Sometimes all you need is a simple reason

Pearl 2022-04-19 09:02:00

I went to see the veil today. The movie was watched in a cinema that is not bad, but definitely not professional. At the end of the long alley, it turns left and right. It's a small place. No matter how you look at it, it feels like a temporary renovation. In the place, there is no professional impression and the chairs are the same as the familiar movie theater, surrounded by gangs of people in pairs and piles, I don't know what everyone is watching this movie for. It is said that the box office of the movie is quite cold. After I came back, I really searched for a while before I found a place to show it. There are only a few poor shows a day, in the smallest hall.

In fact, there is no hope that I will not see the original English version. But when Edward Norton spoke up, I had no idea it was just the beginning of a surprise.

The story was calm at the beginning, I thought it might be a boring story, nothing more than a relationship problem. But what happened next took me by surprise.

Watts, a lady of high society, had to marry someone she didn't love because of family reasons.
Norton, a slightly neurotic bacteriologist, Watts' husband, is also someone Miss Watts doesn't love.

Watts had to follow Norton to Shanghai, so a third party appeared. She made Watts feel that she fell in love with someone for the first time, and became a betrayal for the first time. Of course, it is not denied that she is also the first become a victim. And the other victim, Norton, became the punisher, and there was a picture at the beginning of the next story. So the story becomes a betrayal by a foreign country, a life-and-death punishment, two confessions, two forgiveness, and one death.

In the process of watching the movie, there is always an unforgettable feeling, several times of watts crying, not being trusted, deceived, punished, forgiven, and finally repented. That kind of pain, along with Watts' tears, runs through the film from beginning to end. However, when everything finally went through all the pain and disaster, there was some hope and a turning point, Norton, died like this, suddenly, the last sentence was, forget me. The movie ends in watts' love for her husband , Although, that person has left, yes, but when everything is gone, we may really realize it.

But what really attracts me is still not the heroine who has such a performance and the story, but Norton.

I don't know if I can accept this ending, I always feel that I am really being punished, except for Watts, in fact, Norton is also, and A person who suffered much more. I'll look back and wonder why he punished her just because she betrayed him, no, he did it, maybe just because he punished himself, punished him, why didn't he realise sooner that she wouldn't love him , punish himself by punishing the one he loves the most. I believe that from the beginning to the end, Norton was in extreme pain, so he went crazy and went to seek death in that hell on earth, but he also knew that he always loved the lady who went down the stairs, so he had , ate the uncooked food together, and saved his wife despite the danger. Later, I walked out of the theater and looked at the brightly lit street and the cold wind on my face. I accepted this ending. After all, when Norton died, he had already made the person he loved fall in love with himself, and let the one who once said, " A man can't make a woman fall in love with a woman who is his own fault" and fell in love with himself. At this moment, death may be the best outcome.

When there is no future, we can only enjoy the present to the fullest.

But why did that woman end up falling in love with him? Nobody knows why. I don't know yet.

Recently, I always feel that I want to live in a big house by myself. Maybe the house is not big, but I am alone. I will feel big and start taking care of myself, making milk tea by myself, cooking by myself, making noodles by myself. There are books on cooking, and I haven't seen the sunrise for a long time. Check out the sunrise today.

In fact, the world of men does not need to be profound, let alone justification. What is needed is only the simplest reason, and there is no simple reason.

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The Painted Veil quotes

  • Colonel Yu: I think China belongs to the Chinese people, but the rest of the world seems to disagree.

  • Kitty Fane: Men are incalculable. I thought you were just like everybody else, and now I feel I don't know the first thing about you.