Useless is affectionate

Karl 2022-03-23 08:01:04

Home: The singer in the Stone Garden is very interesting. My friends who have seen this film all tell me bad things about it, especially the appearance of the male lead, which is said to be too ugly to watch. Of course, I understand that the imaging of first-class novels will end in failure in all likelihood—you see, Ang Duo has a scheming, not touching "Love in a Fallen City" or "Golden Lock", but an obscure late work "Lust, Caution" was carefully polished into a tool - Zhang Ailing in her heyday was untouchable. But when I thought about it, I thought again, "Love in the Time of Cholera" is the bottom line given by García Márquez. You must know that when I was fifteen years old, only the first sentence of "One Hundred Years of Solitude" shook me in the chair of Marquez. I'm so curious, as much as I'm curious about durians, so naturally, I have to pinch my nose to watch this movie. At the thirty-third minute, the actor who played the middle-aged male protagonist appeared. As soon as we met, I was surprised, I couldn't help hitting the pause button, and it was frozen in his close-up - God, isn't this Javier Bardem? It was him. The cold-blooded killer with mushroom head shape in "No Country For Old Men", this year's Oscar winner for Best Supporting Actor, an ugly man with a wide nose, a long middle and a big chin, Javier Bardem, no wonder my gang of eyes are waiting for the handsome guy to show up My friends are going to be shocked. At one point, I tried to comfort one of them, "Just treat him as Liu Qingyun from Spain," and she screamed, "Liu Qingyun is much prettier than him." No way. The content of the story can be summed up in one sentence - a man loves a woman for fifty-three years before he wants to share the bed with her, and his love will continue in his lifetime. Pure love is like a Martian story. And those of us shallow, ruthless, incorrigible appearanceists, of course, hope that the male lead is handsome and affectionate, preferably like a Korean drama. But honestly, if a man is handsome, where does he need to be so affectionate? What's more, don't you see that a man who is not handsome at all in reality can change his mind just as fast? The South America in the movie is very beautiful, and the imaginary heat, stuffiness, bright color and intensity all come out. What impresses me is the sharp and thin facial features of the heroine, who is like a frightened bird anytime and anywhere. In the first 40 minutes, the relationship between her and the male protagonist was really a typical example of unreliable love - after the two fell in love at first sight, they began to exchange letters, and even developed to the point of private appointment for life. That night, she was ignorant and enthusiastic, But still a little reserved, she agreed to his proposal, saying, "Okay, I will marry you, I was moved because I thought, the inescapable thing is love. In the film, the married heroine once said, "He is not a person, he is a shadow", which is really good. The five thunders of love can really make the soul go out of the body, and all those who suffer this disaster are just shadows in human form. Fortunately, the ending part of the film is very warm. At that time, he and she are both old people, each with an aging body. On the silent river cruise ship, in the faint sunset light, they lingered on the bed, enjoying the regretful tenderness of being 50 years late. The bow of the ship deliberately hung black and yellow flags and lied about cholera. Nothing could disturb them, not even time and death. However, let me make a nasty digression. If, I mean, if the male protagonist failed to inherit his uncle's inland shipping company, if he was ordinary and impoverished all his life, then he wouldn't have the chance to be the lover of the six hundred and twenty-three, and he might not be able to. Live longer than the heroine's husband, let alone marry his lover. So, even if we don't like it, we have to admit that in the real world where meatballs are always favored over roses, nothing is affectionate. 2008-4-6 I was moved because I thought, the inescapable thing is love. In the film, the married heroine once said, "He is not a person, he is a shadow", which is really good. The five thunders of love can really make the soul go out of the body, and all those who suffer this disaster are just shadows in human form. Fortunately, the ending part of the film is very warm. At that time, he and she are both old people, each with an aging body. On the silent river cruise ship, in the faint sunset light, they lingered on the bed, enjoying the regretful tenderness of being 50 years late. The bow of the ship deliberately hung black and yellow flags and lied about cholera. Nothing could disturb them, not even time and death. However, let me make a nasty digression. If, I mean, if the male protagonist failed to inherit his uncle's inland shipping company, if he was ordinary and impoverished all his life, then he wouldn't have the chance to be the lover of the six hundred and twenty-three, and he might not be able to. Live longer than the heroine's husband, let alone marry his lover. So, even if we don't like it, we have to admit that in the real world where meatballs are always favored over roses, nothing is affectionate. 2008-4-6

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  • Alysha 2022-03-30 09:01:11

    The so-called "there is a golden house in the book, there is a female face like jade in the book" is naturally justified. From ancient times to the present, the Chinese people's concept of class and love are almost all written in these two myths and legends. Unfortunately, Chinese poetry is not in this situation when it arrives in Latin America. Interestingly, in his works, Marquez highly praised Chinese poets, to be precise, Chinese philosophers. But obviously Western readers are not proud of the beauty of the East, they probably think that only God and the devil hide in the primitive forest of words. "Love" that begins with (ideal) letters ends with (real) cholera. From the perspective of Western modern medicine (historical science), the Chinese have no history. As long as we have a little experience of modern people's essays on dating and making friends, we will know that people's psychology of pursuing classical romantic love has never become a thing of the past. Most of the young men and women are still in "Love in the Time of Cholera", and have never gained cognitive freedom and liberation. Presumably, the original book contains both a clear understanding of phantom ghosts (history) and a critique of people's obsession with pursuing spiritual love or physical pleasure (spiritual split).

  • Darian 2022-03-30 09:01:11

    If a man loves a woman with all his heart, it is not by how many fragrant flowers he has wiped, but by whether he retains his sincere virginity only for the Iraqi. If love can give way to marriage, does the fifty-four-year wait prove its greatness and profligacy? (There is no imaginary emotional majesty, but the confusion of cholera and the times makes love lonely).

Love in the Time of Cholera quotes

  • Florentino Ariza: [Surprising her in her house] Fermina I have waited for this opportunity for 51 years, nine months and four days. That is... how long I have loved you from the first moment I cast eyes on you un... until now.

    Fermina Urbino: Florentino Ariza... get out of here! Get out!

    Fermina Urbino: [cut to Ariza reading a letter from Fermina while we hear her words:] Florentino Ariza, you are a dreadful, insensitive human being. How dare you enter my house on the day my beloved husband died and utter such monstrous, ridiculous sentiments? You have put me in a mortal rage, which has caused me to think about you without wanting to. Do you understand? I do not want to think about you. Stay out of my life.

  • Florentino Ariza: [closing scene, in bed together, but clothed] I love you, my crowned goddess. We're going to stay like this.

    Fermina Urbino: You can't mean it.

    Florentino Ariza: From the moment I was born, I have never said anything I did not mean.

    Fermina Urbino: [exhales, almost trembling] And how long do you... you think we can... stay like this?

    Fermina Urbino: Forever.

    Fermina Urbino: Forever?

    Florentino Ariza: [cut to view of the sun-lit boat anchored in the midst of the river] After 53 years, seven months and 11 days and night, my heart was at last fulfilled. And I discovered, to my joy, that it is life and not death that has no limits.