When the lights in the screening hall are turned on, although I think the portrayal in some aspects is not in place and there are several loopholes, the film leaves us with a lot of questions to think about, about mission, responsibility, consciousness, love, honor and disgrace , betrayal... Everyone's understanding of this legend is different. Many people will say that it is a love story. But in my opinion, love is in such an environment and age, or it can be carried out in the entire long river of history. Measure, too small, too trivial.
I always believe that everyone is born with their own mission to survive in the world. What sustains the mission is often awareness and responsibility. In the film, the Irish princess Isolde is not aware of her identity as a princess. There is a saying in the ancient Chinese royal family that the royal family has no family affairs, only state affairs. As sad as it sounds, it is historically correct. As a princess, Isolde is obviously short-sighted, or narrow-minded, with only love in her eyes, no consideration for her people, and no effort to stop the war. Strictly speaking, Tristan's death I think she bears 80% unshirkable responsibility. In ancient times, it was a common thing to achieve peace through marriage. From today's perspective, this is a trampling on women's rights and interests, but from a political perspective and historical environment, as a royal family, you should have such a consciousness. . I mentioned before that this is sad, but when you think about the bloody sacrifice of the people and soldiers for peace and to consolidate the ruling position of the royal family, what is marriage? Princess Anne in "Roman Holiday" did not stay with her beloved in the end, but chose to give up, because she knew that love doesn't have to be possessed. Let love stay in that moment and become an eternal memory, remembering the best part, this is her consciousness as a princess.
Having said this, the concept of responsibility is introduced. Or Isolde, since she has come to England from Ireland and married Marke without telling the story of her and Tristan, then she has the duty of a lord and queen to try to make England stronger and richer, so that Their own people live happy and healthy lives instead of stirring up Tristan there every day. There were many princesses in ancient my country, such as Princess Wencheng and Zhaojun who went out of the fortress, etc. They can all be her role models. Isolde was too lustful, too greedy, and too selfish, which led to the final tragedy, one died and the other lived the rest of his life with grief, but I don't think Isolde will live long. I remember when Tristan returned from Ireland to England after his injury, Isolde said nothing to go with him. At that time, I seemed to have some admiration for this woman, but later when she saw Tristan struggling with pain, guilt and contradictions Unmoved, he threatened him with death to continue to have an affair with him, and the feeling of appreciation disappeared. And the responsibility for Tristan was revealed when he finally pushed Isolde's boat away and chose to go back to the battlefield to help Marke. At that time, I really wanted to say, "Tristan, you are a real man." Tristan has always been a responsible person, A man who dares to take responsibility, he never forgot that it was Marke who used his right hand in exchange for his life, and raised him as his own son, never for a moment, even when he had an affair with Isolde, he was contradictory . Isolde was right about that, in fact Tristan suffered more than Marke. I still remember that when he was taken into prison by Marke, he could have explained it, but he didn't say a word and resisted it all. However, he was temporarily dazed by love and lost his due judgment. Even if he finally recovered, it has already caused a catastrophe. I want to say that the most important thing is that in the end, he did not choose to escape, but faced and fought bravely. This is the courage and sense of responsibility a man should have.
Although the whole film uses a love story to follow through, but at the end it made me chill, and even thought that love is the source of evil. I also know that in the end, the Irish conspiracy will have other chances to succeed even if the love affair between Tristan and Isolde is not discovered, but if it were me, it would definitely not be love. In fact, the inspiration the film gives us is also the exploration of lies and freedom. Only those who have experienced the loss of freedom understand the importance of freedom, and the yearning for freedom of human beings cannot be replaced by anything, so I don’t believe that sentence at all.” If you care about the bullshit that you can throw both of them for love, if you lose your freedom, try it, will you still look forward to love? In other words, what do you look forward to most is love? The horrific consequences of lies are also particularly concentrated here, and perhaps, if we assume Tristan and Isolde told Marke the truth in the first place, maybe the ending would have been different. People always use their own thinking to explain other people's behavior. When they think that others will not understand or forgive, they make up a "white lie" to temporarily cover it up, but the development of the situation is often not as people wished, and there is Later, more and bigger lies were needed to cover up, until it happened, which is really thought-provoking.
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