"Cold Mountain": The Trek of Two Hearts

Burley 2022-04-24 07:01:05

Tonight, my heart set out for you

Tonight, where is your heart wandering



. Introduction:

I have gone to the past, Yang Liu Yiyi. Now let me think about it, rain and snow are falling.

The road is late, full of thirst and hunger. I'm sad, don't know how sad I am.

——"Caiwei·Book of Songs"

war, isolation, going home, reunion...

"Cold Mountain" is a story about deserters and a story about waiting. The deserter got tired of the war, fled the army, went back to Lengshan Town, went back to find ada, the girl in the photo, the girl who was still holding on to the gun smoke on the battlefield...

American Civil War, the North is the Yankee, the South is the nigger . Lengshan is a small town in the south. The men in the town seem to be looking forward to the outbreak of war... Why? ! do not know! The war finally broke out... The men also went to the front line

. Among the men on the front line, some were the son of a mother, and some were the lover of a girl... The flames of war had engulfed them. Besides death, there were more worrying things waiting for them. ...

and I was born to die? ? ?



2. Legend: Just because I glanced at you

inman in the crowd, just like other young men in Lengshan Town, I set foot on the unknown battlefield. What he is most precious on the battlefield is not his life, not the victory of the war. The blood and blood on the battlefield, the ghosts care about the victory of the South or the North in the end. It is the right way to end the war as soon as possible. Inman is most concerned about which book, because there is a photo in that book, wrinkled, it is ada.

When your hair brushes my steel gun. Is it true that every soldier who fights has a girl named Xiaofang, Xiaoli, and Xiaohua deeply buried in their hearts... How much faith can you hold on, and how much courage can you pursue...

There is no contract between inman and ada, and the silent age may really not be too distant to love each other. Therefore, it is destined to leave at seven o'clock and the end of the trek.

Ada and his father came to Lengshan Town. I don't know if it was the woodworker Inman who glanced at Ada or Ada turned around in the carriage. After that, Inman was not only a woodworker, but also a farmer, helping Ada's manor plough the fields. When ada and her father passed by in the carriage, inman was ploughing the field, the sound of the piano is always a good thing, when the four eyes were unable to express love, ada played a song on the piano on the carriage... this is what you can't find The "match between time and people", everything seemed so suitable, country, youth, girl, piano, love...

Of course, Ada didn't want to be Ada, so that inman asked her later, "Why do you always Like holding a tray?", Ada replied slyly: "Why do you always like to stand in the corridor."

Yes, why do we consciously or unconsciously debug and change ourselves? What are we welcoming and approaching? . . If Inman and Ada should have some other fried rice cake promises or contracts apart from sparks, then Inman kissed Ada in front of the cabin before the expedition, I think so.



3. Calmness: The place where the mind slept before

death and after being shot, the men in Lengshan were not willing to listen to a slogan of agitation or victory. They all talked about Pigeon River and Lengshan Town in unison. The skies of war are hazy and dark clouds overwhelm the city. Lengshan Town under the weight of war is not only colorful and idyllic. In the tranquil manor of Lengshan, there are often black crows that cannot be driven away, Black crow...

illusion of pastoral. In American culture, burying loyal bones in Qingshan seems to be unworkable. Just like in Jung's psychology, each person integrates some prototype symbols and some symbols from cultural genes... Just like "Father's Prairie Mother's River" is very popular in Mongolian culture, it is The green and fragrant grasslands that can be seen and smelled, the rivers that can accept all sorrows and joys...

The young people who went out of Lengshan Town, those symbols in their cultural genes, when their lives came to an end, when they were convinced and exhausted by the war, their emotions erupted so strongly...



4. Wandering: the trek of two hearts

Running away from battle is a great distrust and disgust for war. After being injured, Inman finally received a letter from Anda, and only then did he experience what is called "a letter from home".

ada wrote: "if you are frighting, stop frighting

if you are marching, stop marching

come back to me"

Compared with Chinese women persuading their husbands to fight, American women appear to be more selfish. As early as Du Fu's "Farewell to the Newlyweds", he also described a woman's thoughts: "Marrying a daughter and seeking a husband, it is better to abandon the road... Farewell in the evening and morning, nothing is too hasty...

You are going to die today, and the pain is overwhelming.

If you want to go with the king, the situation will turn pale.

Don’t think about the wedding, and work hard in the army.

The woman is in the army, and the spirit of the army will not be high.”

The days of deserters in the war should not be smooth sailing. Struggling from a rotten hospital bed is a challenge to oneself, and escaping from the barracks to the Cold Mountain is a challenge to the entire war environment. During the period of desertion, I met the same deserter, met the 'Judas' who betrayed him, met the person who took in him...

A little girl under the chaos of war, life will not be much better. With the remaining trace of courage, he believed that after his father passed away, the man who had only made eye contact with him a few times was worth waiting for. Under the pressure of life, I thought about pawning my father's pocket watch and accepting the salty pork from Xinsara. Fortunately, there is a female worker and girlfriend Ruby, and their lives are rekindled with hope

In addition to the hardships on the road, the uncertainty in the "mental path" also tormented them. Inman will wonder: "Does she still remember what I look like?" Ada will ask frighteningly after turning over the signs of the fallen men in Lengshan: "Can he come back, my lover, where are you?"



Fifth, reunion: I see snow falling again

. At this time, you and I are facing each other and staring at the sky, the rhythm of the heart is chaotic, and the distance between

you and me is blocked. The reunion of you and me is like this sudden snowflake that surprises and splendidly

lifts the dense Snow curtain Your smile blooms on your peach-colored face
Just like winter is the recovery of spring Behind the heavy snow curtain, there is your warm smile , I
want to run towards you quickly, but the double sex that does not obey is just I slowly moved

a snowflake across the bridge of my nose, and it was melted by my scorching breath, but the water droplets fell down the bridge of my nose like my chest was soaked, and my clothes were drenched in my heart
. Gradually, your outline became clear in the mist until I can clearly watch a snowflake resting on your long eyelashes and look at each other with a

sense of dismay knowing that it is an old friend who came when we invariably look at each other and smile to each other



. When it was snowing, the Chinese teacher wrote prose like this in the composition class, but the reunion of Inman and Ada did not follow the tone of Xiaowenyi. Their reunion was a little dramatic. At this time, inman was full of stubble and exhausted. At this time, Ada was strong enough to control life. Ada held a shotgun at this "soldier ruffian" in the distance, and repeatedly shouted not to come close...

inman's eyes From flashing joy to dim sadness, he was stunned in the snow for a few seconds, and he was afraid that his worries would really come true: "Will she still remember me?" So he turned, and his soul was evacuated...

we barely know each other , it was a few moments

I understood another translation of the movie: Love in Troubled Times



, War: Snow White and Blood Red

Under the haze of war, individuals cannot escape the fate of the times. Inman's eventual death is an inevitable tragedy. The blood on the white snow was oozing red. We will persist in not believing, it is because we are not brave enough.

ada is brave! She believes: the land will not heal, too much blood

the heart will not heal...

all we can do is make peace with the past,

and try to learn from it





The trek of the two hearts, as long as there is resonance, will believe, as long as There is a belief, thousands of miles, all under your feet.

Together, not together, after all, can not control, ada really no longer see inman at the bottom of the well, she felt at ease. She is grateful for life, she has traveled and grown under the belief he gave... In life, she sees full of hope...

Hope is given by herself, because she makes her garden full of flowers and her grass. Climbing with Aries... Happiness is right in front of you...

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Extended Reading

Cold Mountain quotes

  • Inman: But I'm a deserter. If they find me here things could get bad for you.

    Maddy: What are they gonna do? Cut short me young life?

  • Ruby: I despise a floggin' rooster.