Barry Lyndon (1975)

Jerel 2022-04-22 07:01:09

Worth a visit just for photography

First-class photography, even if the British countryside is already beautiful, who knows if it is not like this? Every shot: villages, castles, palaces, abandoned bridges, boats in the river, trails by the river, lovers in the garden, fallen soldiers on the battlefield, pistols in the hands of duelists, evening, morning When the fog rises, when the duke summons, ..., everything is beautiful, just like the "Hunter's Notes" in Russia. Driven by the plot to unfold to the audience. The male protagonist Barry Lyndon is almost a British version of Julien, growing from a simple boy to a villain, and the high society like him is not surprised to despise him in order to maintain his morality; but not as good as "Red". The depth of "And the Black", for example, the film did not doubt the society itself, nor questioned life, nor dared to tease the Mao of the church.

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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.