When watching the trailer, I was attracted to the scene where Emily was running in a red dress and turned back. However, after watching the main drama, I felt that Emily was a neurotic girl. The director and screenwriter had too much brains. I think they were thinking about it. It expresses Emily's rich imagination and spiritual world and the process of creating poetry, so it presents a feeling of combining the virtual and the absurd, but it is really difficult to understand. Although it is very different from the Dickinson in my impression, it can be regarded as showing her avant-garde, bold and uninhibited character, which is just as I imagined. About the timing in the play, it feels a little unclear, Know-Nothing won the Massachusetts election in 1854, but the Whig father in the play won the election, so the time should be before 1854; "Desolation" The Villa was published between 1852 and 1853, and the play is still serialized, so it is speculated that the time should be from the autumn of 1852 to the spring of 1853; Thoreau lived in a log cabin on the shore of Walden Pond from 1845-47, and "Walden" "Lake" was published in 1854 again. Could it be that "Walden" was widely circulated before its publication in 1854 (an advance release?) Maybe the screenwriter did not strictly follow the real time. Originally, this play was not such a serious biography. . Finally, I want to know whether Thoreau is really like this in the play, a person who makes a name for himself, or is it the prejudice of the screenwriter. In episode 10 of Emily's imagined funeral, Thoreau said that he showed up because he burned the cabin and burned the forest (burning himself?), Thoreau did inadvertently cause a forest fire in Concord in 1844 , but he certainly didn't burn himself to death. From here, we can also see the writer's little "maliciousness" towards Thoreau (perhaps just to make fun of it).
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