If you can do it again

Billie 2022-12-18 15:52:04

I watched the whole movie with the endless drizzle and the thick fog that could not be dissolved.

Thinking if Caroline Mathilde, Christian VII, Strindzer could make a choice?

From birth to growth, all the way to what it is now. It seems that everything is so casual, random and sloppy, but when you think about it, if the choices you make are a little bit deviated, where and what kind of people have you just met now? what kind of life? Maybe, everything has its own arrangement. You become who you are now, and there is always a reason for it, but you just haven’t found it yet. Maybe you can find it tomorrow. Maybe one day many years later, you suddenly encounter it. It's that you don't know for the rest of your life why you are who you are. This is how most of us live our lives - trying to be who we don't like.

From the subtitles at the beginning of the film, it can be imagined that this film must not be the ending of the happy life of the prince and the princess, and it will certainly not be the romantic tone of the willows on the moon after the meeting at dusk. European historical films have always been about love. , family affection and friendship are boiled in one pot, politics, literature, art, and religion are unclear, but I am still addicted to it, I love that kind of complicated and gorgeous dresses, I like classical hairstyles, I am infatuated with romantic and sentimental gentlemen, and I am intoxicated with the drizzle of horses’ hooves, because The distance of time cannot be crossed, and I will never be there or experience those worlds in person, so even the heavyness and sadness can make people quench their thirst without turning back.

The camera shot from the side and back, only the cuffs with lace patterns, slender white and tender fingers, soft Yangguan, fine velvet hair, small flowers all over the floor, spinning, shaking - this kind of feeling is like in many European historical films There are, the difference is that some are played at the beginning of the film, talking about the carefree girl time, and some are close to the end. Because of nature, so like, because of simplicity, so peaceful.

The encounter between the two is a little inexplicable. I don't know the history. I know that Christian must not be a good husband. As for whether he is a good king or not, it is not necessarily. Who said that a lunatic can't be a good king? The world is crazy, to conquer the world you have to be more crazy than it is! ! !

The relationship between the two is a consistent pattern. Caroline Mathilde's unlimited concessions and forbearance, Christian's irregular nonsense, and the various intertwined and unpredictable thoughts of the people around me, I dare not say anything else. It's just that Caroline seems to have only accepted, not resisted, or even got very little excitement. This reminds me of the mothers in the Chinese costume dramas who taught the daughters who are going to be queens or princesses in this way, "Don't expect your husband's love, that's immoral." Yes, what you need is the respect of your husband." Whether the upper-class ladies in Europe were educated the same way, I don't know, but I always thought, whatever it was, if Caroline did something maybe it wouldn't end up alone To die alone, at least do something.



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A Royal Affair quotes

  • Johann Friedrich Struensee: Your majesty.

    Caroline Mathilde: You recognized me.

    Johann Friedrich Struensee: I would recognize you blindfolded.

    Caroline Mathilde: But your costume is not very imaginative.

    Johann Friedrich Struensee: I'm afraid I'm not very good at the masquerade.

    Caroline Mathilde: I believe this is the one night when everyone can be themselves.

    [pause]

    Caroline Mathilde: But you never remove your mask. Do you?

  • Johann Friedrich Struensee: Do you remember our first night together?

    Caroline Mathilde: It feels like we've been unhappy ever since.

    Johann Friedrich Struensee: I have been happy.

    Caroline Mathilde: Come to me tonight?