1) Rimbaud never said "I love you"
"---Tell me if you love me?
---you know i'm very fond of you."
After he finished speaking, Rimbaud looked at Verlaine with a look on his face. The smile slowly turned into a serious expression
"---You love me?
---Yes.
---Put your hand on the table.
"
I had doubts before, thinking that Rimbaud and Verlaine just couldn't be separated from each other. His body and money, although he yearned for a wider soul, his insults to Verlaine made Verlaine without dignity...
But after being abandoned by Verlaine, he still received a letter and went to Spain to accompany him (here Verlaine Not only did I find Rimbaud, but also his wife again, I thought he was pitiful and disgusting, and loneliness triumphed over his love for Rimbaud's soul), after Verlaine was imprisoned, he seemed ruthless, but once he returned home, he was never again. Unable to bear, he howled with heartache about Verlaine's name, which was the first sentence he said when he got home. The endless sadness made him burst into inspiration. He recalled the past while writing poems, and the tears of sadness in the sun came from the clear water. The clean face slipped quietly in his eyes... That scene broke my heart, but I was relieved, because I was sure of Rimbaud's love for Verlaine... But why didn't he respond to Verlaine exactly?
2) Rimbaud asked Verlaine to put his hand on the table, and after lovingly stroking, he stabbed the knife into the palm of his hand...
This can't help but remind people of many TVB martial arts dramas where the heroine bites the hero hard, for the sake of It is to leave an eternal mark... But the dialogue in the front of the movie and Rimbaud's eyes make me feel that it is a punishment for infidelity to a lover. You say you love me, you say you love me when you are drunk, but You love my body, it's no different from your love for your wife, the wedding ring on your hand is so dazzling...
What do you think? What kind of mood did Rimbaud pierce?
At the end of the film, after Rimbaud's death, the figure of the handsome and talented young man appeared in front of the old Verlaine, still the same two glasses of absinthe, the same dialogue, the same will He put his hand on the table, but this time it was not a sharp bayonet, but a gentle kiss from a young man... It's really cruel... I feel bad... why can't we be together... If you say that you are stabbed, it means If you don't forgive, then the kiss means forgiveness...
3) There is also the previous scene, the first night Verlaine helped Rimbaud find a place to stay outside, Verlaine just went downstairs, Rimbaud climbed up the window, and put his body on his body like a carnival. His clothes were thrown downstairs one by one, like a little devil, Verlaine looked at him bewildered and fascinated. What is Rimbaud doing this for?
4) Rimbaud asked Verlaine twice in the film: love the body or love the soul, which one do you choose? Verlaine chose the same answer twice without hesitation: the body.
But Verlaine loves Rimbaud's soul, otherwise he would not have fought his wife and father-in-law for fear of Rimbaud's departure, or he would not have enjoyed Rimbaud's farce at the poetry meeting and laughed happily, otherwise he would not have won After his wife forgives, he betrays her again. If he just needs the body, his wife is enough.
5) At the reunion two years later, Verlaine converted to Catholicism because he found half his life wasted. He said to Rimbaud that I have completely forgiven you, but Rimbaud said
"---I didn't forgive you.
---What for
---for missing. "
missing
seems to have a pun here, because you missed, so I don't forgive you... Because I always miss you, so I don't forgive you, that is love is very tangled... Then why say You didn't forgive you because you missed it, do you mean I won't forgive you as long as I live? I don't forgive because I love you but you say you love my body more....
I like the ending very much, after that gentle kiss, the dream Rimbaud carried two white flags on his shoulders, fluttering in the wind, like two flags Wings, to the vast sea and the sun, that is his eternity.
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