I watched it for the first time when I was 15 years old, and it has been ten years since I watched it again.
After reading Michael Cunningham's original English novel three times, it has become one of my favorite modern English novels.
There are so many points to be heartbroken.
I just want to talk about those kisses.
Mrs. Dalloway once kissed a woman in Virginia's novel, and this wonderful past between the same sex made her unforgettable for a long time. The original version of the kiss was Virginia herself. Her trans-love relationship with Leonard is one aspect of her complicated life, and her redemption at the same time. She herself is gay, and I think her reliance on Leonard is from the Electra. She herself could not accept having sex with men, which stemmed from being sexually assaulted by her two half-brothers when she was a child. In Virginia's novels, flowers, birds, water and kisses are almost indispensable objects in her life.
Speaking of that kiss, after she married Leonard, there were several women in Virginia's life, and one of them was the most unforgettable, she even wrote her novel Orlando "Orlando" for that woman . They fell in love after kissing, and then spent years together and traveled through Europe together, which Leonard knew. Leonard's love for Virginia transcends the flesh and is platonic. The two never parted their lives, it was a good story.
Second is the kiss between Laura Brown and Kitty. Laura and Kitty have known each other since childhood, and their later husbands were both high school classmates with them. Laura falls in love with Kitty after discovering she's gay (before marrying Dan, which is the implied meaning of the book), and the burly, sexually charged woman becomes the object of her fantasy. They kiss, and in the end Kitty pushes Laura away, and she abandons her son and goes away in despair.
It was Richard and Clarissa's youthful kiss again. Until Richard committed suicide, he still talked about their love when they were young, the regret of not being together, and the unforgettable kiss.
Time has changed everyone, and it is always in front of us all the time. 'Always, the hours.' Only the brave survived. All parties are held for those who are brave and alive. If you forget how to survive, please remember our youth, our kiss.
(Some of the content is inconsistent with the movie mainly because most of it is based on the original novel)
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