It all started when Dorian stepped onto London's vast social scene. The temptations of life are presented one by one and at your fingertips.
1 The meaning of two girls
After watching Zhou Xingchi's series of films, I feel that in Zhou's films, the girls are pure and beautiful, and they always have to be let down by the boys before they can gain their sincerity (such as the dumb girl and hero in "Kung Fu", "Westward Journey" "Zixia and Supreme Treasure), this is the charm of the East, girls are the representatives of all good things (they are always strong, responsible, and full of trust in the male protagonist). In Western movies, this meaning is often derived from many The girls relay completed.
In my opinion, Sybil was Dorian's first encounter with love, or at least the beginning of his love for beautiful things, and her love was touched even if Dorian didn't want to accept it.
In the end, Henry's daughter also showed innocence and sincerity, which made Dorian, who was floating in the bustling and exhausted, have a yearning for sincerity and the possibility of realizing it. These two girls have youth that will pass away, and their beauty makes people yearn for the future.
Obviously, Dorian was actually taking what he wanted from the beauty or ugliness of the outside world, and his admiration for Henry's daughter was more like satisfying his own desire.
2 Henry Basil Dowling's Relationship
Wilde said that all three in the original book were himself. They are secret desires and obvious publicity, and there are all kinds of restrictions.
Don't trust Henry, Basil said, he himself knew he was lying. This point reveals Henry's instigation to Dorian: Henry couldn't do it himself, firstly, he had no conditions, and more importantly, he was unwilling. Dorian wanted to believe Henry, because that was what he thought. Dorian had an abnormal childhood, and Dorian was doomed to be twisted. Dorian's depravity is more like the child of his miserable relationship with Henry.
But Henry did not lose his mind completely, he refused to fall one step further with Dorian. This is also where I think he is not interesting, seduced and abandoned. In the end, when he was old, Dorian stayed away when he returned. He's not quite a sassy boy. Basil is infatuated with Dorian, but he still dies at the knife's edge when he wants to save him. Dorian galloped down the road of depravity.
3 Carnal desire is actually a metaphor for all temptations
Youthful beauty, undeniably, has its enormous appeal. The portrait bears all the wounds of old age, so Dorian wears the uniform of youth without bearing the consequences of youth. Without restraint, he became more and more unbridled, and the devil gave him the charm to seduce everything. He used this charm to bury more men and women.
Under the leadership of Henry, he had his first taste of eroticism. He had only sensory enjoyment, no spiritual communication, wine pools and meat forests, and everyone fell down. I personally think that eroticism does not only represent eroticism, but Dorian's reckless projection in it is actually the loss of the soul. He is lost in being loved, being tolerated, and the only alert is to worry about being discovered secrets. He was frightened and drunk, and the happiness he could feel was shrinking.
4 God's gifts have a price
Youth does not have a price. Daolin has committed all the crimes of youth that can be committed and cannot be committed. With the blessing of youth and beauty, he has no taboos. But he didn't know that regret was the source of perfection. When he got old, he realized this.
In the end, Dowling refused Henry's daughter to open the door to save him in the attic. I think he was trying to maintain the image he had left behind. This image has no secrets, and is youthful, beautiful and philosophical. Did he love her? Not really, I'm afraid it's still narcissism.
In the end, he faced the consequences, killed the ghost in the painting, put on time and sin, and died. He redeemed himself, though he was still sinful.
5 Movies and novels are different
Wilde is undoubtedly talented. His works are very delicate and hedonistic, like a delicate painting, with only flourishing colors in front of him, and lines and brushes that follow dragons and snakes. It is not very clear but has a lot of content. It is soft and delicate, and the subject is indescribably clear, but it is easy to get lost in each image. I read the original book half a year ago and felt both intoxicated and confused. I couldn't grasp it well, but now I can't recall every detail.
Movies are much clearer. A little less sultry and poetic, but the plot is coherent and clear. In the book, Sybil's younger brother (the older brother in the movie) had never met Dorian before he murdered him. I thought it was more tense and persuasive that Sybil's younger brother (the older brother in the movie) had known him for a long time in the movie, and that he was in a mental hospital with the intention of revenge to chase down the subway track and get killed by a car. force. Dorian watched his corpse weep, and he began to regret it. He is like death. Youth is not happy.
In fact, the film adaptation is not the same as the original. Can't be the same. Media, time... The author's thoughts in that era, the director wants to become the language of this era, no matter how good the translation is, it will be different from the original. A thousand people have a thousand Lin Daiyu. Reading is mainly based on imagination, what can be more beautiful than imagination?
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