I didn't expect to see it more than ten years later. Funny to say, it took me so long to learn to step out of my role and really stand on the sidelines. I love the hero so much not because it's Robert Dreyfus who has captivated a whole generation, but because of the character itself. He let me know that there are people in the world who can never be confined to a small space, who can never be confined to a tight relationship. There is a kind of distance called vastness, like the vast African continent, like the magnificent movement, like you stand in the crowd, and all the people seem to be in another space. Liaoyuan, perhaps the distance of the heart.
The hero says of his dead Maasai hunting companions: We thought we had tamed them, but we didn't. Once they are locked up, they will die. It was as if he was describing himself. In the same way, it is always difficult for him to stay in one place, even because of love. They always need such a distance, a long distance to allow themselves to breathe and be at ease, even at the cost of loneliness or lifelong loneliness. If he is a king, he can share the world with you, if he is a ronin, he can accompany you all over the world, but his freedom and loneliness never want to share with you. It's like he's standing beside you, but still far away. His love is like the wind, invincible but invincible.
And encountering such love is like a disaster for a woman. So I've never admired this woman this way, after I watched the film again. She always knows what she wants, and she knows that getting it requires a price, which is the root of her strength. She can exchange money for a marriage of honor, and she will resolutely give up marriage to win back her dignity. I often think that maybe only such a woman is tough and independent enough to match him. However, even if she was strong enough to fight side by side with him and fly side by side, she still couldn't get a long-term stability. And this stability is so important to a woman.
So this love is destined to be a tragedy, not about life and death. Just like the singing of Qingyuan came to an abrupt end in the morning wind, leaving a heartbreaking reverberation, but this is already the best ending.
Another: The dialogue in "Out of Africa" is very exciting, and two sentences by the heroine impressed me the most. Once she said to the hero: If I promise to answer "no", can you propose to me for a second marriage. The second time was when her ex-husband came to inform her of her lover's death, she was so calm and said to him: Oh my God, you are so brave.
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