Everyone's life has a regular side, so we need those occasional ESCAPEs to escape from real life. MELINDA and I often ESCAPE to Hangzhou. I often go on weekends in the off-season, early winter, early spring weekends, or on weekdays in the peak travel season. I don't like tourists, I like the small streets at the foot of the mountain. White walls, jet-black tiles, and green trees in the southern light rain. Some small restaurants, the kind that open the door, sit on the benches, facing the low mountain, and the drizzle pours down. Those small restaurants serve farm dishes and only have a few tables, and the staff will be very enthusiastic. For a Yankee like me, this feeling is very Jiangnan. If it is rainy, there will be no rain in the south of the Yangtze River.
No matter how far ESCAPE is, you can go to Guilin and Yangshuo. One year in May, I spent a week in Yangshuo, riding a tandem bicycle in a place with mountains and rivers, and on the country road, many local village women sold hats made of flowers. There is also a local rice noodle shop in Guilin. There are very authentic ones. The bowls in the restaurant are enamel, simple and nostalgic. You can eat it for three or five yuan. The best rice noodles in the world are put in a lot of hot sauce.
Yangshuo may be a good place to escape. It seems that there are some people who are tired of living in a big city and open a small restaurant there. There are Chinese and foreigners among those ESCAPE.
There are always limitations to our way of life. If you break this limitation, you will be limited by the next limitation, and so on, and one day you will feel that life itself is such a limitation. If you don't find your love in your limitations, to experience other beautiful moments in life quietly, you can only give up life. Perhaps, the way many artists end up is the result of this way of thinking, like Hemingway.
April in "Revolutionary Road" is also such a person. She was tired of her husband Frank making money in the company, her life as a housewife and a crappy actor. Her escape is to imagine going to Paris with Frank, she works, and Frank goes to rediscover what he loves to do. Frank loves April more than April loves him. Although Frank also felt that there was an uncomfortable dullness in his life, he really didn't know if going to Paris would completely change anything, although Paris was a romantic, free, idle and cheap place. However, Frank wants to save his love with April, and April claims that going to Paris will do the trick. Is that the road to revolution? If it is a young couple from Shanghai in the 1930s, they are going to Yan'an? Revolutionary Road? As the history books say, that is the road to revolution.
Really? Is Paris about love? There should be no city in the world that can save a love. Even if it is the love of the city, it is also a great coincidence of personal destiny and historical change. There are very few loves that make a city overturn, and there are probably no cities that make love turn around.
April is a woman who shouldn't be married. She doesn't like to be limited by nature, and marriage is the most lasting limitation. Many men may love her, she is beautiful, talented, passionate, temperamental, and has dreams. You and her can love each other, but it is unrealistic to stay with her for life. The only way she made herself feel alive was transformation, which she thought was the only way out of the fence. However, when he changed to Paris, Frank would still be Frank, and maybe he wouldn't be able to give her the kind of love that "if life was like the first time".
A person with "limited life" phobia like April should change love every three or five years, maybe the next love will take her to another city, a more romantic man. In short, her tragedy should have nothing to do with Frank. She may have realized the enduring limitations of her dislike of marriage before committing to marriage. She will be very uncomfortable in three or two years and will not know how to go to ESCAPE.
There are other ways of ESCAPE. I have two Taiwanese colleagues who are a couple, the wife is in Taiwan, and the husband is in Guangdong. There was a meeting to have breakfast together. I like to joke with this couple, very smooth, both true and false. They also joked that the separation was to save the marriage, or to keep it going. I thought it was a joke at the time. Later, I learned indirectly that it was true. Therefore, another common way of ESCAPE is to separate the two places.
Marriage should not be a barrier. April's nature has the mania of an artist, and that peaceful breakfast was the quietest time before the mania erupted. If you've ever experienced a summer storm, you know the eerily quiet before the storm. That smile-filled breakfast in April was that serenity. If God could mess with the mandarin ducks, she should be introduced to the Spanish painter Donkey. Male artists can let her mania be completely released, and she will not be suppressed to death.
So how do we choose our revolutionary path? It is said that one of the themes that the director wants to explore is whether it is possible to let a man and a woman not separate and let love be reborn.
Perhaps, the answer to the movie is no. However, most of the marriage and love in life go to ESCAPE: Yishan Street in the drizzle of Hangzhou. Again, Yangshuo or Paris.
This is already good.
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