This film is adapted from the early novel "vile bodies" by Evelyn Waugh who wrote "After the Wind and Rain". "The Great Gatsby" is a work in the same realm, and the director of the film is Stephen Frey, a British national treasure actor and known as Uncle Fried. When I watched this movie, my biggest feeling was: the film and television circle of the rotten country is really small, there are familiar faces everywhere, and the uncles when they were young are all flowers... A beautiful giant who is only 23 years old It looks like a 16-year-old in it, and the little eyes are tender, and it can come out of water...
Cough, go far, come back and talk about how this movie attracted me with its bullshit plot. The whole film revolves around the issue of whether the protagonist Adam and her fiancee Nina get married. Of course, they have no obvious relationship problems. Whether or not they can get married depends entirely on whether Adam has money or not. Nina is a high-class socialite, and Adam is a poor ghost writer, so the dramatic plot unfolds:
Adam writes a book, the copyright is sold, he has money, and he can get married;
Adam's book is seized by customs and owed Publisher's money, no money, can't get married;
Adam gambled with a silly white sweet upstart, won, got rich, and got married again;
Adam lent money to an alcoholic ensign to bet on horses, the ensign disappeared , I have no money, and I can't get married again;
Adam went to Nina's father to borrow money, and the future husband agreed, and he was rich, and he could get married again;
Adam found that the old husband had dementia, the check was wrong, and he had no money. , and can’t get married again;
Adam learns from a good friend (Yi Mei) and goes to the newspaper to write about the scandals of the upper class. When he has money, he can get married;
Adam made a mistake and was fired, and he has no money and can’t get married;
Adam met Drunken lieutenant, the ensign said that he won the horse betting,
and he had to pay him back the money. If he had money, he could get married; Adam went to the ensign, but the second lieutenant was drunk again. ;
Adam found his wife with rich handsome ran;
Adam to join the army met lieutenant, second lieutenant to give him complete a check on a stray bullet bombers dead money;
Adam back the money to the business ruined intend to leave the country rich handsome in the war, In exchange for a wife, no money, married.
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there may be some omissions, it's been a long time, and the version I watched has no subtitles, so I can only rely on my brain to make up the whole process... The story revolves around Adam's "do you have any money" and "can you marry Nina?" It unfolded, but in fact Nina is a relatively passive character in the movie. At the same time, she wrote about the troubles and changes of a bunch of celebrities that they befriended, which is quite a taste of youth, pain, literature mixed with comedy...
Adam first wrote it The book is "Glorious Years", from his point of view, high society is brilliant and enviable, so his stories are full of glitz, but in fact high society is still drugs, sex, lies, power , the gathering place of money, Adam understood in this process of getting married and not getting married with money and no money, and got away, while the others were foolish and sinking, and in the end, they were separated from each other.
Finally, let's talk about Yimei's character, he is a poor nobleman, he used to be a lord, but now he is reduced to being a paparazzi reporter for the tabloids, and he writes about high-society news all day long, which makes everyone shout and beat him. Later, he wanted Adam to help him. Entering a reception held by a lady, but Adam couldn't help, he had to sneak in and was caught and insulted. Before leaving, he told those people to look good. After returning, there was a famous rotating scene, On the one hand, he described the scene of the reception with extremely filthy words, like depicting all the people as monkeys dancing in lust, and on the other was the filming of the actual reception, which was blurred. The lights, accompanied by the loud music, the camera kept turning in circles, faster and faster, until all the figures became blurred.
After that, he turned on the gas, committed suicide, and the camera swept the pictures of him when he was young on the wall (the famous photo of a beautiful woman reading a book on the lawn, I was first attracted to this movie), and the glory days of his youth were no longer there.
In fact, in my opinion, he is the one who sees the most clearly among all. Although the means are very despicable, the so-called glorious years of high society are not what he described in his words:
A depraved, ignorant, boring, hypocritical and worthless life.
Never before in high society has ever seen a scene like this, the coquettish young people and the survivors of the old society forge an anxious alliance, maybe it is time to define this era of indulging in luxury, which is called A twentieth century of anxiety, fear, and hilarity.
Readers, be glad that you have nothing to do with this society. Its charm is an illusion, its prosperity is a trap, its music is a scream of fear, and they spin faster and faster, making themselves nauseous every time they turn, seeing them spin faster and faster, I feel more and more sick and ashamed.
Gone.
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