Love the character of Sheba, both in the book and in the movie. I like Cate Blanchett more and more recently, she plays Sheba so beautiful. A beautiful woman who is still charming at the age of forty develops a shocking "love affair" with a boy who is 25 years younger than her. There is always an innocence in her beauty, which makes people believe that she is for the so-called love, not just to vent her desires. In fact, if you put aside factors such as age, identity, status, and even gender, love can happen between any two people, the so-called magic. In the eyes of others, Sheba, who has a happy marriage and a prosperous life, has an inhuman bitterness. Her husband is 20 years older than herself, her daughter is at a rebellious age, her son has a congenital intellectual disability, and she is a restless woman who still has romantic fantasies in her heart. She clearly knew she shouldn't, but the feeling of being different from being liked and pursued by boys who were much younger than her still aroused a long-buried longing in her heart. So she listened to the call of her heart, loved her recklessly, and did it, never seriously thinking about what the result of doing so would be. I think I understand her. How can I find the feeling of being loved again when my life is so peaceful? In someone's smile, in the words of praise, in the eyes that look at you affectionately, under the appearance of pretending to be nothing, there will still be a beautiful rose in the heart. When she fell in love, she forgot everything. In front of her man, she was an innocent little girl. No matter how much she was older than him, her heart was still willing to let him rule. That's why she was so passive, she was in such a dilemma between advancing and retreating.
But men and women are so different. The teenager she fell in love with unconsciously, in his eyes, she was just a mature and sexy woman. He obtained the satisfaction of curiosity and sexual desire from her. So superficial, everything is for "fun", he never shed tears for her, and never really put her in his heart. How could a young man not secretly be infatuated with a beautiful female teacher? It was just an episode of youth, destined to be buried in the depths of memory. And her love was doomed to a tragic ending from the very beginning, but she was alone in it and turned a blind eye to it.
And Babara also loves her, but her love is more manifested as a strong possessiveness. Aged and old-fashioned, she is unconsciously infatuated with a woman who is full of vitality, and is still young and beautiful compared to her, perhaps because she has found a charm in her that she will never have. No one could see into her heart, which was filled with loneliness and hungry like a desert. She despicably took advantage of Sheba's trust in her, using her secrets as a weapon to blackmail her, trying to keep her by her side. When she found out that she was just a dispensable role in Sheba's life, and could not replace the position of her family or even the teenager in her heart, she felt that her efforts had not been reciprocated. Sheba was an unknown Grateful people. Her heart was twisted by resentment, so she took advantage of the opportunity of a male colleague who had a crush on Sheba to visit her, pretended to understate Sheba's secret, and easily sent her to hell.
At the end of the film, Sheba, who discovered the truth, left Babara in anger and returned to her husband. On the surface, it seems that she has won the family's Yuanyou, while Babara picks up her messy mood and starts a new round of "hunting", quietly opening her net to another young strange woman. Seeing this, I felt a little cold, and I really thought that what I just watched was a thriller. In fact, how can life be so dramatic? I still prefer to believe the ending set in the novel. Sheba, who was abandoned by the world, knew that Babara was the one who betrayed her, so she could not help but forgive her and returned to her for her. In the emotional prison set up, other than that, what other choices could she have.
Hey, all the contradictions, entanglements, all the pain and helplessness are just for the word "love". If you can crack this word, can you no longer have troubles from now on?
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