On a sunny afternoon, after an unsuccessful attempt to seduce a woman from a good family, I opened ppstream lightly, trying to spend half a boring holiday lazily. Most of the films on the catalog have been seen - except for those Hong Kong-produced films whose names sound like they were broadcast in the video halls of county-level cities ten years ago. I casually flipped to a Chinese-American co-production, and when I clicked it, it was a beautiful southern scenery. After watching it patiently for a while, I saw a good film.
The 2007 version of the film "The Veil" tells the story of a woman's growth. This woman called kitty was vain and shallow at first. In order to be independent from her parents, she was attached to a man she didn't love. After living in the miserable world, I broadened my horizons, improved my taste, learned to love, gained understanding, and then experienced life and death. If such a story were published in a women's magazine such as Reader's Digest, it would normally
arouse my disgust. Fortunately, the director broke away from the realm of vulgar taste and expressed his sentimentality in a gentle and pleasant way, making people unable to help but wipe away tears.
Before watching the Sino-American co-production of "The Veil," I never had the urge to read Somerset Maugham—even though the writer came into my field of vision more than once in various places. With the help of the movie, the book is a ten-line read. Inadvertently savoring the level of structure, language, and translation, I just want to see how the story is different in Maugham's pen, and what kind of prototype the characters in the film come from.
After a little google, it is said that Maugham was sued by Hong Kong Assistant Chief Secretary Rain after writing the book. It seems that this is a real story. Maugham made a name for criticizing reality, and has a bad taste for angry youths, but the religious sentiments in the book still reveal the author's desire for truth, goodness and beauty. Although I think it would be more fun to quote a few Boccaccio jokes in The Veil, cynicism is not necessarily open-minded, maybe just a clever escape.
In general, the movie is a castration of the tenderness of the original, and it is more suitable for showing your sensitive side when picking up girls. And there are passages in the novel that might have resonated with me a few years ago, like "When I look back on what kind of girl I was, I hate myself so much, but there's nothing I can do. I'm going to raise my daughter, let her Become a free and self-reliant person. I brought her into this world, loved her, raised her, not to let her sleep with which man in the future, and to depend on him for the rest of my life." If Mrs. Zun is a vain and wretched person A woman, and you think she needs to moderate her desire to consume, this book is also a good recommendation for her—provided she has enough patience to spend it reading.
Take the chick to the movies, buy the wife a book, and revel in your comical contradictions. I think The Veil is worth more of your precious time—whether it’s a movie or a book—than the crap that’s trending in movie theaters right now.
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