Why do you know each other before?

Rowena 2022-01-13 08:02:05

The turbulent Mekong River rushes to the Pacific Ocean like irretrievable time. The past is over, and there is no possibility of turning back.

I read this novel last year. Duras's writing is very good, there is a kind of Emotions spread between the lines, causing unbearable grief. She is her book, she is the person in the book, no matter what she has done, as long as she tells it, it is difficult for you to hate this woman. Not everyone Women can be like her. I think. She is so self-willed, but she has already realized it, deeply realized that time and the past bring her indelible sadness. Look at her again, read her words, All she can feel is compassion. Although she doesn’t care about this compassion. Well, just give this compassion to ourselves. "

Lover" is Duras’s famous work. As some people say, the previous Duras gave people the feeling of a stiff intellectual, rough and boring. The appearance of "Lover" changed people's perception of her. This is an unscrupulous book. A book with dead lives. She wrote the book. Later, publishers and translators released her future works and those that have existed but were previously unknown. However, in my opinion. The best is this one. It cannot be Replace. The

movie was made in 1991. I don’t know other information. I haven’t seen it, and I don’t look for it. As long as I have seen my feelings by myself, I don’t want anyone to tell me about him (her). Feeling. Mine is mine and yours is yours. If we happen to think of it together. It can only be said that something has existed early. It has nothing to do with you and me. This can’t even be regarded as the same point of view. At most it can only It is the same in common sense. For those who

have not seen the work itself, I think that this movie should be more acceptable than the work itself. Because it is popularized. The work is not like this, except for the emotions in it. There is no way to express the words and the delicate heart. It is like sausage filling. Duras is the sausage master. We are the casings. She beats the meat into our inner and inner heads. Then tell us, oh, it is like this. We tasted it, and then thought about it. Oh, it is true, or I tasted another taste that the sausage master never told us. I think the essence of the matter is like this.

However, I still like this movie. When I first watched it, there were some personal emotions in it. I hate that girl, Duras in the movie. She was with the Chinese lover (Liang Jiahui) for money. I hate all lascivious women for money. This is my personal business. It has nothing to do with others. Later, the film slowly progresses, and some things that have been hidden gradually radiate from the characters themselves. I tried not to think about the original work at the time. Itself. I didn’t really think about it at the time.

Some things are destined. Nobody can blame him. He, a Chinese man, a rich man; she, a French girl, a poor man. The two families do not allow their union. But they Destined to stay together. It's like the flower is about to bloom, and human power is unstoppable. The girl was 15 years old, crossing the river, wearing a men's cap, so different. Chinese man, 32 years old, Sitting in the luxury car, I saw this young girl. He returned to Vietnam to get married, and the marriage arranged by his father. Like all Chinese at the time. It was a right marriage. Not France, which the father said later, impossible to join. Little prostitute. The

girl hates her brother and her mother. She needs to escape. She needs freedom. She is fifteen years old. She has met a Chinese lover. Something is destined for all this. You don’t have to choose, just do it. She guided her lover to have sex in the apartment they called the "Golden House". She made love again and again. She knew her lover loved him. But they were destined not to be together. Don’t forget, she is a French woman, no matter what Poor, she is a French woman. And the rich man is a Chinese man. A yellow-skinned Chinese man. Oh, that was something in the 1930s. The

Chinese paid a lot of money, but the girl’s mother and brother still looked down on him, Always retaining the arrogance of the white man. The girl told him that she loved his money to be with him. What he needs is love, not something to buy with money. Of course, he is also a cowardly person in his bones. He didn't dare to go against his father's wishes. Besides, he was also a lazy man. He didn't want to work. Calling him to work was like asking him to die.

When we were together, we only had sex. Over and over again, like waves swallowing the beach and hitting the beach. Once, the Chinese forced the girl to say that she was with him for money. The girl said. Followed the story. Did not say goodbye They started making love again. Over and over again.

The end of the story. The Chinese lover accepted the arranged marriage. The girl watched his marriage. Later, the girl boarded the steamer back to France. When she was on the deck, she I saw the car stopped by the Chinese lover in a secluded place. The girl burst into tears. She was crying violently. But no one knew. She was still wearing the weird men's hat when they met, standing there leaning on the railing of the ship . Gradually get away from this tropical land.

They finished making love for the first time. The Chinese lover said in the room, you will remember here, remember all the things that happened in this afternoon. Just after many years, you don’t remember me. Name, don’t remember my face, you will still remember everything now.

Yeah. She remembers. So, we saw Duras’ book and this movie.

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Extended Reading
  • Vincenzo 2022-03-26 09:01:11

    It seems that foreigners will never be able to capture the thoughts of Chinese people, no matter how deep or not.

  • Fanny 2022-03-27 09:01:15

    The review is the film itself. I don't like this heroine, it doesn't fit my aesthetic. Compared with the original book, this love is obviously too thin and hasty to express in a movie way, and even a few straightforward sex scenes make me feel boring. If I have the opportunity, I should learn French and read the original work. I can only say that the translated works made me misunderstand Duras' literary attainments. Perhaps the charm of literature to film lies in the fact that it builds the reader's rich imagination in order to be obsessed.

The Lover quotes

  • [last lines]

    Narrator: Years after the war, after the marriages, the children, the divorces, the books, he had come to Paris with his wife. He had phoned her. He was intimidated; his voice trembled, and with the trembling it had found the accent of China again. He knew she'd begun writing books. He had also heard about the younger brother's death. He had been sad for her. And then he had no more to tell her. And then he told her - he had told her that it was as before, that he still loved her, that he would never stop loving her, that he would love her until his death.

  • Narrator: "Now and then I go back to the house in Sadek. To the horror of the house in Sadek. It's an unbearable place. It's close to death. A place of violence of pain of despair, of dishonour... But it's in this family's dryness in it's incredible harshness that I am the most deeply assured in myself. In the deepest of my essential certainties, all common history of ruin and shame, of love and hate is in my flesh."