Beauty and injury always seem to coexist, entangled with each other in a story. Similarly, no plot in the film is "only" beautiful. I think that if we are really willing to listen to and understand this movie, we can’t just watch what we want to see and deliberately ignore the director’s clear desire for us to see; nor should we be stubborn about the position of the main elements in the film. To make unreasonable judgments. Whether this film expresses the love of "beautifulness beyond the secular", I tend to hold a negative attitude. There are many reasons for this. Not only is it the most unavoidable morally, but it is also the director's very clear message to me in the film language: Katherine and Almasy's passionate love is based on a betrayal of marriage and friendship.
Many Chinese commentaries have this view: love is supreme, and other external criticisms and rules must give way in the face of true love. I think that this moral relativism point of view contradicts the details shown in the film. Katherine once clearly expressed and directly expressed: She loves her husband and feels uneasy and painful for her own infidelity.
It is undeniable that in terms of knowledge and taste, Almasy is closer to her than Katherine's husband; and the attraction between the two from the moment they meet is unobstructed for movie audiences; the stunning beauty of the desert scenery, The bizarre adventure of the storm, and such a romantic environment makes it hard to suspect that they are not a match made in heaven. But—regardless of what we viewers think of Katherine’s marriage (or even praying for its end)—at least Katherine cherishes that her painful struggle in an extramarital relationship is definitely not simply because external conditions do not allow her to be with Almasy and tortured. What she has is the complex emotions intertwined with regret and hardship from her own heart, as well as the fierce contradiction between morality and fun. In this regard, the scene at the outdoor cinema actually contains a lot of information. She looks restless and panic. And when she was about to turn her head away and accidentally bumped into the iron frame, it all showed that she had lost the calmness, unrestrainedness and calmness we had when we first saw her in the same calm and dignity as before. Having said that, Katherine is a very difficult role to play, because she is a very smart and elegant woman. Elegance does not allow her to express all her emotions on her face and words, and she is smart enough to be able to cleverly. Cover yourself. So although the emotions in her heart are rich and turbulent, and even the main driving force of the story of her and Almasy, we want to capture her thoughts, but we can only experience it from the occasional emotional outbursts and subtle changes in mood before and after. Not only the marriage, but also the feelings of her husband. This can be seen in one detail: when Almasy was on the pillow, after being injured in the plane crash and being placed in a cave, she always kept earnestly. Ask Jeff, her husband. Although it is out of guilt, it also shows that K is affectionate and righteous and kind-hearted. In the final analysis, the beauty of a woman lies in the two words "love and infatuation." Other qualities such as talent, agility and kindness are the icing on the cake. Without any care, and with only almasy and love in her eyes, she can't be regarded as a too beautiful woman, but closer to a cold-blooded black widow. The reason why K is so beautiful that moved me is precisely because she has not been numb in a dilemma of emotional vortex. Conscience and consciousness have been beating her in turn. She suffers for this. This kind of pain tells people that K has two kinds of heart. The loveliest nature-girl's pure passion, maternal kindness and kindness.
Even if I only look at the relationship between Katherine and Almasy, the best thing seems to be the time before they became lovers. They are cautious and full of cleverness, implicitly showing goodwill, and the anger that is tactful after being resisted, giving people a kind of innocence like first love. Like feeling. But after that, their relationship was constantly eroded by jealousy, narrow-mindedness, selfishness, and indulgence. The mutual stabbing at the banquet, the revengeful possession at Christmas, and the mixed feelings of love and hatred. I remember that someone once said incisively that love is a war, and it is difficult for people who have not experienced lust. Experience. The reckless love that flew over the desert was born with a certain destiny. It stabbed Jeff severely, fell heavily down Katherine, and burned Almasy's heart mercilessly. Arguing over who is right and who is wrong will never come to a conclusion. Every beautiful and weak person has been put on a heavy shackle, and K is tortured the most, perhaps because she is a woman.
Also under the interweaving of dreamlike beauty and netherworld cruelty, the two story clues are advancing separately (the asynchronous treatment of these two stories is really poetic, if the two sides are really made to "go together", then the meaning will be lost. ) Almasy used to be afraid of possessing and being possessed, and liked to wander freely; but after Katherine died, he committed suicide and pretended to have amnesia to prevent others from sharing and disturbing the memories of his love. He and his memories possessed each other. Trapped in a broken body. And Hana insists on staying alone in the abandoned monastery to take care of Almasy, largely because she only wants to stay alone "by herself". Not only is the sorrow of the loss of friends and relatives hard to recover for a while, but also because she is afraid of having trouble with others again. Is it true that he is cursed? Two people who want to be alone are in a dead bunker, but everything is quietly changing: the taste of plums mobilizes his degenerative perception, and the sound of Hana's hopscotch reminds him of the Arabian drums he has heard in the desert and that Katherine, who read the story, stepped forward boldly-let Hana read the same story, because although Hana needed his guidance to read the names of the people in the story, it was enough to help him start to find his lover in a more real sense. And traces;
Hana also started to meet Almasy's friends who are not only nursing friends, but also a quick-thinking and humorous, not just a poor patient with short memories. The arrival of the Sikh Indian Kip, the leader of the bomb disposal and demining team, and his white British subordinates completely ended their "reclusive life", and the two unexpectedly welcomed this secretly. Kip brought Hana a romantic and beautiful love, and became a good partner for Almasy's high-level humorous conversation. The scene where Hana confided to Almasy of his admiration for Kip was filled with the taste of family affection. It is easy to think of the feeling of Leon and Martilta sitting at the table and chatting in "This Killer Is Not So Cold". The two movies are indeed a bit similar: both are stories of two souls seeking shock, but they have recovered together.
If the content of a movie is only the protagonist's recollection, that is, a desperate person tells a story that has ended. What's the ending of such a story besides decay? I'm afraid I'm gonna gag before I finish speaking. But "The English Patient" is not a lifeless movie. It is full of life and has a tendency to grow stronger. At the end of the movie, Hana smiled at the little girl and then the camera pulled faster and faster, until it was scattered and beaten. The sun reached its peak.
In fact, Hana is a very important source of vitality. There is a bit of local temperament and the tenacious independence of a soldier. At the same time, there is no lack of her daughter's ingenuity. She once said half-self-ridingly that she is not well-educated; this is the same as Almasy's. The talented and talented people who read the book and learn from the past and the present, and the language with mystery just formed an interesting contrast. Hana peeled plums, cultivated a small vegetable garden, tried every means to drive away the troubled birds, sizzled and bathed in the spring water from the hose, moved and scattered the classic stairs... There is nothing exquisite here. Talent, but it tells the kind of beautiful and simple wisdom in her nature, which can comfort the anxious, confused and angry heart. In Beijing dialect, Hana may be regarded as a girl who doesn't know how to play. She still laughed and said funny jokes when Kip checked the bomb and was amused by herself; she would not be curious about what esoteric history Almasy told her. To learn, he just handed the flesh of the plum he had peeled to his mouth. After a short pause, Almasy opened his scar-covered lips and said: A plum that smells like plums. Almasy is such a patient: he burned most of his body's skin, and his internal organs were severely damaged. It might really resemble a piece of toasted bread, as he said. His ability to feel is already extremely weak and extremely unreliable. The natural fresh taste of plums lies in At this time it can be said to be a kind of favor, although small, enough to remind a person to live with the world.
As a result, Almasy discovered that not only did his memory not become obliterated by sharing with others, but Katherine in his mind became more and more vivid. When he gave Katherine's diary to Hana, he unreservedly invited her to visit his memories. At this moment, with his heart opened, he is no longer occupied by anything. Only then is he really ready to fly to where he loves. At the end of the film, the heaven described by K in her diary is a place of freedom without concealment and shame. The white dress that envelops K is blown high by the wind, like a pair of comforting wings, supporting her. The anxious and exhausted soul also comforted us.
And Kip has also been dispatched, and the two young people have to say goodbye. Facing the indefinite reunion again, Hana didn't evade, and didn't have the daunting or stupor when she lost her love the first two times. Having walked into Almasy's past, walked into Kip's present, and walked through this period of treatment without a doctor, she has enough courage and strength to support her by waving his hand and watching his back gradually fade away. At the same place, Hana quietly experienced the heartache and loss brought about by love, and when Almasy asked her to inject him an overdose of analgesics in order to die, she did not hold back the bitter cry, but after a short cry, she was giving Almasy the last thing Calm down while reading aloud before going to bed. After reading Katherine's diary, he saw that he had left silently. Hana and I smiled at the same time.
The idea of "The English Patient" can be described as far-reaching, and the compassion for life is by no means as simple as two love stories. The beauty of life is much richer than love. The film tells us that even wounded hearts, in a wounded era and wounded place, are supporting each other for self and mutual healing.
This is a movie that makes people smile after watching.
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