as a hardcore McEwan avid reader, two years is happy: "On Chesil Beach", "time of the child", "Children's Act" has been filmed, respectively, by the two Starring Juan Fu and Auntie Emma Thompson.
The most successful adaptation of McEwan's book so far is still the 2007 Atonement. Although it was unfortunately lost to the Oscars that year, it did not affect it as a classic in the hearts of movie fans. The long shot of Dunkirk inside was repeatedly compared when Nolan's "Dunkirk" was released this year. More importantly, the sister who was so hateful that year, not only grew up, but also starred in "On the Chessel Beach", continuing the indissoluble bond with McEwan.
Most of the romance films seen in theaters in recent years are no longer romance films. Instead, under the names of first love, childhood sweetheart, blue beauty and beauty, playing with silly jokes, slapsticks, scribbling, and using all kinds of hard-made plots to forge proof of love.
It takes 100 minutes and a coincidence of the entire universe to allow the host and hostess to recognize that each other is the love of their lives in the movies. They only see first love in the first night, sex but love, go to bed inexplicably, get pregnant inexplicably, abort inexplicably, Parted inexplicably... Enough for the national audience.
Can first love and true love be written in sex? OK.
Is it okay for the hostess to write on her face from beginning to end? OK.
Some directors can make sex scenes that are both glamorous and beautiful, but the throbbing and true feelings in the background are invisible.
And there was a director who filmed a bed scene that was too long, too embarrassing, and unsightly, but he deeply remembered the deep, clear, and pure first love of the hero and heroine.
This is "On the Beach of Chessel".
The film was produced by the BBC and written by British national treasure writer Ian McEwan himself. The director Dominic Cook's past resume is concentrated in the National Theatre. The film and television work he has directed seems to be the remake of Shakespeare's "Empty Crown". Cast is also familiar with the BBC. It can be said that the British blood of the film is even more pure than "Atonement" ("Atonement" is a work of Universal Pictures).
At the same time, although the original work is highly condensed (the whole story only happened within 6 hours), it is not compact. On the contrary, flashback chapters mixed with a large number of streams of consciousness trace the life of the hero and heroine all the time. The film also continues this narrative of reality and flashback frequently.
Coupled with the slow pace, it is decided that this film will not be an easy-to-watch movie. But it’s heartfelt, sophisticated, and remarkable adaptations, are all worthy of your savoring.
The story tells the story of a newlywed couple Edward and Florence in the 1960s when they were on their honeymoon at Chessell Beach. They finally parted ways because of the tension and fear on the first night of their wedding. This first night scene runs through the whole film.
How awkward is it?
Obviously they are here on their honeymoon, and they are in their hotel room, but they are like children under the fence. They are not as confident as the waiters. During the meal, the male lead anxiously asked if you must be here? (Students who have seen Downton should not be unfamiliar. The upper class servants will wait on the side when they eat).
The difference between the two and the tension that followed quietly spread. The father of the hostess Florence sits on a large factory. His usual pastime is tennis and cricket. The rich Miss Florence learns violin. Although Edward himself studied history in London, he was born as a commoner and had a crazy mother at home. The yard was cluttered with grass (the garden is the birthplace of the British).
At the table, Edward drank the wine mixed with water unconsciously. When confessing "I love you" to the newlyweds, he was also roughly interrupted by the potato tongs. Finally, because he forgot to tip, he waited after going out. The students laughed unabashedly (this section is reminiscent of the two police officers at the police station in "Mermaid"), and the young couple stared at each other through the stagnant air in the house.
Edward's mother (played by a beautiful ex-wife Ann-Marie Duff, who contributed to the film's largest performance) suffered brain damage due to an accident, and became confused all day long. Edward suddenly said to Florence, "My mother has a brain problem, but I am not her, I am not my family. I am very excited now, as if my life has just begun."
Does it sound familiar?
Billy Hall, who plays Edward, is tall and slightly rough in appearance, and is very suitable for playing this innocent and enthusiastic stunner.
The two met because the male lead got a first class honours degree in school, but no one could tell (the family ignored him). So he rode a long bicycle, got on the bus, ran to Oxford, walked into a bar casually, and saw the hostess.
Then he went straight into, strike up a conversation word is this: "I tell you a thing right I'm just looking for someone to talk about?."
Was forced to engage in this little fool ignorant of the care of the household, did not know each other in the Under the circumstances, he also kindly supported him. I thought this was a polite conversation between you and me, but the protagonist suddenly interrupted her speech rudely and asked you which place you won. The hostess was embarrassed for a long time, and then said shyly, just like you.
The male subject stuffed it for a long time and said: "Then you are great too" (Well done).
Saoirse Ronan, with gentle blue eyes, has always been good at shaping delicate, sensitive, innocent and elegant women. Florence, who fell into his first love, may have been taking care of Edward's emotions and self-esteem without realizing it, so as to smooth his inner softness and fragility.
In the memory passages, she always spared no effort to support him, praise him, praise him as special, and know the names of all kinds of flowers, birds, and beasts. Take care of his sick mother and clean the messy house. Thoughtful enough, Edward's sisters loved her to the extreme, and his father simply ordered "getting to marry this good girl soon".
So the heroine's father found him a job. The two got married naturally. No details of the wedding appear in the film, only the fragments of Florence escaping from choosing the wedding dress.
Before marriage, Florence read a sex education book called "Love, Sex, and Marriage" and learned that "women are like porches, so men can enter". She was terrified and disgusted. But this did not affect her marriage to the beloved Edward.
Back to that awkward sex scene again.
It may be difficult to see such an uncomfortable intimacy on the screen again. It is clear that these two young people are highly educated, innocent and kind, and more importantly, they love each other deeply, but the impression is no different from watching a scene. rape.
The close-up spared no effort to capture Edward's awkward movements, and the sound of heavy breathing and the rubbing of clothes were amplified. When his tongue was roughly inserted into Florence's mouth, you could almost feel suffocated.
Florence pushed him away, Edward pulled up her zipper roughly, Florence proposed himself several times, he just irritably told her to stay still, and then turned her back to him.
But still no success. At this time Edward broke out.
"I can't do even the simplest things well, I must have a problem."
Although Florence was full of fears about sex, he added concerns about Edward's violent tendencies. But she lay down on the bed tremblingly.
The camera repeatedly cuts to Edward's hand holding the edge of the bed, and the male body's extremely uncomfortable suppression of the female body.
Even when he was too nervous, Florence remembered the words in the book and took the initiative to guide Edward with his hands. This kind move caused Edward to react violently and disarmed early.
Looking at the remnants on the thighs, Florence suddenly collapsed, and desperately rushed out of the door and ran to the beach.
The film took place in the 1960s when the sexual liberation movement had not yet been popularized. After that, young people in the United States put forward the slogan "Make love, don't fight!"
The Beatles, hippies, drugs, promiscuity, and AIDS spread like a virus. And Edward and Florence are in the last era of innocence.
Although Florence loved Edward deeply, he never followed him blindly. Her piano friend once said: "Although you look very shy, you are actually quite assertive."
On the cold and bleak Chesil Beach, the two broke out for the first and last time. .
Florence: This is really disgusting.
Edward: You have been refusing to let me approach.
Florence: I want to make you happy, but I can't. You always ask for more things I can't give. Even if I agreed, I would not meet your requirements.
Edward: It’s the money, right? !
Florence: You can think so.
Edward: Don't talk like a bitch.
Florence: Can you walk away and let me stay by myself?
Edward: We can still make each other happy.
Florence: You can go to other women, I don't mind, we can continue to be together.
This sentence directly caused Edward's complete explosion.
Two people who loved each other departed from Chessel Beach and wiped each other out of their lives. The marriage lasted less than six hours.
Later he became a hippie, opened a record shop, had more than one partner, and finally he became a well-dressed player from a poor boy who weeded the rich on the cricket ground.
In Zuishengmeng, he once mentioned in a daze that I used to know a pair of innocent lovers... One of
his partners asked: Does she love him?
After just half a second, he replied, love.
Then he said in a daze that she really loved him and didn't want to disappoint him. She wants to be with him, she wants to make him happy.
The original work was changed at the end of the film. She realized her ideals in life, and he fulfilled his promise. After decades of time, the two looked at each other in tears, speechless.
The picture returned to Chessel Beach that day, and she begged him to look back, but he turned his back. This turn around is a lifetime.
Florence is like your first love. You have your own hobbies and your own perseverance, but as long as you are by your side, you will only treat you wholeheartedly, no matter how depressed your family is or how crazy your mother is. .
And Edward, reckless and nervous, can't wait to show himself, and a little frustration can easily crush his self-esteem. But in front of you, he has never hesitated to pretend to be crazy, he is willing to be an idiot as long as he can make you happy.
But Florence is cold.
She doesn't mind that he has other women. He extremely minded that she had this idea. Both sides regard each other's feelings more importantly than their own feelings, but the result is tragic.
Is it because of Chuye’s failure? Yes, not exactly.
Although there are decades of historical changes and cultural barriers that cannot be ignored, after watching the movie, I think of some social news. Nowadays, in our country, sex education and love education are still equally scarce.
We can analyze the tragedies of Edward and Florence from the perspectives of sociology, anthropology, psychology, art, and even chicken soup, and ask many questions, such as: can the body and feelings be divided? Can we really get rid of the influence of our parents to love someone? Can two people with different family backgrounds really be together? Why does the purest love in the beginning often fail? ……
Movies have no answer, but only provide a wealth of details and emotional contrast.
If we had to use one sentence to summarize the movie, it would probably be "this feeling can be turned into a remembrance, but it was already at a loss at the time."
I believe that many people will recall the curiosity and temptation of youth when watching movies, and how they learned to find the balance between spiritual love and physical harmony through repeated trial and error, and then reluctantly admit:
the love that did not get, but Become a lifelong concern.
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