in the dust

Marcia 2022-04-20 09:01:41

To be honest, when I watched the movie, I didn't really know what the movie was about. The main reason is that the heroine's past experience is vague and unresolved. From the beginning to the end, it is the acting of Vivien Leigh and Brando! ! The film is really born out of drama. The entire 2-hour movie is 95% in two scenes: the room interior and the doorway outside the stairs. Vivien Leigh has a lot of close-ups of her facial expressions, especially her half-insanity look. After I came back and checked some information, I found that the highlight of this film is the acting skills of the two protagonists, and the plot is really not important. In modern terms, it shows those girls whose hearts are higher than the sky and their lives are thinner than paper. They live in the dust, but they fantasize about an elegant and leisurely life; they earn a lunch box for themselves, but their minds are full of poetry, cruise vacations, dramas and concerts. Before there was no Internet, all this was interpreted as a very literary phenomenon: human desires, broken dreams, rough reality, and so on. Now with the Internet people are sharper and meaner than before, and this phenomenon can be summed up in one word: Mary Sue fantasy. If you have the life of the princess, you can do whatever you want with your dreams, such as Paris and Victoria; but if you don't have the life of the princess, you don't have to get the disease of the princess. An ordinary person lives every day. If you think that you should be a princess, then go for it yourself. Princess Kate is a typical example. Without the princess's life, she still sighs all day long, lamenting that the people around her are so rude and vulgar, and their living conditions are poor, so that's it. . . . . . . . . . Brando is so evil in this movie. Especially when the facial expressions are photographed in close-up, the undercurrent of indifference, rough simplicity and ferocity. But, however, the last thing I want to say is: Vivien Leigh is so beautiful! ! Every time she pulled the corner of her mouth and laughed, my whole soul flew out~~~~~~

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  • Garnett 2021-12-08 08:01:38

    The questions and thinking about men and women will not start. Just agree with and practice Brando's line: I never say sweet words, similar to complimenting a woman's looks. I don't believe that women don't know if they look good or not. But there are still many people who are pretentious. Someone once told me that I was the most attractive woman, but so what. You know there are a lot of men with a mouth and a sword, some don't, and I belong to the latter. No woman can confuse me, I am simple, direct and sincere, and a bit rude. A woman must be honest with me if she wants to attract me.

  • Braeden 2022-03-27 09:01:06

    When I read "Death of a Salesman", I paid attention to this film. Since Eugene O'Neal, Tennessee Williams has taken the route of Strindberg, or the mental state of analysis. Different with Arthur Miller and Edward Albee.

A Streetcar Named Desire quotes

  • Stanley: I never met a dame yet that didn't know if she was good-looking or not without being told, and there's some of them that give themselves credit for more than they've got.

  • Blanche: Whoever you are, I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.