A very touching movie

Jose 2022-04-22 07:01:09

Just finished watching this movie First of all, the time span of this movie is very large. From the Seven Years War to the late reign of George III; secondly, the director paid great attention to the setting of costumes and background music. It is said that the costumes are completely copied from history, and some costumes are borrowed from museums: let’s talk about emotions. First of all, the protagonist of the title is a simple teenager who is always there at the beginning of a person. He is an infatuated kind who loves his cousin deeply. Then the arrival of the British recruiting officer made him see the truth of the matter: it turned out that the person he loved the most was actually a very realistic person who abandoned him for money and went to Gao Fushuai. It turns out that the so-called love simply cannot stand any test. He no longer believed in love, and he became a very realistic person, which also paved the way for his subsequent neglect and betrayal of his wife. He was very sad and angry, so he duel with the officer, and he killed the other side and became a murderer. In order to resist his fate, he started a life of desperation. But who knows that this is a situation that others have already set up!
Fate made him join the army by accident. After several twists and turns in the war, he was forced to become a Prussian soldier and became a tool used by others. However, he is very good at picking girls. He easily attracted a single woman during the war, and he had a lot of ambiguities with other women after marriage; and fate gave him a chance to use his skills to catch Lived in the heart of a noble woman. Since then, his life has changed 180 degrees.
But in this part, he's reduced to a playboy with nothing to do. The plot of this paragraph is also extremely slow, giving people a sense of the slow atmosphere of truly experiencing the life of the nobles at that time. Of course, he did not continue such an eternal happy life. In middle age, his son died unexpectedly and the family was deeply in debt, which made him extremely sad and lost. The final twist of fate began in a duel with his wife's ex-husband and son. At this moment, he was fortunate to have the perfect opportunity to solve the big trouble. Maybe he is more realistic, but he is not a ruthless person; maybe it was the death of his son that made him feel lost, he didn't hate this "son", but made him not want to cause more tragedies, even if he sacrificed himself. But this decision made him lose all the glitz!
He lost a leg, lost his social identity and left the UK. He became an outlaw again, it turned out that he did not successfully resist the god of fate; it turned out that all this was just a dream...

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  • Narrator: [voice-over] Five years in the English and Prussian army, and some considerable experience of traveling the world, had by now dispelled any of those romantic notions regarding love with which Barry commenced life. And he began to have it in mind, as so many gentlemen had done before him, to marry a woman of great fortune and condition. And, as such things so often happen, these thoughts closely coincided with his setting first sight upon a lady who will henceforth play a considerable part in the drama of his life: the Countess of Lyndon, Viscountess Bullingdon of England, Baroness of Castle Lyndon of the Kingdom of Ireland, a woman of vast wealth and great beauty. She was the wife of The Right Honorable Sir Charles Reginald Lyndon, Knight of the Bath, and Minister to George III at several of the smaller Courts of Europe, a cripple, wheeled about in a chair, worn out by gout and a myriad of other diseases. Her Ladyship's Chaplain, Mr. Runt, acted in the capacity of tutor to her son, the little Viscount Bullingdon, a melancholy little boy, much attached to his mother.

  • Narrator: [voice-over] It would require a great philosopher and historian to explain the causes of the famous Seven Years' War in which Europe was engaged and in which Barry's regiment was now on its way to take part. Let it suffice to say, that England and Prussia were allies and at war against the French, the Swedes, the Russians and the Austrians.