Once upon a time, there was a long open-air corridor on the fourth floor of my house, and I often leaned on the concrete rail of the corridor and looked at the road and pedestrians downstairs. One day, there was a pot of plants in the corridor, taller than me, with branches like trees and slender and long leaves. When the summer is approaching, it blooms, a bit like a peach blossom, larger than a peach blossom, pure white, five petals, and looks clear and bright.
I don't know why I can still remember what that flower looked like. That was more than 20 years ago, when I was a teenager and an ignorant teenager. I often imagined how big the world outside the earth was. In the dark void of the universe, I felt very lonely. Occasionally thinking of death, I would His whole body trembled, as if cold water was flowing in his veins.
Astrid said that everyone asked me why I did the beginning from the end, and the reason was simple, and it was only at the end that I understood what the beginning meant.
Years later, I watched that movie called "The White Oleander" and it wasn't my ending, so I still don't understand what the beginning meant.
In the movie, 15-year-old Astrid has an artist mother, Ingrid, who poisoned her lover who abandoned her. It's also a journey of growth... She seems to be carrying her mother's toxicity, she wants to get rid of it, and she is obsessed with it.
Ingrid poisoned her lover with oleander, she cut the branch of the oleander with its white flowers and slowly stirred the milk in the glass. The color of milk is like the color of petals. The leaves on the branches are green.
The actress who plays Ingrid is Michelle Pfeiffer, I don't think she's pretty, but, like the white oleander in the movie, you may ignore the past at first glance, and when you can't help but look back, the beauty is breathtaking . This movie also has a name, poison is beautiful. According to the botanical dictionary, oleander is rich in a variety of cardiac glycosides, which are highly toxic throughout the body. 3 grams of dry oleander can cause death. The main symptoms are digitalis poisoning: 1. Nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea. 2. Heart rhythm disorder, slow and irregular heartbeat, and finally ventricular fibrillation, syncope, convulsions, coma, or tachycardia, ectopic heart rhythm, and death from circulatory failure.
White oleander grows everywhere, even in a polluted environment, carbon dioxide, chlorine, do not care. The doctor said why these flowers are poisonous because they don't want others to raise them. Ingrid said, be yourself and don't be changed by others.
Ingrid had long blond hair, a thin face, high cheekbones, thin lips, and a pointed chin, with danger in her eyes. She first appears on the patio late at night, following Astrid through the promenade, the corner of the stairs, and the sparse shadows of oleander leaves. Ingrid sat on the stone platform by the terrace, with the starry city in the distance, the hot desert wind blowing her long hair. It's the best place to blow dry, she said.
Ingrid was last seen in court, in the middle of the two bailiffs, her eyes swept over Astrid, she was wearing a plain white shirt, the first button was loose, and there was nothing in her expression. No, but dragged your eyes into it involuntarily. Astrid ran to the window and watched her mother in white walking towards the prison van, like a white oleander heading towards the wilderness that belonged to her.
I absolutely love women in pure white shirts. I think white shirts represent simplicity, an attitude of persistence and rejection. The last time was in a movie called "Flying Love Story", a female driver driving a double-decker bus, wearing a white shirt, the first button was not fastened. Late at night, she went outside to blow air, smoke, and talk to the only passenger. Her voice was light, talking about the past and the present, as if talking about the smoke blown away by the wind. However, she is not as dangerous as Ingrid.
Astrid recalled her mother, "I don't know how to describe the feeling of being with such a dangerous person. That was the last time I felt safe." I think she was actually obsessed with her mother, even if she always seemed to break free. attitude. And for me, liking is liking, such as the red top, the peacock gall, the seven-hearted begonia, and the woman in the pure white shirt, I like the feeling that danger is coming, I like the taste of poisonous beauty, and I don't care about perishing, that's me The security of knowing -
what was the best day of your life?
TODAY.
As Astrid said, "...even so, I still feel like I'm thinking of her and want to try the blowing sensation, which is a secret need, like a song I can't help but hum, or Like someone you'll never get."
I imagined the woman in the plain white shirt, and the white oleanders that popped anywhere. "Never give the night to a man," she said, never apologizing, never explaining.
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