Life is a gorgeous robe, full of fleas

Christophe 2022-05-08 22:52:54

Zhang Ailing said this when she was in the United States-life is like this. Zhang Ailing is a typical reactionary. After the liberation of Shanghai, the newly established Federation of Literary and Art Circles held in the auditorium all Shanghai's literary and art circles, and all the discerning intellectuals and literary circles gathered together. Everyone has said that the Communist Party is the party of the poor, so these big stars, writers, and directors put on their own plain clothes one after another, and the scene was gray. But Zhang Ailing was the only one sitting there alone in a gorgeous cheongsam. That's how she despised this "poor" party. However, what is interesting is that when she came to the United States, the New Yorker and Life magazines in the United States asked her to ask her to write some stories that cursed the "Poor People's Party", but she refused. Finally, at the age of 36, she married a 60-year-old impoverished Communist Party member.

This film was in 1959, and Zhang Ailing has been in the United States for three or four years. She likes watching movies very much, maybe she thought of this sentence when she watched this movie, because this sentence is too suitable to describe this movie, he spent 1 hour to describe this simple to unreal carnival . The world is sunny, without sorrow, poverty, or hunger. Every day, everyone wants to be happy, love, sing and dance.

"Opheel, can the sun rise when you pick up the guitar?" "Yes."

However, if you can't see the hidden worries in this heaven, it is false.

1. The boy flew a kite in the shape of the sun, however, the kite was broken and fell into the ground.

2. When the girl Eurydice first came ashore, she was hit by the blind man who sells ribbon toys. The blind man said, "Poor man, you look like a bird in a cage. She trembled with fright, and her heart beat faster." In the scene, when the girl passed the shop, the camera fell on the bird in the cage.

3. Girl Eurydice has just passed through the city on the tram. Tram driver Ophir was standing on the tram and admiring the city. At this time, the movie gave him a close-up, capturing the desire in his eyes. This is the city he sees every day, but this is not his city. He belongs to the terminal. -Slums.

4. The cousin said to the bread seller, I have no money, and I have all the money to buy costumes for the carnival. On the other hand, she said to Eurydice, “The Portuguese will give you all the things you want for a kiss.” Just like last year during the black and expensive parade, the most robbed Americans were Apple and NIke, not households. Commodities and food.

5. When Ophir put his face on Eurydice's hand, the quiet sky flew over a rumbling plane, and flew over the statue of Jesus on Monte Cristo.

6. Death appeared, and the crisis began to materialize. The joyous crowds at the carnival were often mixed with scenes of police screaming and riding. The police forbade children to save Eurydice and trampled on her amulet that fell on the ground.

7. The person who introduced the marriage, the owner of the tram, the person who managed the corpse, and the doctor in the hospital were all white.

By the time Eurydice died, the movie screen suddenly changed. The police took away the carnival, pointed out the building of the missing person of Ophir, etc... Here the lice completely appeared. The following story is straightforward and obvious, so I don't need to repeat it.

Only one thing, when Ophir went to the morgue to collect Eurydice's body, the caretaker said, death is cheap here. I don't know what this English sentence means here, is it a deliberate pun or a simple translation. In short, from the hell manager's rants that his cold has not been well, we can see the ridicule.

The ending is the best: when all the grief happened, the child asked another child, "Orpheus is dead, how does the sun rise?" The other child handed Orpheus's guitar to him. He played and sang. He became the new Orpheus, a girl came over and danced, she became the new Eurydice. The sun rises as usual, and it's a new day.

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Black Orpheus quotes

  • Orfeo: Everything's beautiful, Eurydice. My heart's like a bird whose thirst is quenched by a single dewdrop. Thank you, Eurydice. Thank you for this new day.

  • Orfeo: It's you who's carrying me. I rest in your arms like a sleeping child, and from the sweet breath in your bosom, I know you'll take me where I must go.