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"Sometimes in a sentimental tone he,
Telling a remorseful death,
Talking about the sad people who live,
In our humble hut where we got drunk,
He watched the useless and poor people around him with tears in his eyes,
He picked up drunks in the street,
He sympathizes with the child abused by the wicked mother,
He moves as gracefully as a girl in a catechism class,
He pretends to know everything, business, art, medicine,
I follow him. "
- Verlaine
This is Verlaine's tender whisper to Rimbaud in the film Total Eclipse. Total Eclipse of the Heart is the transformational work of Polish director Agnieszka Holland. Before that, she liked to make films about Jewish redemption before turning to literary films. Agnieszka Horan has served as the screenwriter of the "Red", "White" and "Blue" series of films, and has also remade "The Devil's Child". In literary films, perhaps because of Rimbaud's unruly temperament, Agnieszka Holland only loves Rimbaud.
Rimbaud was the father of 19th century surrealist poetry. His poetry abandoned the romantic style that prevailed in the 18th century, and began to express human emotions directly and explicitly in a writing that abandoned rhetoric. This goes well with his unruly character.
Rimbaud solemnly declared to the real world:
"If everyone's life is unique, let us live uniquely."
Verlaine, his lifelong confidant, called him "the man of the wind" :
"The strong poet's pure wildness revealed in him made him an elves scattered around the world in that era, free and unfettered."
Rimbaud's biographer, Graham Robb, said of him: "A strong desire to express" "This genius relies on: talent beyond his age, the strangeness of gender indeterminacy, the mixture of glamour and cruelty, ready to Get rid of your past self in order to always be the 'other' in people's minds." Coincidentally, Rimbaud's rise to fame at a young age fits with Leonardo's rise to fame before he was 20. Leonardo once called the filming of "Total Eclipse" the most difficult day of his life, coinciding with the death of his grandfather, and he experienced a painful life turning point during that period.
We all know that Rimbaud loves to run away all his life. Rimbaud was born in Chavelle, a small town in northern France. This is a barren and desolate town full of bourgeois vulgar taste. Rimbaud was hostile to the city from an early age, and his early poems reflect this disgust:
"My old city is the most ignorant city in the other provinces".
Rimbaud's father left home when he was 6 years old. Since childhood, he has been strictly controlled by his mother. He hated family and ran away about three times. And for the last time, in Total Eclipse of the Heart, he embarks on a journey to meet Verlaine.
In 1871, the young and promising Parisian poet Verlaine received a letter signed by Rimbaud containing eight unique poems. After reading the letter, Verlaine replied:
My dear great soul,come to us ,you are summoned,you are expected.
In 1875, Rimbaud came to Paris, France. At the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War, Paris fell into a dead end. As a poet, Verlaine's life was lifeless: he didn't resonate with his wife, his money and status were given to him by his father-in-law, everything had nothing to do with him, and he didn't even have the right to entertain Rimbaud at home. Therefore, Verlaine envied Rimbaud's reckless behavior, which he could not do in order to live.
What to use to express Rimbaud's wanton it? As he walks, he strokes every goalpost:
Eating without image at Verlaine's house:
sneered at the party:
At that time, there was a huge shortage of artists. Sometimes artists are more eager for quick success than the middle class. Verlaine took Rimbaud to a party of friends, but Rimbaud laughed loudly at the decaying artists:
"In the days of Francis, the great men of good and wise roamed the country, and one of their chief duties was to purge the world of the pedants, the fools, and the untalented writers, and the method was to urinate on them.
Wandering, witnessing the reality of death and chaos, Rimbaud decides to create a future:
"That day, the first day I ran away from home, I saw a Prussian soldier sleeping in a clearing. After watching it for a long time, I realized that he was not asleep, he was dead, which made me think. I want to be the first poet of this century, is to use my body to do everything, as a person is not enough, I decided to be everyone, I decided to be a genius, I decided to create the future. "
How to start? The answer is to keep moving forward. In the movie, the word that appears most frequently in Rimbaud's dream is to move forward, move forward, move forward.
"I've never seen the sea, I haven't been to Africa, across the desert, I want the sun, I want the sun, do you understand me, I want the sun."
The main line of "Total Eclipse of the Heart" was originally the process of Verlaine and Rimbaud getting to know each other and falling in love. The director wanted to use Verlaine's eyes to peep Rimbaud's heart. In the film, Verlaine is contradictory. He was always tossing between his feelings for Rimbaud and his wife. First of all, Verlaine's "rusty soul" was fused by Rimbaud's talent and temperament, and he could not refuse his wife's wealth and body. It can be said that Rimbaud is his soul and his wife is his body.
"Do you love me?"
"Love"
"Love is, nothing is unbearable."
Unfortunately, Verlaine's love for Rimbaud was not so extreme that he could endure everything for him. Verlaine did not have the courage to leave the family, but tried to kidnap Rimbaud by his side at the same time. He tricked Rimbaud into Brussels and shot Rimbaud through the palm of his hand in an attempt to keep him, but was jailed for intentional injury and behavior. In the end, Rimbaud was left alone and returned to his hometown in grief. Friends who like the love part can watch this movie.
Total Eclipse is Rimbaud's lifelong pursuit: complete burning or complete destruction. "When he loves, he squanders his emotions, willfulness, joy, jealousy, madness, and everything. Once he decides to let go, his eyes are like ice, and he never looks back.
" Either don't hurt people, or be cold. Don't use an apology to insult those you hurt. "
After Verlaine was released from prison, Rimbaud asked him one last time: Do you want my body or my soul, choose.
After that day, Rimbaud officially parted ways with Verlaine. Before the age of 19, Rimbaud wrote all the poems in his life, and has since retired from the poetry world. After the age of 19, he began to travel the world until cancer knocked him down. He converted to Catholicism and tried to ask for redemption. However, Rimbaud cannot be redeemed because there is no compromise in his life. Once compromised, there is only death. In the end, Rimbaud chose to run away and stopped breathing in the sun.
"He went to the dream of Africa, crossed the desert, and even if there was a tumor on his leg, he was unwilling to stay in bed at home until he died. He never left the sun in his life."
"I have to go back to the sun and the sun will heal me."
"After he died, I could see him night after night, my great and glorious sin, we have been happy,
All the time, I remember.
One day he said,
I found it
I asked: what?
eternal,
It is the sun and the sea. "
- Verlaine
My eternal soul, watching your heart, even if the night is lonely and the day is on fire. - Rimbaud, "Season of Hell: Eternity"
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