Beyond Giving and Getting: Spiritual Love and Realistic Love

Michel 2022-04-20 09:01:41

I heard about this classic many years ago, but I was too young and thought it was terrible, so I didn't watch it.
A long time ago, I had read a book in both Chinese and English. I was still young, and I told the emotional things in it. I was only attracted by the mysterious atmosphere and storyline. I thought that the Phantom Baron Christine was compared to the bad prince and princess. child thinking.
When I was in college, there was a friend in the dormitory who liked literature. He often discussed with me. The topic started when I happened to download some songs from The Phantom of the Opera. At this age, I have already begun to get tired of crooked love novels and movies, but the most direct feeling of "love" of "Phantom" is that it is impossible, although he is talented and rare, he can only sigh.
Later, I watched this movie in boredom, and I had already promised what I paid for, but I had a little sense of it.
It is true that this work is so classic because it dares to express such a thought: what you pay for may not be rewarded, and this is especially true for love.
In any era, people's understanding of love first comes from various descriptions about it. It is a common law of love that lovers get married, and they are grateful and promised each other.
People's understanding of love is often mixed with moral rules, but this work implicitly and powerfully expresses that love is just a natural emotion of human beings, it is so simple.
"The Phantom" gave Christine everything he had. In a world where he created only him and her, he was so elegant and powerful. In fact, it was hard to say that Christine didn't love him, at least when she had seen him. This statement is inaccurate before the truth. The baron's handsomeness and gentleness are in the light, but in the gloomy darkness and the "dreamland" where the blurred candlelight flickers, the sound of the voice, the fiery eyes and the strong and elegant character that day, the mystery behind the mask, Chris. Ting would not remain indifferent.
From this, I think of Wuthering Heights, the situation is actually very similar to the handsome and gentle Thrush Grange owner Edgar's love for the beautiful Casey, impeccable, and Casey will never forget the gypsy who had nothing and was picked up by his father. Outcast Heathcliff. The gentleman's graceful infatuation is hidden under the arrogance of the "rogue", and the noble lily loses to the bewitching poppy.
And "Phantom" is not such a bunch of "poppy"?
If Kristin hadn't unmasked him so early, nothing would have been known. What really ended the dream was that Christine couldn't face his face. Of course, it wasn't her fault. The unexpected ugliness ruined the beautiful dream in her heart. She should have imagined the appearance of "angel" countless times in her mind. , but inadvertently glimpsed the "devil"!
This "unacceptable" forced all previous feelings to come to an end, because love means getting along day and night, and looking at each other, and this is the easiest torture that is the most difficult to achieve.
In fact, he is very clear in his heart that the world has prejudice against appearance, and he also hopes to weave his love with her with an equal and ordinary mood.
I think "The Phantom" didn't want her to repay him from the beginning, and he knew very well that the repayment was not love. Aside from his appearance, he is a man with enough charm and self-confidence. He doesn't need anyone's return to get love. He only lacks a normal and ordinary face.
However, when Christine knew how she felt, things got out of hand. All his efforts and emotions, the only ray of sunshine in his desperate life, but because he disliked the appearance that he hated, he easily abandoned himself and flew away.
He was completely desperate, she was gone, and there would be no second Christine.
He got pissed, and tried every means to break up her and the baron, even hurting people's lives.
However, when he finally succeeded, he let go of her and let her and her lover leave quickly, quickly.
Because at that moment, he finally knew that he didn't want the love of charity, the love of return.
In fact, the end of the film can be opened, until death, the baroness could not let go of this shadow in her heart, but let her choose a thousand times, she will still choose the baron.
It's not that she has no love for him, she just can't get along with him day and night.
She also thinks of "Huo Xiaoyu Biography" in which she has met many men in her life, and the one who will never forget it is a foreign prince, but the relationship between them is very short, and they don't even know much about them. However, the man who accompanied her for decades was a much mediocre man. Before she died, the man suspected her of being unfaithful and wanted to leave her, which almost killed her. Someone asked her, since you have been thinking about the other man, why does it matter whether you can go or not? Huo Xiaoyu replied: I miss that prince, because his figure in my heart is so handsome and so unreachable, but I also know that the person who has been in the same bed for so many years is inseparable.
There may be many kinds of love, one of which is in a dream.

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The Phantom of the Opera quotes

  • The Phantom: Seal my fate tonight. I hate to have to cut the fun short, but the joke's wearing thin. Let the audience in. Let my opera BEGIN!

  • Raoul: [angryly] Why make her lie to you to save me?