I have been thinking, who caused Tess' tragedy? Is it Eric? It is true that we can regard him as a playboy who plays with women, but it cannot be denied that his pursuit of Tess has a love element, not to mention that he has also taken the initiative to be responsible for his actions several times. It is difficult for us to attribute him heinous. The wicked. Is it Angel? It was he who abandoned Tess shortly after his wedding, but mortals have a narrow and vanity side. Putting yourself in your place, I am afraid that no one can easily laugh at such a shameless shadow. Is it Tess herself? In that era, women belonged to a disadvantaged group. The young, ignorant, cowardly and weak, she was passively victimized from beginning to end. Even the last blood-splattered skirt was an outbreak of pain that had accumulated for a long time. Or it can be attributed to secular morality and murderous ethics, but the film does not reflect the obvious characteristics of the times. Family and villagers are kind and tolerant to Tess, and priests and capitalists are so amiable.
The helpless fact of not being able to tell which is right and which is wrong undoubtedly adds to the tragic color of the whole film. In fact, when Tess's father learned that he was a nobleman, the curse came from this way. In everything, we never think of self-reliance and self-reliance first, but hoping to get the legacy of our ancestors for nothing. This is a kind of inertia and dependence that is deep in everyone's heart. And because of the material embarrassment of the lower class, they need to get support and comfort from the attachment to the upper class. From the spiritual level, the spiritual pillars of the entire society were also established by the upper strata. In that era, no new beliefs could support the souls of the lower strata, so they needed to consciously move closer to the upper strata from two aspects.
Tess’s appearance is actually an alternative. First of all, she doesn’t care about the status after celebrities, nor does she want to obtain material benefits from the so-called noble relatives. Later, after her illegitimate son was rejected by the church, she also gave up her spiritual beliefs. . So when she walked alone in the wild in despair, Nane Prayer faced the stone pillars of the pagans, and finally fell asleep peacefully on the ruins of the pagan temple. She ran away from Eric to pursue material independence; she confessed to Angel that she wanted to pursue spiritual equality. However, the concept and system at the time obviously cannot be compatible with this advanced way of thinking. In Eric’s concept, the way to get love is to give women material support; in Angel’s concept, men can have absurd pasts, but women It must be absolutely chastity. So Tess's death on the gallows was the same as Bruno's death on the stake, a tragedy of a rebel.
The director was extremely tolerant and restrained when telling the tragedy, and adopted a leap-forward approach to the plot of the heroine's destiny. For example, Tess parted ways with Eric for the first time, everything in the camera, she was already holding a child in her arms; Tess's father had just refused the priest's baptism, and in a blink of an eye Tess had begged the priest to hold a funeral for the child; it was Eric just now. We were having breakfast with Tess, the screen turned downstairs and turned into Tess fleeing in a hurry, with a little blood on the ceiling. These are all visually stimulating scenes that can be rendered on a large scale, but the director deliberately only explained the cause and effect, omitting the specific process. Not only did it have a surprising effect, it also gave a lot of attention to the point and the appropriate blanking method. Imagination space.
The exquisite composition is also a highlight of the film. From the beginning of the setting sun, a group of girls in white clothes approached singing and dancing among the blue sky and green fields, to the end in the morning mist, the Mounted Police led Tess and his wife to walk away, forming a very complete response. The scene where Tess, dressed in purple, is sleeping soundly on the ruins of the wasteland, is also very poetic. The lens that best reflects the artistic characteristics of the movie is when Tess discovered that Angel did not read the letter of confession, a large dazzling white light flashed in front of the screen, and the audience could feel her mind directly and strongly. The kind of dizziness, this is definitely an effect that text can't give. Not only can it not lose the taste and connotation of the original work, but also can give full play to the advantages of light and shadow to achieve another level of artistic appeal, a good adapted film should be like this.
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