At the beginning of the movie, a woman in a luxurious dress stumbled across the forest, and finally fell on a dark, damp path. The film adopts the method of echoing from the beginning to the end, and from the beginning, it explained the ending of Madame Bovary-destroying and laying down the desolate emotional tone of the film. Then he talked to the audience about how Madame Bovary went to self-destruction step by step.
Freeze the frame from the moment of death, and then set the time forward to return to Emma's girlhood. She was educated as a lady in the monastery. She lost her mother since she was a child and married her father to Charles, a well-known country doctor. She thought she would have a happy married life, but everything went against her expectations: Dr. Charles is immersed in work and always remembers his vocation to save the dead and heal the wounded. He believes that he is a husband only when it is dark and a doctor at dawn. His life is the same. Only at the dinner table can he chat with his wife Emma. , But the only talk of the two people who lacked intersection in their daily lives was the patients Charles treated in the past day, and the conditions of the patients were often unappetizing. The lonely Emma can only kill time by playing the piano every day. At this time, the crafty businessman Le Wu opened a door for her with material: gorgeous clothing, gold candlesticks, exquisite carpets... Mrs. Leigh used these almost luxurious items to embellish her monotonous life. I believe that many girls will smile when I see this. No matter how many years have passed and how the times have changed, there is always a consistent indelible characteristic in human nature. The profligate Mrs. Bovary and the now bad mood "buy" The women who buy buy have surprising similarities. The more emptied the heart, the more eager to whitewash it with external beauty, such as "a life wrapped in a thick cloth, with poetry and literature in the belly" etc., there is no such thing. However, the women of the 19th century, the education they received and the things they could touch, made them develop the habit of thinking and fantasizing yearning for the corrupt life of the upper class, even the education of a pure-hearted monastery. , Also made Emma involuntarily produce resistance and disgust.
In addition to the mediocre Charles, there are two important male characters in the film, Li Ang and Marques. They have insights into Madame Bovary’s inner weakness and desire, greedy for her beauty, and use rhetoric to create a fiction for her. The beautiful phantom, that is the epitome of social life in Paris, where there is poetry and romance, where there is the interesting life she has always longed for. Li Ang is a handsome-faced secretary student. He claims to be bohemian, free, and travelling. He is a romantic poet. But when Madame Bovary asked for his help in debt, he was completely exposed and exposed himself to the world. In order to maintain his job position, his boss promised not to meet with Madame Bovary again. The same goes for Marquis Marquis. When the desperate Madame Bovary asked him for help, he sat indifferently in the gorgeous room and said indifferently: "I don't have the money you need here." Essentially There is no difference between Li Ang and Marquis and Charles. They are all vulgar egoists, and even Li Ang and Marquis are more hypocritical, using flashy appearances to cover up the secular nature, and Charles can at least honestly express that he does not like it. Music and opera.
In a sense, it was Charles, Leu, Li Ang, and Marques who contributed to Emma's suicide. Le Wu materially made Emma go to a dead end, while the other three slowly tortured and eventually defeated Emma completely. Charles makes Emma feel that marriage is nothing more than a life sentence for women, and Li Ang and Marques let Emma understand that the sincere feelings she once naively believed did not exist. So under the double blow of material and spirit, Madame Bovary collapsed completely and committed suicide by taking poison. More precisely, it was an unconscious homicide.
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