The second record that Tess follows her heart is also a tragedy

Nick 2022-04-22 07:01:48

I didn't know anything about this book until I saw the movie. I don't know it turned out to be a complete tragedy, but from the moment the priest told Tess' father about their family at the beginning of the story, I also expected that this would probably cause a series of tragedies, and the tragic The character of course is the heroine!

The story opens with a long, long shot of a group of girls singing and dancing from far to near, including Tess. Then Angel appeared, the man Tess loved and then abandoned her, but unfortunately they didn't dance together. Looking back, I couldn't help but think, if angel had invited Tess to dance, would everything have been different.

Tess's father finds out that he is a descendant of the prestigious Debord family long ago, and struggles to find the descendants of other clans, in the delusional way to improve his living environment through these distant relatives. And sent Tess to Alek's house, the beautiful Tess was indeed taken a fancy to by the playboy, and her tragic fate began.

She was raped, gave birth to a child, was cast aside, the child died, went to the farm to find a job, met her beloved, was not understood, was abandoned, was disheartened, went back to the person who raped her, became a mistress, and returned her lover , to kill, to flee, to be hanged.

It seemed that every choice she made was wrong, and of course she didn't choose either. Because no matter if I promised to be a mistress from the beginning, I would inevitably end up being abandoned; if I didn't tell angel about my past, I couldn't get through it; if I didn't kill that hateful man in the end, how could I get rid of it. Everything is doomed long ago. Living in that era, but having such a soul, is a tragedy.

Everything is nothingness... Hey, what can we little people do but comfort ourselves like this.

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Extended Reading
  • Suzanne 2022-03-27 09:01:18

    "Cold Blood" is the continuous extension of the body into space, then "Tess" is a sense of space that is regarded as a body, just after the traumatic "rape" of Tess and Alec (the At the "critical moment", the Victorian, moral fog coincides with the actual arrival, Polanski not only re-enacts the implicit creation under the control of the moral imperative, the disappearance of this scene also proves that it will continue to appear), Polanski uses a similar, space-dominant, erotic and terrifying scene: Tess locks herself in the room, while Alec is outside begging for entry. The film also corresponds to Tess's own constant self-isolation - the trauma of modernism. The problem with Polanski's version of Tess is as obvious as its advantage, in that he is so engrossed in the depiction of emotion that the plot becomes a hasty performance.

  • Annalise 2022-03-25 09:01:19

    Golden Strawberry: "The sigh rises like the morning fog." This sentence in "The Tale of Genji" seems to be made for Tess: Natasha Kinski wakes up in the whispers of the police, surrounded by paintings The mist of the tone, it turned out that the scenery inside and outside the room could not be seen, and only half of my life could be seen. The red dress on her body is a bit more bleak and scarlet than Paris, Texas. She interprets two sad stories under the lens of Polanski and Wenders. The fleeting happiness is as short as sunshine and youth. He picked her up and walked through the muddy road, and he could hear the throbbing heartbeat through the screen. After the most beautiful time, it was a long period of suffering and suffering. Courage is always swallowed up by reality, neither critic nor sensational, just quietly narrate a past event so that they will not be overwhelmed. This is probably the least Polanski movie.

Tess quotes

  • Alec d'Urberville: [sees Tess trying to learn how to whistle] Nor art nor nature ever created a lovelier thing than you, cousin Tess. To see that pretty mouth pouting and puffing away, without producing a single note.

    Tess: It's all a part of my work, sir.

    Alec d'Urberville: Well, never mind. I'll teach you. I won't lay a finger on you. See. I'll stay exactly where I am. Now, you watch me. Don't scrape your lips too tight. Do it like this.

    [whistles]

    Alec d'Urberville: Blow gently. Gently. Try. Try again. Again. There. You'll manage splendidly now that I've started you off.

  • Alec d'Urberville: What are you crying for?

    Tess: I was only thinkin', I was born over there.

    Alec d'Urberville: Well, we all have to be born somewhere.

    Tess: Why, I wish I'd never been born. There or anywhere else.

    Alec d'Urberville: You're absurdly melancholy, Tess. You can hold your own for beauty against any woman, queen or commoner. I tell you that as a practical man who wishes you well. If you're wise, you'll let the world get a clearer sight of that beauty, before it fades. Why not make the most of life?