"Total Eclipse Love": I may not love you

Tyra 2022-04-23 07:05:27

"Total Eclipse Love" is about the short and topical life of the nineteenth-century poet Arthur Rimbaud. His works can be understood as the "non-mainstream" style of poetry at that time. He was unconventional at that time. Challenging dull traditions, tearing at the hypocrisy of the world with nineteen-year-old arrogance, indulging your own cynicism under the nib of the pen, and writing pure and transparent true temperament. It's just a pity that although the thorns are sharp, they failed to make a name for themselves when they were alive. Instead, many years after their death, the "Lanbo Body" represented by him was gradually praised by radical and enthusiastic young people in successive new movements. Come on.
I always think that every biographical film of an artist is a porridge rich in various organic elements, nutritious and can overflow the foam, and the story of each protagonist will fill your spiritual energy again. Although this is the biography of Arthur Rimbaud, my feelings cannot but automatically focus on Verlaine, his same-sex lover. He let me know that those who love do not care about themselves, are bruised and bruised, and end up hating and dreaming. It is not only women who are so stupid, but men too. Even after the moth flies into the fire, there is only a pile of residue left, and he is still obsessed with whether the other party has really loved him.
The story takes place in Paris, France in the 19th century. At that time, Willen, after years of hard work, had achieved small achievements in the poetry circle, and his status and fame were in a period of steady growth. In addition, he ended his single life and became rich and rich. The marriage of a beautiful lady with a prominent family background saves him from having to hide in the attic and endure the days of lack of bread, like those poets who are underappreciated and impoverished, and continue to write and write, and at the height of starvation and deliriousness, dizziness. Seeing the mirage of fame and fortune in the future. However, who would have thought that in order to pursue a higher spiritual level, Willen would choose to abandon his wife and reputation for years of business, follow a man, and embark on the road of utopia of his dreams. It was originally a life that envy others, but it became a vulgar thing that I hated in my heart and was severely discarded.
Art, poetry, etc. are always the indispensable necessities of the upper class. Of course, they use these to reflect their elegance and self-cultivation, so young and beautiful wives are captured, and they love their husbands more than anything else, but in Verlaine's wealthy old husband In his eyes, his civilian status was always low, but his daughter liked him, but he had no choice but to accept the son-in-law, so when Lan Bo dared to leave his house, even if he was angry, in the confrontation with his husband, he appeared calm on the surface. , but his back was already soaked, and perhaps his legs were still shivering. I wonder if he will be lighting a lonely lamp to drive away the coldness and reflect on what the appearance of Arthur Rimbaud has brought to his life after many years? I wouldn't say that he turned into an innocent girl who was kidnapped by a hooligan. With longing for love and curiosity about the outside world, he ignored the advice of his family and insisted on eloping. Not even talking about what he brought, at least through this young man, he made him see his humiliation in front of his father-in-law, the hypocritical politeness of the class system, and thought that he was not ignoring too much ugliness, so that he would later treat those who let him in the past. The unexpected behavior of people leaves a good explanation.
Perhaps Willen had taken a drug called Lambo a long time ago, and died in his poems before he saw him, in his unrestrained and unabashed arrogance. , it is better to say that in his subconscious, he hopes to become a person like Lan Bo, and his uneducated and etiquette behavior will embarrass his wife and mother-in-law, who are high-class ladies, and help him to express his resentment. The young tiger humiliated and ridiculed his hometown in the Poetry Club. He had a rigid and pedantic concept of poetry. Seeing that Lan Bo was making trouble, Verlaine was no longer hiding his dissatisfaction with these people and things. In the end, he made an amazing decision, and This slutty kid who helped him liberate himself left Paris together to find a life as free as heaven.
After they left Paris, the two spent a sweet period wandering on Verlaine's possessions, and then, like all novels about real love, the problems between the two continued to increase, and Rambo's vices have always been a large pile of sloppy habits. Lazy and idlely squandering Verlaine's savings, his inspiration for poetry is exhausted day by day, why doesn't he delusional that one day he will be famous and admired by all people, but such a dream will only come true after his death. Lambo, who couldn't write anything, mocked and insulted Verlaine to find a sense of psychological balance. In the end, a conflict between the two broke out. Verlaine wounded the dazzling boy in his heart like the sun god Apollo with a gun.
Verlaine went to prison for two years because he wounded Rambo with a gun. Once upon a time, all that was left was his love for Arthur Rimbaud. In exchange for his love with Lanbo, he still went to Lanbo after he was released from prison, hoping to get back with him, but was rejected. He didn't know, but he was always reluctant to admit that no one could truly own this man like opium.
Meeting a man, a trip, a roller coaster, even if I returned to the point and left nothing, I still care if he loved me, at least this love never made me regret it.

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Total Eclipse quotes

  • [first lines]

    Paul Verlaine: Sometimes he speaks in a kind of tender dialect of the death which causes repentence, of the unhappy men who certainly exist, of painful tasks and heartrending departures. In the hovels where we got drunk he wept looking at those who surrounded us, the cattle of poverty. He lifted up drunks in the black streets. He had the pity a bad mother has for small children. He moved with the grace of a little girl at catechism. He pretended to know about everything, business, art, medicine. I followed him, I had to!

  • [last lines]

    Arthur Rimbaud: I've found it. What? Eternity. It's the sun mingled with the sea.