This feeling can be reminisced, but at that time
, I cried after watching "The Bird of Thorns", and I was also very moved, for Meggie's strength, and for Ralph's remorse. The saddest scene should be at the end of the film, Ralph regretted: "My biggest mistake was not choosing your love". Yes, he could have had Meggie, have the roses in his life, be with the person he loves, have children all his life, but is he really willing to do that, in fact, let him choose again, he will still be the same s Choice. Let him live his whole life in the country, come on, he's not that kind of person, maybe his son Dane can.
There is no doubt that Ralph loves Meggie. Meggie has been a child neglected by her parents since she was a child. Ralph is a dozen years older than her, like her father and mother. From the first meeting, who are you? my little girl? The priest muttered the girl's name and leaned down to look at the girl who was inexplicably attracted to him. He educated her, understood her, cared for her, and even taught her the private knowledge of the growth of a girl once a month. He loves Meggie, like cherishing flowers, from bud to first bloom to full bloom and even fading Withering, it is also a warm and long-lasting emotion. When she lost a loved one, when she was in pain, when she was in childbirth, he came back, with his comforting kisses and hugs, he always seemed to be there when she needed a shoulder. However, his ambition finally triumphed over love, he left Meggie, who had loved him forever, and made Meggie suffer for love all his life, but in the end he also realized that, as he said, "No ambition is so great that it can be hurt by it. one's heart".
The metaphor of the thorn
bird has a legend that there is a bird that sings only once in its life, and that song is more beautiful and beautiful than all the singing of all creatures in the world. From the moment it left the nest, it was looking for the thorn tree, and it did not rest until it got its wish. Then, it plunged its body into the longest and sharpest thorn, and let go of its singing among the wild branches. In the dying moments, it transcended its own pain, and the song eclipsed both the lark and the nightingale. This is a very beautiful song, the song is dead. Yet the whole world is listening silently, and God is smiling in the sky.
The bird has thorns on its chest, and it obeys an immutable law. She was pierced by something unknown, driven, and died singing. At the moment when the thorns pierced, she did not realize that death was coming. She just sang and sang until her life ran out and she couldn't sing a single more note. But when we put thorns in our chests, we know it, we know it. Yet we still have to do it, we still stick thorns in our chests. "
When she was a little girl, he told her the story of the bird of thorns, that it inserted thorns deep into its chest and sang for the only time in her life, she asked why, and he said: the best thing is to pay the most pain. Is it the price that prevents the greatness of love.
Frank said to Meggie in prison, "You still think love can save us? It kills blood more than hate! Hate so clean, so simple. Like a boxing match, for hate, you hit him until he stops fighting back. And for love, they never stop. "
For Ralph, his thorns should be the pain of the dilemma between career and love. He can neither give up his career, the church has given him everything he dreamed of, nor can he let go of Meggie, his whole life, just like Mrs. Carson Prophecy: You are neither a man nor a priest.
Mrs. Carson really understands human nature and understands men well, and she sets a trap for Ralph that will never be overcome, but herself, so clever, Are you really living a good life? "I know a lot of truth, but I still can't live my life." Is it very appropriate to use this sentence to say Mrs. Carson? Carson can also be said to have obtained it with her shrewd mind. She has no family, no friends, no love, no one loves her.
Meggie loves Ralph, and this love makes her cry and sing like a thorn bird all her life. , luckily she didn't die like a thorn bird, she forgave Ralph and her own life
Fiona, Meggie's mother, once loved a politician deeply, that is, Frank's father, but when Paddy Meggie's father died, she was shocked that she had always loved her husband, but she didn't know, she I ignored myself as a woman and chose the experience of love. A woman pursued an illusory bubble all her life, but ignored the person she should cherish the most, It is too late for me, It is too late for him. Too late, why To wait until the end of life to find out. It was this thorn that made her regret the most. At the end of the story, Fiona is still wearing the pearl necklace Paddy gave her.
Justin is lucky, she finally found someone to love each other, and got the love and marriage that Meggie and Fiona wanted for their whole lives. Dane was her thorn, but in the end. Dane's death frees her. Her mother loves her younger brother but not her. It used to be the shadow of her childhood. She wrapped up her grief and did not let her mother see her tears. She walked out bravely. She did not want happiness in the worldly sense. Men, start a family, have children, and do housework for a lifetime. She wants to pursue her own life, but it is this point that deeply attracts Reina, a woman with an independent personality who deserves the respect of men.
In love, men and women are immature children
. In love, both men and women are children. Since they are children, they include the characteristics of children. If they cannot get something, it is love. , then splashing, destroying, and then confused and painful, completely lost the reason that a normal adult should have.
Mrs. Carson said: "Inside this stupid body, I still feel, want, and love you. Oh God, how much!" In my aging body, I still have a young heart, I still have dreams, and Pursuit, I still have love...
Meggie gave him a kiss when Ralph said he didn't need a woman but God, and Ralph kissed Meggie as hard as a hungry child. Meggie is the rose of his life, and he doesn't want to see others have her.
But we also see Meggie growing up, and at first, like a little kid, she snickers at Ralph for stealing a kiss. But in the end, she matured. Meggie finally said to Zhu Siting, "When a light goes out, we will all be very sad, but if you pursue your own life well, your light can continue to be lit, bringing us hope. "
As Ralph said to Meggie on his deathbed: I see you've been against God all your life, but you're closer to his will than I am, because in the end, you're always in love, even when you lose everything, Never lost love...
love, spirit and flesh, which one do you choose
in love, there is soul love and physical love, the best is the union of spirit and flesh, Annie and Rudy are the perfect representatives of the union of love and marriage , Although Anne is disabled and ten years older than Rudy, these things do not hinder their love at all.
Ralph's love for Meggie started out as soul love, which made him comfortable, but Meggie soon grew into a big girl like a flower and jade, he said, you are so lovely, so... grown up. Yes , she finally grew up. But why is he disappointed? He began to feel like he was sitting on pins and needles, and the humanity in his soul had awakened. Humanity seemed to be hidden in divinity. In fact, humanity had always been with divinity. Otherwise, Ralph would not feel inexplicably attracted when he saw Meggie. But it was only when Meggie actually stood across from Ralph as the opposite sex that he really felt the lust in human nature, and in the barn, when the priest comforted the bereaved Meggie, he felt the lust gushing out , (Humanity) Passion triumphs over Divinity. On her deathbed, Mrs. Carson said, "You are neither a man nor a priest, you have neither". Yes, Ralph was tortured because he didn't realize that he was a man first and a messenger of God second. God created Adam and created Eve from Adam's rib. Adam and Eve are just like the relationship between the entire body and the rib. Ralph looked at the Bible, but there was sadness in his eyes, and he also felt the pain of the missing rib, pain in love
For Meggie, what she wants is very simple, family, husband and children, a marriage based on love, she is an ordinary woman who has forbearance and restraint all her life. However, she is so unfortunate again, "he does not want me, nobody wants me", Ralph can't want her, Luke doesn't need her at all, she should have everything, beautiful face, kind heart, even Anne Also said: You have the shape of an angel and the figure of the Virgin, and all along, the viewer has always had a very deep sympathy for people who should be happy but don't, like Meggie, like Ralph, they are both A beautiful and kind person who suffers in pain all his life.
She first fell in love with Ralph unfortunately. This love made her cry and sing like a thorn bird. Fortunately, she did not die like a thorn bird. She forgave Ralph and also forgave her. Own. Just like what she said when she visited her eldest brother Frank, who has always loved her: everyone is responsible for their own life, if she is unhappy, it is also her own choice, not because of him. Meggie finally said to her daughter Zhu Siting: "If a light goes out, we will all be very sad, but if you pursue your own life well, your light can continue to be lit, bringing us hope. "So we see that although Meggie is lonely, she is not destroyed, she has become a woman like Mrs. Carson, who is hysterical and dissatisfied, and her temperament is still so noble, like a rose that blooms forever, Ralph finally Died in the rose, died in Meggie's arms, Meggie forgave him, but he couldn't forgive himself, he finally realized what he had missed, the rose that even God can't replace, but his love has become the one caught between Biblical specimen of withered roses.
Meggie finally gave in to the world and married Luke, she wanted to replace Ralph with a substitute Luke, self-righteous fell in love with Luke, like a silly girl cheated by a man in love, Luke is really hateful , but maybe he didn't realize his hatefulness. In this sense, Ralph is the big liar who has lied to her all his life, and Luke is the little liar who has lied to her for a while.
Men and women want really different things
Men and women, fooling men and resenting women, this timeless topic is like a saying: "Men are afraid of entering the wrong profession, and women are afraid of marrying the wrong man". Men and women want really different things. Wang Anyi wrote in the Song of Everlasting Sorrow, "Love is only a little for a man, and everything for a woman."
For Ralph: I love you, but I love the god more, and I can not give it up for you. this is the necessary sacrifice I have to suffer. What he needs is the glory the church has given him, and he loves God is his desire for wealth, for power, for fame. As he said on his deathbed: "My love, half is given to you, half is given to God, in fact, it is all given to my ambition."
Despite this, he still hopes that Meggie will love him as always, just like when they meet again after ten years, between him under the bed, he still thinks that Dane is Meggie's child who went back to Luke after being with him, Meggie Maybe he wanted to tell him the truth.
For Meggie, she is just a traditional woman who needs everything an ordinary woman wants. But as the strange woman Yu Xuanji said a thousand years ago: "It's easy to get priceless treasures, but it's rare to have a lover". What women want is always hard to get.
This is not a story of an ambitious man and a foolish woman in the usual sense. We can't say which is better or worse, because, since ancient times, men and women have always wanted different things.
We love watching movies, because our life is unlikely to be so ups and downs, but a good movie can teach us a lot about the true meaning of life and the true meaning of love, let us let go of our narrowness and cherish the people around us and the happiness around us .
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