"Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness, and they live by what they hear, such people become crazy, or they become legends." People are either crazy or become legends)
This is the first sentence of the film, I think, also explains its soul.
It's a story about following your inner voice, and it's a story about the lives of those who have been exiled.
Legends of the Fall. This film, translated as "The Years of Love", has been watched many times.
Every time I see it, there is a different understanding. Maybe these differences in understanding can only be attributed to the mood of this moment and that moment.
When I was younger, I sympathized with Susannah for the letter that said "marry another".
Then, suddenly, I began to understand Triston. If a person believes that he is deeply sinful, his soul will never be redeemed. His heart has never been truly peaceful, even in the mountain village that is as calm as water, even if there is a woman who is as calm as water lying beside him. Everything is always in front of his eyes. Everything, he couldn't let go. I can't let go, so I can only exile. The more the body suffers, the less the soul suffers. So he banished his body for a moment of peace of mind.
From this point of view, perhaps Susannah didn't really know Triston. So she once naively thought "However long it takes, I will wait for you forever".
There is a kind of person who is born with a restless element in his blood. Such a person is destined to live a life of wandering.
And it seems that falling in love with an unruly soul is destined to be a tragedy, and your fate will be sucked into his life, only to obtain a short-lived dreamlike happiness, and then disappear.
People are always prone to fall in love with things they don't have, including character. Those quiet and gentle women are easily attracted by unrestrained and free souls. And those men who are fanatical and restless, have a deep desire for a quiet harbor where they can rest.
So, Alfred said "I followed all the rules. Man's and God's. And you … You followed none of them. And they all love you more. Samuel. Father...Even my own wife." (I followed all the rules, God's and man's. And you? You don't follow any rules, but they love you more than me, brother, dad, even my wife.)
In the spiritual world, they may become best friends, but in love, they often hurt each other. What kind of strong mind can accommodate this uninhibited free soul? They are not all the way, blindly obsessed, can only exhaust their faces in the endless waiting. Faith is too fragile to resist the passage of time and the distance of space; and the emptiness of the soul is so close and urgent, so she finally compromised, for her "Forever turns out to be too long."
Therefore, he abandoned her happiness, she betrayed his eternity.
Maybe Isabelle is the happy one who seeks benevolence. She fulfilled her dream, married the man she always wanted to marry, had children, and lived a simple and peaceful life. Maybe she knew the many holes in his heart, and she knew that she couldn't touch those holes. Therefore, she chose silence. She knew she wouldn't bring him relief, but she could bring him peace and no pain.
Those who have been exiled after all may be living for their own ideals, for following the calling of their hearts.
Either freedom, or deep love.
It's just that sometimes life forms are too extreme. After all, no one can afford a life that is too dramatic.
But people should follow the inner call at least once in their life and go to their own destination, so that they will not regret wasting their time.
Our inner voice is so clear, but we always continue the trajectory of an ordinary person. You can't promise to anyone forever, you won't spend your whole life admiring and waiting, the person you like often won't become the person you love the most, and the person you love the most often won't become the person who will be together in the end. Being obsessed is the most terrifying thing. Those frustrations and helplessness in life can’t be told, and they can only gradually disappear into the torrent of time.
In the final analysis, it is the lack of the kind of courage to risk a lifetime.
It turns out that we are so selfish.
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