Breakfast at Tiffany's and Moon River

Alverta 2022-04-23 07:01:41

"Breakfast at Tiffany's", the name of this movie is already familiar, but it was not until today that I watched it for the first time. The reason why I suddenly want to watch this film on this sunny morning today may be because of a sentence from S, Blair, you just love to watch breakfast at tiffany's everyday.
The name of this film, I have to say, makes people feel a kind of noble, elegant and feminine. And the heroine is the goddess Audrey Hepburn. There is also an anonymous cat named cat, just like the dog of Cuicui's family in Shen Congwen's "Border Town", pure and sad. In the film, Tiffany is just a symbol, a symbol of nobility and worldly greed. Maybe some women will give up their true love in order to be covered with Tiffany's jewelry, and pursue a life that is luxurious in material and barren in love. . Holly has always been such a woman. Fortunately, at least she still has the capital of beauty. She can meet dignitaries by virtue of her youth and beauty. However, apart from beauty, she has almost nothing, and the rest is only innocent and casual. The reason why she moved Paul. It's a pity that Paul, like many ordinary men today, has nothing but a heart that loves each other, but at least this is a movie, so Paul can still have a handsome appearance. However, if we restore the abstract image of art to real life, we can't help but feel infinite sadness and sadness. One is a girl with ordinary talents who always wants to change her life in the future by marrying a rich second generation, and the other is a plain-looking girl. The poor scholar who has a sincere lover's heart can't even afford to buy a decent diamond ring. There are probably too many such examples in real life, especially in today's money-oriented society, what will be the fate of these two people?
Moon River is one of the few English songs that I came into contact with when I was a child. The beautiful and sad melody always evokes infinite reverie. The ignorant thing is that today I learned that Moon River is the theme song of Breakfast at Tiffany's, and it is also known from this movie. The film was shot in the 1960s. The 1960s was a decade of rebellion, a decade of passion. At that time, there was the Vietnam War, the Cultural Revolution, and the student movement. At that time, the youth of China were against the establishment, the youth of France were against the government, and the United States The young men were against the Vietnam War, the young women were against patriarchy, and everyone was against the vulgar taste of the middle class. So it was a time of burning passion, people no longer believe in financial stability, and turned to romanticism, which is also a trend of the times. So at the end of the film, in the storm, a passage from Paul wakes up Holly. For Holly, perhaps it is only because she has fallen to the lowest point in her life that she understands the meaning of love. Maybe this sentence , is the real awakening of the dreamer. In any case, this is the ending of the whole film, and it is also the highlight of the whole film. Although more than half a century has passed, this sentence can still hit our hearts so deeply. The times have cycles of reincarnation. Words as closing and warning.
“You know what's wrong with you, Miss whoever-you-are, You're chicken! You've got no guts. You are afraid to stick out your chin and say, 'Okay, life's a fact' People do fall in love ,People do belong to each other. Because that's the only chance anybody's got for real happiness. You call yourself a free spirit and wild thing. And you're terrified somebody's going to stick you in a cage. Well, baby, you are already in that cage. You built it yourself...It's whereever you go because no matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself."

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Breakfast at Tiffany's quotes

  • Holly Golightly: He's all right! Aren't you, cat? Poor cat! Poor slob! Poor slob without a name! The way I see it I haven't got the right to give him one. We don't belong to each other. We just took up one day by the river. I don't want to own anything until I find a place where me and things go together. I'm not sure where that is but I know what it is like. It's like Tiffany's.

    Paul Varjak: Tiffany's? You mean the jewelry store?

    Holly Golightly: That's right. I'm just CRAZY about Tiffany's!

  • Holly Golightly: I'm like cat here, a no-name slob. We belong to nobody and nobody belongs to us. We don't even belong to each other.