A veil can hardly hide the true feelings-"The Veil" film review

Philip 2021-12-13 08:01:10

The movie "The Veil" tells the story of a young British couple who came to live in the countryside of southern China in the 1920s. In the beautiful but dangerous environment of Meitan Mansion, they experienced what they could never imagine and experience in the comfortable life of their English country. Emotional waves, and realized the true meaning of love, and finally completed the sublimation of love that was born of love and hatred to turn fighting into jade.
The story starts with the heroine Kitty. In order to escape the flashy but empty social circle of London in the 1920s, and to prevent herself from becoming an old girl, Kitty accepted the proposal of the taciturn doctor Walter Finn arranged for her by her family. . After Fein brought Kitty to Shanghai, he quickly devoted himself to his bacteriological research. The lonely Kitty had an extramarital affair with the charming married man Charlie Townsend. In order to retaliate against the humiliated Fehn and to cheer up his life, Fehn decided to make a desperate move and took Kitty to a remote town where cholera is ravaged. Water moved from the spotless laboratory to the forefront of the plague epidemic, and he slowly helped control the local epidemic. Fein treats Kitty indifferently in the love-hate relationship, while Kitty silently bears and tries a new life for Fein with a mentality of confession. She began to volunteer in a monastery and hospital hosted by a French nun, and gradually find Back to the courage and meaning of life. Walt and Kitty were finally able to open up to each other, but as they lifted the freeze and became closer, Walter contracted cholera.
A cholera made a love-hate relationship between life and death.

The film "The Veil", which gathers Hollywood acting talent Edward Norton, Hong Kong actor Huang Qiusheng, Venice actor Xia Yu, "King Kong" heroine Naomi Watts, international supermodel Lu Yan, and many other stars, but the seemingly plain story hides The philosophy of love interprets a lingering, love-hate love story with the attitude of a classic literary film. It touched me a lot like Leng Shan. The film focused on the complex human nature of the characters, which made the protagonist’s love development with great tension, and at the same time showed that the protagonist was deep, tolerant, responsible for love but at the same time loving. The ambivalence of hatred, the inner world of the heroine Kitty is portrayed by a series of events such as expressing her desire for love, derailing and encountering jokes, having to follow her husband to the border town, and enduring the indifference and contempt given to her by her husband. A true and brave, lively and lovely female image who is boldly pursuing love.
Classic films are inseparable from the successful shaping of typical characters.
At the beginning of the film, Walt and Kitty met at a ball. Walt fell in love with Kitty at first sight. She loved this spoiled woman, and he was obsessed with her elegance and charming. The boring scientist and the lively girl came together, not because of love, but because the girl wanted to escape from the tired family and her mean mother. She was attracted by the mysterious Oriental Shanghai, so she hastily decided to marry Watt. The marriage that shouldn't have begun. When he arrived in Shanghai, where his husband Walter worked, he found that life with Walter was so boring: this man was taciturn and incomprehensible. Once, Walter took her to watch the Peking Opera "Yutangchun" together. She sat with Charlie, a married man, and Charlie told her why the heroine in Peking opera was crying: Maybe life in Shanghai was too lonely, maybe Walter was too uninteresting, maybe he was attracted by Charlie’s humor and talkativeness, Ji Tey cheated and had sex with Charlie. Walt discovered their adultery, but he did not break in and catch the adulterer in bed. He was willing to divorce to complete his wife's love, but when he knew that his wife was only being played with, he chose to take his wife away from Shanghai and go to a remote village in mainland China to engage in voluntary work to solve the cholera epidemic. This plot is both reasonable and sensible and demonstrates the theme of love in the film. When the scientist does not open the door of affair, the audience immediately feels how deeply the protagonist loves. This is not cowardice, not dare to face it, but is willing to bear it. The consequences, bear the embarrassment and guilt of the lover. When he resolutely brought his wife to the edge of the ghost gate in the small town, he naturally had a certain mentality of revenge, but he wanted to get rid of the painful memories that Shanghai gave to their family. Naturally, it also contained his determination to revive his love. It was because of the complexity. The depiction of the character's psychology and personality makes the love that the film strives to express so deeply and solemnly. For countless nights in the small town, his wife was left alone in a lonely room by her husband, and she kept numbing herself with work. It was obvious that love was deeply torturing this confused man. Water silently devours the suffering he has given himself, but he still loves Kitty deeply, love and hate are also the most affection in the world. The film shows the contradictory and entangled psychology of the characters in the process of each scene. We can not help but admire the actors. Norton’s superb and perfect performances, whether it’s "Big Sale", "The Magician" or this literary film, can see his incisive characterization and accurate grasp of the character's character. The film scientist is taciturn, diligent, kind, tolerant, and loving. It was deep and strong, but at the same time as a man, he was full of blood, and it was difficult to tolerate his wife's betrayal. Norton was familiar with all of this, and his interpretation was just right.
And actor Naomi Watts, who played the heroine Kitty, also performed vividly and truly. The young Kitty is lively and wayward, the young woman's Kitty is glamorous and passionate, the derailed Kitty is crazy for love, and the love punishment Kitty bears loneliness and depressed, from flash marriages, cheating, being toyed with by lovers, being snubbed by her husband, and being laughed at by life. , The short but big ups and downs of life changes make the characters' inner world extremely rich, diverse and complex contradictions. Compared with the husband, the wife's love is not easy at all. It also requires a kind of courage and a persistent pursuit of love. The plot of the wife’s derailment in the film not only does not weaken the character’s character, but makes a perfect interpretation of the character’s bold pursuit of love. In the play, there is a scene of a couple quarreling fiercely: Kitty: "If a man can’t let a woman fall in love with him , It was his fault! I do not love you, but marrying you, I am wrong! But you know that I do not love you, marry me, are you not responsible?!” It can be seen that the film does not It's not a rough and simple condemnation of derailment, of course, it is not blindly praised for derailment. The heroine derails because of love, but suffers from the punishment and torture of life because of love. The fire rebirth, igniting the fire of love for the husband has made precious foreshadowing. Of course, Watts' acting skills cannot be underestimated.
In addition, the supporting roles in the film also played the role of interpreting the theme, threading needles, and suggesting metaphors. For example, Witington is a bridge between the husband and wife. Because he completes the development of the plot, he also uses his casual sex with a number of women to contrast the hero and heroine's dedication to love. . For example, Kitty heard the appreciation and respect for her husband from the female Catholic elder mother, and learned about her husband’s deep love: Kitty began to feel that she was so stupid that she didn’t really understand the one who has been with him. A good man by his side, who once loved her deeply, and perhaps still loves her. Ask Kitty to reflect on what love is from the dean’s narrative. "I fell in love at the age of 17, a silly girl, but my love is so passionate as fire. With the passage of time, my feelings have changed. He disappointed me. He ignored me. We became indifferent. Like old couples sitting side by side on the sofa, but rarely talk to each other, he knows that I will never leave him, this is my duty, but when love and duty become one, grace will grow with you." After saying this, the camera pushed away from the wrinkled but serene face of the dean’s mother. The audience saw the dilapidated house, the blackened window frames, and the clumsy and ugly cabinet, but the sculpture of the Virgin on the cabinet was so clean. The cross on the wall is particularly eye-catching, seeming to show the power of love. So far, the film's interpretation of love is perfect.

The classic lines in the unforgettable film.
When Walt and Kitty reconcile, the two have a dialogue: Kitty said: "I like drama, dancing, tennis, games, and men who love to play. It's not to blame me: my tutor is like that!" But Walter wanted to take her to Venice's galleries, nagging about the miracle of the canal, the drainage system, and other silly things... It would be better to take her to Sandwich to play golf. Walt woke up and said: "We are so stupid, we have to find what we don't have on each other!" When Kitty and Walt went to chat with Whittington, Kitty said something to Whittington. The classic saying: "Women often don't fall in love with a man just because he is a good person." When Kitty suddenly found out that she was pregnant and the child's father was probably Charlie instead of Walter, Kitty was undoubtedly very painful and self-blaming, but Walter said: "This is not important anymore!"
The movie "The Veil" is an old and clichéd story, but it is highly praised and loved by people because of its poignant and moving story. The Bible says: love is understanding; love is tolerance; love is persistence; love is responsibility. Everyone seems to be familiar with it, but the film prefers to set up levels, gaps, and veils for love. The director deliberately arranges the protagonist in this small town so far away from them, so that such a cruel plague can save them. Love. The meaning of the veil of the title is not self-defeating, that is, the veil is still difficult to conceal the true feelings, and when the veil is unveiled, only hatred is strong. The veil is actually a medium for people to think about what love is. At the end of the film, Walter quickly died of cholera. A beautiful love ending was cruelly dismembered by the director. With Walt’s burial, I was already crying. Love is passing between life and death. Only by using courage to uncover each other's veils can we achieve true love. Why is love destined to be a sad ending? I keep praying for the lovers in the play: time is no longer, love will last forever!
The film ends with the ensemble of piano and children's voices, and the mellow music brings everyone to the paradise of love.

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The Painted Veil quotes

  • Colonel Yu: I think China belongs to the Chinese people, but the rest of the world seems to disagree.

  • Kitty Fane: Men are incalculable. I thought you were just like everybody else, and now I feel I don't know the first thing about you.