The previously blurred world suddenly became clear, and the surprises continued—the slightly tired smile of the girl on the sightseeing ladder, the just-right lighting in the shoe area on the ground floor, the red-hot nose of the man who had just entered through the main entrance, the small hanging in the nearby counter. The decoration is crystal clear... The originally ambiguous mood suddenly became clear.
And those BBC classics that I watched recently, brought me exactly this feeling. For example, "North and South" - whether it is text or video, has been translated into "South and North", or this is a Chinese custom.
In 2000, the city map had not been bought by the Saskatchewan Power Supply Bureau. There, Mrs. Gaskell's original book was borrowed. It's very strange, just Baidu and Google, there is no online reading of any of her works. Charlotte Brontë and Jane Austen were all old acquaintances, but Elizabeth Gaskell was long ignored.
Different from the novel, the first encounter between the hero and heroine is very dramatic—the busy factory building, the gray-toned workers, the cotton wool fluttering in the air like snowflakes, their sight, across all, is silent and opposite. Immediately, however, Thornton beat up the workers who secretly smoked, and Margaret had a bad impression on him and argued against him.
Her father, originally a southern pastor, resigned from his post due to sectarian disputes and brought his family to the north to become Thornton's governess. At the same time, he taught some working-class students.
During the relatively lonely days, she met Bessy, a female worker suffering from lung disease, whose father Nicolas, a union leader, organized a strike. The idealistic Margaret, under the pen of the idealist author, became the "angel" who reconciled the contradictions and interests between Thornton and Nicolas. A person who prioritizes surplus value and a person who pursues justice and equality eventually become friends.
However, for readers or viewers like me, "the love between children and children" must be more important than "the contradictions in the initial stage of capitalism". Therefore, it should be said that the love development between Thornton and Margaret is more interesting.
Initially, they had a good impression of each other, but they were incompatible. Until one day, workers stormed into Thornton's factory, and then, to storm his home. She urged him to be like a man and face the crisis, but he actually listened to her advice and tried to appease the workers. The situation got out of control, and a rock was thrown, and Margaret greeted him, protecting Thornton with blood. Her noble temperament + strong and brave, completely conquered him. Once, his tough mother guided him out of the predicament. Now, he has met a woman who is the same as or better than his mother. How can he not love? !
However, she turned down his marriage proposal.
In fact, she is contradictory - disgust, respect, appreciation, mixed together, sticking together. The mother is critically ill, and her brother, who fled abroad due to a mutiny, has returned. At the station, Thornton saw her farewell intimately with the young man, and his heart ached, but when the evidence of a murder case was against her, he made a "cover up" move.
The mother died, the father also died. Naturally, Margaret was going back to London. Outside, the snow was blowing, he stood in the window, staring at the leaving carriage, and he called out from the bottom of his heart: "Look back! Look back at me!" The blue eyes gradually became dark and deep. He thought: he will lose her forever.
Thornton's factory, financial crisis, shutdown. Lonely, he went to Margaret's southern hometown and picked the remaining yellow flowers on the garden fence. On the way back, the train stopped at the small station where he was transferring, and he actually saw her coming. She directly but cautiously said that she should invest the money in his factory, which is more cost-effective than depositing it in the bank. Then, leave. He thought she was gone, but, in the reflection in the car window, he found that she appeared again with a suitcase.
They, will return to the north together...
4 episodes, 4 hours in total, only the soft and sweet kiss before the end. Warm tight, clean tight. I have never tasted this kind of taste in domestic literary and artistic works since "Ordinary World" and "Muslim's Funeral".
More and more chaos and pollution, more and more confusion and obsession, many people seem to have fallen into the "Silent Hill" that continues to expand. If it is possible to escape, is there anything else? So for North and South, please don't think about it thoughtfully or critically.
Here, beauty is pure and can stand the perspective of new glasses.
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