On one side is the old editor Perkins, who is mature and stable, kind-hearted and knowledgeable like a British gentleman;
On one side is Wolf, an obscure author who is at the peak of inspiration and energy.
The passion for creation reaches its peak from the beginning, everyone is excited and fanatical about it, and then it in turn devours its host, first of all Wolf, who has to write and change day and night, and his life is destroyed. It illuminates, and through it he sees the beauty of life, the beauty of burning vigour.
like a sacrifice.
He had to hand over his girlfriend, and then his comrade-in-arms, Birkins ("He's holding me back," Wolff said, and I believe he's sincere and selfish), Birkins He once gave up going on vacation with his wife and daughter for Wolff. When Burns went to the editing room to swallow medicine and commit suicide, Birkins looked coldly at the riotous couple, and he should have been shocked. That scene was really Quietly, after the wife and daughter came back, Birkins deeply kissed his wife by the car, and also laid the groundwork for the break with Wolf.
Burns is also beautiful.
One scene is picking up Wolff at the station. In the gray and blurred crowd, she is in the center of the picture, like a god statue;
The scene is in the editing room, she raised the gun, facing the old editor, trying to regain the happiness in her life, like a warrior;
The scene is in the room, she and Wolf sit at the ends of the sofa, quietly listening to Wolf's rants and seductive invitations, telling him that it is over.
Burns really dares to love and hate. The director did not make her a tragic figure, but set off Wolff's naivety, like a heartless child who lost old friends when he had new friends, which was very pitiful.
The ending of the movie is very interesting. Wolff by the sea really came to a far place in the world, the sea rises and falls, and the passion in his heart finally resonates. At the peak of his wandering journey, his journey of adventure ended quickly because of a brain stone.
The brain stone seems to be a metaphor, the brain that breeds inspiration, filled with clumsy ugly diseased stones, as if the heaviness of the flesh is the greatest mockery of the lightness of the spirit.
Life ends too quickly. In the cemetery, Birkins stood behind the crowd with a hint of sadness on her face. Burns did not show up.
In the last scene, the life of the old editor-in-chief has returned to peace (or the feelings of the old editor-in-chief of the whole film are more restrained?), he sits in the middle of the editor-in-chief's room - neutral, stable, symbolizing a certain order - to continue his editing Work. He received a letter from the hospital, Wolf's confession, that the child's life was over as soon as he began to confess.
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