of Time How did time begin? Physicists have been arguing about this for hundreds of years, and there is still no conclusion. The birth of God has always attracted worldwide attention, and it has also given countless inspirations to artists. For example, Venus, who came to the world on a shell from the Aegean Sea, was born as a flawless woman, surrounded by flowers and praises, blessings and praises. Ordinary human beings are not so favored, they can only start life from a young curled up baby, no one can remember what they looked like when they were born, but we can still rely on video records or the memories of our parents, and when time is falling, the world is only a little bit. He sneezed unprepared, too late to see what was going on. The Egyptians pinned their desire for eternal life on the extension of time, so they had mummies. Although people have different religious beliefs, they all steal more possibilities for life from the hands of time. The unknown mystery can always burn people's great enthusiasm. Guessing, imagining, and predicting can always collide with beautiful mountains. Words and images have given us wings, which can travel through time and space, and put this ruthless and hard-to-capture fairy costume. Into the bag to play with. It has been more than 100 years since the British writer Welles first embarked on a thrilling journey through time and space, and he has not been able to keep up with the fraction of the scientists in the book who have crossed time and space; the war of time in The Chronicles of Narnia has just been The book hits the big screen; Alice's tears 70 years ago are still in the audience's hearts ("70 Years Back in Time"). The saga of time only turned the first page.
"Orlando" is also one of the works that challenge the law of time. Orlando completely forgot time and gender in Woolf's writings, and although he was constantly troubled, he was able to enjoy himself. A person can wipe it off in half an hour." Why limit it to the short one hundred years of a person's life? What Orlando pursues is not pure eternity, which means nothing to her. She doesn't care about her lifespan, and often thinks of death, but every death brings not the end of life, but more time. One of the inn, she was dizzy and thinking, looking at the beautiful scenery outside the window, indifferent as before, and then she woke up and continued to live. Even by the end of the novel, four hundred years later, Orlando is only thirty-six years old, and Woolf's explanation is "short and long, which alternate and dominate our unfortunate fools," she thought. Passing time in the middle, sometimes a hundred years fly by in an instant, and sometimes time stands still, which is as inexplicable as those complicated and trivial thoughts spreading to every corner of the universe. The explanation given in the 1992 film adaptation of the novel was that Queen Elizabeth gave her the luxurious mansion on the condition that Orlando's face would never be haggard and old. It is also satisfactory, but it makes people feel that her longevity is the empress's golden mouth. In fact, after all, explaining this supernatural phenomenon is not Woolf's original intention. In the past, she liked to experiment with the form of novels. This time, she returned to the traditional writing method and also sought breakthroughs in the story. According to her It is "a big joke", free and elegant like a casual dance with words. It's just a few times the leaves have sprung up, a few sunsets and the moon rises, a few times the seasons go back and forth, everything remains the same, and the years go by. From the fierce Elizabethan era to the early twentieth century when she had to submit to the spirit of the times, Orlando shook her toned and slender legs, from men's turkey trousers to popular women's skirts, from aristocratic teenagers to award-winning The poetess, the changes caused by time are natural and subtle, the monarchs have died one after another, the writers have been buried one after another, and her poems have gone from being spurned by others to winning awards. Condensing all this into one sentence seems to be an insult to her. good-natured irony. Of course, there was also the mansion that remained with her, as well as the servants and hounds in it. The mansion fell into a deep sleep when she left, and when she came back, knocking on the door by the door, the dust on her feet blew away the spell of time. The whole mansion came back to life.
Orlando doesn't believe in immortality, but feels that his soul will live on as "the red of the wainscoting and the green of the sofa" in the house. They all gradually belonged to history, and they were kept on the shelf and not allowed to be touched. The child sitting under the big oak tree was blurred, and the poems that were still in her pocket after all the hardships, once published, they did not belong to her. Time stretches, and Orlando's time stops, or moves on.
2. Wild geese fly by, lingering dreams for four hundred years
(1) Wild geese fly by
Orlando suffered a total of two blows: one was a love failure. The Russian princess Sasha, who made all sorts of extravagant metaphors flood his mind within three seconds, washed away his winter and melted his blood, and boarded the ship back to Moscow, where she put her full of love fantasies and elopement passions on the ship. Orlando was thrown into the torrent of rain and cursed in anger. As a result, Orlando was humiliated, lying in bed alone for six days and living a life of isolation; another time, self-esteem was humiliated. Nick Green, the poet he admired, who was not pretentious and mean-spirited, was invited to come, but he messed up the house all over the place for six weeks in a row. And completely rejected his article. The end is that Orlando burns all his works and refuses to deal with people again. Orlando, who was in pain, didn't bother about love anymore, but for poetry and writers, he couldn't get rid of blind worship and pursuit. Forehead, admiring the wisdom contained in this noble forehead. After finding out that he was deceived by the illusion, he split and debated with himself for a long time, who should he blame. In short, when she encounters poetry and books, she has a sense of persistence, and sometimes she is inevitably embarrassed. After becoming a woman, she is criticized by pretentious writers because of her gender. Appetite, but she still stubbornly and faithfully worships their works. She doesn't believe in gods and has no concept of religion, but she absolutely believes in writers. After she became a woman, she realized why she was toyed with by Sasha in the first place. Although the writing stopped due to many blows during the period, the song "Big Oak" was rubbed and repaired for more than 300 years. When there was no pen, I used berries and wine as ink. Publishing won the award. After 300 years, Nick Green, who derogated her back then (this person has super vitality and 80% relied on his thick skin), still praised this work. The works have been praised well, so Orlando is not sure whether the work is really good, or its time value doubles the value of the work. Talking about the popularity and awards after publication, she no longer felt that she was submissive and respectful to all published books three hundred years ago, nor did she feel that she could really be better than anyone in the family because of her works as she had expected. Everyone is famous in history. After all, fame is nothing but the noise of birds outside the window. Only "The Great Oak" - that time she was able to survive the death of the book, and she was able to escape from home many times. It was her childhood dream to curl up in her pocket and not be abandoned. She can get rid of the bitch named Ambition and the whore named Fame, but she can't escape the spell of the witch named Poetry. Only poetry can make her jot down unspeakable thoughts and thoughts, so that when she is full of energy, she will not poking around with a broken pen, but find out the little tail of the inspirational spirit.
Near the end, Orlando looks back on the past like the protagonists in most biographies. All kinds of teenagers, dukes, women, ladies, and women emerge one by one. There are countless Orlandos with different personalities, but only the most needed self is absent. free outside. The wild geese flew by, pulling back her childhood when she was obsessed with poetry at first, her "The Great Oak", which was the poetry she pursued in England, Persia, and Italy. She always cast a net behind to catch it, but still failed to catch it. Poetry is the poetry of the language she has been trying to record in the blanks of the page. At the end of the novel, Orlando exclaimed, "It's that goose! That wild goose...", and time freezes. At the end of the film, Orlando returns to the big oak tree, no longer yielding to fate, she crosses the camera and sees time. The song sung in the Elizabethan era became a sacred music in the mouth of an angel, taking to the skies with her unchanging dreams.
(2) Men and women
In 1927 , before the so-called sex reassignment surgery, Woolf waved a pen dipped in ink, and Orlando went from a man to a full-fledged woman, nothing changed except gender. . As for the process of change, it can only be described as dreamlike: after sleeping for seven days, the three goddesses of beauty and blessings appeared one after another, and the horns were equally famous. became a woman. The scene is full of absurd drama. In the movie, such a scene seems to be more difficult to grasp, and it is easy to change the tone of the movie if you are not careful, so the director uses a relatively low-key method, that is, Orlando, wearing beautiful curly hair, wakes up in a sacred light, Absorbed the dust of the moon, discarded the clothing that represented the past of men, and became a woman. The biggest advantage of writing is that it can be written into writing, without considering the practicality, so there is Orlando. When he was an ignorant teenager, he had "beautiful legs", "dignified shoulders", "pure and innocent, unhappy and unhappy". His face”, “eyes are like wet violets”, if it is only the beauty of youthful face, it is easy to say, you can always find beautiful men, but the most difficult to measure is the following “Blessed is the mother who bears him, because it is never necessary to trouble; and those who write about his life should rejoice even more, because without resorting to the means of novelists or poets, he will continue to make achievements, to gain glory, and to soar...until all this reaches the pinnacle of desire." What is difficult to achieve is that he has to have both the softness of a woman and the charm of both genders, which is ecstasy.
There is such a woman, who was born into one of the oldest families in Scotland. When she grew up, she easily entered the highest school in the UK to study. When she decided to start a drama career, she joined the most famous Royal Shakespeare Company. She not only played the pure and beautiful Ophelia in "Hamlet" but she was crazy in love, but also played the talented composer Mozart. When she began to decide to act in movies, her fledgling performances attracted much attention, and within a few years she frequently won international awards. At the beginning of this year, she won the Oscar with an inconspicuous role, easily squeezing out the powerful competitors, and scattered the unwillingness of talented women and beauties. I really don't know how many judges have treated her to her over the years. adoration and crush. And she, in the face of the glory that fell from the sky, looked like the way Orlando didn't know what was going on after she gained fame. As a writer, designer, and actress, she is also the inspirational muse of famous designer friends. They even design dolls with snow-white skin and tawny hair like hers. As a result, some aspects of Woolf, a seemingly irreproducible character, perhaps even the original Weta himself could not be perfectly reproduced (after all, the characters in the novel are exaggerated and embellished), were actually used by Tilda Swinton in Tilda Swinton. The gestures were projected on the screen. When the boundaries of gender are blurred, she is still an indelible and charming landscape. The Orlando she played squinted at the camera from time to time, or smiled triumphantly, or cursed with grief and indignation, or was told that the central thing was guilty and asked for help. The slender, sensitive, and fanciful Orlando drew closer With hundreds of years of distance between the screen and the audience, the pure and persistent eyes make people dare not look directly.
(3) A sense of humor
The novel's sense of humor comes from Woolf's happy state of mind and the imagination that extends from the uncoordinated story itself. Her irony, her kind ridicule to court nobles and literary writers, inadvertently revealed its essence. Such as Nick Green's rude words and deeds, paired with his beautiful words, how such a contrast made Orlando so stubborn that even his family dog bit him when he saw him (Wulff later wrote several times that poets are liars). The most ironic thing is that when he tells the anecdotes of Shakespeare, Ben Jonson and others, he makes Orlando "ecstatic", but when he himself becomes Nick Green's anecdotes, it is like a fan. He gave himself a heavy slap in the face, and the bystander, who had never been heartless, became the jumping clown that everyone talked about. In addition, Orlando's poet-like romantic and sentimental, sensitive temperament, kind and simple disposition also made some of his thoughts and practices full of comedy. After being hit hard by Nick Green, Orlando's own troubles were not easy to break out (it was the house where he invited the plague god), so he had to say "I don't want to deal with people anymore", and really just guarded His own hound and rose bushes were full of childishness.
Although Orlando has painful memories of being abandoned by the Russian princess, with his handsome appearance, youthful and light-hearted wealth and status, there are countless ladies who have fallen for him. He can be regarded as a picky and decisive representative. I just cut off my feelings, I don't know how much hatred I have left. However, he was only tortured by the infatuated female Grand Duke of Romania and traveled away from home. He finally became a woman and wanted to come to the Grand Duke, but he couldn't help her, but he never thought that he had disguised himself as a woman in order to approach her. This time, he just followed the Archduke's wishes, letting Orlando do his best, the Archduke was indomitable and swallowed even the insult. In the end, Orlando said to himself dejectedly, maybe the only way to get rid of this ghost is to marry him! When it comes to getting married, I don't know whether Orlando's marriage is legendary or funny. When she finally decided that she was going to be a bride to nature, a man fell off the horse, and in a few minutes they were engaged, and it only took three seconds to get married, the whole process was weird, sweet, Looking dizzy.
The film does its best to retain these humorous parts, and it also takes time to use the language of the camera to tell bad jokes. I remember that in the scene when Orlando was on an envoy to Turkey, when the king of Turkey had a drink with him, it was time for Orlando to say some compliments. One of them was to praise the vastness of the land here. The camera immediately zoomed out, and the audience would find that it was really there. It was vast, but it was a wasteland at all, and there was basically nothing but a few tents. Then, watching our ambassador stand there, the audience broke into a cold sweat for him.
Although the film could not reproduce Woolf's fantasy world with full-color, magnificent and perfect pictures due to technical limitations, the actor's excellent performance and spiritual faithfulness to the original make up for the regret. When the wild goose that haunted the dream for 400 years flew by again, I believe that Orlando would still stand on tiptoe and reach out to catch it, just like the hesitation and hard work she experienced in the past 400 years. The spirit of unremitting pursuit allowed her to overcome time and walk in the long river of time.
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