The thoughts I wrote in my diary last February...

Rebekah 2022-04-23 07:05:27

I watched Total Eclipse at night. The Rimbaud played by Xiao Li is sincere, sharp and affectionate, and he is not sloppy. As for Verlaine, a word that is more suitable to describe him is "halfway" in Japanese. He was always running away from something, passion, love, family responsibilities, the words of the world. There were too many contradictions in him, and in the end he couldn't bear it anymore and escaped into religion to be saved. The peace he obtained was an unacceptable compromise for Rimbaud, so Rimbaud would seal his "hands touched by his muse" and travel around the world, but he would not choose to stay with him. This is the end.

There are many sentences in the movie dialogue that people can't wait to memorize, but Xiao Li is as good-looking as Wan Dao Xiaguang. The only regret is that Xiao Li's American voice and David Thewlis's beautiful British voice are slightly different.

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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.