"We are very close in the war. If there is no war, there will be war between us. In the battlefield of family life, we can't survive." In the film " In Hemingway & Gellhorn, Martha Gellhorn defines the marriage between her and Hemingway.
I am very pleased that the film does not bias the perspective towards Hemingway, who is more famous in the universal values, but almost half-and-half, which makes the practice of translating the title only as "Hemingway" seemingly nonsense. Martha Gelhorne, who has gone through a long life, is the first female war reporter and an excellent female writer. However, for a long time, the public's recognition of her is limited to Hemingway’s third wife. The film starts with the love and hatred of these two celebrities, and unfolds the ups and downs of the life of the couple on the battlefield. Even if only the fragments are intercepted, the image of Martha becomes full and three-dimensional from the flat and simple text introduction.
The film takes a flashback method of memories, reproducing the whole process of a relationship from acquaintance and love to separation and separation, just as Duras said, "You are born to fit my soul." Hemingway and Gailhorn are in The soul is very close. Of course, in the film, their physical fit is not inferior to that of the soul. They are all too similar in character, pursuit, and working state. The life mode is "Without a little madness, life is not worth living (" (From Kundera)” type, once these two people get along day and night, they are like living with a gunpowder keg. The restless aura of lack of stability always surrounds this marriage, and it will fall, which is only a matter of time and chance.
The characterization of the film seems to adopt the method of light and shadow of attributive adjectives, such as Hemingway's energetic, talented, wild and unruly, strong desire for control, and bloodthirsty violence. Gailhorn is sexy and charming on the outside, resolute and strong on the inside, strong in work desire, and very adventurous. The more thrilling the place, the more at ease it makes her feel at ease. Nicole Kidman played the coquettish and independent side of the role. Her persistent pursuit of self-ideal reminds me of Marina Abramović’s words: “There are all kinds of power in the world, and I don’t like the same thing. They all imply one person’s control over another. The only power that makes me happy should be autonomous energy."
Regrettably, there are many shortcomings left in the film: the duration is not short, the overall is a little dull, the rhythm is procrastinated, the plot is not well organized, and the connection is slightly abrupt. Among them, the drama in China during the war is even more compelling. People laugh and cry. The switch between black and white and color images in the film was originally the biggest highlight of the film, but in the end it lost its freshness due to the use of it too frequently. However, the combination of the documentary pictures about the concentration camps and the plot screens of the film is quite immediate, with Martha’s voice-over "I really hope that my personal experience will not affect my outlook on the world", which achieves a certain shaking effect. There are two human disasters that have affected Martha's worldview. One is the failure of the Spanish Civil War, and the other is seeing the piles of human corpses in the concentration camp.
The film ends with the white-haired Masha still carrying a simple suitcase to the scene of the war, which reminds me of the fact that the 81-year-old is still reporting the US invasion of Panama. If someone else wants to make a film that purely reproduces Martha's life, it is foreseeable that Hemingway will only occupy a very small part of it. Indeed, whether he has written 5 novels, 14 short stories, published two collections of short stories, and won the O. Henry Short Story Award for outstanding writer Martha; or reported on the Spanish Civil War, the Finnish War, World War II and other eight world wars. She went to the famous war. After her death, the press named her for the News Award. She was called "the world's greatest war correspondent" Martha; she is a unique Martha, she is not a month, and she does not need to rely on others to shine.
(Magazine draft)
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