Middle-aged man Martin returned to the Normandy countryside seven years ago. This is his hometown. It was also the place where Flaubert wrote "Madame Bovary". Martin has been obsessed with literature since he was young, and has a soft spot for "Madame Bovary." Life here is simple and peaceful, but too static and calm.
In the summer, a new neighbor, a couple from London, moved to the old house that had been idle for many years. Coincidentally, this couple, Bovary, was actually named Charlie and Gemma. Wife Gemma Bovery and Mrs. Bovary Emma Bovary not only have similar names, they are also young, beautiful, sexy and charming, and even their husband Charlie is equally dull and gentle. Charlie and Gemma, who were newly married, left the bustling and prosperous city and came to a quiet countryside. Because life is an important thing in such a small village, the two hope to build a new family life here.
The coquettishness of Gemma's gestures fascinated Martin. Martin felt that she was Emma Bovary, destined to have a similar temperament and destiny to Emma. The peaceful life was broken, and Martin watched Gemma's every move closely. At first, Gemma was attracted by the French climate, food and wine, and the beautiful scenery of the countryside. She walked and explored from time to time. It didn't take long for me to feel lonely and deserted, and I couldn't adapt to the disrepaired home, and missed the life in London. The neighbor who came to the country house to prepare for the judicial examination was handsome and enthusiastic, and the lonely Gemma got closer and closer to him. Martin saw all this in his eyes, worried that Gemma was heading the same path as Emma, and secretly decided to do something for Gemma.
The young lover returned to Paris, and her husband left home. Suddenly, Gemma, who was lonely, got into trouble, owed debts, and soon met her old lover before marriage and fell into entanglement trouble. All these make Martin more convinced that Gemma will inevitably go to destruction, just like Emma. Martin tried his best to save her and avoid tragedy.
Gemma is still dead, not because of arsenic poisoning, but a small but fatal accident that suddenly occurred in the chaos, but it has nothing to do with Martin's "good deeds".
The lively and frank Gemma is indeed like Emma, and more like many young women, longing for intoxicating love, abandoning plainness, pursuing romance, unable to refuse temptation. But Gemma, who was in a different era from Emma, was independent and free, able to make herself happy, and did not expect her happiness on unrealistic fantasies and unreliable others. Leaving her cowardly and selfish lover, Gemma sees the reality clearly, realizes the mistake, realizes that her husband, Charlie, is the one who truly loves and tolerates her, she understands the life of hope, and is forgiven by her husband. She could have real happiness without having to be Emma.
It was the self-righteous Martin who truly repeated Emma's mistakes. Having troubles in his career, he returned home from the city with his wife and children and inherited his father's bakery, hoping to find peace and tranquility. But for a truly peaceful and serene life, Martin is not moved, blindly hiding behind the text, unable to feel the reality. The observant wife has always understood and tolerated her; the stupid and ignorant son actually saw through him early in the morning. His family and real life are boring and isolated to him, and only the illusory world in literature makes him fascinated. Just like Emma ignoring the surrounding beautiful fields and mountains, yearning for the glitzy city; turning a blind eye to her husband's deep love, indulging in the illusion of love novels, she can't help herself, and willfully chasing the ethereal and ethereal love.
The appearance of Gemma is like an exit, allowing Martin's imagination to be released into reality. She became his Emma, tender and beautiful, I felt pity, suffering in love, waiting to be redeemed. Martin, who confuses imagination and reality, eventually turned out to be self-defeating; instead of illusion and temptation, Gemma, who was ready to meet a new life, died.
After the grief and regret, Martin's life returned to its original track. Six months later, on a winter day, the opposite house had a new owner, this time a tall, deep-browed, blue-eyed, white-skinned lady. Tricky was unaware of his son Martin, this time full eyeful "Anna - Karenina."
The movie "New Madame Bovary" is such an absurd tragicomedy caused by Flaubert's "Madame Bovary". French humor, calm and sharp. The accidental misunderstanding coincidentally constituted a sharp irony in a dramatic way.
Faithful, honest, helpful, and harmless to humans and animals, Mr. Haohao, who has good intentions, has done stupid and superfluous things, causing troubles and troubles to others, and even indirectly leading to bad results. How can you punish him? There is never lack of absurd contradictions in reality. We are not also trapped in our own space by subjective experience, narrow and arrogant. Being constrained by limited cognition and erratic imagination, to what extent can we understand the outside world and the hearts of others? Can you really realize the mistakes you have made?
Reading can undoubtedly bring endless fun, but reading itself does not improve our ability to understand things. If you can't integrate the reality and bring the joy of reading into your thinking, you still live up to outstanding literary and artistic works and underestimate its value and significance.
The French country style and romance shown in the film are as comfortable and charming as Gemma wearing a floral dress with a knitted cardigan and walking in the woods holding flowers. Let the viewers get a glimpse of the picturesque pastoral scenery in Flaubert's works, the human feelings of small villages and towns, the magnificent cathedral of Lyon... The places where Emma has traveled, stayed, and lived, just like her story, are timeless and fascinating.
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