After reading the whole of the first season, the most exciting is the ninth episode. The game of micro-expressions, the ingenious line design, the brilliant editing, the pictures, the background music and the use of light and shadow are all art.
One of the magnificent and shocking images: the painter sits with Churchill in a dimly lit room, a faint beam of light hits the window from the window, the painter said that the pond that Churchill painted was a hidden deep unspeakable sadness and Churchill did not believe it until he recalled when he first painted the pond My own experience was a moment of amazement and sluggishness. The background music sounded and the two people's constant expressions changed until Churchill's driving away was too artistic.
Picture 2: Churchill ordered someone to burn the aged portrait of him painted by a realist painter on the grass outside the house. So this is Churchill finally succumbing to admitting his old age and still reluctant to face his twilight years and trying to make it clear? This scene inexplicably reminds me of the blind painter in The Moon and Sixpence who ended up painting an entire wall in his house on the island. It was the pinnacle of his life. The last fire of the masterpiece burned him and his paintings together, and he was buried here forever.
Perhaps, Churchill's former glory and the glory of the British Empire will also be burned down with this fire and buried here forever.
If you see aging, it is aging, and if you see weakness, it is weakness. That is the truth. It was the struggle of an aging Churchill, and the struggle of an aging British Empire that was beginning to decline.
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