Rewatched the 1985 James Ivory film "A Room with a View". The beautiful soundtrack in the 1985 film version was derived from Puccini's opera Gianni Skicchi. The opera also turned out to be a satirical middle-class romantic comedy, and that "Dear Daddy" rose from comical to sincerity in an instant. Just like "A Room with a View", from a mild mockery, it breaks through the hard class iron wall and calls for the sincerity of human nature and love. Foster may have really drawn inspiration from Wilde's "The Importance of Sincerity", and also made a cousin encounter an indecent "relationship between men and women", and decided to travel a long way and be torn apart by the eyes of others. Secretly contributed to a rather fussy perfect marriage.
Why doesn't he develop a hobby?
The two ladies in "The Importance of Sincerity" have a hobby. Especially Cecily, her diary is as innocent as Austin's Emma, and her imagination can cross the hard walls of class and gender. By writing about the reality that never existed, she successfully captured a Ruyi Langjun, although it was later proved that the Ruyi Langjun was just a fake. But reality generated by imagination is always more interesting than pure reality. It's like you describe or draw a good man, and he suddenly came to life. No matter how unbearable it is, he is also a "Frankenstein" created by you. This is the benefit of having a hobby. Lucy in "A Room With a View" also has her own hobbies. For many years, she used her strong hobby to pass the boring life. You might say that the wealthy bourgeoisie always has to be modestly arty.
But Lucy was born out of time. It wasn't one of those untimely gypsies in Emma's village, but Lucy saw a murder with her own eyes in an emerald square. If we see the murder in the square (although it may be brought about by the barbarism of civilization, any civilization that retains peasants is defined as barbarism by the bourgeoisie), we can go back to our daily life and help us pass the time hobbies?
Foster decided to forcibly pull Wilde into reality, and since the reality in Britain was a little too hard, he moved to Italy to build a conflict between civilizations. Elmore Foster was more interested in the expression of the subject than in the expression of reality. Those who blindly want to express reality are mostly limited by their imagination, whether it is because of poverty or not. But at the very least, he rejected arty glamour.
For arty glamour, I think George's heart was captured by that glamour. Let's also not forget that in the construction of the love relationship between them, there is also an arty romance novel written by an arty woman. And Lucy is still playing Beethoven arty. At that time, George was thinking about the Nietzschean philosophical issue of "pessimism and beauty", and was suddenly saved by Lucy's arty style, which can only be regarded as a fresh little literature and art. But Foster, a writer, timely turned the end of the novel into a reversal of Wilde's "The Importance of Sincerity": calling for the importance of sincerity. It corresponds to and answers Lucy's question: "Can't your son develop a hobby?" "A Room With a View" is an educational drama for the working class, and it is conceivable that George will succeed in developing a hobby in the future. . As a result, Lucy successfully changed from an "unfortunate girl" to the most "lucky girl" in the world.
Let's take a bath together
To be honest, they both despise vulgarity and call life. But the vulgarity of life has explosive power. The heterosexual relationship between Lucy and George is constructed, albeit slightly across the hierarchy, as if Emma suddenly married Knightley's tenant, handsome Robert Martin. But the relationship between Lucy and George was not so immoral in the early 20th century either. They even became the romanticism of the novelist Eleanor Lavish, who was "lack of science and philosophy". She needs to draw sensory stimulation from the emerald deep streets and vulgar men all the time to construct her novels. Lucy and George's kiss in a barley field inspired her. Of course, such a novel has its own powerful role in reality. At least Lucy's fiance, Cecil, an intellectual from Italy, is reading this novel. Intellectual pretentiousness is another vulgarity that is a little too distorted in its interpretation of life force. So, it's always natural for me to think of Cecil as an undiscovered homosexual who only Lucy's brother Freddy can save.
Of course there is no hint of such a relationship between Freddy and Cecil. I attribute it to the fact that the author Foster is too obsessed with the sexy imagination of the working class, which is why Freddy's first invitation after meeting George was so seductive and bold: "Let's go take a bath together." The one in the woods Small ponds are not big enough to be called "swimming". We see three naked men frolicking, not just to flirt with Cecil's clichéd and stereotypically gentlemanly demeanor (it's a bit like Shakespeare's Twelfth Night), or to physically open up Lucy's imagination and seduction , but Freddy has already taken the place of his sister Lucy and has a close physical relationship with George. Considering the extraordinary intimacy of the Honeychurch siblings, the Pond is probably the most homosexual episode, and Lucy also put on a sexual mask, making the relationship between Lucy and George, Has homosexual connotations.
Now many people will say that they have not seen this scene in the movie. If this paragraph is really deleted, it will not be an obstacle to understanding the plot. This is the biggest misunderstanding of the drama party. They think the ending is more important than anything else, and appreciate the emotional act of the plot. It grounds the importance of the flesh in the entire film. It will make you think that love is more important than everything. If it can be understood in this way, the like-mindedness between Lucy and Cecil may be more grounded than that of George. The lack of physical and sexual imagination makes the previous kiss lose its apocalyptic mystery. Love has become pedigree and material, the flesh has become the anatomy of Freddy's obsession, and sex between two or more people has become a superficial pleasure like masturbation.
my dear cousin charlotte
Austen's love coaching for his niece, along with her novels, builds the great tradition of English literature. From Aunt Jane to Cousin Charlotte, they are in the same line. From Jane Austen's own image, to the marriage ideal opened by her novels, all play a role in "A Room With a View". Therefore, Cousin Charlotte is as rigid and rigid as if she was directly resurrected from the Austin era, and she hopes from the bottom of her heart that her niece will find her true love and build a successful marriage. In her twisted demeanor (she even wanted a man to close a window on a train, she had to use a handkerchief to wipe his eyes), with the most original vision and the most daring vision of a successful marriage.
As Mona Simpson puts it, Elmore Foster is so fond of describing these single women. They include not only Cousin Charlotte, but also Miss Eleanor Lavish, Miss Allens, and even Lucy's mother who lost her husband long ago. "A Room With a View" is full of singles, even those who are married, who have long lost their spouses. Foster is full of replays and imaginations for these bizarre singles, just like the various mother figures in Jane Austen's "Sense and Sensibility". Among them, Cousin Charlotte is the most radiant one.
A real-life version of Charlotte's cousin, Mrs. Blake Nair. Mrs. Gargoyle Bracknell from Wilde's Sincerity Matters by train to the English countryside, in describing the train ride, mentions that "we have missed a train once, if not five, if not six. If we miss it again, we will be exposed to the comments of everyone on the platform alone." According to "Sex Mask", Mrs. Bracknell lives in a field of power of sight, and is afraid of being affected by "exposure". pollute. In "A Room with a View", Cousin Charlotte must be in George's sight all the way, torn by the imagination of a young lower-class man.
Young people captured by science have lost their romantic spirit, like Freddy's daily anatomical research. Pastor Mr Beebe said: "Romantic is so headstrong! I never noticed that in young people; you young people just play tennis, or romance is dead and nothing else. Instead, the two Miss Ellens, Give your all, give all you have, for fear that romance will die." Of course, it turns out that romance is only stimulated when people meet the right person. The first time Freddy met George, he invited him to bathe naked, which is evident. And my dear Cousin Charlotte, witnessed the indignity from start to finish. She said to Lucy: How can you do such a thing? What if your mother found out about it? Men will talk all over the place. Your reputation will be over then... Cousin Charlotte not only has long since secretly put it into literature, but has also formed an aura of etiquette that surrounds Lucy and George. She personally activates the rebellious romance in Lucy.
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