Frequent contacts with all kinds of high society figures, constantly looking for new rich "hosts", full of fancy clothes, elegant and uninhibited, behind the extravagance is the desolation of a chicken feather and the tragic and desolate life experience, Hepburn has a good balance. This contradiction of Holly's character.
She is romantic and realistic. Her "reality" comes from the lack of material and the great uncertainty and insecurity about future life. Although she mediates in the social field and makes all kinds of "little people" bow down under the pomegranate skirt, she is very fond of her. Love is dazed, all I do is for my younger brother, so I go crazy to find a golden tortoise-in-law, and hand over my life to a rich man who does not love, just to ensure that after retiring. My younger brother's life is no longer as embarrassing as he was when he was a child, and he can live a better life. The hysteria after receiving the telegram of her brother's death, and the tears streaming down her face was the shattering of hope and the end of all past purposes. She was even more elusive, and she just continued on the path that she had been stunned and lost.
The appearance of Wei Paulo seemed to me as if she had laid a clean, flat grass in her life, where she could run, laugh, and roll at will, although she didn't realize it at first. He has seen her arrogance, her pretentiousness, her beauty, innocence, and strangeness, as well as her loneliness, frailty, and at a loss, he knows her helplessness behind her pursuit of material money, when he hopes to accompany her to share the burden He fell in love with her when she was in pain and trouble. When he was the "lover" of Mrs. Fu, an interior designer, he was a down-to-earth writer who had to live off other people's tips. If economic power was in the hands of others, he had already lost the right to independence, and a person who could not enjoy independence would have no Freedom and dignity, so whenever Holly mentions it, he will feel embarrassed and inferior, and this embarrassment and inferiority make him hate this kind of life that needs to rely on others to live. He fell in love with Holly, not only because of sympathy, but also because Holly made him feel that his existence had value, that he was seen and needed by another lovely soul, he wanted to protect her, and the sense of being needed as a man made him feel It made him full and strong inside of him for the sake of his self-esteem as a real person. When he got the first royalties that he earned with his own labor, the feeling was like a man in shackles was finally liberated, and he could finally give his sweetheart material conditions through his own efforts, and he no longer needed to be restrained. Under the control of the lover, you can welcome your own new life, and you can rest assured to pursue love. Say goodbye to the imprisoned self in the past without paying a penny, and feel relaxed.
There are two scenes in the film that make me sad. One is when Wei Paul broke up with Mrs. Fu, and Mrs. Fu thought she could use a check to control him, which was tantamount to trampling his dignity underfoot; One is that Wei Paul regained his freedom after breaking up with a ring engraved with the heroine's name. When he found her in the public library and declared his love to her with joy and solemnity, he watched Holly return to the track of blindly worshipping money. Giving her a check for "fifty dollars for the dressing room" in a complicated mood was another powerful dose of irony. Bread and love seem to be an eternal topic about choice, but in fact there is no need to choose, it is not a choice, the two coexist. Money is important, and the material foundation can give people basic needs, the capital, dignity and self-worth of survival. Love is not a vacuum, and it needs material foundation to support it as a part of life. Money serves life and lays the foundation for the life you like and want, but if money becomes a weapon that tramples on the dignity of others, enslaves others, or is kidnapped by money, it loses its value when it loses its heart and suffers. and meaning.
Holly's pain and helplessness about life come from paranoia about money. She doesn't know what she wants, but only thinks money can make her feel at ease. This is the shadow her past life has cast on her. She is very strong. She rejected being an accessory of a man, so she divorced her ex-husband who turned over her old account of stealing things for a living when she was a child, and when she finally quarreled with the male protagonist, she said that she was like a cat without a name and did not belong to anyone. She just didn't want to go back to the life enslaved by money in the past. She thought that changing the environment to another place and constantly looking for rich people to marry would solve her current situation of being unable to escape from life, but she didn't realize that she was trapped in this kind of quagmire. In the book, as Wei Paulo said: "You are already in a cage, you built it with your own hands, no matter where you go, you are always trapped in yourself." Wei Paulo finally broke her fantasy and made her realize The blind cycle of pursuing money has ruined her life and made her sober. Wearing a chocolate ring is a turning point in her life, and it is also the first time she has made a choice for her life according to her own wishes, She was not Remy, not Holly, but herself. In the rain, she found her cat, her lost self, and her love.
Finally, I still want to say that the cats in the play are really cute!
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