——I have loved you with all my life, and touched you with the rest of my desolate life, but I never took that step and filled the rest of my life with all my memories.
I watched "The Barber of Siberia" last night, and I felt that Andre and Jenny fell in love at first sight, and then they could use their lives to burn with pure and vital love. This kind of feeling suddenly brought me into the love mode written by Bunin.
Love that is as gorgeous as fireworks also blooms in an instant like fireworks, paying tribute to the beauty and eternity of the world with the fleeting and fleeting. I once sneered at the love at first sight and then the love that will be remembered forever, thinking that such creations by writers are literary, glorifying and deceptive, and unrealistic. But then I found out that the more tragic works I have seen, the more I can understand the love that the writer sings. They are beautiful precisely because they are unbelievable and unbelievable, and few people can realize them. What they depict is a vision, or an ideal, and that vision itself is beautiful. After all, if everyone can achieve something, it can’t be called an ideal. The reason why an ideal can be called an ideal is because it is something that everyone generally has not achieved or even can’t understand. Therefore, generations of people are suffering Chasing this thing on top of an ivory tower. She is beautiful, illusory, unattainable, and carries the noblest and most beautiful visions of people.
When I was watching the movie, I was thinking, what is the meaning of such a relationship?
Perhaps you can find the answer by reading Bunin's love story:
Bunin believes that it doesn't matter what kind of result you have in a relationship, what matters is that you have experienced and loved passionately and engraved this relationship in your heart. Tragedy is not the destruction of love, but the sublimation of the emotions of both sexes. It is like a leavening agent, which makes love more mellow and unforgettable as time brews.
When I was watching the movie, I was thinking, if the male protagonist's feelings could be restrained and patient, if he didn't disrupt the principal's confession to the female lead, or if he hadn't beaten his rival due to jealousy in front of the public, would they be able to achieve it? A relationship? The performance of this opera is the climax of the whole film, and it is also a turning point in the emotional line between the hero and heroine, but the moving and cleverness of this film, and what I want to say below, are all contained in this.
The heroine Jenny, mature, beautiful, cunning and wild, lives in lies and routines. She is a courtesan hired to deceive the trust of General Radlov, the director of the Military Academy. She is well versed in the way of communication. She is able to communicate with her skills without giving her sincerity, and even made the general really want to propose to her.
In those days, a single woman played calmly in a train car to tease soldiers who had entered by mistake, like a sly cat teasing a group of stinky mice.
Facing the attentive person who wanted to take the opportunity to hug her, she said that I had six pieces of luggage in the carriage, so I subtly rejected his attentiveness and took advantage of the trend to let him go to pick up his own luggage, and by the way, I had a look in your eyes that saw through your ghost's mind. , in the blink of an eye, he put on a hearty and sincere smile on his face.
A half-truth, half-truth: My husband was eaten by a crocodile in the river, but I swam so fast that I managed to dissuade the man carrying her luggage from her.
She was able to control the principal's feelings with ease. When she learned that he had decided to take her to see her 90-year-old mother, she subtly changed the subject in a few words, and secretly manipulated the principal to order the coachman to take her to the river to see the Russian nation at the festival. Looking at each other, you can tell whether the principal's meaning is true or not. With a teasing meaning and a smile that is not a smile, the principal is so drunk that he is full of foreign appearances.
With such superb social methods and smooth psychological manipulation, the heroine can be called a PUA at the master level.
What is PUA?
PUA is Pick up artist to pick up a conversation with the master of art. Pua was originally a communication technique to encourage people to approach the opposite sex in the West, but it was then used as emotional deception and psychological manipulation to become "bad pua"
How could such a courtesan with rich experience and familiarity with routines have mutual affection with the male protagonist, thus producing the purest and most refined love that is unattainable?
The heroine has a lot in common with contemporary pua. She has always played a certain identity in her interpersonal communication, showing her own value in an unreal mode to survive in this society. As explained in the film, she was a courtesan invited by the designer from the United States, and approached the principal as the designer's daughter, so that the above research funds were allocated for the designer. But in fact, people's feelings for people are a kind of chemical reaction. When the communication routine becomes a habit and then becomes part of her body, this instinctive chemical reaction is in danger of being obliterated. She once told the male protagonist that your mother will definitely tell you to stay away from a woman like me. This is the boredom, pain, and division that the real her feels against the fake. She has always lived in contradictions. Although she lives in a pattern in society, she still expects sincere emotions. She hoped that there was something real that could impress her, but fortunately, she met Andrei, the male protagonist. Let her feel the most direct and straightforward from the collision of one heart to another. Her hopes were not in vain, and her nature was not destroyed in the end. To some extent, she realized the redemption of her soul in Andre. The male protagonist is the real place where she is. She can face the male protagonist with her truest self. On the night of expressing her heart, there is one detail that particularly touched me: she seemed to caress her hair inadvertently and said, oh , so you noticed that my hair color has changed, this is my real hair color, and then revealed to the male protagonist her true identity as a courtesan. Handing over your body honestly to the male protagonist, removing the delicate clothing in front of him, the two treat each other as frankly as children, and integrate each other into their hottest selves.
The ending design of the drama "The Marriage of Figaro" in the movie forms a sharp contrast with the ending of the protagonist's love, which also reflects the intervention of the hero and heroine's love ending under the influence of different ideologies in Russia and France. Figaro, played by the male protagonist in the opera "The Marriage of Figaro", used his ingenuity to subtly destroy the earl's first night's right to his wife, making the love of the two people a happy ending. Due to misunderstanding, the Russian soldier Andrei couldn't control his anger and jealousy and beat the principal in full view of the performance. In the eyes of others, he was exiled and ruined his future because of his recklessness and naivety. But perhaps in the thoughts of young Russian Andrei, this is not the death of his future, but a sacred "sacrifice". He took the initiative to pay tribute to his great love with his bright future and the rest of his life. After all, the more precious the thing you want, the greater the price you need to pay. Something as beautiful and desirable as love has the capital to change his state of existence, so he willingly handed over what he had. everything.
I think both Jenny and Andre are brave with their feelings. Jenny wanders in the social arena. Not only did she not get caught up in the routines and the infatuation of the upper class, she became a communication tool without emotion, but she has experienced Qian Fanyou to understand the value of true love. When Andre disrupted the general's confession plan and confessed to her in front of the principal and her employer, she was not afraid to offend the general and her employer, and sat in front of the piano to accompany him. soothe his nervousness. She understands what Andrei's straightforward confession means to a non-commissioned officer in school, what he gave up, and what he gave her—the most precious truth in the world. She can bravely reveal her unbearable experience to the person she loves in front of her lover, and she can bravely tell the principal that he will forgive Andrei.
At the end of the film, it took Jenny ten years to finally come to the place where Andre was exiled. Through her identity, we can know that she was still socializing within ten years. She became a designer's wife in order to One day, I can come here to meet Andrei when I test the machine with the "Siberian Barber". For ten years, she has maintained that sincerity. She found the wooden house where Andrei lived, and saw the furnishings in the house—the crib, the statue of the tsar. It was his peaceful home and his love and allegiance to the Russian Tsar.
So Jenny didn't wait in front of the wooden house for Andrei, who was out, to return. She chose not to disturb the peace that the Russian young Andrei had regained.
Andrei sensed the arrival of Jenny. He crossed all the obstacles in the forest, and seemed to run like crazy to break through all the obstacles, but he stopped where he could see her. Where he stopped, he even He could hear the sound of his sweetheart riding his horse away, but he chose to watch her from afar and silently watch her figure leave his sight.
In my opinion, this is the most beautiful ending to the love between the two. After many years, they finally understand that love is a kind of restraint, not publicity, so they choose not to see or disrupt each other's life trajectory. But time will ferment this experience into the most precious memory. They will use the rest of their lives to remember this love and the encounter between two people at the most beautiful time.
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