a line I've related to in my saddest moments, when I needed to know someone else had felt that exact same way," Swift wrote. Swift previously included this quote in the liner notes for "Red" when it was originally released in 2012. In a poem titled "Puedo Escribir Los Versos," widely known as "Tonight I Can Write," Pablo Neruda wrote, "Es tan corto el amor, y es tan largo el olvido." In English, this translates to, "Love is so short, forgetting is so long." Pablo Neruda was a Chilean poet born in 1904. ![]() Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. ![]()
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