I read the novel "On the Chessel Beach" more than three years ago, and it should be my semester in Hong Kong. At that time, I was in my junior year, and I can understand it to my degree. The motivation for writing this beautiful tragedy was "ideal liberation", or the important meaning of "sexual liberation": the unsuccessful early night destroyed the fragile self-esteem of young people. No matter how strong love is, you can't let go of pride and start again. This shows the importance of "sex education" or "pre-marital sex", which shows that the "stale concept" of keeping virginity before marriage is really undesirable. In fact, thinking about the above in my current thinking, it is actually a very routine answer. A "general" is a truth that can be "summed up" by anyone who has read a novel. It is very shallow. But in view of my ability to understand and emotional maturity at the time, I understood it for this purpose, and given the emotional situation I was in at the time, this understanding could be considered appropriate. So the result is, despite this shallowness, until I watch the movie today, my impression of the whole story is a story of "indicting feudal ethics", Britain yesterday, China today. Even if you look at everyone's short comments under this movie entry now, most people understand it this way.
After watching the movie, I think the truth that such a third-rate writer can say is not exactly what McEwan wanted to say. A very obvious paradox, if the hostess is really cold, she would not even accept sex with the person she loves most, and the person who voluntarily mentioned that she is going to give birth to a girl and named her chloe is totally unacceptable. How did you finally accept marrying your second choice and have several children?
So sex is not the problem, it's just the carrier of the problem, a very specific carrier. To be honest, any first-night success rate will not be high. Both parties have the first-night success rate. I think it will be very miserable. It is completely uncommon for a male protagonist to be too excited and then shoot in seconds. People don’t often talk about this kind of thing publicly, and treat it wisely. I can't say that there is no psychological burden (especially straight men, I understand very well), but it is not a new truth after all. Sex is something that needs spiritual resonance. The spiritual factor must be at least equal to the physical factor. The more advanced the education is, the more people who have the pursuit of "love". Good sex is very rare-the problem of sex It is a universal problem, not just the cause of their tragedy. I think the problem is that their love is almost entirely dependent on pure emotional identification to maintain, it is the most ideal state, the most romantic, unexplainable, unreasonable "love at first sight". Personally, I can talk about this kind of love as "exciting appreciation", out of nowhere. Isn't this just "pure" love? But this kind of love is extremely fragile. From beginning to end, the movie (or the novel itself) hints at the contrast between these two people: the woman is a traditional rich girl. She had to drink tea with UCL boys before being rejected by her parents, saying that UCL is really a bad school. The father and mother of the first-class Oxford Bachelor of History in Oxford began to discuss their origins. They were in the 1960s but did not listen to rock music. Their life was smooth but unchanging. They chose to be the most classical violinist. The man took the first-class degree at home. No one cares, my mother is crazy, my sister is stupid, very shy and not good at talking, but she feels like a rock youth in her heart, and the trend of the times is ahead. They may fall in love with each other because the contrast between the other party and their own circle has become an attractive trait, but everything about them is based on this. This kind of confirmation of love conceals all pride, prejudice, or simple disagreement. Adaptation, growth environment, hobbies, and future plans are all covered up. In the contrast of strong love, finding a boyfriend or girlfriend in your circle (such as the hostess's later husband) has become a boring choice that compromises the world. Strong love repeatedly deepens this "pure and noble" love Confirm, confirm that it is worthwhile for them to change their original lifestyle or values for love (for example, the male lead goes to the female lead to work under the perverted father, and the female lead listens to chuck Berry, she actually used the words bouncy and merry to describe rock music, my mother, this is really untranslatable). All this is very good and idealistic, but interesting, strong and beautiful things are often dangerous and fragile. As long as the confirmation of love is slightly shaken, all the contradictions that were hidden at the time will emerge at once: unsuccessful first night, unsuccessful This fuse can be anything serious enough to hurt self-esteem. How did the second shot ruin everything? The second shot will not ruin everything, it is a castle in the air.
So I tell the core of "On the Beach of Chessel" is a desperate story. Those solid feelings that can go are often the long-lasting love between classmates, peers, and colleagues. They are the result of "finger-fingered marriages" and "right to each other" between your parents, your parents and their old friends. They are boring, but right. Life trajectories will make choices that can be anticipated and can also converge. After so many years of scolding the "smelly unspeakable" class theory, idealism still cannot be tolerated in love, and we can't avoid vulgarity. McEwan didn't come from oxbridge himself, so he must have had a deep understanding. As long as we want to do (how can we not do it?) other than love, the choice of life trajectory will be laid bare in front of us. The heroine will never open a sex party with the hero in a record store in London. The view of the strange and strange is that the danger is true, but the yearning for beautiful love often backfires on love, and only the ordinary things can last. Thinking about it this way, life is really not worth it, and it makes people desperate.
A very interesting thing, despite the various "don't sleep with colleagues" admonitions in the circle of scientists around me, the probability of solving them internally is quite high, even in the United States, which is known as the dating culture. Maybe this applies to all professionals. In short, it is not easy for someone to love you. Whether you are happy or not is really unpredictable, so don't be too demanding.
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