Watched: The Movie About "Love in the Time of Cholera"

Clementine 2022-03-23 08:01:04

The film is based on Marquez's novel of the same name. Because I like this novel so much, it should stop me from going to the movies. However, I finally watched it.

Aresa's adolescence is strung together by one small event, one small segment of frequently changing compositional shots, with one ritual or another gathering in the middle. Narrating the past, like a scalpel, the movements are fast and clear, and there is no panic at all. But this scalpel is not for dissection, but to cut off small pieces of meat to show you, and say, how fresh. Thinking of this, my stomach suddenly hurts. Did the stewed beef brisket hurt your stomach yesterday? According to the secret recipe, I put a little vinegar, put some tea leaves, added more ingredients, and simmered for three hours. The stew was very rotten and delicious. Whatever you do, you need to enjoy it, and you don't have to spend time and effort.

I looked at the DVD player, and after only 33 minutes had passed, Aresa had already committed her life to Fermina. Fortunately, I have read the book. After all, the movie is different from the book, although both are watched. Having said that, I don't remember the details in the book, but the three characters are vague in appearance, but deep in image. It's a strange feeling for a blurry person to suddenly become clear in a movie screen. I don't really care whether the film is well adapted or not, because unconsciously, what is missing in the film, the feelings outside the text of the novel are automatically filled in in my mind. Mostly based on what we see on the surface, unless we understand it very well or observe it carefully, all we see is the shadow of a trance. What's more, compared to the novel, on the external level, the film is too delicate and romantic. This is called putting the cart before the horse. The roughness of the "reality" depicted in the novel is contrasted with emotional forbearance and a thousand twists and turns.

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Extended Reading
  • Colt 2022-03-23 09:03:36

    Infatuation for a lifetime, fuck for a lifetime.

  • Camryn 2022-03-24 09:03:53

    Although "Love in the Time of Cholera" isn't my favorite Garcia work, it's hard to see how it's adapted so clearly. The crazy and magical atmosphere of the South American continent has been looted, and the love of the world where fantasy and reality overlap has become a prisoner's dilemma: the biggest failure of the structuralists is that they always try to use cause and effect to explain love...

Love in the Time of Cholera quotes

  • Ricardo Lighthouse: Why are you so successful with women?

    Florentino Ariza: Um... because they see in me someone... guilty. In need of love. Someone who will not harm them. Hmmph. My heart has more rooms than a whore house, Ricardo.

    Ricardo Lighthouse: What number are you on now?

    Florentino Ariza: Prepare yourself for a shock. I'm on number 622.

    Ricardo Lighthouse: Impossible.

    Florentino Ariza: I speak the truth - 622.

  • 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.