Excessive absence leads to untimely and excessive pursuit

Donnell 2022-09-08 12:37:26

I like the beautiful and colorful picture, the luxurious costumes, the gorgeous garden full of vitality, although it is a tragedy, but the film is calmly told with a little ridicule, which makes the tragedy fade away. After watching it once, it was not enjoyable, but after watching it again, I didn't know what attracted me at first. This kind of incestuous love between a little man and an old woman can't make people feel good, especially a little man My mother also helped facilitate it. From the beginning, while watching, I was thinking, would younger men like older women with sagging skin and wrinkles? how can that be? very strange. But at the end, the delicate emotional interpretation of the film makes me think it all makes sense. cheri has a strong desire for lea, and at the same time, she also has a deep attachment and desire for a mature and inclusive femininity like a mother's love. I guess that the original author of this movie must have had a similar experience, otherwise, how could such a strange love be interpreted so naturally and smoothly, without the slightest feeling of artificiality. Eastern and Western cultures are so different, like the two poles of the world. Western culture is very capable of accepting and affirming self, including desire, especially "love", no matter what form the flower of "love" opens. Although flowers are beautiful when they bloom, it is often difficult for deformed and loving flowers to harvest sweet and harmonious fruits, so Western culture will lose, sway and sink in desire and love. The traditional culture of the East is to "restrain oneself and restore rituals". Unreasonable desires will definitely be criticized and lashed out, but at the same time, self-repression and denial have produced conflicting, entangled and painful emotions. Of course, in modern times, with the development of communication technology, frequent cultural exchanges between the East and the West have rapidly changed the values ​​of the East. It is a tragedy for any kind of culture to be assimilated and changed. It is a win-win to be able to blend, learn from each other and combine. Western culture is more able to help us face ourselves, face, understand and accept ourselves. Eastern culture is about management and self-improvement. Only by first facing, understanding and accepting, can management and promotion be smooth and targeted. Blind indulgence will inevitably lead to disaster, and blind denial and repression will make people feel at a loss, even distorted and hypocritical. After watching it twice, I understand that there are 3 reasons that attract me: 1. The picture of the movie is really beautiful, it should be because of the use of good film (I don't really understand this)? I love that lush and beautiful garden. 2. The acceptance and affirmation of self and self-desire in Western culture gave me a new sense of human nature. 3. Michelle. Pfeiffer interprets the character very elegantly and appropriately, although aging, but still elegant, full of unique and mature charm. Her voice is also very graphic, I like her voice. For Michelle Pfeiffer, she was perfect. But the only thing I regret is that Michelle Pfeiffer looks a little too old. I checked the Internet and she was 51 years old when this movie was released, which is 50 years old. In addition, Westerners themselves are significantly older than Easterners. Think about a 50-year-old woman falling in love with a 25-year-old man, it's really discordant in appearance. There is another point that feels unreasonable. In the whole film, it seems that young men are only interested in old women. Besides the hero and heroine, there is also that prince. Some nausea, lea also showed discomfort at the time, I thought she also felt ugly and caused a sense of shame to herself, but I was wrong, she thought of her cheri because of this. To be honest, the two of them can't really be compared. Including the later bodybuilder, he also likes old women, and his mother also contributed to it. What a strange atmosphere this creates. Finally, it ends with Shelly committing suicide. The ending is so certain. Shelly has both lust in lea, but also attachment and love for his mother, especially when he calls lea "Nounoune", the tone of voice is like a spoiled child who is attached to his mother. However, the child always grows up, he can love lea all his life, and regard the love for lea as the most important and sacred emotion in his heart. But at the same time, the material carefree life, a young wife who shares his family background and loves him deeply, may also make him develop a sense of love, responsibility and thus grow and continue to live vigorously. Of course this ending also makes sense, cheri seems weak and powerless enough to be so engrossed in love for lea that he can't get out of his feelings for lea if he can't really fall in love with his wife. Pfeiffer looks a little too old. I checked the Internet and she was 51 when the movie was released, which is 50 years old. In addition, Westerners themselves are significantly older than Easterners. Think about a 50-year-old woman falling in love with a 25-year-old man, it's really discordant in appearance. There is another point that feels unreasonable. In the whole film, it seems that young men are only interested in old women. Apart from the hero and heroine, there is also that prince. The picture of old Lily hugging the head of the skinny prince and squeezing his chest is amazing. Some nausea, lea also showed discomfort at the time, I thought she also felt ugly and caused a sense of shame to herself, but I was wrong, she thought of her cheri because of this. To be honest, the two of them can't really be compared. Including the later bodybuilder, he also likes old women, and his mother also contributed to it. What a strange atmosphere this creates. Finally, it ends with Shelly committing suicide. The ending is so certain. Shelly has both lust in lea, but also attachment and love for his mother, especially when he calls lea "Nounoune", the tone of voice is like a spoiled child who is attached to his mother. However, the child always grows up, he can love lea all his life, and regard the love for lea as the most important and sacred emotion in his heart. But at the same time, the material carefree life, a young wife who shares his family background and loves him deeply, may also make him develop a sense of love, responsibility and thus grow and continue to live vigorously. Of course this ending also makes sense, cheri seems weak and powerless enough to be so engrossed in love for lea that he can't get out of his feelings for lea if he can't really fall in love with his wife. Pfeiffer looks a little too old. I checked the Internet and she was 51 when the movie was released, which is 50 years old. In addition, Westerners themselves are significantly older than Easterners. Think about a 50-year-old woman falling in love with a 25-year-old man, it's really discordant in appearance. There is another point that feels unreasonable. In the whole film, it seems that young men are only interested in old women. Apart from the hero and heroine, there is also that prince. The picture of old Lily hugging the head of the skinny prince and squeezing his chest is amazing. Some nausea, lea also showed discomfort at the time, I thought she also felt ugly and caused a sense of shame to herself, but I was wrong, she thought of her cheri because of this. To be honest, the two of them can't really be compared. Including the later bodybuilder, he also likes old women, and his mother also contributed to it. What a strange atmosphere this creates. Finally, it ends with Shelly committing suicide. The ending is so certain. Shelly has both lust in lea, but also attachment and love for his mother, especially when he calls lea "Nounoune", the tone of voice is like a spoiled child who is attached to his mother. However, the child always grows up, he can love lea all his life, and regard the love for lea as the most important and sacred emotion in his heart. But at the same time, the material carefree life, a young wife who shares his family background and loves him deeply, may also make him develop a sense of love, responsibility and thus grow and continue to live vigorously. Of course this ending also makes sense, cheri seems weak and powerless enough to be so engrossed in love for lea that he can't get out of his feelings for lea if he can't really fall in love with his wife. Treat your love for lea as the most important and sacred emotion in your heart. But at the same time, the material carefree life, a young wife who shares his family background and loves him deeply, may also make him develop a sense of love, responsibility and thus grow and continue to live vigorously. Of course this ending also makes sense, cheri seems weak and powerless enough to be so engrossed in love for lea that he can't get out of his feelings for lea if he can't really fall in love with his wife. Treat your love for lea as the most important and sacred emotion in your heart. But at the same time, the material carefree life, a young wife who shares his family background and loves him deeply, may also make him develop a sense of love, responsibility and thus grow and continue to live vigorously. Of course this ending also makes sense, cheri seems weak and powerless enough to be so engrossed in love for lea that he can't get out of his feelings for lea if he can't really fall in love with his wife.

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    Narrator: He was unable to suppress a sense that he had been able to escape from something. That he was a free man again. A feeling he eventually came to realize was entirely misguided. It was many years before he understood that both of them had been quite unjustly punished. Léa for being born so many years before him, and Chéri for having failed to grasp that Léa was the only woman he would ever be able to love. And once he was settled in his mind that this was the case, he took out his old service revolver, and put a bullet in his brain.

  • Lea de Lonval: You came back here and you found an old woman. Yes, you found an old woman. Don't cry. Why are you crying? I'm so grateful to you. Were you really in love with me? Did you really think I was such a good person? If I had been a truly good person, I'd have made a man of you instead of thinking of nothing but your pleasure and my happiness. I wouldn't have kept you all to myself. Look at me. You're right. The qualities you lack, I expect it is my fault. But 30 years of easy living does make you very vulnerable. So no, I never did talk to you about the future. Forgive me. I loved you as if we were going to die the same day. I carried you in my heart for such a long time. I forgot you were going to have to carry your own burdens. A young wife. Perhaps even a child. And so you're going to suffer. You're going to miss me. And you're going to have to try to find enough wisdom and tolerance not to cause suffering to others. The thing is, now you've had a taste of youth. It's never satisfying, but you'll always want to go back for more. You must go. I love you. But it's too late. So get dressed. And go away now.