The female teacher went to his house on purpose and said to his family: Tell you that he is very talented and that he has the sensitivity of a poet. Hearing her words, his family was stunned, not happy at all, and his grandfather was even more furious, he cut down the tree where he engraved the verse, and moved his house. It's really hard to understand why all this is, maybe it is difficult for poets and writers to survive in such a state of life. And later his rough life confirmed this, but he never gave up his pursuit.
He really had the sensitivity of a poet since he was a child. Facing the flow of water and flowers, he would have feelings that ordinary people do not have. I like the long text narrative in the biopic very much. He said: My childhood was very special, extremely poor, and very free, spent in the wild, among people who were indifferent to me. The most unusual thing about my childhood was the arrangement of heaven, the rain running from the tiles, the echoes on the roofs like gunshots, and a large line of troops was passing through the woods, the water overflowing the barrels, making a loud noise, like drum music The concert, the water rushes, seeps uncontrollably. There seems to be some kind of magic that, if not controlled, will take everything away.
I haven't read his work, and I've never even heard of this man's existence. The American director Julian Chobell, who made the film, said: "It is an honor to be able to film the life of Cuban writer Renardo Arenas. Arenas is a great writer, he elevates suffering to beauty, and he has a great sense of humor. Spanish actor Javier Burden played Reynardo.
I don't know the history of Cuba, and the era in which I saw him live in the movie really didn't have any freedom at all. At the age of 20, he entered an essay competition in Havana, won a prize, and published his first novel, the only work he has published in Cuba. Later, his works were always conquered, confiscated and destroyed, but some foreign readers who liked him secretly brought his manuscripts abroad for publication.
When he first won the award, a person, probably a famous writer at the time, met him and said to him: People who engage in art are most afraid of being held back. They create beauty, beauty is the enemy, and artists are escaping from reality. , artists are all counter-revolutionaries, so you are a counter-revolutionary now. You know why, because the only realm that humans can't rule is beauty, so they want to imprison it. And here we are. The man also introduced five books to him for him to read, but only three were named in the movie: "Reminiscence of the Years Like Water", "The Metamorphosis" and "Sentimental Education". I don't know what the other two are. There was another who talked to him about his writing talent and said to him: You can't be too careful, it's the only property you can squander.
He was really ill-fated, his works were banned from publication, and he was thrown into prison many times because of his homosexuality, and he was tortured in prison. But the prisoners were very polite to him. Although he was thrown into prison for an unwarranted murder, they found out that he was a writer, and they all asked him to write letters for them and give him cigarettes as payment. It seems that knowledge and writing will be respected at any time and anywhere. In prison, he did not give up writing, he always wrote secretly and let others help him out. Because as writers, they are not silent when they are happy or when they are sad.
It's a nightmare, he said to himself, and I'm going to wake up from a nightmare. I don't know how he let him out later, probably because the officer liked him, I didn't understand. That guy was played by Johnny Depp, and the intro said they had multiple gay episodes, but I didn't see that, they all got deleted. It's just that he hugged Reynardo's head, and Reinaldo said that he was about to faint. The officer said, we can make you disappear, or we can make you free tomorrow, it's up to you. Then he seemed to say something against his heart, admitting that some of his previous actions were wrong, and he was probably released like that.
He later used his gay identity to leave Cuba because gays and mentally ill people could leave the country. He went to America with his friend Lazaro, but he found that it wasn't the free paradise he had dreamed of either. Later, he died of AIDS. On his deathbed, he presented Lazaro with a book. He said: "This book is the only witness that I am alive.
Looking out the window, he said: What a beautiful sky! I want to die with that day, at sea, face to the sky, all pain is just a dream. However, the soul, like a bird, flies freely. He said to Lazaro: I have never met a man more handsome and kind than you, never. He asked him to swear to him, he said he didn't want to wake up in the hospital, and asked him to promise him. Later, when he was in a coma, Zaharo put a plastic bag over his head to relieve him of all the pain. That scene, which seemed to last a long time, was very sad. Probably because you love him, you can do it and fulfill your promise to him. Is that also a kind of responsibility? But why is it so painful.
He said: "Death is bathed in moonlight and looks like a dazzling star, twinkling in the middle of the backyard. At the end of the film, there is a poem where he says repeatedly: I am that kid with a round face, dirty, and obviously unpleasant. I have always been the child who faced terror, corruption, filth, vulgarity and sin, and I was the child who was expelled. In 1990, at the age of 47, he left this world. Three years after his death, his book Before Nightfall was published.
Some people say this movie made me cry, but I didn't cry, but the last scene was really sad. Thinking of spring in Tibet, probably because there are often thoughts about life and death, I bought a book "The Journey of Life in the Last Twelve Days" after I came back. There was a sentence in it: She was lying in bed, looking like Snow White was waiting for her prince, and only stupid little dwarfs thought she was dead.
When I finished reading that book, I was very sad. I said: I am very sad now, thinking that people are greedy for life, and they will not leave when they are too old to enjoy life. What saddens me even more is that those who have not had time to enjoy the joy of life are forced to leave by accident or illness. What saddens me the most is that some beautiful lives, don't know if God is in jealousy or something else, making them suffer. I often feel indignant, sad, and feel that everything should not be like this. I have no faith, I don't believe in gods and gods, but I now wish there was a heaven. There, God should compensate them.
At this moment, I found "No Farewell" written after reading that book, and once again felt the pain at that time. When I saw it, I said: The books about death and farewell I read before told me how to say goodbye to life and this world. But this book made me suddenly feel that it is also telling me how to stay when the person I love leaves, how to say goodbye to the person who has passed away, accept their departure, and not be so helpless and painful . With thoughts and love, continue to live in nostalgia. When thinking of them, you can smile in tears instead of being knocked down by pain. This may also be the meaning of love and goodbye.
After so long, when I read these sentences again, my heart still hurts. I know that I can never say goodbye to the people I like and care about. Pain overwhelms everything and makes all poetry impossible to appreciate. I wish the world had more freedom and beauty, so that beauty would no longer be damaged, and innocent children would not be expelled. I wish people a long time.
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