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A truer Chopin
Ottilie 2022-09-09 16:05:11
Chopin was ill, was in poor health, and could not stand a lot of stimulation. His whole person was feminine and melancholy, and he didn't like seeing the sun or even exercising. Hugh Grant's own temperament is very in line with Chopin. Compared with the high-level image of the revolutionary literary youth in "An Unforgettable Song", this Chopin is more realistic and entertaining. In fact, the degree of insensitivity of artists to politics is very worrying, so those who need to use the artist's reputation to label their political masters often deliberately exaggerate the so-called "ideological" of art works. In contrast, This lighthearted, lighthearted tale of artist romance is still pleasing to the eye. But there is one thing, Chopin doesn't like his piano pieces being adapted into orchestral music, but many pieces in this film, including fantasy improvisations, have been turned into orchestral versions. Although it's not bad, it goes against Chopin's music to some extent. original intention.
Extended Reading
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George Sand: Chopin, do you love me?
Frederic Chopin: God help me, I do. You are superb.
[They kiss passionately, but Chopin stops]
Frederic Chopin: No!
George Sand: [desperately] What is wrong now?
Frederic Chopin: I'm frightened.
George Sand: Of me?
Frederic Chopin: Certain acts are... uh, unseemly. They are unsuitable.
George Sand: Chopin... it's an act of love! It's the divine mystery itself!
Frederic Chopin: You must think I'm inexperienced, but I assure you, I was baptized... in the brothels of Paris, when I first arrived. But, um... I'm so ill... and I have been for such a long time, and my body is such a great disappointment to me, that I've already said goodbye to it, I'm... not really *in it* any more, I'm just... happier floating about in music. And if I should come back... inside this miserable collection of bones, then I... am afraid that it would probably collapse altogether. Forgive me. I'm ashamed.
George Sand: No, no. Forgive me. I'm a fraud, you know. "Divine mystery"? I never experienced that with anyone! Always had disastrous relationships. And I never manage to stay in love.
Frederic Chopin: What?
George Sand: I don't know. I want too much... I think. Except when I hear you play... and when I'm around you. Look... I simply want to be with you. The rest doesn't matter. Really. Do you think we could just be together, like this?
Frederic Chopin: Yes. Yes.
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Marie D'Agoult: He hasn't fallen in love with her, he has succumbed to her. Poor man was simply standing there - nobody warned him - and he was crushed under her wheels!