When love faces responsibility

Hazle 2022-04-24 07:01:14

A covered bridge witnessed the love of two middle-aged people. The second time I watched "Long Dreams of the Covered Bridge", I was still deeply moved by the parting of the last two people in the film in the rain.

For love, whether in real life or in film and television works, there are too many people who sacrifice everything for love, and the concept of the supremacy of love is deeply imprinted in the hearts of many young people. Since ancient times, there has been a saying that life is precious and love is more expensive. It can be seen that love is more important than life in the eyes of Sandor Petofi, the Hungarian poet. In the film, Francesca, who was alone at home because her husband and children were out, met Robert Kincaid, a photographer who came to ask for directions. From him, Francesca felt a feeling she had never had in her husband. Robert Kincaid said to her: This exact love comes only once in a lifetime. In the face of this belated true love, Francesca did not pursue it desperately, but chose to stay in her family. In her heart, responsibility, especially for the family, is above all else. If she chooses to leave, it will hurt her husband and two children. In her eyes, her husband is an ordinary American rural farmer. He has done nothing wrong in his life, and has always loved himself. It would be unfair to him to leave him. And although her children have grown up, they are still underage, and the harm that her rash departure will bring to them will undoubtedly be huge. In the face of responsibility and morality, Francesca, no matter how painful it was and how difficult it was to make a choice, still left herself in her husband's car on that rainy day. From the moment Robert Kincaid came to her in the rain, she It was already understood that he was saying goodbye to himself, not keeping him.

The reason why the love between Francesca and Robert Kincaid in the film is moving is because they understand that family and responsibility for family are above everything else. Save which taste of this cruel question. Although the husband failed to realize his dream when he was young, after the short shelf life of love, family affection will become the bond of eternal connection between each other. The long-term flat but warm happiness that the family brought to me inadvertently surpassed the short-lived passion of the four days. In order to take responsibility for the family, Francesca devoted all her life to her husband and children, and left everything left after her death to Robert Kincaid, whom the two sides remembered for a lifetime but never met again.

In terms of the way the story is told, the film recreates the story of those four days through Francesca's middle-aged son and daughter who found the relics written by the mother during her lifetime when sorting out the mother's relics. Through all this experience, I feel that I am facing the same problems as my mother back then. From the initial confusion that their mother was going to sprinkle the ashes on Roseman Bridge to the acceptance after reading the story, they experienced a baptism through the story of their mother and found a new direction for their future life.

In terms of actors, the film's director and leading actor, Robert Kincaid, is played by Clint Eastwood, an American "old cowboy" who is good at directing and starring in western films. The actress Meryl Streep, who played the heroine, once publicly stated that she hated the role of Francesca in the film, but her performance completely fascinated the audience, and her superb acting skills had to make people admire.

All in all, "The Bridge of Last Dreams" is definitely a must-see masterpiece. The description of the family and emotions of middle-aged people by the original author and director is very worthy of our discussion and consideration.

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The Bridges of Madison County quotes

  • Francesca: Robert, please. You don't understand, no-one does. When a woman makes the choice to marry, to have children; in one way her life begins but in another way it stops. You build a life of details. You become a mother, a wife and you stop and stay steady so that your children can move. And when they leave they take your life of details with them. And then you're expected move again only you don't remember what moves you because no-one has asked in so long. Not even yourself. You never in your life think that love like this can happen to you.

    Robert Kincaid: But now that you have it...

    Francesca: I want to keep it forever. I want to love you the way I do now the rest of my life. Don't you understand... we'll lose it if we leave. I can't make an entire life disappear to start a new one. All I can do is try to hold onto to both. Help me. Help me not lose loving you.

  • Robert: The old dreams were good dreams; they didn't work out, but glad I had them.