Although tea is China’s national drink, I searched for tea-related movies. China’s own films can be said to be very good, but there are still a few wines, such as "Red Sorghum". In contrast, Japan and Europe and the United States have made a lot of films about tea. This is actually the epitome (sorrow) of China's cultural industry. Tea with Mussolini is a very preaching film, but the reason why it is not annoying is that it is unconventional because it uses a lot of symbols, like the Shakespeare and Fei Lengcui art that everyone has noticed. This is a bit of a "new wave." "The shadow of ", I won't repeat it here. I will mainly talk about tea in the movie. Tea, noble lady, and elegant life are all closely related words in the English-speaking world. At the beginning of the film, the British and American expatriates living in Feilengcui, headed by Lady Hester (Maggie Smith), the widow of the British ambassador, enjoy afternoon tea at Doney's every day. (Think about whether there is no tea culture in China because there is no fixed high-end tea drinking place in every place and no group of people with leisure, wealth and culture.) Doney's has existed, but now it is in Fei Leng Cui. The home was closed, and one was reopened in Rome. Tea has naturally become a symbol of British life in Italy. It is also quite appropriate—exquisite, but also a bit artificial.
The second scene that uses tea to express is drinking tea with Mussolini. Mussolini’s tea ceremony and Thaksin’s "you are under my PERSONAL protection" made English tea artificial and even deduced falsely.
The director used the words of Lady Hester to click on the relationship between Mussolini’s deception and Elsa’s deception by Vittorio. A structure that tea wants to explore.
Italian fascists invaded the English tea party headed by Lady Hester, and the structure of the conflict between men and women was very prominent
After the British and American expatriates moved to concentration camps, they still stubbornly held tea parties and demanded to be treated politely... including the formation of a human wall to prevent the Germans from blowing up the church, all of which reflected the confrontation between art, culture and war violence. I see some film critics ridiculing these naive ideas. Of course, movies are a performance above life, but is it too realistic to ridicule the so-called naive?
If English tea is elegant and contrived, and Japanese tea is beyond and absolute, what should Chinese tea be? Forty or fifty-year-old man, how many cigarettes? Or do young people know that they drink too much unhealthy milk tea? Or is it just a touch of spring before Qingming? If you were asked to shoot the spirit of Chinese tea, how would you shoot it? (Welcome to add my friends and chat together).
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