(It doesn’t matter if it is foreign-loving or petty-bourgeois, anyway, the BBC is good if it is good, and foreign literature is good if it is good.)
There are really many movies about Jane Austen recently, from "Austen Book Club" to "Becoming Jane" .Austin, and then to "Austin's Choice." Austin wrote 6 books in his lifetime, but more than 200 years have passed, and the Austin fever has never diminished. It's really fun. Those who adored Austin were called: "Janeites". Although "Emma" is considered to be her most outstanding novel, "Pride and Prejudice" is more well-known. After all, Mr. Darcy and Pemberley Manor are always the prince and palace in the love fairy tale that girls yearn for.
I've never been the only believer in Austin. There is simply too much great work by great women writers. Such as the three Brontë sisters, Virginia. Woolf, Simone. Beauvoir, Marguerite. Duras, George. Sand... And their most famous books are often not the best. I also never considered Pride and Prejudice to be Austen's best book, preferring the lesser-read Persuasion. I recommend Persuasion as much as I would recommend Charlotte Bronte's Villette over Jane Eyre.
However, it is still very strange why in this impetuous era, people will pick up Austen's books again and read them in a sitting position? Will screenwriters for film and television still rummage through the boxes, digging out the few words about Austin's anecdotes scattered in the dust of history?
It turns out that this is often the case: a writer with a legendary life can arouse people's speculation and imagination more than her works. Just like Austin, she lived in her 40s, never married, and had some unspeakable ambiguous relationship with her own sister, but all her diaries and letters were burned by her sister. Then, a wise and beautiful female writer, who has many suitors in rumors, why did she hold the belief of celibacy? That's what makes people interested. So people began to search hard between the lines of her writings, because the heroines in her six books actually wrote about herself, or some aspect of herself. Lizzy's wit and wit, Catherine's innocence, Anne's tenacity, Emma's conceit, Marianne's enthusiasm, Fanny's sensitivity... And "Austin's Choice" is such a seductive imagination.
In this film, Jane Austen misses three men who could have changed her fate: harris, bridges and haden. Harris was rich, but gave up because she had no love; Bridges was realistic, but she had to shy away from family affection; and Haden, at a mature age surrounded by wisdom, encountered such "an indescribable creature, a medium Between humans and angels", she was truly moved. The actor Oliver Williams, who plays Austin, is really superb. She is so real and profound: Austen's fascination with haden pours out so distinctly from her flowing eyes that there is a vague tenderness in her arrogant gaze. Another time, when Haden showed love for her niece, she couldn't contain the jealousy in her eyes. It's a pity that Haden is destined to be his admirer, not the right man.
It turned out that Austen's choice was that she did not make any choice, and in the end fate left her alone and accompanied by writing. This reminds me of Emily Dickinson. similar fate. Women often have to cling to the sword of celibacy in order to be successful. Austin didn't make a choice for her own happiness, and fate compensated her with freedom. Writing freely, she said, is also a whole life.
It is said that England is a land of old girls. Not because British women don't understand love, but because they have no choice. Women in the Austen era had to have the courage to send out "encouraging" signals to the men they admired, so that gentlemen would have the courage to propose. Maybe they are afraid of being rejected, and once rejected, there is no chance of recovery, (excluding the kind of polite rejection that is easy to see out of shyness). Few people have the tolerance limit of Mr. Darcy, to tolerate the eloquent irony and ridicule of a woman of disparity in front of him, and to fall in love with it madly.
It seems that the tragedy of missing out with the Son of Heaven seems to be staged again and again in life, which is a regret that every woman can't bear. However, would Austin feel the same regret?
In the film, a passage from a French maid may be the best answer: We are still anxious in our choices, love will eventually pass away, wealth will eventually disappear, every woman, unmarried or married, will be full of regrets, so In your heroine, we have regained a youthful energy: falling in love, full of hope, as if we could choose again.
(But a fuss we make about of who to choose, and love still dies, and monety still vanishes. And every woman, spinser, wife, we do every woman as regret. So we read about your heroines, and fell young again, and full of hope, as if we can make that choice again.)
The book, the perfect story, is her, the best consolation for every female reader who makes a choice.
When they are young and arrogant, they think life has infinite possibilities; but as they get older, they will find that they have fewer and fewer choices. So recalling the past, those who did not turn back, those who regretted the past, have inadvertently become a turning point in the direction of their life. Did you really choose the right one? As Liu Xiaofeng asked: Two souls with similar natures are like two halves of an apple scattered in the world. What if they never meet?
Fortunately, in Austin's dream, there will be no such ending. They are like "fine carvings on two inches of ivory", so delicate that one will never stop, stare, think...
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