[About Márquez]
For Márquez, the most familiar to everyone is "One Hundred Years of Solitude" that has been seen on the best-seller lists of major books all year round. I read it while lying on the school desk in my third year of high school, in the sound of all the students reciting words and political regulations.
There has never been a more lonely time than that.
As a transfer student from a transfer school, and the only art student in the class. Arranged in the far corner of the classroom, there is no roommate. Because I don't live on campus, I don't have roommates. In such an unfamiliar environment, there are no friends to talk to, let alone trust.
But I didn't understand this book. The disjointed characters seemed so confusing to me, and the Latin names were so strange that I almost couldn't tell who was grandfather and who was great-grandson.
But oddly enough, I ended up watching it. Up to now, I can't finish reading books that consume brain power and patience. In this era of rapid development of information technology, I have become accustomed to fragmented reading in fast food culture.
However, when I saw this huge family finally disappear and members slowly die, I still felt that unspeakable loneliness over and over again.
Maybe that's what this book is trying to convey.
A hundred years of loneliness, endless loneliness.
[About Love in the Time of Cholera]
I haven't seen the movie adaptation of "One Hundred Years of Solitude", but I haven't read the original book of "Love in the Time of Cholera".
After watching the movie, I always have a question, is there really a man as infatuated as Ariza in the world?
Then I thought of Jin Yuelin, and thought of "living in the forest". He loved Lin Huiyin all his life, and even if Lin Huiyin died, Mr. Jin never married.
Ariza also loved Fermina all her life. On the day Fermina's husband died, she ran over and told her, I have waited for you for 51 years, 9 months and 4 days.
But after being moved, I am still skeptical about this kind of feeling, especially in the current society.
When I first saw my heart, but when I see you again, I am still in love. Will it become an obsession?
I like you, it's my own thing, I do everything I do willingly. My love flows over the mountains and into the sea, but I never mention it, I don't want you to respond.
Is that so? If you don't ask for anything in return, Ariza won't go to her beloved and say to her, I've been waiting for you for 51 years.
So the so-called not asking for something is nothing but asking for nothing. If there is any hope, he will also ask for something in return.
The great thing about Ariza is that he didn't morally kidnap the other party because of this strong sense of giving.
"I love you so much, how can you ignore me?"
He gave up this hysterical imbalance and gave up heavy pressure on the other party, but he was perverted.
Because he could not love Fermina, he indulged himself in the pursuit of sexual desire and was satisfied in the carnival of the pursuit of the flesh. During the 51 years of his long wait, he slept with 622 people.
A lover who has slept with 622 women is extremely loyal and ironic. This is probably Marquez's magical and realistic narrative technique.
So for Ariza's infatuation and absolute love, I have no way of knowing whether it is pure or not. Maybe it's just a habit brought about by obsession?
Fortunately, Ariza finally ushered in his belated love, and in this protracted unrequited love, he won.
The other woman was not so lucky, and her lover couldn't even remember a person like her.
[Letter about a strange woman]
"You, you who never knew me. My son died yesterday..."
From the beginning of the movie, I knew that this was not destined to be a comedy reunion to the end of the story.
In the faint sound of the pipa, a woman silently told the story of her unrequited love for a man, and told it to this man and to you and me.
She was obsessed as a teenage girl and continued to love a hopeless man until the end of her life. And this man, she had introduced from the beginning of the letter - "Never knew me" - such a man who had no memory of her at all. Her letter, a letter from a strange woman to him.
Like cholera, it also tells a story of "I love you, it has nothing to do with you", but compared to cholera, the tone of this story is sadder than the former.
I'm not sure if it's because of the style of the movie or because the main character of the story is a woman.
Or maybe because the story is even more hopeless.
The male protagonist in cholera and the person he likes have at least once been in love, so when the male protagonist chooses to wait to face his love, he has a hope, and this kind of hope has 50% chance. Success rate.
What about the letter? The heroine's unrequited love never even remembers her name, what a hope. She doesn't even know what she can bring to the other party, because she doesn't even know the other party's needs.
So this love, in the eyes of the audience in front of the screen, is much more sad and hopeless.
I love you silently with an expectation for you, I can't be sure what I can give you, so I can't ask for anything, I can't say anything. I can only be sure of myself, so I can only face you in silence. Before I die, I will send you a letter that asks no reply to tell you about my life. Because I've been alone for so long, my son died yesterday, your son and I. It's terrifying to be in a crowd and live alone. I had no choice but to choose to disturb you.
"Morning! Miss."
But look, you are not as warm as a housekeeper to me.
When life finally broke this woman, her love couldn't go on anymore. And the man she loves, a complete stranger to her, in his vase, on his birthday, there will never be a white rose sent by this strange woman again.
If I leave, there will be no future.
But what does this mean to this man?
Because he is unfamiliar, because he doesn't love him, what effect will it have on him in the future?
The way he got rid of it was always the same. Rejoice, then leave and forget.
So how stupid should this woman be?
Approaching over and over again, using various methods to hope that the other party will remember him, it turned out to be just a one-man show.
So, how can loving someone be just a matter of one person? Ariza waited for a response. The woman in the letter complained with a letter, hoping to be remembered before her life ended.
And all the stories are telling us.
Useless is affectionate.
Because ah, love has always been a matter of two people.
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