for the movie "Out of Africa"
On the night before the age of 23, seeing this movie may be a kind of fate. This is a story about the legendary life of a woman, a story about finding and pursuing faith in a wild and abstract world and eventually losing it all, a story about whether to love and believe.
After months of emptiness or depression, always seek understanding, elaboration and detachment in a film. When Chai Jing interviewed Ang Lee, she asked, isn't the movie just an illusion? Yes, but for many people, it is only by believing in this imagination that they can find the vitality of life. In the film "Out of Africa", I saw that life itself may be an illusion, with expectations, pursuits, and losses. Love, such a choice makes a difference.
One
in the heroine's hometown of Denmark, "there are two men, one is my love and the other is my friend", her lover breaks her heart, so she chooses to be with her friend , the lover's brother gets married, and then travels to Africa together, so that they can obtain the title of baron and lady, and shut up the family who are worried that she will not be able to marry and spend the family property.
In Africa, she has vast farms and grasslands, a tribe of indigenous people, and endless freedom, all of which stretch her nature. She roamed the grasslands on horseback, hunted and camped in the jungle, drank whisky with the hunting men on cold winter nights, and told a casual story. All she needs is an opening sentence, any sentence.
"Once upon a time, there was a wandering Chinese named Chen Huan, and a girl named Sally."
"Her missionary parents learned Chinese. Chen Huan often sat by the window under the blue streetlight, in his Deep in my heart, I recalled his homeland... The next morning they found the child killed by the warlord in the room on the blue street lamp, with Chen Huan's love wrapped around his neck."
"You have been to you . Those places in the story?"
"I've always been a wanderer. A wanderer doesn't need to eat or sleep, and he doesn't need entertainment."
The women, hunters, natives here all slowly fell in love with this Danish woman with several large boxes of crystals, china and stories, she always went hunting with an elegant hat, boots and shirts, and worked like a man .
She is stronger than men: when the war started, she walked through the jungle alone, dodging lions, and went to the camp to find her husband; she was more generous than men: her husband disappeared again and again irresponsibly, she could only run the farm alone, in the After finding her husband in the field and making sure he wasn't going to help out on the farm at all, she said, "But I like that you're being honest with me."
I like the vitality of this woman, she is like a rushing sea with endless energy; I admire her toughness even more. Her bravery and initiative are comparable to those of men. However, her tolerant and absorbing character like water is rarely seen in men. All the difficulties and encounters did not eliminate her spirituality and vitality, but only made her world richer and deeper.
Later, she contracted syphilis from her husband, so she had to go back to Denmark for treatment. This experience gave her great torture and humiliation. However, after a few years, she returned to this land and calmly accepted that her husband had another new love. The fact that she began to concentrate on running her farm.
Two
grasslands, jungles, galloping antelopes, hunting lions, Africa is a free and vast world, but also a wild and abstract world, this world is full of danger and unknown. Here, nature displays her most beautiful starry sky and blue sky and white clouds without hesitation, which also shows her unpredictable meaning.
Karen encountered a lion while hunting. She was frightened and wanted to run away, but Dennis, the hunter with a gun, warned her not to move - once running, the lion would confirm that it was easy prey. Karen screams in horror that Dennis shoots, but he decides to play a game: he raises his shotgun, looks into the lion's eyes, and watches as it advances towards Karen, to do it between milliseconds when the lion decides to attack or leave The decision to shoot or not.
The lion left. And here everything has a similarly unpredictable vibe. No one has tried coffee in the highlands, and no one can predict how nature will react. In the face of such a world, perhaps the beliefs of primitive tribes have more power to predict the future and reassure people than modern science.
But apparently Karen couldn't believe those—she wasn't like that. She never resigns herself to fate, she embraces life passionately, strives for what she thinks is worthwhile, and is willing to pay for it and suffer the consequences. She wanted the china, she wanted the farm, she wanted to have a good harvest on the farm, she wanted to have a relationship of love and trust with the people on this land, and she worked hard for it all.
During her years in Africa, she developed a deep bond with slaves on her farm, a primitive tribe called the Kokuyu. She decided to open a school in the tribe to teach children to read and write, and to be able to write their own stories. Not only was her proposal opposed by the tribal chiefs, it was even the object of ridicule among the colonial British at the New Year's party.
She doesn't care. On the dance floor, she and Dennis, the hunter who saved her life on the prairie, danced the last dance before the bell rang. Dennis asked her: -You
like change, don't you?
- I hope, for the better, I want my Kokuyu people (local indigenous tribe, slaves working for Karen) to learn
- my Kokuyu people, my china, my farm, you own Is it too much?
- I paid for everything I had.
- What is yours? Here we will never be masters, we are just passers
-by - is life really so damn simple to you?
- Maybe I asked very little of it.
——I don't believe
San
Dennis at all, the hunter on the prairie, who lives with a completely different attitude from Karen. When Karen questioned how close he had to get the lions, he joked that it was a lion and it wasn't its fault; he objected to Karen's school "don't try to change Africa, we're just passing through here".
He has stayed here longer than Karen, and he understands better that human civilization is just a speck of dust in billions of universes in front of this vast starry sky and grassland. He hunted in the jungle in his off-road vehicle, flew through the mountains and grasslands, and roamed the land that he marveled and revered. Years are vast, the universe is vast, and life is so small, he would rather maintain a posture from a distance, and at the same time be independent of each other, and appreciate the beauty of this world more vividly.
The encounter between these two people changed everything in the two worlds. He took Karen to camp and hunt: after a day of hunting, he found a piece of flat land suitable for camping in the virgin jungle, shared a rough experience by candlelight and wine, or a wild story; he drove for the first time The plane took Karen over waterfalls and grasslands, thousands of antelope galloped past, and they clasped their hands at high altitude.
What they attracted to each other was the shared passion for life, the spiritual desire to explore and understand the world, and the desire to be free. Love comes naturally, but not without cost. Love and pain always go hand in hand. One day, Dennis told Karen that she wanted to move things into her house, and from there to other destinations, Karen burst into tears: "when the god wants to punish you, he answers your prayers." She hugged Dennis, he told her that their mutual friend Berkeley was dying. Life is impermanent, and it is inevitable that it will be frustrating.
Dennis flew to and from their shared house, sometimes to work, sometimes just to get away. He had no intention of hurting Karen, but Karen couldn't help being hurt. "I'm with you because I choose to be with you, not because I want to help someone achieve her ideal life", even if this person is you I love, "I'm willing to do it too. Pay the price, and for this I am sometimes alone, and may die alone, but it is my choice."
Can life really be so free and simple? Dennis left Karen, and a fire destroyed everything Karen had. Overnight, let her discover that everything she worked hard for turned out to be so fragile, love and possession can be reduced to ashes overnight. At this point, Dennis came back "You screwed up my solitude."
He eventually left, however, and he had an accident on the return flight and died on the prairie. Karen buried him on a high ground, left Africa alone, and never came back. The locals wrote to her, saying that there was a pair of lions who often strolled to the highland platform of Dennis’s cemetery, overlooking the entire grassland
. I'm afraid it will be difficult to distinguish the real from the unreal. Everything in life is indeed like a phantom, many things, if you believe in it, it exists, and if you believe in it, it is possible to come true. Recalling the magnificent and beautiful lives in this film, I can't help but think: only belief can make life possible.
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