I love this story. It tells what true love is.

Elfrieda 2021-10-20 17:25:44

Tristan's process from liking Victoria to liking Yvaine is the process from a boy's first love to love someone and becoming a man.
Yvaine does not need to be more beautiful than Victoria. The director has found an actor who is not too beautiful to play Yvaine. I think it is the brilliant point. Although she is a star, she only needs to use soft or strong light to shine other people’s eyes when she shines. That's it, there is no need to find a beautiful woman who is indispensable and incomprehensible to play.
If the heroine is too beautiful, it will weaken the ideological connotation of the story, making people think that the hero is just looking for a more beautiful girl to replace the previous one.
What it actually wants to express is from the ignorant and ignorant love of vanity to the sincere and candid affection, there is a world of difference between these two kinds of likes and two kinds of love.
Just like Lazarus in Heinlein’s "Time Is Enough for Your Love", who lived for thousands of years, married countless times, and had countless offspring, but only realized true love when they met Dora. They opened up wasteland together, and each other Consolation, mutual support, mutual help, they are friends, relatives, lovers, sexual partners, each other’s beliefs, destination and soul’s dependence, they are in the flesh and in the flesh, when a person passes away, another person’s body Some of them died, and they didn't want to live forever.
They are not ascetic, dependent on inertia to maintain each other, nor are they pretending to be open-minded, self-deceiving and forgetting each other. They are legends, love, likes, and the only ones.
Stardust is a true fairy tale. Tristan, who was in love with the stars and fell in love with the stars, has lived a happy life with the stars since then:
They ruled for 80 years. But no man can live forever, except he who possesses the heart of the star. And Yvaine had given hers to Tristan completely. When their children and grandchildren were grown, it was time to light the Babylon candle. And they still live happily ever after.

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Extended Reading
  • Cordie 2022-03-24 09:01:21

    The stars are so beautiful when they shine. When the spacecraft landed, I remembered the Titanic. The last narration of the ending is the same as many fairy tales~~~ "From then on, they still live happily"

  • Jarrod 2022-03-24 09:01:21

    It's so beautiful. The plot is also more fantasy. But I don’t know if it’s the cultural difference. Even the second time I see it, there are still many things I can’t understand.

Stardust quotes

  • Septimus: [briefing his men] Now remember Captain Shakespeare has a fearsome reputation.

    [cuts to scenes of Captain Shakespeare painting a heart on his face and then dancing to the Can Can, dressed in a frock and a feather boa, intertwined with scenes of Septimus's men attacking Shakespeare's crew only to get overpowered]

    Septimus: [enters the cabin and sees the Captain in drag] What the hell is this?

  • Yvaine: You know when I said I knew little about love? That wasn't true. I know a lot about love. I've seen it, centuries and centuries of it, and it was the only thing that made watching your world bearable. All those wars. Pain, lies, hate... It made me want to turn away and never look down again. But when I see the way that mankind loves... You could search to the furthest reaches of the universe and never find anything more beautiful. So yes, I know that love is unconditional. But I also know that it can be unpredictable, unexpected, uncontrollable, unbearable and strangely easy to mistake for loathing, and... What I'm trying to say, Tristan is... I think I love you. Is this love, Tristan? I never imagined I'd know it for myself. My heart... It feels like my chest can barely contain it. Like it's trying to escape because it doesn't belong to me any more. It belongs to you. And if you wanted it, I'd wish for nothing in exchange - no gifts. No goods. No demonstrations of devotion. Nothing but knowing you loved me too. Just your heart, in exchange for mine.