"Love in the Time of Cholera": A little running account

Juliana 2022-04-21 09:03:50

Basically, if you want to watch a love story in which the hero and heroine know each other and get through difficulties together during the epidemic, as the title gives the first impression or the hint of some marketing accounts, even one party is infected with the epidemic and the other party If you don't give up, then you should actually watch "The Hussars on the Roof".

As in Márquez's original work, cholera only has a metaphorical background, which is crucial to the plot, but does not take up much space. Most of the time, what we see is Florentino and/or Fermina's somewhat incomprehensible entanglement, interspersed with contradictions caused by war, disease, and even destruction of nature.

Not as magical as One Hundred Years of Solitude, but probably just as crazy. The people in the film are stubborn, complicated, and repressed. In the eyes of some "guardians", they even have "three wrong views", but they are all very real people in essence. Do you say their love is pure? No. Is it vulgar? Maybe. Sincerely? Indeed.

It's a pity that, like most of the adaptations of strong literary classics, "Love in the Time of Cholera" only filmed many important passages in the book, but failed to connect the logic between the passages in the way of movies. The form is unreal... 55/100.

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Extended Reading
  • Rebeka 2022-03-23 09:03:36

    Florentino watched lovingly as his empress took off her underwear, revealing saggy breasts and a slightly bloated waist. She was a little embarrassed for not allowing him to see it. In fact, he had never been so happy in his life. Before that, he had 623 women. In his notebook, women are young, full of breasts and passionate. His last lover was small enough to be his granddaughter. But, as he said: "I have reserved a virginity for you, Fermina."

  • Judy 2022-03-30 09:01:11

    What a terrific love!

Love in the Time of Cholera quotes

  • Florentino Ariza: [Surprising her in her house] Fermina I have waited for this opportunity for 51 years, nine months and four days. That is... how long I have loved you from the first moment I cast eyes on you un... until now.

    Fermina Urbino: Florentino Ariza... get out of here! Get out!

    Fermina Urbino: [cut to Ariza reading a letter from Fermina while we hear her words:] Florentino Ariza, you are a dreadful, insensitive human being. How dare you enter my house on the day my beloved husband died and utter such monstrous, ridiculous sentiments? You have put me in a mortal rage, which has caused me to think about you without wanting to. Do you understand? I do not want to think about you. Stay out of my life.

  • Florentino Ariza: [closing scene, in bed together, but clothed] I love you, my crowned goddess. We're going to stay like this.

    Fermina Urbino: You can't mean it.

    Florentino Ariza: From the moment I was born, I have never said anything I did not mean.

    Fermina Urbino: [exhales, almost trembling] And how long do you... you think we can... stay like this?

    Fermina Urbino: Forever.

    Fermina Urbino: Forever?

    Florentino Ariza: [cut to view of the sun-lit boat anchored in the midst of the river] After 53 years, seven months and 11 days and night, my heart was at last fulfilled. And I discovered, to my joy, that it is life and not death that has no limits.