She and them

Fabian 2022-01-19 08:01:18


"Women, sin strips you naked, curses wash you off, and you are sublimated into a perfect life."
-Tagore


always knocks on your door when you think your life is stable and your family is happy. Pippa Lee left New York with his retired bookseller husband over half a century to live a rural life in a remote town, taking care of neighbors’ affairs, and visiting nearby supermarkets... Just when Pippa Lee thought that the last day of his life might also be like this. , But found out that his friend had an affair with her husband. Faced with this situation, Pippa Lee thought, perhaps, there is another script in his life...

Besides love, there are others
who say that women are born to live for love. . This is absolutely nonsense. The wisdom of women lies in always taking the beauty of life as a carrier of happiness. What the carrier itself brings is not their ultimate goal. From Pippa Lee's dazed and understated expression, it is not difficult to see that the sweetness of dating her husband in the early years has long been consumed by the endless baking cakes. In comparison, it may be more fun to manage your neighbor's affairs. This is not a question of whether to love or not, but a question of whether to love or not, and to spend 30 years of life on this old man. Women’s self-concerning characteristics are particularly obvious in Pippa Lee: feeling monologues about a small matter, doubts about mothers who are also women, kissing different men at parties in their early years... What women are interested in is all possibilities. The feelings you bring to yourself-these feelings may bring you happiness, and love is no exception. But compared to being a model when you were young and trying different yourself, love may need more chips.
Then why not give up marriage? Don't find another one? You have to know that a woman like Pippa Lee, who is gentle and sensual, has both beauty and wisdom, can be called a perfect smart woman, she must understand a truth: it is not him, there will be others. You have to believe that after the doctor cured tuberculosis, the cancer was waiting in line at the intersection of death. The same is true for men, not him, they will be others, their own possible choices in life, in fact, the difference is not very different.
But when the peaceful life was broken by the affair between her husband and his friends, and everything went back to the second before her husband's ex-wife swallowed suicide, all the "desire to feel" rekindled Pippa Lee's enthusiasm. Many people attribute this to "love is a relay race." If the stick is handed out and the responsibility is fulfilled, the next race belongs to the crying woman. This is an unquestionable male perspective-"my" life needs your relay race to add to the fun. As for Pippa Lee, this affair allowed her to finally make her posture "I don't need to play with you anymore." Her life match passed the baton to the next "Pippa Lee".

Women’s guilt comes from a woman.
From a psychological point of view, every girl at her initial age will use her mother, the most accessible individual, as a reference object, and then she will try her best to understand how to become a woman. Pippa Lee's adoration of her mother's beauty and her act of taking a sleeping pill with her mother are all about observing and experiencing women. However, as they grow older, girls themselves will develop a lot of self-consciousness. When the self-consciousness is not at the same time as the mother, they will naturally doubt and disagree with the mother's behavior. But this disapproval carries guilt and heaviness. Gay aunts have become Pippa Lee's new female cult objects. This is also a landmark change in Pippa Lee's mental maturity.
When her mother collapsed in her aunt’s house and kept repeating: "What the hell did I do?", Pippa Lee told her "Don't be sad". This sentence was actually a psychological hint to herself. The childhood female idols collapsed, and the only thing that can be done is "Don't be sad". Pippa Lee unconsciously re-identified with his mother in his younger years, and on the night of sleepwalking, he began to miss the chocolate cake his mother once made. This is also the beginning of Pippa Lee's awakening of guilt.
Another woman who influenced Pippa Lee's life was her husband's ex-wife. On a sunny noon, a woman who shot her head with a gun, a bewildered Pippa Lee, a blood-stained lunch... It seemed like an unfinished murder case, when the woman was driving When the gun was pointed at her, Pippa Lee already knew that she was determined to be the murderer. She also put on the shackles of atonement for her husband's meticulousness. Women's self-cognition includes not only themselves, but also other women related to them. This kind of transposition game is also the reason why Pippa Lee was unable to return to the past 30 years before her husband had an affair, and was content to stay with her husband even if there were many complaints. Imagine if there were no blood stains in this love, what would happen to life after Pippa Lee? Exploring the possibilities of life is like hunting, and the gunshot without warning scared away other options.
What's interesting is that Pippa Lee didn't have too much guilt for cheating on herself and her neighbor's son, but instead became another outlet for her life. There are many kinds of foreplay, but it is true that there is no one before and after praying for the husband with the Jesus tattoo on the man's chest. You can’t deny that Pippa Lee’s tears were false after being tender, but having such an extraordinary date on the night of her husband’s brain death is Pippa Lee’s letting go of her husband and a special tribute to the 30-year marriage.

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The Private Lives of Pippa Lee quotes

  • Sam Shapiro: [beginning of film: toasting Herb at dinner party] I have known Pippa Lee for 25 years and I think that I will really ever know her. She is a mystery... an enigma... giving, caring, beautiful, intelligent... the very icon of an artist's wife.

  • Pippa Lee: [after leaving hospital where her adulterous husband who wanted a divorce has been declared brain-dead, she is sitting in bed with Chris, eating french fries after having climbed through his window] So... it's official, nobody needs me anymore.