This is a line from the strange Emerson father and son in "A Room with a View". So the beautiful Miss Lucy from England accepted their kindness under the persuasion of the priest, and moved with her cousin, the most common foil character in all European classics, into a room with a beautiful view of Florence. The lens stretches, and from Miss Lucy's field of vision, the Arno River is outside the window, and the beautiful scenery of Italy is quietly laid out in the whole picture. The story unfolds under such a background, soothing and peaceful, with a quaint European life atmosphere.
I think Foster's original work is not even as good as the movie. Some chapters are too procrastinated and not as clear as the movie. What I like most about the whole film is that it is divided into more than a dozen sections. Before each section starts, there will be a title with a complicated pattern as a frame. It has a serious and stereotyped humor that is unique to the United Kingdom. He is full of European literary accent. Most of the lines in the film are still loyal to the original. The fancy and formal sentences are spoken from the actor's mouth with a straight neck and a mouthful of British English, which is particularly moving.
The first time I watched this film was the Chinese dubbed version. I think that if Western movies are dubbed, generally speaking, they will have a big discount on their attractiveness. Because old voice actors always like to express the emotions of characters in foreign movies too exaggeratedly. Watching again this time, not only made me feel that the actors performed Foster’s beautiful sentences smoothly and decently, but also saw that the Chinese version has been cut out, a rare nude in British classical movies. play. That was when Lucy was walking with her fiancé and mother, and met her brother, George, and the pastor of the town taking a bath in the pond. From the look in Lucy's eyes and the smirking expression, we can see that she is not the kind of lady of the British high society who is bound by red tape. She will not be willing to be the decoration of her fiancé. There is too much passion in her heart. This is why in the poppy-filled countryside of Florence, after Lucy was forced to kiss by George, on the surface, as a lady should do, Lucy left him angrily, but in fact the idea of love sprouted secretly in her heart.
Speaking of the involuntary kiss, and comparing it with the kiss after Lucy was engaged to the fake fiance, the latter made people laugh. Our fiance with gold-rimmed pin-nosed glasses said to Lucy, Lucy, it seems I haven't kissed you since we got engaged. Lucy said, yes. The fiance said, can I kiss you. Lucy said, of course. So the fiance pressed his lips tightly and approached Lucy with a frown like tasting Chinese medicine. In a very reluctant contact, the gentleman's clip-nose glasses almost fell off and hurriedly helped him with his hands. Lucy said sorry. The fiance said it was okay. Then he held his glasses again, stroked his hair, and walked forward with a civilization stick like a gentleman.
The music of the film is another moving part. It has selected Beethoven, Mozart, and Schubert many times. When George kissed Lucy for the first time, he also quoted Puccini's dream of the aria Doretta in the opera Swallow. That is also a love-related story. The heroine of the story, Dorita, also had a heart-wrenching kiss with the hero. Puccini’s popular slogan in the opening movie, my dear father, also fits in a certain sense with the theme of the film. It describes the heroine falling in love with someone she shouldn’t love. The teacher once reminded us of the sadness of this piece during the appreciation class. The teacher is a middle-aged Italian woman. When she speaks English, certain syllables still remind me of those beautiful arias. No wonder someone once told me that Italian is the language of music.
I want to end this article with George’s words when he persuaded Lucy to leave her fiance. He said: He just wants to possess you, and then looks at you like an oil painting or an ivory box. You are just one thing he can possess and display. He doesn't want you to think, he doesn't need you to really exist. He doesn't love you, but I do. Even when I hug you tightly, I still hope you have your own thoughts and feelings. This is our last chance... After
watching such a movie, my idea of going to Europe has become stronger again.
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