This film is not a romance film. It mainly tells a young woman's mental journey after experiencing various shocks in her life. Love is only part of this journey, not all, although many choices she made are related to this love.
If you use one word to summarize the life of the heroine Vera, the word "slap" is very appropriate.
At the beginning of the film, she yelled not to get married or to have a husband, but to be single for a lifetime. Just after her voice, Xuenuo in Quanyou, no, Roland appeared.
She was attracted by his strong hormones of the opposite sex. After returning from a trip out for the first time, she was pregnant with a young girl. All she thought of was his masculine face. The film language of this scene was quite standard and beautiful. Sweet, ambiguous, and passionate but not desire, it is the delicate appearance of a girl in first love indulging in love.
Just when she thought he was in love just like himself, he left and returned to school. There was no look back at saying goodbye. She wrote to him, but he didn't reply.
But she insisted on taking the Oxford entrance examination. She didn’t know that the “college entrance examination” would be written in Latin and she would only answer in German. When she asked the examiner to think that she was hopeless, she suddenly received an acceptance letter from Somerville College. . Roland was surprised. His mother looked at her differently. He knew that she had fallen into her mother's eyes and was delighted, so he chased up and told her that he liked her and loved her.
Somerville College, Oxford, used to be a women’s college. It was not until 1994 that it enrolled the first male student ever. The Iron Lady Thatcher came from the college, so Vera, who was admitted to Somerville College, has indeed stepped onto a new level of life. It makes sense to be favored by Roland's "always on her own" writer mother.
If it is a surprise in Vera's life to be admitted to Somerville College and officially fall in love with Roland, then it's time to get a face.
First of all, her brother "Dangdan" wants to join the army, and her parents objected. Vera was plausible and tried her best to join the army. The benefits: to become a man, it is honorable to dedicate her life to the motherland, which made her parents speechless and acquiesced to his son's plan. But when it was her lover's turn to join the army, Vera was confused and felt 10,000 unwilling, but she had set up a Flag before, and it was not good to join the army because she wanted to slap her in the face. However, at this time, she only cared about her sadness, and she hadn't thought how terrified her old father and mother were.
Victor, who couldn't get to the front line, came to accompany her. Just when I thought that "Pearl Harbor" was about to be staged, Victor said that he had a girlfriend named Molly.
Then Roland went home from vacation, but didn't tell her. The two met, he made a bad face and even pushed her aside. Vera slapped her face again. It turned out that being a soldier doesn’t make you a man, and your lover has become perverse and hard to wait. She is sad, she feels distressed, coaxes him, comforts him, encourages him, and finally waits until his tears are broken. Laugh, and then a letter to marry me soon after.
She actually wanted to let her lover retreat and become a deserter, but she did not dare. For the sake of her love, she left school to become a nurse who didn’t need a college degree. She thought that she could empathize with him and have a heart-to-heart relationship with him. Died without warning.
Roland died like this, and the love between the two stopped abruptly. Like the first love of thousands of people, it ended without a disease. It was too late to say I love you.
She thought there was something tricky in his death, and I also thought there was. Unexpectedly, no. Roland was killed in the service, like many ordinary soldiers. The love between the two is not special, like most people in that era. Not special at all,
Victor came. He was seriously injured and told her that Molly did not exist. He lied to her. I thought the two have been together since then. They will be accompanied by friendship and family for a lifetime. Unexpectedly, Victor died in the next second.
The people she loves and the people who love her are dead. Do you think this is the cruelty of war? No!
Her brother "Dangdan" was thrown into the pile of corpses casually. She tried her best to save him back. When her brother was better, he could go to the front line again. I thought "If there is a catastrophe, there must be a disaster." "Fu" is also applicable in the West, but unexpectedly, after she was called home by her mother, the messenger who delivered the bad news came and her brother died.
It’s someone else who has suffered such a series of heavy blows, even if you don’t die, you will also be crazy, but our hostess Vera will not. She returned to Somerville College and calmly completed the new semester homework and studied Chaucer’s work. It's just that she has one more identity: an anti-warist. She opposes wars for any reason, whether it is aggression or resistance.
She also returned to the pond in her hometown, took a swim, and secretly made a vow: anti-war to the end.
Although three young men who had a close relationship with the heroine died, the film is far from tear-jerking. In detail, the actor’s ability to perform is on one hand, and the structure of the script is on the other, which is a bit flat and straightforward. The death of the younger brother It was originally the last straw that overwhelmed Vera, but how did the film deal with it? He wouldn't even be willing to give one more shot, the kind of shot skills that express the love of Vera girls, where did they go?
Originally wanted to play three stars, you can think of Xue Nuo's lines, Dan Dan, the face of an acquaintance of the "ace agent", the heroine went to Oxford, and gave an extra star.
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