C'est un ailleurs This is elsewhere
C'est une chambre avec vue This is a room with a view
C'est un ailleurs This is elsewhere
Un lien où j'ai vécu It leads to
Quelques bonheurs , the place where I lived, those happy
Passés inapercus,
Quelques douceurs, those sweet
Avec une inconnue, I met a
Que j'ai connu... strange girl...
C'est le grand air This is the outskirts of
C'est une chambre avec vue This is a room with a view of
C'est le grand air This is the outskirts of
Juste au coin de la rue At the corner of the road
Une vie entière A life of a person
De la fin au début From the end to the beginning
Douce et amère has sweetness and bitterness
L'ai-je vraiment vécue, have I really lived here?
Je ne sais plus I don’t know
Je ne sais plus... I don’t know...
When I entered the scene created by "A Room with a View", I felt that I had entered the center of something that I longed for, and it seemed that this kind of thing could never be reconciled with reality. I don’t know art. Is it an anaesthesia or escape? The quiet life in the film, the beautiful scenery, the polite attitude of gentlemen and ladies, even the inner conflicts seem innocuous,...should I praise it? ? The irreconcilable contradiction between salvation and happiness made me look at the colorful world of images from a distance, with longing eyes, the beauty that seems to be presented in the glory of God.
one. In Florence, the Englishman
Lucy and his cousin Charlotte came to the famous tourist destination Florence. In the hotel where they stayed, Lucy regretted that her room could not see the scenery. This is the beginning of the film. It seems to say in "Siege": "To really know someone, it is best to travel (to the effect). As a lady of the British aristocratic class, Lucy came to enthusiastic Italy. In the place of the other, due to the strangeness brought Because of her inner desire for the outside world, she also wants to see the scenery outside the window immediately. This also implies that Lucy’s heart is buried under the tranquil surface.
The beginning of the film is found in an Italian hotel. The atmosphere created is extremely accurate and full of fun. It gave us the initial feeling of a beautiful journey. We can infer that it is a place where British people often stay. The people they meet in the restaurant are all British gentlemen and ladies. The appearances and conversations of these characters showed their distinctive and interesting personalities. Emerson and his son, Mr. Bibb, Miss Ryan (female writer), Louise and Miss Allen, and Charlotte chattered endlessly to express her dissatisfaction. , The beef is getting old, the old Emerson is rude and the hotel service is too poor...; Miss Ryan solemnly expressed her "unique" opinions on Italy and travel itself at the table; the old Emerson's son George used the food to put a big question mark on the plate; and the old Emerson expressed his kindness very directly-he suggested to exchange his two viewing rooms for the two common rooms of Lucy and the others; and enthusiasm The chance encounter of the parish priest Mr. Bibb in the hotel. These seemingly trivial people and things have a refreshing mood about starting a journey, as well as a hidden excitement.
It’s very interesting to have a sightseeing tour in the square. On Lucy’s side, this quiet lady was dizzy by the Baroque sculptures on the square. The twisted shapes and the solidified fighting stances were all against her. Growing up in the opposite environment, two Italians fought in the square. They did not agree with each other. One stabbed the other to death. The murderer was taken away by the police on the spot. In an instant, the two lives died in an accidental behavior brought about by a passion. Yes, the stabbed person’s horrible eyes when he was dying, the eyes that were robbed of the glory of life in a short time by the god of death, just in front of Lucy’s eyes, she fainted on the spot, then George appeared and he helped After living with her, the hearts of the two of them changed drastically. Love and death came almost at the same time, and the miracles of this world appeared at any time. And on the side of cousin Charlotte, she and the female writer Miss Ryan were touring the streets and alleys in the city. Charlotte gave the backbone to Ryan. Here, we see that the two usually seem to be pretentious. The middle-aged lady is also so childish.
As Miss Ryan said, to understand Italy, it is best to visit her country. I would say that this outing in this film is the most beautiful and exciting outing in the history of film. Lucy came home after this outing. Fiancé Cecil accidentally read a new book written by Miss Ryan. We relived the scene from this book and from Cecil’s pretentious and affectionate reading. "Far away from Florence, she seems to be roaming in a dream, touching the crimson poppies in the wavy golden sea of the big wheat field, without knowing that he has come to her side, and it is revealed from his lips. A silent declaration is like all men and women in love. At this time, he is silent than a sound, and he hugs her tightly into his strong arms..."
This is another layer of fictional imagery scenes in the film itself. In the fictional scene on the first level, Lucy, Charlotte, Miss Ryan, Emerson and his sons, the British priest Mr. Ignatius and Mr. Bibb in Italy, were traveling in two carriages. It was late spring and summer. At the beginning of the season, the grass grows long, the beautiful Italian coachman sits in front and makes friends with his girlfriend. Mr. Yige is talking about his unique opinions along the way, hypocrisy, Taoism, prejudice, self-satisfaction, and falsehood acceptable to an elderly upper class. The attitude of intellectuals can be reflected in him. After this ridiculous old Mr. Yige noticed the behavior of the coachman in front, he forcibly drove the coachman’s girlfriend out of the car. The Italian girl with beautiful flax hair got out of the car. Then he looked back at his lover sadly.
(The looking back shot of this beautiful Italian girl is one of the shots that I will never forget in this film) The
hillside is planted with barley, the green long barley looks like fog, and the crimson poppies bloom in the wheat field, George Climbing up the apple tree, shouting to the magical good fortune of nature: freedom, love, these eternal things can only be shouted out in front of the most natural and harmonious laws on the earth. Lucy went to the men because she couldn't get the whispers of her cousin and Miss Ryan, but the young Italian coachman brought her to George. Perhaps in the coachman's heart, such a beautiful scenery and the best time, young people Should have fallen in love. George was standing in the barley field, watching the scenery under the hillside and fanning the wind with his hat. He saw her. George was driven by a passion. He stepped forward and kissed her without hesitation. In front of the question mark, in the face of the complexity and desolation of the world, love is the answer!
At this time, it was about to rain, the nearby countryside was all in the shadow of dark clouds, and Florence in the distance was still bathed in a ray of sunlight from the sky, like a golden holy city.
George did not go back in the carriage with everyone. He didn't want to conceal his excitement and the ecstasy after finding the answer. Love is such a beautiful thing. Therefore, George ran in the heavy rain at the end of spring, as if alone trembling in joy. .
two.
Lucy returned to his home in England. We couldn’t help but compare the English countryside with the Italian scenery. Because of the protagonist Lucy, I can only see the situation near Moon Street, which is a wealthy upper class society, beautiful There are flowers and trees on the front and back of the villa. People are polite and fill their lives with noble fun activities, reading books, playing tennis, salon parties, drinking afternoon tea..., but not long ago we were still wandering in the ups and downs of Italy. , Florence’s architecture, Renaissance art, countless churches’ splendid frescoes and sculptures, and even the ordinary public sculptures on the square praise the glory of Italy’s past history. The Italian countryside is sometimes so beautiful that it’s not as beautiful as the world. Italy People are passionate and unrestrained, in general, Italy is by no means gentle and elegant.
In any case, Lucy grew up in the stable and peaceful background of the British upper class, just like Jane Austen’s life scene described to us in "Pride and Prejudice", "In such a place, even the snow can become life. It’s a major event”, so it’s natural for her to be engaged to Cecil.
The film does not mean to criticize. There is only a little ridicule. The people and things there are all mirror images of the film. In this mirror, the characters give us either funny or sincere and touching images, such as plugs. Sill, this son, he claims that he hates all work, but we don’t see what he uses to resist the mechanical nature of modern society. He just hides in his own safe and wealthy class and speaks, underneath his ridiculously pretentious appearance, He is a child in captivity. This child wears a hard-collared shirt and pin-nosed glasses all day long, and assumes a gentleman's posture that he can't control. We laughed a lot in his clumsy behavior, but who can Make sure that the person in the mirror is not a reflection of a small or large image of yourself?
After their engagement, Lucy and Cecil walked by the pond, surrounded by towering trees, fern leaves covered the forest trails, and Cecil sat next to a lonely lily of the valley. Talking eloquently, but he stammered again to kiss Lucy. We noticed that he didn't have the courage to act, and he used words cowardly as a visit. Sure enough, his clumsiness messed up the matter, and Lucy was not without it at the moment. I regretfully remembered the scene in the Italian countryside.
Then George and his father also came to Moon Street, and it was through Cecil that they rented the house.
On the stone road of Lucy’s house, beside the red brocade lies a book with a crimson cover, which is as rich as the color of summer. It is a new book "Under the Italian Loggia" written by Miss Lane. Cecil read, Lucy and his brother, George are playing tennis. In a dramatic scene, Lucy and George heard the passage about the Florentine countryside at the same time. Under George's chase, Lucy finally got confused. .
Four subtitles of the film 1. Lie to George, 2. Lie to Cecil, 3. Lie to Mr. Bibb, Mom, Freddy and the servants, 4. Lying to Mr. Emerson, Lucy lied almost to everyone around her, including herself. She was afraid to face the passion in her heart. If she was eager to see the scenery outside the window, it was with George who suddenly broke in. Falling in love is undoubtedly stepping into the interior of the landscape. She herself became the person in the painting. Mr. Bibb had long said that “if your life can be like the Beethoven you play, how harmonious it should be”, but , Her inner passion is limited to playing Beethoven and a room with a view.
Is it true? She lied to George and said that she did not love him, lied to Cecil that he did not really love him, and broke the marriage contract on this ground, lied to her mother and said that she wanted to go sightseeing in Greece, but actually wanted to escape, when she lied to old Emerson , Was interrupted by old Emerson, he said to Lucy tearfully: You love George, love him with all your heart!
three. A room with a view of the scenery
After watching this movie several times, the plot and connotation are no longer important. I am like a spectator standing in the distance, thinking calmly in front of the scenery.
Why have we lost the simple happiness, can we still build heaven on earth, or is this a paradox?
When watching this old movie, I often wondered when the uneasy factor occupied the mainstream of art. I think of my own life. Just like George was in Florence, I was still full of question marks.
The beauty they saw in Italy reminded me of my youth, that kind of hopeful vision, why didn't I see the world as an Italian village, that beauty, so full of unknown magic, the clouds and the sky? The golden sunlight is still shining, but my own life now hangs in the air. I have lost my hope of beauty, and I can’t really focus on the complicated life of the times. When George came back to see his father from a field on Sunday, He came out of the train station and met Charlotte, who was walking to Lucy’s relatives. He rode a bicycle and followed Charlotte in a serpentine shape. This scene also made me unforgettable. In my youth, I had I imagined that I had a job not too far away, and then I came back every week-close to the scenery.
I want a room with a view of the scenery. At least I can see the scenery in the courtyard. In summer, the sun leaking from the leaves is mottled and hits the screen windows. We will also read novels under the loggia. Dijin grows by the feet, and the children are playing.
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