The male protagonist Maurice Ronet looked like Gary Grant at first glance, and looked like Judy Lowe again today. He often has a very boyish expression, sweet and melancholic, noble and easy-going, and he is very appropriate to play the upper-class boy brother. His character is called Alan, who separated from his New York wife because of alcoholism and spent half a year in the Alcohol Rehabilitation Center in Paris. The doctor told him that he was cured and could return to his original life track, "American women are healthy and strong, and she will heal you." But he is like a child who does not want to graduate from kindergarten, reluctant to leave the cake blocks and his friends, helplessly Retort, don't let me go, I will start drinking again. The doctor said, use your willpower.
He said, how contradictory, how can you talk about my willpower.
I have no patience for life and want to die. In and out of the scene, everyone can see that Alan is going to leave in one way or another. Tomorrow I will kill myself, he muttered to himself, polished shoes, sorted out boxes, doodled on white paper, shaved beard, wiped aftershave, and read the last page of the book. The wallpaper of the room is a fancy Roman column. Excessive expression of despair will make the live audience lose interest. It is not easy for Mahler to say a person who is determined to die in an unfeeling way. The audience was distracted by the minutiae, watching and wondering why a dying person would even close the box, it's about to end, what's the use of keeping the face smooth. With a mind full of random thoughts, he moved nervously between his friends, watching the contest between these groups of people. This is a person who is about to end his life soon. This will be his last day. The more he falls into this consciousness, the more inexplicable he is. In the end, he is even more sad than the protagonist himself.
Alan’s friend is an expert in Egyptology. He criticized that “the young people today are hopeless, handsome, dignified, and well-nourished, like California citrus, but you don’t know them at all.” He thinks that Alan has not grown up and is stuck in his own. During puberty, that's why I am anxious. "Go to Egypt with me, the people there have the sun in their hearts." I don't know if this is the answer. The sun in my heart and the fire in my heart are both the driving force of blood rushing. Among Alan's passing people, Egyptology, wives and children, and even drugs, can become a far-fetched reason to live. He himself was unmoved, and the sunlight by the window became the only thing that touched him. Mental, the things in people's hearts, he can't feel it anymore.
I have watched "Wraith Fire" many times, and some lines and winks have many different meanings every time I read it. I'm a little obsessed with this man named Ronet, and like all the women in the camera, I can't help feeling affectionate for him. He was pale and unconscious, still attracting attention, the old lady in the clinic, the strange woman in the coffee shop, the modern girl who had just stepped out of the car into the street. He could only respond to their enthusiastic observations one by one with guilt on his face. I use his eyes to look at the women whose faces are showing love, watching them take off and put on pearl bracelets, draw eyeliner, straighten huge earrings, and beautiful golden hair buns. It's so beautiful, I regret it for him, because he said it over and over again and couldn't feel it.
Dorothy, his American wife, never appeared in the film. Her blonde photos are scattered in every corner of the room. No one knows whether Alan loves her or hates her. Did she reply to his telegram, did she never call him? He left a suicide note: I committed suicide because you did not love me, because I did not love you, and we were alienated. I used death to keep us close. I left you and gave you indelible pain.
In 58 years, Jeanne Moreau and Ronet starred in Mahler's "Elevator to the Gallows". Five years later, in "Wizards", she also appeared in a friendly role as Ronet's former friend. Slightly old, pouting those stubborn and thick lips of Morrow, retorting those who mocked Alan, "Nonsense, he is a cute guy, but too melancholy."
Forgot a very important gossip, this cute actor Ronet is actually the son-in-law of the master Chaplin.
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