On the banks of the Mekong full of desire

Thomas 2022-04-22 07:01:45

Just came back from Cambodia and found this dvd to review.
The noisy and dirty environment on the Mekong River and the humid and sultry climate in Southeast Asia are like experiencing it first-hand. A hopeless love, he would rather her for money, and she never admits her love to him. It was not until the voyage of the cruise ship left the dock, and no one whispered in the middle of the night, that the truth of love was revealed.
I love this movie, it reminds me of myself. Although I do not have the financial status of the rich party, I am just as weak in pursuit of fruitless pleasure. unable to self.
The disparity in each other's background and the humiliation brought by each other cannot offset each other's attraction. There is no hope other than love. In the face of the inevitable parting, I would rather never love, I would rather just be addicted for a while, not involving promises, and nothing to do with feelings.
When the last waltz sounded, I also cried in my heart. It turns out that love can really start after the end, but I will never see that person again.

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  • Fanny 2022-03-27 09:01:15

    The review is the film itself. I don't like this heroine, it doesn't fit my aesthetic. Compared with the original book, this love is obviously too thin and hasty to express in a movie way, and even a few straightforward sex scenes make me feel boring. If I have the opportunity, I should learn French and read the original work. I can only say that the translated works made me misunderstand Duras' literary attainments. Perhaps the charm of literature to film lies in the fact that it builds the reader's rich imagination in order to be obsessed.

  • Ward 2022-03-28 09:01:08

    Leung Ka Fai's character is very Su, and Leung Ka Fai performed the Chinese people's restraint and responsibility, not the cowardly feeling of the original work, I feel that Duras is both worthy and stand-up.

The Lover quotes

  • The Chinaman: My body no longer wants the one who does not love.

  • [first lines]

    Narrator: Very early in my life, it was too late. At eighteen it was already too late. At eighteen I aged. This aging was brutal. This aging, I saw it spread over my features, one by one. Instead of being frightened by it, I saw this aging of my face with the same sort of interest I might have taken for example in the reading of a book. That new face I kept it. It's kept the same contours, but its matter is destroyed. I have a destroyed face. Let me tell you again: I'm fifteen and a half. It's the crossing of a ferry on the Mekong.