In "The Moon and Sixpence", the married Blanche abandons her beloved husband and falls in love with the down-and-out painter Strickland (the prototype is Gauguin). This is not a "seeking true love" story, this relationship is completely "reverse" of Blanche's wishful thinking. Strickland hated love, but couldn't get rid of lust: "I don't need love. I don't have time for love. It's a weakness of human nature. I'm a man, and sometimes I need a woman. But once my lust gets Satisfied, I am ready to do something else. I cannot overcome my desire, I hate it, it imprisons my spirit. ….Love is a disease. Women are instruments of my pleasure, and I treat them It's very annoying to ask for an assistant in a career, a life partner." All this, Blanche knew, but she was still madly infatuated with Strickland, and even planned to sell him. It's simply been "dropped". Mrs. Bernstein in "Genius Catcher" was also given the same "head down".
She is a successful screenwriter, her husband is a Harvard top student in finance, and she has children—a standard middle-class family. He wanted to move out by himself, regardless of his reputation, to "support" Thomas. Support his ideals and life when he is down and down and enjoy it. Is she stupid? of course not. In the conversation with the editor's wife, we know that Mrs. Bernstein's husband is too dull, and his life is as quiet as stagnant water. It is Thomas's passion for bringing her back to life.
▎My husband is a very good person▎But he is also an uncharacteristic person. When Thomas appeared on the stage, he showed a paradoxical, arrogant and exaggerated body that was not related to "good people": arrogant, sensitive and inferior.
When he fell into writing, he was so focused and excited, as if he was in a state of no one.
You can understand the "passion" that Mrs. Bernstein got from him: that kind of madness to chase ideals, with great energy. This kind of enthusiasm, most/ordinary people do not have. Mrs. Bernstein grabs the straw like a drowning man: falling in love with Thomas and freeing her life from the quagmire of mediocrity. When Thomas and Max got along day and night to add and delete manuscripts, Mrs. Bernstein felt that she "lost" Thomas, made a scene in the editorial department, made several gaffes, and even threatened to commit suicide. We seem to see a man who has lost his mind because of a lovelorn.
But what Mrs. Bernstein saved was more than love, she was once again falling into a mediocre life-without the aura of genius, it was once again suffocating. Back in "The Moon and Sixpence", Blanche's possessiveness towards Strickland makes him extremely annoyed. The abandoned Blanche would rather choose suicide than go back to the home where her husband stayed for her. Having experienced the company of geniuses day and night, returning to the ordinary seems more terrifying than death. The name of the movie is "Genius Catcher", which seems to be easy to understand: Max, a keen editor, tapped Thomas, a dark horse ignored by the literary world, so that the world would not miss his talent.
In fact, everyone who can see the aura of genius is a catcher: he/they is desperate, hysterical, invading and occupying, in order to demand that their own life is a little more extraordinary. In "Perfume", Jean Grenouille poured the bottle of the most beautiful perfume on himself at the end. People who were dazed by the aroma came one after another, let Grenouille nibble clean, and then left silently. I see those worshippers who are selfless and chasing genius, and they also have the illusion that they are dizzy. First published in [Three Bitch]
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