In this film, the relationship between different characters, including romantic love, is still inseparable from their respective status. Regardless of whether it is possessing, yearning for, or using aristocratic lifestyles as the basis for relationships, it is emphasized again that such standards for judging individuals and relationships are unbreakable in the eyes of individuals of different classes and personalities. It can be said that The people of that era conformed to this ideology.
It is also about holding dance parties and pursuing fashionable clothing. There are at least two different levels in this film. It can be said that the clothes worn and the ostentation of the dance show indirectly the role and position of people in society.
From this film, Tom and Jiajie have different backgrounds to compete for Daisy’s favor, and the financial comparisons that appear, as well as the financial power of ostentatious leisure, the financial level of life, and the taste of the competition, The lifestyle of the nobility and the display of financial resources and academic qualifications clearly showed that the so-called superiority of that era was based on such emptiness and superficial factors.
Tom sits on the advantages of a society based on material as a class division. His lifestyle, consumption orientation, home furnishings and the atmosphere created by his helpers are all necessary behaviors he uses to boast and emphasize his superiority.
Mei Tao, labor’s wife, Tom’s mistress, even though her relationship with Tom allows her to enjoy a social circle different from daily life and beyond the original material constraints, but her consumer taste and pursuit of fashion, and Daisy (expensive) In comparison, she is more similar to prostitutes and popular dresses. Moreover, she has never been able to change her class status through her emotional relationship with the rich.
Jia Jue is humble and poor, but knows that if he wants to win respect and love, he has to accumulate huge wealth, imitate the way the nobles use money and life style, which is equivalent, and must abandon and reconstruct his past. Therefore, after Jiajie has accumulated wealth, the method used to show his wealth and status is to keep it as mysterious as possible, and spend huge sums of money to hold luxurious dances several times, so that people can fabricate his background and shape him out of curiosity. Aristocratic temperament and image. Even in front of friends and lovers, Jiajie uses his new identity-aristocratic blood, well-known university graduates, and no family.
In the film, Daisy is a lady full of copper smell and light talk. Although she laughs at herself several times in the film, a good-for-life woman can only play a beautiful fool in her life, and she has no room to marry the poor, which seems helpless. , However, the love in her eyes has never been able to break out of the frame of the rich and the poor. When Daisy fell in love with Jiajie when she was young, it was regarded as an indulgence before marriage. After marriage, the relationship with Jiajie was based on Jiajie successfully imitating the noble life style and identity, and finally abandoning Jiajie. , But also because it was discovered that Jiajie's class, education, and ancestry were only fraudulent after all. And she was picky repeatedly and always returned to Tom, it is precisely because Tom has a true noble blood, reputation and wealth. It can be seen from this that Daisy has never just disliked the poor and loves the rich, she is in love with someone who has power, social status, wealth, academic qualifications that can be boasted, and knows how to consume correctly and show high taste and other positive characteristics.
In the film, the man who plays the role of onlooker and narrator has a few important words to review and satirize the values of the aristocratic life style of that era. When the narrator finished saying "When criticizing people, I would think that not everyone has my advantage." After that, Tom talked about the pros and cons of the races in a strong dissatisfaction tone, and said anxiously, "How Can tolerate the contamination of the pure white bloodline.” After Jiajie’s death, the narrator recalled that Jiajie was a man with love and hope, while Tom and Daisy were nothing but money-loving, careless, careless nasties. , No matter whether his words and deeds are upright or not, and no matter how much trouble he causes to others, he always gets into trouble and then lives an empty noble life casually.
And from the narrator’s evaluation, we can also see that even in the story, most people conform to the ideology of a class based on wealth and taste. However, people are not all unconscious and ignorant. Accepting such values, they may face and accept this situation in a way of mocking, playing tricks or taking advantage of it.
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