On the two tombstones standing side by side at the end, the third brother Samuel died in 1915, and the heroine Susan died in 1925. The main plot line of the whole film is the love-hate entanglement between the three brothers and the heroine that has lasted for ten years.
Susan's character setting is that she has no parents and no mother. This body is wandering. First, it conforms to her inner lack of love and sensitive personality. Second, she serves the later plot. Without a home, she can only have constant ties with this new home. , even if her fiancé died on the battlefield, she remained on the farm.
Initially, she fell in love and engaged with her third brother, Samuel, and appeared in front of the family as her fiancee. Blind people can also see that the eldest brother Alfred fell in love with her at first sight, and her love at first sight with the male protagonist Tristan is a bit of a two-way run. This kind of "one thousand years at a glance" setting is also in line with the fatalism of the whole film. Susan and Samuel fell in love with Haval. Samuel is a good-looking young man full of ideals. He is polite, simple and romantic. It is conceivable that his love for Susan is full of pink bubbles. For Susan who lacks love, Samuel is always a lover. Select on top. If this is a realistic love based on a civilized society, then the relationship between Susan and Tristan is fate, a call from the wild.
I have always believed that people are always attracted to those who are thousands of miles away from you on the surface, but are extremely similar in core. Susan plays tennis and plays the piano. She is a lady from the civilized world. Tristan grew up on a farm. She rides horses, hunts, and rolls in mud. The two people with different appearances are both lonely and self-destructive, and have a certain tendency to self-destruct.
Once it comes to the deep level of personality, it is impossible to escape the original family. Susan understands well. Both of her parents died. You can imagine the days when she was surrounded by others since she was a child. As for the three brothers, it is worth discussing in detail. Why are the children who came out of the same family different? To put it simply, it is difficult to balance the love of parents in a multi-child family. From the fragments of the plot, it can be known that their mother, who did not love their father, left the farm when they were young and rarely came back to visit. The eldest, Alfred, is the oldest. He should have seen the sense of alienation between his parents very early, so he developed a flattering personality from a young age, and he wanted to maintain the family. The second child is often a child ignored by his mother. Tristan inherited his father's business and inherited his father's arrogant and brave side. Since he was a child, he wanted to be a hero and become a legend. After his mother left, he refused to mention her. The third child, Samuel, is the child that the mother really cares about. The plot shows that the mother is the first person to know his love affair with Susan. The mother and son are very close and grew up under the protection of the two brothers. Thus, the eldest is mature and sophisticated, the second is wild, and the third is idealistic.
In the original family, the extended intention of the three brothers' relationship with their father and mother is exactly in line with Americans' feelings for mothers - namely, the United Kingdom, and fathers - the North American continent. It can be seen from the scenes of the family discussing the war that the third child has the strongest sense of identity with his mother. He is the only one among the three brothers, and he is the only one who wants to protect the "British" mother who has never met; Mother”, the second child more identified with his father, the primitive Indian culture of the North American continent. As for the boss, he hoped that the two would reach reconciliation. His shot at the end of the film was also a reconciliation on the side of his father and brother.
Some people in the comments said that Tristan represented "freedom and adventure" in the American spirit of that era. According to my guess, the combination of three brothers is the complete expression of the author or director: Samuel represents the constant feelings of the United States for the European continent and the mother country, Tristan represents the historical reflection on the westward movement in the United States, while Alfred represents the contradictory side of the United States, reflection, reconciliation, rules, and contracts. Therefore, he takes on the responsibility of raising his brothers and children. .
In addition to the above speculation, there is also the real historical background shown in the film. The three brothers participated in the war. Samuel died of a cruel mixture of trench gas and barbed wire, and Tristan suffered from common traumatic stress reactions; prohibition began in 20 years. , which gave birth to violence and wealth, and became a reminder of the Indian girl Isabel.
After Isabel died, Tristan was jailed for assaulting a police officer. Susan went to visit. This was the last time they saw each other. In the future, what reason would she have to see him again?
Susan loves Tristan deeply. In the middle of the film, when Tristan can't get over his brother's death and embarks on a journey, Susan is abandoned again. The first time was the death of Samuel, and the second time was the separation of life and Tristan. There was no end to the parting, so she gave up after a long wait. The winter here is too cold, and she needs a lot of warmth, a love that is sure not to be abandoned again.
When Susan left with Alfred, did she think about the day Tristan would come back? She must have thought about it, but she couldn't think deeply, she could only focus on the eyes. When Tristan came back and stood in front of her, did she regret it? regret. Desperate? Totally desperate, because Tristan turned and married Indian girl Isabel. The names have been determined, and everyone has their destiny, so desperate that they can only live.
The flash marriage between Tristan and the Indian girl always reminds me of Mike and the Sicilian girl in "The Godfather". Because of their own "desperation", they gave up the girl from the secular civilization and chose to be with the girl in their blood. Girls who are more culturally compatible have chosen a more self-interested way of life, an easy mode of love. To fall in love with Susan and Kay, in reality, it is necessary to break through the shackles, and spiritually, it is necessary to exchange favors, and Indian girls and Sicilian girls are a blank sheet of paper. Once they are determined and absolutely surrendered, men can completely "be themselves".
"Susan and the Indian girl, who is Tristan's true love?" "Kay and the Sicilian girl, who is Mike's true love?" I think that behind these arguments are a one-sided cognition of human nature and a single understanding of love. As long as you have a little life experience and emotional experience, think back, every love is different, different people are attracting you, different traps are bewitching you, and different endings are stinging you. As long as your life is changing, your mood is changing, your needs are changing, and love will change. Anyway, I can't make a list of past lovers, I can list the first echelon at most.
The similarities between the two stories are that the Indian girl and the Sicilian girl both died, indirectly for their husbands, and died in happiness. Husbands rushed to the crown to avenge their wives and completed a new round of self-evolution. Leaving Susan and Kay behind, the past can't be traced back, and the future can't be expected.
After the death of the Indian girl Isabel, there is a parallel montage full of tension and fatalism: the outlaws ambushing the police, Tristan assassinates the opponent, the Indian magic stick draws a charm for the male protagonist's son, and the female protagonist goes upstairs in a salon to commit suicide.
Isabel was dead, and Susan was doomed. Isabel's death is a hope for her. Before that, the four people and their two families could maintain balance and self-denial and return to each other. Now, her lover is alone, and she will not be reconciled for the rest of her life; Isabel's death is even more for her. A kind of despair, seeing Tristan's grief after losing her love with her own eyes, she knew that death made a person irreplaceable, she also guessed that Tristan would take revenge, life and death were uncertain, she even expected that even if Tristan survived, will continue to wander. Alive, but never seeing that person again, or even a chance encounter at a garden party, is impossible.
If he shoots and dies, he will not have to witness the ending, but will always remain in his heart, and his soul will be placed on this land as part of the legend of autumn.
Finally, I want to say, Pete is handsome, and Pete with long hair is especially handsome.
Pitt's handsomeness has an aesthetic threshold, unlike Xiao Li in the peak of his appearance. He is a handsome man who knows no borders, no old friends, young and indistinguishable male and female aesthetics. Pitt is only suitable for some hormonal outbreaks, but it is highly compatible. , every three to five people want to revisit it, and they can't control it after it is over.
It's all nonsense, it's over handsome
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