The weeds on the roadside are pleasant scenery in the eyes of travelers, but the weeds in the farmland are the object of hatred by the farmers, but no matter how unscrupulous the farmers, they can't stop them from continuing to take root in the coming year. The crops that have been carefully cared for will often become empty in natural disasters, but the wild grasses that have been wantonly killed stand upright through the cold winter.
Using green to describe life can't be more appropriate, no matter which color it matches, it adds a bright and dazzling brilliance. In my opinion, Scarlett is a girl like weeds. She is tenacious, hardworking and tenacious. She is not perfect and even not recognized by many people (including me), but it cannot be denied that you will marvel at such a girl! Her beauty and wisdom are amazing, but her unruly and repellent. Such a beauty is destined to leave a rich and colorful legend in the years.
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At the beginning, Scarlett, who was wearing a white tutu and a white hat, was amazed by the white house behind her. She walked into reality like a princess in a fairy tale, so pure and beautiful. But after only two minutes, her uncomfortable arrogance and vanity were exposed.
Some people are beautiful but don't know it. Scarlett is obviously not of this kind. She knows her beauty and is good at using her beauty to gain the vanity of being held by the stars. The girl’s vanity is understandable, but it is annoying to regard beauty as capital and think that a group of men can be used as marionettes.
He went to meet his father and learned the truth of the engagement. Under his father's scolding, he did not choose to confess. Instead, he followed his father's attitude and lied with contempt. In order to maintain her self-esteem, she can ignore the true voice in her heart.
In the mother's prayer, her heart was thinking about how to destroy the engagement. It can be seen from this that she has no faith, and everything is naturally based on her own needs. She believes in herself, more than in "God." The so-called moral ethics can never kidnap her, as long as there is time to exploit, She will grab it without hesitation.
In the Twelve Oaks Garden, facing Melanie's sincere love, she was bitter and mean. Because he confirmed the fact of the engagement, he began to show off his charm, and disregarded the faces of all the beauties, so as to prove his excellence. It is really stupid, she has lost a very important thing in life-friendship.
Hearing my own evaluation in the mouth of others, and under the stimulus of losing my sweetheart, I married someone I didn't love at all. He is extremely irresponsible to himself and others, naive and reckless.
When her husband died in a foreign country, she did not feel the slightest sorrow. Instead, she only wanted to enjoy a good time, party, and dance. It was more uncomfortable to not show her charm in front of the opposite sex than to kill her. She has no such qualities as kindness and empathy.
The person he loves is already a husband. His wife Melanie treats her sincerely, but she is stupid and dull, and she is not ashamed of her seduce her brother-in-law.
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Even though Scarlett is a beautiful and enchanting flower, these flaws make her doomed to be alone. Self-righteous, arrogant and arrogant, vain and cunning, selfish and mean... This is a girl spoiled by men. The boys around her are obsessed with her peerless appearance, but when they really understand the ugly inside under that beautiful face, will they still feel that they will be the one who can redeem her?
But she is not a woman who is hopelessly bad. Attaching importance to promises, and taking care of Melanie with all his heart when Ashley went to the battlefield, through all kinds of dangers, to ensure the safety of mother and child. She jumped into the water and hid under the bridge leading the horse, which was moving.
That stupid and silly maid made her angry several times, but when she finally fled, she didn't leave her behind.
She vowed to prevent her family from starving, so she tried her best, even if her sister hated it, even if she killed someone with a gun.
She discarded all the nobility left by her mother, discarded the traditional concepts and morals, and became a slave to money, laying the groundwork for future misfortunes.
Even if she persists in survival, she is still ahead of countless people. She does not make do, does not compromise, does not give up, and the glory of life is fully displayed in her body. This is what life is like, solipsism, upward, exclude dissidents, live, live well.
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The awakening of women's self-consciousness is inseparable from these mavericks who seem out of place. Women will instinctively resist rejection, and men will instinctively follow suit because of curiosity or other reasons. In this way, they become the center of the topic, being slandered, flattened, denied, and affirmed. They have led the aesthetics of a particular era, liberated certain repressed natures, women are no longer vassals of vases and men, but can live chic and calmly.
This is the real history, the real beauty. The beauties in the traditional Chinese sense are all sacrificial and have the truth, goodness and beauty recognized and respected by mankind. But in the final analysis, a woman with a perfect and weak image is just a way for men to shape women, and is the daydream most desired by male chauvinism. Women are defined, controlled, controlled, and sacrificed. This is the sorrow of women in the past thousands of years.
So, even though I don't agree with Scarlett, I like her strangely. Maybe I have seen too many women who are portrayed into beautiful images, but it is truly gratifying to see such a woman full of contradictions and shortcomings. What Scarlett showed in the movie is that every woman in her life has more or less, but most people are restrained by shame and dare not indulge their own emotions, especially with age. With growth, experience becomes a mask, let alone the depth of the heart.
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This may be why Melanie loves Scarlett so much. Because every woman subconsciously wants to live as happily as her, but is bound by many things and can't take that step at all. Although we are born free, things such as rules, laws, and a sense of identity entangle us all the time like a chain, and we cannot be overstepped or overstepped.
Many women in the movie have the unique "stupidity" of that era. Women's ultimate goal is to get married, and the days before marriage are dances and parties. The aunt who was about to faint casually, those malicious speculations that exchanged information with her eyes to search for contempt, blindly optimistic, and blindly happy. It may be the mediocrity of too many characters. Therefore, a woman who exudes intellectual charm like Melanie seems to stand out from the crowd.
There is also such a temperament, and Scarlett's mother. They represent the most distinctive characteristics of women of that era, and represent a cultural connotation. They are empathetic, compassionate, principled, and have a bottom line. They can not only enjoy the glory and prosperity, but also keep the poverty and chaotic times. They don’t greedy the past, and they don’t lose sight of the future. . They cannot rewrite history, nor can they change history, but they have achieved that no matter how the times change, they will not be ensnared for change.
It was Melanie’s kindness and tolerance that allowed the four people to spend a long time safely, but when she died, all the bonds became fragile, unable to withstand a little temptation and touch, and the once so strong love suddenly disappeared. It passed away with the wind, and I couldn't hold the slightest even with all my strength.
Reid said that Melanie was the kindest and perfect woman he had ever seen, and that was indeed the case. Her kindness was beyond ordinary people's imagination.
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When Ashley rejected Scarlett before getting engaged, he said: "You are beautiful and capricious, and you are not a suitable person for marriage. Marriage is not love. It requires understanding and tolerance of each other. And Melanie is the person who knows me best. ."
He could tell that he liked Scarlett in his eyes, but he rationally chose the one that suits him best. Scarlett is such a bright and beautiful girl not for him to spend a lifetime together, so he does not recognize Scarlett, it is better to say that he has no confidence in himself. He is not sure that he can keep Scarlett infatuated with him. He knows that Scarlett's love for him has a lot of psychedelic and conquering elements. When life shows boring fangs, how can he keep her?
But Scarlett didn't understand. Just like many people imagine that there is a very different relationship between the person they are in love with and the person they are actually with. Scarlett may be because Ashley is the only boy who has not been conquered by his own charm, or because he is used to the vulgarity of his father and black slaves, and yearns for such gentleness. In short, what she loves is the imaginary Ashley. If two people are really together, can she really get used to the unchanging boring by then? In essence, people of different types are combined because of love, and the shelf life will inevitably not be long. Because two people are typical representatives of different personalities, it is impossible to merge, even if it is a gentle Ashley, it is impossible to take off his arrogance and choose to bow his head and retreat. His education determined that the two of them were simply not suitable.
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Ashley knew that it was Melanie that suits her, and Rhett also knew that it was herself that suits Scarlett the most.
Ashley is suitable to be a son of a peaceful and stable era, so he can always maintain his nobility and elegance. The chaos of war took away his edge, but Melanie's gentleness and firmness have become the reason for him to continue. To be honest, Ashley has always had an unconscious decadence after returning from the battlefield. He was abandoned by the glory of the past and defeated by the current rules of survival, relying on a woman who loves him to maintain a decent life. He didn't even have the right to leave, he could only deal with the torment of his conscience and desire, and wasted his time.
And Rhett is the kind of freehand man who can live in any era, because he has the same vigorous vitality as Scarlett, and has more wisdom, mind, experience and experience than Scarlett, as well as male society. The pride and calmness brought about by position advantages. Scarlett can charm a group of men, Rhett can conquer a group of women, Scarlett’s beauty is aggressive, with unabashed hypocrisy and indifference, Rhett’s charm is that he can show only to any woman. Love each other. In contrast, Reid was better at it. He tempted this "bad woman" step by step into his trap until she fell in love with him deeply.
As a result of meeting his opponents, Rhett lost all his calmness and indifference. He became like all men. He no longer insisted on unmarriage, and could no longer accept Ashley to occupy Scarlett’s heart. He began to have Scarlett. The same spikes on the body tempted each other and hurt each other. The once proud and chic disappeared, pinning all the love on her daughter. The reason why Rhett loves Scarlett so deeply may be because he saw his shadow in her. Deep down in his heart, he hates himself, which he has mentioned several times in the film. He may wish to use his life to change Scarlett, just like salvation. And in such behavior, he also got inner peace.
But he was a bit more human than Scarlett. He respected prostitutes and chose to join in at the end of the war. Even if he died, he did not regret it. He saved Melanie and Ashley... He was also an imperfect person. Although he had a wealth of money, he did not regret it. Recognized by the family, he cannot be a polite gentleman, he can only use his wisdom to preserve his confidence and dignity. But they are the same again, despising the rules, despising the tradition, despising the human nature, and the prodigal temperament on their bodies has a fatal charm.
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Perhaps the old south that passed away with the wind really left nothing. The story of a piece of snow-white cotton about the happy manor life. You can only imagine how happy the people living before the war should be when you close your eyes. The sun, the grass, the cows and the jumping dogs, the laughter of the daughter's house in the wind, and the faint sweetness of the fruit. This seems to be a flowing country folk song, quiet and stable.
However, blind self-confidence in oneself eventually ruined all of this. In a war, a gentleman cannot have one enemy and one hundred, and despising the enemy will only result in a disastrous defeat. Just like what the film said: "Before the war started, we all fought for certain ideals and beliefs, but when the war showed its power, wounded, died, and ended, we no longer remember why we fought and continue. What is the meaning of fighting?" I think these words have exhausted the confusion and pain of ordinary people. Only a few people have benefited from the war. The game of politicians requires countless lives to fight, and the value of life becomes cheap, like a thin piece of paper, blow it away, and then fly away.
When watching a movie, it always feels a bit like a drama in certain scenes. The expressions of each character are infinitely far away from the present era, and they seem to be really people who have come out of oil paintings. But when I saw that the film was made in 1939, I couldn't help but admire it. There is no big production, no special effects, no big scenes, and the rich and detailed film skills of today, but there is no flaw in it. It really shows the charm of the movie itself-narration, and performance.
This reminds me of a series of movies of this genre I have seen. "Shawshank's Redemption", "Farewell My Concubine", "Little Shoes", "Schindler's List", "Sea Pianist", "Beautiful Mind"... When you are used to the so-called high-tech, it is these simplest things that move the most people.
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At the end of the film, the transformation of this character is expressed by the reality of Scarlett’s dream. This arrogant, selfish, indifferent, stubborn and sensitive woman finally understood that money should not be all pursuits. He suddenly realized that his love was always by his side, but he was bruised by his own ignorance and left without looking back. Taylor, this land is her favorite, the source of her strength, and the place where she is immortal. I believe she will restore her love at Taylor. After all, what is impossible for such a persistent girl?
Regarding the back of the film, it is actually somewhat similar to our "Dream of Red Mansions". After achieving amazing achievements, "Gone with the Wind" exhausted a large number of outstanding cast and crew of their talents, allowing them to reach the pinnacle like a fate and suffer for the rest of their lives. The actors in "A Dream of Red Mansions" have a similar fate. Scarlett’s actor, Vivien, felt that she had a fateful entanglement with herself when she saw this role. She perfectly interpreted this role and became an insurmountable classic. But in the end, he ended his short life with schizophrenia.
Success may not be enough to sum up everything. Some people’s lives stand at a higher level than "success." The pursuit of ideals transcends the triviality of life, so they can achieve impressive achievements.
The loneliness behind the splendor, and who to say.
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