The foggy sky reveals the gloomy air, which is an atmosphere filter unique to the industrial age. Apart from the twists and turns of Thornton and Margaret's love affair, "South and North" still has the irreconcilable contradictions between capital and workers in the industrial age.
A quote from Thornton's mother: "I'm not born to express feelings, even if I do have them." I think this is probably the best explanation for the twists and turns of Thornton and Margaret's relationship. This British drama does not have large sections of pictures to show the psychological and emotional changes of Thornton and Margaret. It does not put the feelings of the male and female protagonists above the times, but uses the environment and the times to exaggerate and contrast the characters. Feelings are naturally and truly integrated into the developing industrial age, with a sense of landing and the times; in fact, I think this can make it clearly different from "Pride and Prejudice", I still remember when I finished watching "Pride and Prejudice" Later, I saw different attitudes and behaviors of different women towards marriage, and it paid more attention to expressing women and marriage. However, both films are a little bit better overall.
I still remember Margaret's saying that the age of industrial machines is like a war. There is a war between employers and workers. Higgins, his daughter, and Margaret stood at Bulcher's grave; they said Bulcher was buried on a hill in the clear air, behind which the towering chimneys kept pumping industrial fumes into the atmosphere. Perhaps, employers and workers have never been equal.
In other points in the play, Thornton's mother's love for Thornton is too rich but lacks independence, but Thornton's three views are upright and gentleman. One of the most impressive things about the whole film is that the characters in the play have a calm tone when arguing, which is in stark contrast to the quarrel between the great Gatsby and Tom of Little Plum. Come to think of it, this may be a cultural difference.
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