"If a man can't make a woman fall in love with him, it's his fault".
I suddenly remembered that in "Robin" I watched yesterday, it was said that the party who confessed first in love lost the initiative. Walter fell in love with Kitty from the first sight, so his efforts were taken for granted, while the other party didn't think it was precious, indifferent and indifferent. Indeed, the love of a germ doctor should be very real.
Should she be forgiven if she betrayed him? There is punishment and forgiveness. I envy such a man. If there is hatred, I understand love. If everyone is imperfect, please be tolerant of imperfections. Some people say that he took her to the town to kill her, but I think he is to let her see the reality clearly, out of love for her, to get her out of her impetuous life. Aside from some flaws in the plot of the movie, this is really a classic reading for women's spiritual awakening. The process of awakening is also the process of her re-understanding of life and love. Only in the face of life and death will the veil of life be slowly lifted.
I thought the heroine would die and let her pass away with hatred after she truly felt love. But the director arranged for Norton to die, think about it, this is more wise, the deceased will live forever, Kitty gave birth to Little Walter, redeemed his soul, and conformed to the religious habits of Westerners. Women are always stupid when faced with some sudden, seemingly romantic encounter, and if they're lucky, there may be a man who is smart and dedicated like Walter waiting, or nothing.
"Women don't fall in love with a man just because he is virtuous." But if the man is not virtuous, don't fall in love with him. Serious topic, but it's less disgusting to have the Brits discussing it.
"The Veil" II - China
in the Eyes of Others When I was studying Bible culture, a class teacher suddenly mentioned the moon and sixpence, so I went to the library to find the original book, but I haven't seen the beauty of Tahiti I put the book aside for the scenery, and my understanding of Maugham is limited to him being G. The Chinese style written on the veil is mostly of bamboo. According to the mountains and water, as well as the mixed Mandarin and Cantonese inside, I guess it should be around Guilin. (On the Internet, it is said in Huangyao Ancient Town, Hezhou) I always feel that looking at a veil is like looking at a British patient, with hairstyles, clothes, and exotic customs.
Bamboo: In the films of Ang Lee and Zhang Yimou, there was a battle of bamboo forests. This is a very regional artistic symbol. Except for the waterwheels, bamboo rafts, and hats in the films of Bamboo Forest, they are all deformations of bamboo. First of all, the audience's preset was brought to a small town with beautiful scenery in China.
Peking Opera: The arrangement of Peking Opera in the middle not only highlights the background of China, but also expresses the feelings of the heroine at that time through the words of others through the story of the drama. It is also known that her mind was seen through by others at that time.
Transportation: sedan chair, sliding pole, rickshaw, buffalo.
Feng shui: Chinese folk are very particular about feng shui. Mountains and water are the most basic prerequisites for feng shui treasures. The land in the movie has these two points. Count foreigners to express their shallow understanding.
Characters: Characters are souls, and Chinese people of different classes in the film are represented. 1 Xia Yu, perhaps because of the international reputation of Sunny Days, Xia Yu has always been favored by such co-productions. This time his role is not painful or itchy. weak. 2 Huang Qiusheng, well-educated and socially active, the backbone of change. 3 Lu Yan, this eldest sister is so ugly that people don't want to look at her, opium, peacock, belly pocket, goldfish, small eyes~~ This is the Western definition of China's declining aristocracy! 4 Han San, an English-speaking servant in Shanghai, an ordinary laborer in the metropolis. 5 Deming, a lost country lady, kind, hard-working, curious about foreigners, superstitious, the most ordinary Chinese people. 6 The young men who besieged Kitty, who seemed to be mostly students, had patriotic zeal but lacked judgment, revolutionary activists, radical forces. 7 The local people, Walter blocked the polluted well water and proposed to relocate the cemetery, all of which were strongly opposed by the local people. Moreover, they have a very strong local awareness and require the local Overseer to come forward to solve the problem, and they should be representatives of conservative forces. 8 The Overseer, wearing the same ridiculous uniform as Yuan Shikai, bald, fat, only sweeps the snow in front of the door, the representative of the warlord.
Narrative: Since it is a Hollywood film, it is inevitable to set a lot of patterns, and it is still very traditional in form. Walt falls in love with Kitty at first sight, the scene of Kitty walking down the stairs occurs twice, the second time in the form of a flashback, when Walt sees his wife and children playing the piano and falls in love again And forgive her, this repetition represents the return of feelings. The scene of the flower shop also appears twice, one is Walter and Kitty going together, and the other is Little Walter and Kitty, which appear at the beginning and the end respectively, which is a form of echo. There are also many foreshadowings, such as the first time in the flower shop, Kitty said why people take time to take care of things that will eventually die, and in the end, she took care of her husband and watched him die.
Religious disputes: I learned about the contradiction between religion in England and the Holy See after seeing Elizabeth II. It is also shown here. Water has a lot of criticisms about the French nuns in the convent, thinking that they are to develop more Catholics It is not entirely out of humanitarian help that I stayed in China.
PS: The dialogue between Walter and Colonel Yu seems to want to divide the relationship between a conscientious individual and an aggressor country. It must be said that this is a soft ideological whitewash. Water represents science, while China is ignorance. There is a curious element in the viewing of others. The distant China does not exist in our memory, and these images are completely new to us.
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