"On Chesil Beach"-Love can be colder than death

Freddy 2022-01-19 08:03:01

On an empty beach, beside a broken fishing boat, a newlywed couple in love are here forever. The minimalist composition brings endless visual comfort. In that age before sexual liberation, sex is as disturbing as the turbulent sea. Sadly, today's young people still haven't escaped a similar fate-getting sex education through pornographic literature or pornographic films, so that the first actual combat always brings nausea and fear. It can be said that the source of the tragedy of this story is the failure of sex education. The wife's blue dress is heartbreakingly beautiful on the hazy beach. Blue is the color of the bride, and sadness is also the color of the bride.

The first loss of love brought the young couple a subversive destruction. The wife may still have the secret of being molested in her heart, and this can only make her feel so ashamed that she yells out of control when she sees the semen on her legs; although the husband has been tempted by sex since the beginning of love However, he, who had only physical impulse and no actual combat experience, vented all the humiliation of sex failure on his young wife, and his wife's suspicion of sex gave him an excuse to complain. This actually reminds me of a line in a comedy drama: "This is young people, even if the end of the world comes, they feel that they are the most important." Sex, for the whole life, is actually just a gradual run-in. For these two young people who have no experience and knowledge about this, it is almost like a scourge, and they need to be generous.

The film uses the interweaving form of reminiscence and reality to show us the process of a pair of lovers falling in love to breaking up. The first half is very exciting. The young lovers seek the light of miracles, trying to break through the notion of class and be brave together, but not all are good: in this, when the boy finds that his mother’s condition has to be truly revealed in front of the girl, he When accepting the job arranged by his strong father-in-law, when he learned that his father-in-law's family had prepared a generous dowry for his daughter, his strong self-preparation and self-esteem matched this madness paved the way for his unstable mood in the future; Before the girl was getting married, she had to learn about sex through pornographic literature, and when she saw her father's tyrannical and alcoholic appearance, the upcoming marriage only brought her anxiety and fear.

At the newly-weds dinner, the boy was not used to the environment where a waiter served him, nor could he drink red wine that was mixed with water. The waiter's mockery pierced his fragile self-esteem like a needle. Although the girl tried to cover up all this and offered to go to the beach for dinner, the boy could only cover his embarrassment with eager sex. It was supposed to be a good foreplay, but this meal gave a sense of rain and wind.

When the husband hardened his heart and worried that his sex life would be ruined by the girl, he immediately chose to break up. Years later, he discovered that the girl was married to Charles, who played the cello. This was also the limitation of that era. Women didn't have many choices. On the other hand, similar classes made their thinking more interlinked. Fortunately, this Charles wanted to be more gentle and understanding, so the girl can perfectly balance the balance of family life and career. With 3 children and several grandchildren, she still maintains what she used to be. Dreams and elegance have realized the rhetoric that I once said when I was old.

When the newlyweds bravely said on the beach, "I mean when I agree to something, I don't really want it", which is actually very comforting. This is also the awakening of her own sexual consciousness. She does not need to speak out her needs loudly in order to cater to and please someone, even if she is confused, fearful, or even for reasons she doesn’t understand. , There should be no forced and dedicated sexual relationships in marriage, and the same is true for non-marital relationships.

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  • Branson 2022-03-24 09:03:31

    In the era before the sexual liberation movement in the West, society did not discuss sex as a normal topic. Even though there are differences in family background (social class), upbringing and cultural tastes for this well-educated young man and woman, physical contact always seems to be an ultimate expectation for their relationship. When the first night of the wedding fails and this layer is also removed, the relationship collapses instantly. At 17:00 on June 22, 2019, in Hall 1, Xiaoxitian Art Cinema, China Film Archive.

  • Korbin 2022-03-20 09:02:45

    I looked at the mark and wanted to see that it was already in 2010, and finally I saw it when I almost forgot the content of the novel. My favorite McEwan, although it has many shortcomings, I still like it. The main two protagonists are too attractive.

On Chesil Beach quotes

  • Florence Ponting: You know I love you.

    Edward Mayhew: Still!

    Florence Ponting: I want to spend my life with you. And you feel the same. We love each other and we can set each other free. Edward, it must be obvious to you by now that I'm...

    Edward Mayhew: Florence, what is it?

    Florence Ponting: That I'm pretty hopeless. No, I'm absolutely hopeless at sex. I'm no good at it. I don't seem to need it like other people, like you do. I might change, but I can't imagine it. If I don't say this now, we'll always be struggling with it. It's going to cause you a lot of unhappiness and me too.

  • Florence Ponting: We can live by our own rules too, Edward. I can say this because I know you love me. We don't have to be like everyone else. We could live together and... and so... and no one would know what we did or didn't do. We'd be together and if you wanted, really wanted, that's to say, whenever it happened, and of course, it would happen, I'd understand. More than that, I'd want it because I want you to be happy, and free. I'd never be jealous as long as I knew that you loved me.