On March 6, 1945, in the small town of Newquay in the United Kingdom, a soldier returning from the battlefield, William Crick, held a gun at the house of the famous poet Dylan Thomas, and fired several shots in a row, shocking the poet and His wife, daughter, and a house of friends looked pale. Fortunately, no one was injured in the end. William was arrested for deliberate murder, but was eventually acquitted due to insufficient evidence.
Of course, a background must be added to make history more and more swaying: William Crick’s wife is Dylan Thomas’ childhood sweetheart.
The elements of war, love, poets, soul-stirring, romantic and magnificent; two women and two men, the picture of grievances, sadness, and dazzling fascination is clear. Such a story is really wasteful if it is not made into a movie.
Don’t think of the existence of the poet Dylan Thomas and treat this movie as a biographical. It’s actually more like a new interpretation and self-interpretation of the story’s ins and outs by the director—the so-called borrowing from the past to express your own heart block.
After all, the film focuses on two women-Dylan’s wife Caitlin and her old lover Vera. They love each other because of the same man, and the lack of formation is not against the heart of outsiders. There is He has a lot of constant and chaotic emotions such as understanding, friendship, jealousy, and support.
As the "Sun" commented: "If Thomas was still alive, he would have been strongly dissatisfied with such a dark depiction of himself. However, this is basically not a biopic of Dylan, so you don’t have to "Edge of Love" is dissatisfied."
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Even if I don't regard this film as a biopic, I still have a lot of dissatisfaction.
The first half of the film floats as if there is no root under your feet, and you don't know the end; it is so hazy as to look at flowers in the fog, and when you don't know it, it makes people quite impatient. Just when I thought this movie was going to die so drunk, the real atmosphere of war finally hit my face. With William's return, the movie suddenly infused the texture of life and returned to the ground. Just
as Vera was out of court to save her husband William, and she said mercilessly to Dylan:
"What you want is the 15-year-old girl on the beach, not me."
"All you have are the stories and words in your head. I have to be realistic so that William will let me live."
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Special thanks to Cillian Murphy and Sienna Miller for their performances , They saved the movie.
Hillian Murphy's William, sandwiched between two glamorous women and a deviant man, is the most ordinary one, rather inconspicuous at first glance. But as the plot evolved, it gradually revealed its brilliance. The initial innocence and enthusiasm, the sluggishness and madness after the war, and the calmness and calmness after going through the sea, are all deduced by him without a trace. The eyes will be attracted by him, and the heart will be attracted by this consciously or unconsciously. The characters are impressed.
Sienna Miller, I have hardly watched her movies, but thanks to entertainment gossip, even if I don't know how many male stars she has been with, at least this name is remembered.
At least this movie, let me know: she is not only a star with enough gossip, but also an actor with enough level. The seemingly indifferent madness, the kind of struggling to have been crying, the kind of easy-going experience to see through fate, made people touch the softness under Caitlin's unruly appearance.
As for the other heroine Keira Knightley, her performance is like this movie, the latter part is better than the front part. But I still can't help but say, Miss Knightley, can I ask you not to act in any movies and raise your proud chin, OK? I hope that one day your performance makes me completely forget that you are Keira Knightley.
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I don’t know how to evaluate the actor Matthew Reese who played Dylan Thomas. He actually did a good job. It made me impatient to see this poet, but such a dislike. But I didn't even want to comment on the actor who played him.
In the movie, when William raised his gun angrily at Dylan's cabin, he was quite happy. I can't conceal my boredom with this man—willful and arrogant, but justified; I am arrogant, but unable to support my family; I am indulgent and selfish and jealous. Such a man is a great poet in the history of literature; but in life, he is just a useless bastard!
The magnificent verses and splendid images are the result of the burning of genius. If talent is too high, it becomes a matter of course of capital; if it burns too much, it will inevitably hurt the innocent. Dylan Thomas in this film is undoubtedly the hell of others. And women who can fall in love with such a man without complaint and regret are amazing.
What the movie didn’t tell us was that the genius poet who wrote the sentence “too arrogant and even disdain to die” died on November 9, 1953 after drinking 18 glasses of pure whiskey and two glasses of beer. At the White Horse Restaurant in New York, he was 39 years old.
It is good for poets to live in poetry forever. Poets living in reality are not lovely.
Just love poetry, but love poets.
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