Li Yinhe said that the marriage relationship will eventually end. Real data is also constantly clamoring for the rapid arrival of the era of unmarried. A large number of young people pretending to be Buddhist raised their arms and shouted, "I am selfish to the end, I am happy, so I am here." But after the fun is over, that loneliness, who can comfort. Recently, "Colette," a biopic based on a "true story," seems to have torn the veil of so-called open marriages.
"Colette" is adapted from the life experience of French national treasure writer, Sidney Gabriel Colette. Born in 1873, Colette made her debut around 1900. After marrying Willie, a male writer more than ten years older than him, he started acting as her husband's shadow writer by accident.
Relying on his own life experience, Colette wrote the popular novel "Crotina". After Willie's revision, it was published directly in Willie's name. The whole Paris was a sensation, and young female readers became novels for the first time. main buyers. Willie made a lot of money for it, but he was always wary of his wife's identity as a real writer.
In order to strike while the iron is hot, Willie, who is very business-minded, adapted the novel into a play and made another profit. To this end, he forced Colette to continue writing, and would not allow Colette to leave the study unless he wrote four hours a day.
Three sequels were subsequently published, making the couple the most dazzling star figures in Paris. Everyone was talking about "Crotina", everyone wanted to be "Crotina", and "Crotina" became the most prestigious cultural symbol in France at that time. In order to stimulate Colette's creative passion and collect writing materials, Willie acquiesced to his wife Colette's bisexual orientation. At one point they even took turns sleeping with the wives of the American tycoon.
After the incident, Willie apologized and asked Colette to include their experiences in a new "Crotina" novel. The relationship between the two has always been maintained by novels, but because of the signature, Colette began to refuse to write and turned to pantomime. She disregarded public opinion and denounced her homosexuality with the same-sex Countess Missy, and boldly performed various current pantomimes on the stage, with naked bodies and exaggerated body language movements, which made many conservatives ashamed.
Because Colette stopped writing, the gambler Willie soon fell into economic crisis, and he sold the copyright of Crotina, which completely ruined their marriage. Although the two had separated in 1903, it was not until 1910 that the two officially divorced. Colette is quite criticized. There were three marriages in the legendary life. The film "Colette" focuses on the ins and outs of his first marriage with Willie. From love to death, how Colette established step by step She took up her identity as a female writer, fought for her sexual orientation, and completely regained control of her body and mind in that era of male dominance.
"Colette" is a film about the rise of female consciousness.
A traditional country woman with only husband Willie in her life. After seeing Willie lingering in brothels and exhausting his family wealth, he began to understand the importance of economic power to women. The moment she started writing, her life began to turn. Indeed, Willie acted as her writing mentor at the beginning, which was quite successful in stimulating and guiding Colette's writing skills, and also created maximum business value for Colette and herself. However, Willy, who had exhausted his talents, was a gambler, and in the end, he foolishly ruined the most influential cultural brand created by the two of them with a mere 5,000 francs.
You know, 4 novels, in Paris alone, have sold at least 100,000 copies, each of which can bring them about 3 francs of income. As long as Colette can write it, someone will buy it. But the failure of the marriage, Willie's behavior, so that the two eventually parted ways, and mutual hatred. In the film, Willie tacitly agrees that his wife Colette shares the bed with other women for profit reasons. He has only one request, that the other party cannot be a man. Therefore, when the extremely neutral countess Missy appeared in Colette's life, he was very repulsive, but because of his identity, for the sake of profit, he could only turn a blind eye.
The mutual indulgence of the two has formed a so-called open marriage relationship. Willie is looking for flowers and willows everywhere, and Colette has cohabited with same-sex ladies many times. In the film, the two even took their lover, and the four of them went on vacation to a manor in the countryside together, living a life that looked extremely chaotic in the eyes of outsiders. Colette enjoys this laissez-faire and freedom. Until Missy asked her "really happy"? Colette replied, "Who's married is happy". Since then, Missy has been trying to let Colette live a happy life that truly belongs to her. Missy abandons her status as an earl, performs pantomimes with Colette openly everywhere, lives in a dilapidated hotel, and respects Colette's desire for financial independence. Colette lived a stable life because of Missy, until Willie sold the copyright of the novel and finally divorced the man he once loved deeply.
The reborn Colette started writing again, writing novel after novel. At the end of the film, she regained her love, she picked up the pen again, she smiled and said "I love you" sweetly, she finally found the identity of herself, she is not Willie's wife, not Crow Tina, not anything else, she was herself - Sidney Gabriel Collette.
In this turbulent, extravagant, decadent open marriage relationship, Colette couldn't really find herself. The chains of marriage had been catching her all the time. In the later stage, the chains were only longer, and the control had always existed. The study and performance of pantomime is a metaphor for her regaining her physical freedom; the end of her previous marriage, the rediscovery of true love, and her taking up the pen again are metaphors for her spiritual freedom. Finally, from body to spirit, from body to soul, she became what she wanted. And the end of the so-called open marriage is still a person who loves her and can accompany her. There is a scene in the film that is touching. The two people who had been separated, Willie found Colette next door because the new house was too quiet, hoping to sleep with each other. Willie was a little frustrated. He was afraid of being alone. He went back to Colette's bed and just asked for a hug. He no longer had the need for sex. In the end, companionship is the highest and most stable state in all relationships. The film "Colette" describes the rise of female writers' female consciousness and the truth of marriage.
In reality, Colette has been writing more than once in his life, and has won various honors in the world of novels, journalism and film. His novel "Kiki" was adapted by Hollywood into the musical "The World of Gold Powder" in 1958, which won the Oscar for Best Picture. In 1945, she was unanimously elected to the jury of the Goncourt Prize for Literature. When she died, the French government held a state funeral for her. Julia Christova, a female writer, commented on her that "his works are from beginning to end the escape from love, the escape from married life, and the pursuit of an eternal realm". Finally, the British temperament actress Keira Knightley played the legendary Colette in the film.
To be able to see Keira Knightley's love scenes on the big screen, and there are also sacrifices for art... Just commenting on these is so worth watching!
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