(text: Vulcan)
, manic desire for great achievements, and exotic lovers; this movie is so exciting for a reason. of. Just after receiving the orthodox school education, as soon as I walked into the colorful world, I used those eyes full of blood and spring to look around. If we also met both at the same time, it might be said that we have already The dream has come true. ——Vulcan Ji. Inscription.
Every youth is full of enthusiasm and passion, I think; how to make his life more meaningful and exciting is perhaps the question that every fledgling youth thinks the most. In school, dreaming of crazy love, thinking that no matter what, I have to love her crazy once in my life; walking into this world, dreaming of great ideals and crazy perseverance, what makes young people better than patriotism Addicted. So, with the dream of serving his ancestors, he embarked on a voyage with ambition; boarded an ocean-going ship to an unfamiliar wilderness, and embarked on a groundbreaking adventure with the expectations of the motherland—there are great ideals and some The beautiful and exotic village girl is waiting for us to knock on the lonely window on the wall of her boudoir...
This is undoubtedly an absurd and vulgar, but at the same time orthodox and popular story switch-absurd, because of the possibility of its existence Sex is not high; Vulgar, because we have heard such stories countless times; Orthodox, because everyone will tell a story that begins like this; Popular, because no matter who it is, more or less always have dreams like this. For children like us who grew up in peaceful times, it is estimated that it is impossible to die for the country in the near future. Exotic lovers may have some hope. Movies can of course pass through the limitations of time and space, so we have the capital of dreams; at least, looking for the dreams that we have had in other people's stories is always better than hopelessly giving us a little hope to quench our thirst. Let us go back to the 1830s and start this dream journey with John Truscott, played by Hugh Dancy.
The image in the dream blooms like a flower. When the young and passionate John took his great dream to a pier in Sarawak, Malaysia, he must have thought so when faced with the hustle and bustle of people and the busy market at the pier—not only Carrying his own great dream, this dream also contains the ideals of his father’s generation: they are the citizens of the British Empire, so they represent the powerful civilization of the advanced nation. Going to the colony means that they have to Take on more responsibilities and a more glorious mission-to educate those uncivilized barbarians, spread the seeds of civilization, and convey the will of God.
Regarding the education of young people, no government will tell its people that its own motherland is invading other people’s countries, occupying other people’s territories, and violently dividing up their civilization and culture that they have passed on from generation to generation. , Property and land. Barbaric aggression is often glorified as the responsibility of cultural dissemination and historical process. Therefore, generations of young people go overseas with great ideals and a great sense of mission, vowing to fulfill the same ideals as their ancestors. , The motherland's expectations of them and their own honor. Young people are the most fooled, and they are the easiest to be fooled—throwing them a false great promise, a fictitious title, and a false ideal, they will all rush forward. What will happen if you throw your head and sprinkle your blood? If your heart is there, your dream will be; if you see success or failure, life will be magnificent... Fatty Liu's song will always be the passionate madness of the young people's most passionate days.
John's father William C. Truscott (William C. Truscott) came; then, John also came. When they were equally indifferent, passionate, and energetic, they left their hometowns for the same ideals and came to this strange world, eager to teach this strange nation. The worries about nowhere to serve the country, the enthusiasm for glory, the eagerness to make contributions, and the enthusiasm for opening up the territory will drive them forward. Struggle for the sake of history, and work hard for the progress of human civilization... It is more or less like a vain fantasies, just a kind of self-deception of bystanders; if we are also caught in it, maybe we will be more mad and eager than them, because we have lost In addition to the height of the bystanders and the capital of the aftermath, there is more confusion in the center of the whirlpool. Otherwise, how did the German, Japanese and Italian youths on the battlefield of World War II be fooled out? After all, they are not fools, but passionate youths who are like us, have ideals and passion, and hope to serve the motherland.
Helping a nation, or enslaving a nation; the difference between the two is nothing but the nuance between the politicians' grand conversations on the table and the obscure activities under the table. Starting from setting foot on the land of Sarawak, John’s great ideal of youth is gradually disintegrating. What history has left to these overseas British officials is the status quo of the officialdom that is hard to return to officialdom and vices; John’s ideal is actually It's just a fallen horse doomed to be wiped out and torn apart.
This may be the only choice for this movie-a youth dream that is destined to be unfulfilled will eventually be replaced by another fulfilled youth dream, from the great ideal of serving the ancestors to the embrace of ordinary love dreams. No one likes to spend money to walk into a movie theater and watch a scene that makes you feel uncomfortable, and no one likes to spend money to buy a DVD to go home and watch a movie that makes you only depressed; movies have to leave us with emotions. There is a way out, so that we will not feel that kind of complete sorrow. Almost all movies will be somewhat complete, or hopeful. Although this choice is somewhat helpless and sad, the ending of this movie will always be complete, and it will not let all our hopes finally come to nothing.
Some people say that a man who learns a language only learns well when he is in bed. In my opinion, this is just a grand excuse that British officials came up with in order to dispel the endless darkness of the lonely long night-the sleeping dictionary, accompany the British officials to sleep, take care of his diet and daily life, and guide him to learn the local dialect . I don’t know if there is any theoretical basis or factual proof for this argument, but no matter who said it; in fact, a counterexample has already been cited in the movie-Noah Taylor (Noah Taylor) played the contradictor Neville Hippoly ( Neville Shipperly).
He appeared in the movie a little later than John, but he always stayed in Sarawak. John left Sarawak and returned to London to get married. After returning to Sarawak a year later, Neville never left. . Well, at least he has stayed in Sarawak for more than a year. He has always had a maternity dictionary, a local woman named Tipong; and he spent so long with his maternity dictionary, when John was talking to Tipong, he still couldn’t understand The dialogue between them. No reason, he just used Ty Pong as a tool for him to vent his animal desires. In addition to sex, he also beat her as a way of pleasure; Neville had no respect for Ty Pong, how could he learn anything from her. Perhaps as he himself said: Not everyone will fall in love with his own dictionary.
Of course, in any case, the malformed colonial product of the Maternity Dictionary is quite credible in the eyes of the locals. After all, many people have learned more or less the local dialect in this way. Thus, such a group of women came into being. They slept with the newly arrived British officials. If they met a man like Neville, they could only sigh ill-fated and endure silently.
A woman with better luck may meet a man like Henry (Henry) played by Bob Hoskins, who still feels more or less in love with her in his heart...but this kind of love All his feelings couldn't stand the test. Due to all kinds of pressure, he would eventually choose to return to the country to marry a rosy-faced woman of the same race, and perhaps forget her.
Jessica Alba's character Selima may be the only one, because it was not someone else but John that she met. He was righteous but had nowhere to serve the country, and he had nowhere to show his ideals. The frustration in his career made him completely thrown into the arms of Shalima. Everywhere he encountered a wall at work, he had nowhere to dodge, so he and Shalima The love between the two seems to be so soothing and smooth, it's natural to take it for granted.
A youth dream is shattered in helplessness. The youth will never despair about this, and will be replaced by another youth dream. And love is obviously much easier to realize than the dream of great achievement; especially young people. As long as day and night face each other, as long as the heart is kind, as long as the heart is compassionate and longing, love will inevitably happen; what's more, the Salima that John is facing is as beautiful and passionate as Jessica Alba, active and active. A woman with personality.
National estrangement, secular resistance, beliefs and beliefs; everything that opposes their love, in the heart of the young man, will eventually only force him to go further and further on the "road of no return". Because, the greater the resistance they encountered, in their opinion, it would only make their love greater. Perhaps, most of this sentiment with "lower nations" will be stifled by the so-called national sentiments, but in the end there will always be some leftover fruits that will eventually become true fruits.
Young people will have great dreams, such as establishing an aura of glory with their own name; youth will also have ordinary and small dreams, such as the imaginary and longing about love. When the road to the dream of great achievements and achievements began to be blocked by the obstacles and obstacles in reality, it seems that it has become a destined necessity to switch from a great dream to an ordinary dream-when a beautiful and enchanting village girl meets The passionate and ambitious young people, love comes so fast, it makes people unable to resist.
From the very beginning, he insisted on the idea of piety and integrity, and gradually surrendered; after being surrounded by layers of career, he gradually lost his feelings in the world. The emotion between John and Shalima has nothing to do with lust; they established the foundation of love from the beginning. In other words, this movie deliberately creates such a feeling for us-from being shocked when we first met, to an unexpected acquaintance, to the display of the heroine's character; the final love. In fact, it makes sense.
However, it is not easy to keep such a love. John naively thought that their love would receive good wishes, and Shalima knew that the only way out for this love was that they eloped together and left this place. Love across classes is not easy to maintain. When an official falls in love with his servant, such love cannot be recognized by the world. No matter what kind of pure emotion this love is, how sincere and touching.
Perhaps it is precisely because of all those barriers that cannot be broken; love is called a dream after all. The smooth sailing love is not enough to make people's heart move. We always prefer to listen to the kind of love full of tribulations, and do not like the kind of plain water stories. Meeting, acquaintance, respect, and love; and then forced to separate; each unites with others; then meets again... What kind of story will happen next may no longer be so important, and more importantly, they must be trapped by love, and they have temporarily Without each other, they love each other but cannot be together. Sometimes I think, maybe we always prefer to watch other people's tragedies, and don't like to see them too easy to get happiness; because of jealousy, we will see a kind of distorted happiness.
The love between Cecilia and John, the character of Emily Mortimer, does not have that kind of heart-shaking feeling for us; more reasons may be because of the smooth sailing. The plain feeling brought to us, coupled with the acquaintance and love of Salima and John, gave us a preconceived notion, which made us have an unfair subjective perception of Cecil’s love .
Putting aside John's feelings for them, the feelings of Cecil and Salimar with John actually represent two completely different love patterns. Cecil's affection for John is not weaker than Shalima. They are also willing to give up and sacrifice their love for John. When John was about to be sued by Henry, Shalima gave up her love in order to preserve John; and Cecil appeared to be deeper, she just did it for the integrity and happiness of John’s emotional world. A complete self-sacrifice.
Love is fulfillment, it is contentment completely and completely by looking at the other person's happiness; it is not about possessing the other person and reluctant to let go. The love between Salima and John is a kind of love between two sentiments; and the love between Cecil and John is a kind of self-sacrificing fulfillment. Cecil's love may be more worthy of sympathy, but in this movie, her love has become a resistance to another love and is unpopular, and the strength of the Henrys makes her love a disaster. Perhaps, let us look more objectively, we will have more sympathy and pity for Cecil.
After all, at the end of the movie, it was Shalima who got her happiness, but Cecil could only miss her husband alone by herself, and accomplish what he wanted to do but failed to do for her husband. Grow up their children and grow old lonely. However, perhaps few people would think for her from such a perspective-she not only made him perfect in his career, she even made self-sacrifice and made him perfect in love; what kind of one This kind of love is even deeper to match the sacrifice of West Asia.
In the eyes of many people, this movie does not have much to say; it is nothing more than a vulgar love story. In fact, this movie is quite accomplished in characterizing. If we pay more attention to each of its characters, we will find that this movie does not spend a lot of energy in this regard. Each character more or less carries a certain symbolic meaning.
Such as Neville. This is a person who is dissatisfied with the status quo and is a little bit shattered-taking pleasure in torturing others, including his own dictionary of the bedtimer Ti Pang, John, and Salima. He even wants to kill a baby who doesn't understand anything; Instigating discord, bloodthirsty, tyranny... His psychology has actually been completely distorted. He is enmity, cynical, and shameless. Although somewhat sad, he is the most unsympathetic character.
Such as Henry. What Henry represents is such a kind of person-humanity has not been completely annihilated, but there is a cowardly compromise in his character, who died under the system. Loving someone, but due to the so-called moral code of the world, so in the end he will not interact with each other and forget the rivers and lakes; his daughter lives by his side, but he only dared to pay attention to each other silently, not even daring to recognize each other; hope for two daughters They are all happy, but in the end they are all hurt...In fact, his mind is just fettered by his lack of bravery.
Take the role of Aggie, played by Brenda Blethyn. She is a very symbolic and tragic representative-she loves her husband deeply, but she is worried about losing him every day; she loves her daughter deeply, but she cannot accompany her as her daughter grows up; Fearing that her daughter would follow in her footsteps, she arranged for the marriage of John and Cecil. She also spared no effort in destroying the love between John and Shalima... However, everything seemed to be counterproductive in the end, and both the husband and daughter were willing to go. All she has to do to fulfill John's love is all her frustration.
Cecil is a frustrated angelic character. She accused her parents of leaving her when she was a child, that everyone's emotional choices were extremely reluctant and passive, and that John, a man who loved her only because he loved her, never forgot another woman in his heart... But she did. It guards the love between John and Shalima like an angel. Without her fulfillment, the story of John and Shalima might eventually become a helpless story like Henry and Agill. .
Shalima is an original clan version of Cinderella. Met a man like a prince, fell in love with him, was revered as a salvation god in another clan, and finally lived a happy life. Perhaps Shalima's love is the kind of love that everyone longs for.
John is such a happy young man. He has his youth dream, when the great dream meets obstacles; he finds another youth dream of his—love; and when his love is ruthlessly strangled, he finds another woman who loves him deeply , And this woman can help him fulfill his previous dream. The two youth dreams of young men, although they can't have both, but at least he always wanders back and forth between the two.
There is a woman who is happy with him and finally stays with him, there is a woman who loves him deeply and fulfills him in all aspects; when their love is no longer recognized by that society, they can still find a home , Find a primitive clan to accept them. John's happiness is more or less enviable, but not resentful; the scale of the film's grasp in this respect is amazing.
For Jessica Alba's perfect naked breasts and Emily Mortimer's uncontroversial breasts, this movie is also worth collecting. When the enchanting village girl meets passionate young people; the story told in this movie is actually a vulgar story that cannot be vulgar-Cinderella's clan version; a non-themed version of self-sacrificing love; a modern version of Xanadu; A glorified version of colonial occupation... But this is still an excellent movie.
No matter what others say, I still like this movie. The soothing rhythm, the beautiful depiction, the low-key ridicule, the ukiyo-e characterization, the jealous young man, I see the enchanting village girl who is so pitiful...
2009-06-20; Ji ugly cow Year Gengwu May Bingshen 28; 6:37 am.
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Note 1: Movie information.
■Title: "The Sleeping Dictionary"
■Translation : "The Sleeping Dictionary" , "Dictionary Lover"
■Director: Guy Jenkin
■Starring: Jessica Alba (Jessica Alba), Hugh Dancy (Hugh Dancy)
■ Genre: Love, Story, History
■Length: 109 min
■Origin: USA
■Language: English
■Color: Color
■Classification: USA:R
■Format: 35mm Block Widescreen System
■Mix: Dolby Digital Surround Sound
■Camera: Panavision Cameras and Lenses
■Filming format: 35 mm (Kodak)
■Printing format: 35 mm (Fuji)
■Production cost: $12,000,000
■Production company: Fine Line Features
■Distribution company: Argentina Video Home (AVH)
■Premiere date: January 31, 2003 Japan (Mexico)
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Note 2: One more sentence.
For some reason, this article may be the one I've written the most maddening recently. Perhaps it was because I wanted to write well; on the contrary, there were many obstacles in the process of writing, so I was quite depressed. When I finished writing the last paragraph above, I actually felt a sense of relief, alas. This movie may be one of my favorite movies recently; but the text is my worst one from my recent feelings.
Isn't it, because there are too high expectations; therefore, the written text does not meet that expectation, so I am somewhat disappointed.
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