| The Platters – Smoke Gets In Your Eyes Lyrics | 4 years ago |
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@[Harriet132:31196] It’s certainly by no accident this song about lost love was used in the film. The lyrics throughout apply so well to Kate and Geoff’s relationship, but the last two stanzas are particularly on point for BOTH characters: “Yet today my love has flown away, I am without my love” (for Geoff, this is Katya, and [SPOILER ALERT—SCROLL DOWN] . . . . . . . . . . . [SPOILER] the child that Katya was pregnant with. For Kate, its the loss of not only the man that she thought was her true love for 45 years to a memory, but also to a life that could have been. For example, it was Geoff who never wanted children, and now she realizes it was because Geoff had conceived a child, encased in ice and preserved, with his true love. “Now laughing friends deride Tears I cannot hide” The party at the end, including tears held back but finally released by both Geoff and Kate, sums this up well, along with their encounters with friends throughout the film. “So I smile and say” The happy face they both try to put on throughout the week that the film takes place, with each other, and especially at the party. So many dark, tightly suppressed feelings hidden with smiles. “When a lovely flame dies, smoke gets in your eyes” So many things to unpack—the “lovely flame” being Katya and his lost child for Geoff, and the smoke being “settling” for Kate (or at least the false belief he had put the past behind him and moved on. For Kate, the lovely flame is Geoff, but more subtly, her youth and missed opportunities (a child; someone who truly loved her completely and wanted to capture that love). As a more minor side note, the fact that Kate and Geoff both take up smoking again to deal with the stress, and the fact that Kate first met Geoff with “a cigarette dangling out of your mouth” was no coincidence either. I’m usually not a fan of such contrivances in films, but it works so subtly here it’s almost unrecognizable until you revisit it. |
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