“Love Actually”: What Joni Mitchell’s famous song “Both Sides Now” brings

A masterpiece “Both Sides Now” that has been around for 30 years

This song was first released in 1969 when Joni was 25 years old. It can be said that she was a precocious woman, as she was performing songs with extremely deep themes about life and love at this age.

Approximately 30 years later, this song was released in 2000, and what started out as a single guitar melody became an orchestral version with a profound sound, and a slow melody that makes your heart ache. It's changing. Her singing voice has a depth and strength that comes with age, and even if she sings about the same life and love as before, since she was 25 years old, she has gone through many cycles, changing its shape, shine, and heart. It feels like the tremors are getting deeper and deeper.

Director Richard Curtis uses this song to gently relate to Emma Thompson's condition as she undergoes life's trials. There could have been no better choice for a song that The Natural expresses the innermost feelings of this character who has reached a turning point in his life.

"Love Actually" Joni Mitchell - Both Sides Now

There are other things this song brings to the table. In the first place, this work features a mix of different generations, from teenagers to newlywed couples to people in their 40s and 50s, and this song, which has been sung for 30 years, is a mixture of all of them. It seems to illuminate the characters' past, present, and future from a bird's-eye view, and she can become the core of not only the scene in which Emma Thompson appears, but the entire work.

Lively places become as lively as the blue skies on a sunny day. On the other hand, the heart-wrenching scenes are so soothing. Coupled with the theme of this work that illuminates all aspects of life, "Both Sides Now" is a song that invites you to look at your present self from a distance, going beyond the temporary emotions such as joy, sadness, fun, and anger. It brings a perspective.

It's not just that the songs were used for the movie, it feels like the songs took the movie to a much deeper place. Without a doubt, it is one of the core elements of this film, and if director Richard Curtis had not encountered this song before writing the script, and if he had not continued listening to it so fatefully, this blockbuster movie would not have been possible. It may be said that he was never born or fell.

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