we are not together

Pearl 2022-03-12 08:01:02

How many people can finally be with their loved ones? And what ruined our great love?
It's a moving film about two teens struggling with love and lust who eventually part ways because of the times (the 20s, pre-Depression) and their overwhelming and overbearing parents.
In order to please their parents and live up to the moral standards of the times, the boy chose to give up, and the girl had a nervous breakdown due to the unbearable pressure, and was sent to a mental hospital for convalescence, which eventually tormented them and changed them forever. So will they ever be able to feel true love again? At the end, the two meet again, both of them have settled for less, and both of them understand that time has changed everything. At the end, the girl remembered Wordsworth's poem again, and she finally understood the meaning of "splendor in the grass" that she couldn't understand in class years ago.
We are not together, you say you will be happy if you don't think about happiness, I ask: Are you happy now? , you said: not really, but it is close enough.

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Extended Reading
  • Madisyn 2022-03-23 09:03:28

    The background of the times is placed in the period of the American economic crisis. One side is the shattering of the collapsed American dream, and the other side is the demise of personal idealism and love. However, unlike "The Great Gatsby", which ends with nothingness after complete disillusionment, "End of the World" rebuilt a pragmatic hope on the ruins (after the passion disappears, life returns to dullness, and ideals give way to reality), "Though nothing can bring back the hour of slpendor in the grass, of glory in the flower, we will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind."

  • Wilfrid 2022-03-15 09:01:11

    The title is taken from a poem by William Wordsworth, but the tone of the story is quite different from the poetic title. The hero and heroine from a conservative town in the south are under the pressure of feudal ethics (expressed as a strong Christian atmosphere) and their parents, and gradually fall into the mire of sexual repression, unable to extricate themselves. Coupled with the innocent feelings of boys and girls when the two fell in love, it is full of tragic meaning. . I originally thought it was a simple story of beating mandarin ducks with a stick. I didn't expect that the male protagonist would lose his bright future and return to the small town to become a farmer, while the female protagonist went crazy and was sent to a lunatic asylum until the end and barely recovered. , This outrageous story goes only because the puberty is not shot, so what should the mother-fetus single dogs feel. Judging from the story, Kazan is obviously opposed or even ridiculed to the conservative folk customs of the southern town. Not only did he join the male protagonist and sister as an outcast role to challenge directly, but also directly exposed the hypocritical guard of the male protagonist's father. The image of a Taoist priest (not allowing his son to fall in love normally, but taking him to prostitutes). Natalie Wood is beautiful, but her insane performance is far worse than Vivien Leigh in A Streetcar Named Desire

Splendor in the Grass quotes

  • Miss Metcalf: Now, what do you think the poet means by this line ? Deanie Loomis.

    Wilma Dean: I'm sorry, Miss Metcalf. I... I didn't hear the question.

    Miss Metcalf: Well, I know it's Spring, Deanie, but I must ask you to pay more attention. I quoted some lines from Wordsworth's Ode on Intimations of Immortality, Deanie. Did you hear them ?

    Wilma Dean: I'm afraid not Miss Metcalf.

    Miss Metcalf: Well, then I must ask to turn your text to page 380...

    Wilma Dean: Yes.

    Miss Metcalf: You read the lines to me. Stand, please.

    Wilma Dean: "Though nothing can bring back the hour/Of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower/We will grieve not. Rather find/Strengh in what remains behind..."

    Miss Metcalf: Now, perhaps you can tell me exactly what the poet means by such expressions as "Splendor in the grass" and "Glory in the Flower".

    Wilma Dean: Well, I think it have some...

    Miss Metcalf: Yes ?

    Wilma Dean: Well, when we're young, we looks at thing very idealistically I guess. And I think Woodsworth means that... that when we're grow-up... then, we have to... forget the ideals of youth... and find strength... Miss Metcalf, may I please be...?

  • Bud: Hi, sweetheart.

    Wilma Dean: I suppose you wish I was more like Juanita Howard, don't you ?

    Bud: What ?

    Wilma Dean: I saw the way you were looking at her. I think she's disgraceful. Well, she stand there waiting for the...

    Bud: Now wait a minute, wait a minute. There is no reason in the world why I shouldn't see her.

    Wilma Dean: Then why were you speaking to her...

    Bud: What ? You think I'm not suppose to notice her ? It's that what you expect out of me ? I'm not even suppose to know girls like that exist, eh ?

    Wilma Dean: Bud, I'm sorry. I'm sorry Bud, honest.

    Bud: All right, you're sorry.

    Wilma Dean: Oh Bud, please don't be mad !

    Bud: I'm not mad, Deanie.

    Wilma Dean: Oh Bud, Bud, I just can't stand when you're mad at me...

    Bud: Oh, Deanie I don't know the matter with me lately. I always lose my temper. You're the only girl in the world for me, don't you know that, Deanie ?