"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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Love in the Time of Cholera quotes

  • Fermina Urbino: The only thing that hurts me is that I don't have enough strength to give you the beating that you deserve for being so insolent and evil-minded. But you will leave this house right now and I swear to you on my mother's grave that you will not set foot in it again as long as I live. Life crippled that poor man 50 years ago, because he was too young and now you want to do it because we are too old.

  • Florentino Ariza: I discovered to my joy, that it is life, not death, that has no limits.