- a brief review of "Wilde's Lover"
Author: Swaying
"We are all in the gutter, but some of them are looking up at the stars."
More than a hundred years ago, Wilde once In prison, he lamented his current miserable situation. Things are right and wrong, wives and ions are separated, the narrow windows in the prison can't see through the sunlight, and the quill in his hand is trembling and unable to write a line of text. He covered his face and sighed, his heart was twisted like a knife, but he had to still grope in the gutter. The future was dark, the road was tortuous, and the physical labor overwhelmed him, but he still looked up at the starry sky, looking forward to seeing When Percy had the eyes of the stars and the sea, he also died without regret. Today's tragedy was created by himself, just because he pursued his own love.
In the film, the exquisitely decorated Victorian study room swayed by candlelight at night, and there were many ghosts. A delicate teenager is leaning on the sofa and reading a book intently. "He is quite like a narcissus
- so white and gold . He lies like a hyacinth on the sofa and I worship him. This is how he describes his lover. But in those conservative times, how to allow same-sex admiration? This kind of Greek-style love, admiration for youth and beauty, should only be permanently sealed in the unofficial history books and branded as "indecent and vulgar". What's more, Wilde, who was in the "upper class of socialites" at the time, not to mention that he was married and had two children. What's more, before Percy Douglas, he already had a lover who led him to the Garden of Eden to swallow the fruit of original sin - Robbie Ross.
Perhaps Wilde was able to balance family and lover well before Busy came along. For him, Robbie is a balance between passion and desire. He is sometimes his muse, and sometimes his translator. Like the Apollo statue erected in Wilde's bedroom, he brought the dawn to Wilde's life.
But it wasn't until Percy appeared backstage at the end of the theater, that stare for ten thousand years, that piano music lingering with love. Percy looks up to Wilde's talent, and Wilde misses Percy's youth. Under the warm and dim lighting of the movie, perspiration covered Percy's young body. This proud and conceited young man is full of infinite possibilities and vitality. He is like a masterpiece of the Renaissance, his lips are more seductive than the forbidden fruit, and his talent is brilliant. But he grew up in a violent centralized family, just like Sabastian, who was imprisoned by religion in "After the Wind and Rain in the Hometown", Bosie was the victim of the centralized family.
So Wilde's love for youth turned into a love for Percy. He longed to redeem Percy's imprisoned spiritual energy, but was helpless to be tortured again and again by his playfulness and willfulness. For Percy's sake, he spent all his property, ruined all inspiration, and was even abandoned on the sickbed. Because of love, was escorted to court.
"This unnamed love is intellectual love that goes on between the old and the young. The old man has the wisdom and the young man has the joy, the hope and the radiance of life. They are attracted to each other and love each other is So natural..." Faced with the accusation of "sodomy", Wilde once again gave a poetic monologue.
American gay singer Adam Lambert also sighed in the song "Love Beyond the Law", "They say we're going to go to hell because of this, but I don't think so. They hold us too much, this love ." The most successful point of the film is that it is not grandstanding, and depicts Wilde's extrajudicial love without exaggeration and flashy. In the misty rain in England, Wilde and Percy rescue each other, chasing the sun, running. But in the end it became mutual torture.
The director chose Jude Law and Stephen Frey to play Percy and Wilde. It's a wise move. Let's not talk about the similarity between the four people in appearance. The young Jude Law is like a poppy to Percy, charming, full of temptation but has a The poisonous beauty and charm are well-placed, and Frey is well-shaped whether it is Wilde's high-spiritedness when he became famous, the love affair of falling in love, or the decadence and misery of being in prison. Throughout the whole film, almost 100% of the poem-like lines of the characters are restored, Wilde's monologues throughout the film, and the grainy texture of the old films will undoubtedly add a lot of color.
The most tragic part of the movie is the always unknown Ross and Wilde's wife Constance. Ross's deep affection, even when Wilde finally fell to the bottom and was cast aside by thousands of people, still paid the highest tribute to him, but was ridiculed by Percy as "one of Wilde's countless lovers". Constance's forbearance and perseverance built on family love until death, even supporting her husband's drama at the last moment, is a tragedy for women. After Wilde, who had nothing at all, was released from prison, the film ended in a smile with Percy, but left the most painful tragedy to the subtitles - Wilde finally broke up with Percy and died alone a year later. , Percy has a nervous breakdown, Ross is buried with Wilde after his death... In the
film, Wilde compares himself to his own "selfish giant". The "children" he loves are not only his own sons, but also his boys, his young and talented lover, and the never-grown child inside him as an artist. Always in the end he was devastated by his "boys" and died well, because those were the scars of love.
There are only two tragedies in this world: one is not getting what you want; the other is getting it.
So, did Wilde finally get his love?
No one can stand on the commanding heights of "morality" and "law" to comment on other people's love and choices. We only know that Wilde has not been forgotten by time. We are still infatuated with his works, and countless marketing accounts are still praising him. "The great joker" also talked about his former feelings with relish. His statue is located in England to talk to all generations, he was rehabilitated, he walked out of the gutter and came to his own starry sky.
When you live forever in immortal poetry. As long as human beings survive, or human beings have eyes, your life will last forever with my poetry.
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