American psychologist Sternberg believes that love is supported by three elements: passion, intimacy and commitment. Correspondingly, love in "Love in the Time of Cholera" can also be divided into three parts: passionate love, intimate love, and committed love. The highest state of love is to combine these three kinds of love, and it is this perfect love that Ariza has been pursuing all her life. Passionate love is perfectly exemplified when Ariza falls in love with Daza at first sight. The love that erupted from young teenagers and girls is full of passion and romance. Whether it is a letter to convey love, or a telegram when they are forced to separate, they all reveal a kind of romance. A chaotic romance, like a blooming flower in bright tropical colors, but such a relationship is also dangerous. Just meeting again, the fantasy woven in the letter is broken, and the love may suddenly cool down. Intimate love, like a doctor and Dasa. The two got married, and living under the same roof gradually cultivated a sufficient amount of warmth. But there is no passion in such love. The doctor then cheated and looked to other people for passion. After being discovered, he calmly cut off this relationship——this is the love of promise. It was Ariza, a stray boy, who had passionate moments with countless women, but he never made a promise. There is a saying that "all love comes from fear". The "time of cholera" provided a backdrop of fear and uncertainty. The doctor is a person without fear, so his marriage with Daza is more about warmth. Lack of passion and lack of expressions of love. The only confession was before he died, facing the fear of death, and he finally expressed it for the first time: "Dasa, God knows how much I love you." Ariza has fear: to death, to aging. What shows on the outside is that he is full of love and passion. At the end of the film, Sada and Ariza finally reap the true love after the age of seventy. The two hoisted the yellow flag representing cholera from the boat and sailed on the river forever. They escape the harsh reality of shore, while on board, in pursuit of the perfect love in their own world.
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