Everything is like the past, only love lasts forever

Ludwig 2022-03-20 09:01:22

Olmash shoved the morphine into Hannah's eyes with trembling fingers, his eyes filled with determination. The cloud of war and the deep-seated hatred quietly dissipated at that moment, leaving only a man with a few liters of oxygen left in his lungs to follow the gesture of resolute love.
Years later, when I revisit this scene, I am still moved to tears.
Ma Lu in "Rhino in Love" said: "Meeting you is the best thing in my life." I think meeting Catherine is also the best thing in Olmash's life. Even in fact, the most beautiful thing anyone can encounter in life is love. Although Laomouzi is quite annoying, a sentence this guy said on a TV show many years ago touched me a little bit. He said:
Everything is like a fleeting moment, only love lasts forever.
Although his ". . "Father and Mother" was overdone, but this sentence is much better than his film. I don't know what happened between him and Gong Li, but I think the person who can say such a thing must have a soft place in his heart, although this person's cheekbones are exceptionally high and the mandible angle Extraordinarily big.. Although he can't reach the Pure Land of Elysium (refer to "The Goddess's Saint Seiya" in the March to Hades volume)
Well, continue to return to "The English Patient", director Mingla's North African desert is indeed a bit "Lawrence of Arabia" ", the two scenes in which Olmahi drove his lover (the corpse) across the desert in a turbine plane before and after the film were really majestic, which I think can surpass the aerial lyricism of "Out of Africa" ​​and "Pearl Harbor" Fragment. Of course, the reason why the film won my heart is more than that. More importantly, this love movie has a political color that cannot be concealed in essence, but this color does not belong to "corrupt" capitalism, let alone "" "Socialism with Chinese characteristics", but denies any existing political system, which just caters to my anarchist position.
In order to decipher the anarchist core in the film, we must first study the identity of the male protagonist Olmash. He calls himself "Count Olmash". When World War II broke out, in order to rescue his girlfriend who was injured in the plane crash, he came to the Allied camp alone. As a result, he was regarded as a "Fucking German" by the Allies. "English patient", the story takes place in Cairo and the Apennine Peninsula. In fact, Olmash does not belong to any country, or he belongs to the whole world. Of course, his love crosses national borders. Therefore, at the end of the film, the dying Catherine wrote in the anthology of Herodotus:

One day the map of this world will no longer be divided according to the will of the strong, and every free soul can

Ride freely on it... When Olmash stood up against the wind with Catherine's body in his arms, his soul had already followed his lover, and his body was just a walking corpse. Catherine's fable doesn't know when it will come true, but the broken Olmash can't see the day. However, when Hannah saw the smiling faces of her children and the bright sunshine, I was as empowered as she was.

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The English Patient quotes

  • Almásy: There is no God... but I hope someone looks after you.

    Madox: Just in case you're interested, it's called the suprasternal notch. Come and visit us in Dorset when all this nonsense is over.

    [Heads away but turns back]

    Madox: You'll never come to Dorset.

  • Almásy: What do you love?

    Katharine Clifton: What do I love?

    Almásy: Say everything.

    Katharine Clifton: Hm, let's see... Water. Fish in it. And hedgehogs; I love hedgehogs.

    Almásy: And what else?

    Katharine Clifton: Marmite - I'm addicted. And baths. But not with other people. Islands. Your handwriting. I could go on all day.

    Almásy: Go on all day.

    Katharine Clifton: My husband.

    Almásy: What do you hate most?

    Katharine Clifton: A lie. What do you hate most?

    Almásy: Ownership. Being owned. When you leave, you should forget me.

    [she adopts a look of disgust, pushes him gently away to get out of the tub, picks up her tattered dress and leaves]