let the professional film critics discuss it!
I think that I am a publisher who advises readers who are trying to understand Joyce's Ulysses to read the Old Testament like a country priest with little literacy, as long as he is sincere in his heart.
As an ordinary movie viewer, I don't understand the use of lighting and the typified storyline of the film, as well as the deep meaning of a certain lens. All I see and feel is only one word, love.
Zhang Ailing said that because she knows how to be compassionate, she is moved by this movie because she believes that there is love in the world after all.
Love is a kind of belief. Only when you believe in its existence can you understand it, instead of first understanding and then believing.
What I saw in Silk's movies is this belief in love. His movies have love, and this love is based on faith and morality, and is a gift from God after hard trials.
I did not see what the film critics said in this movie, which showed the disintegration of traditional American morality after the war, but the intention of rekindling people’s faith in love in an indifferent world, although from a traditional perspective. It is a story of a widow remarrying, but its focus is not to show the destruction of the heroine by external social pressure, nor to deliberately depict the conflict caused by the disparity of class status, but to focus on the inner struggle of people.
As the director’s most trusted actress, Wyman, showed superb acting skills in this film, portraying a middle-aged widow’s desire for love, contradictions, low self-esteem, and suspicion very delicately, especially in some small things that are not noticed. The plot shows her profound understanding and grasp of the characters. She is the well-deserved protagonist of the story, and the handsome Hudson is just a beautiful foil.
In order to express the heroine’s morality of love, a series of moral constraints were set aside from the elements of physical desire. As a mother and a member of the local upper class, she was shaken and succumbed, but in the end she resolutely and herself after an accident Lover stood together. This somewhat abrupt ending seems to prove the moral perfection of the heroine.
What is the relationship between love and morality?
Many people think that it is a completely opposite relationship, and love has nothing to do with ethics. But is love without moral restraint in faith?
Custom is not equal to morality, hypocrisy is not equal to religion, Charlotte Bronte said.
Ancient and modern in China and abroad, the actual situation is that any private depravity in which social class will be acquiesced, as long as it does not violate the pre-determined hierarchical rules, that is to say, adultery can be allowed, and the sale of marriage is also legal, but sincere love is. Often not accepted by the society, the heroes and heroines of this film are questioned and rejected and insulted by the people in small towns because they want to love each other sincerely rather than fornication. True love is always not allowed or even destroyed just like wanting to be a real person. Why can you get true love and pursue romantic love, while most of the world leads a peaceful life against your will? Love is a kind of revolution, which always provokes public anger.
And the process of pursuing true love seems to be a process of finding faith, a tortuous road full of difficulties and obstacles, and few people reach the other side of its glory.
All that heaven allows is love.
Liszt’s dream of love is inserted into the theme music of the movie. Whenever the love scene of the hero and heroine appears, that dreamlike music will sound.
Love is music from heaven.
Even if love only brings you sorrow, trust it. Don’t close your heart because of it. The
heart should be given to people with a tear and a poem.
Joy is as fragile as dewdrops. It is easy to die in laughter. Sorrow is strong and durable, let the sad love wake up in your eyes,
--Tagore
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