Love Is Not Fragile - On "Being Jane Austen"

Elvie 2022-03-21 09:02:20

After watching the movie off and on, I finally finished watching "Becoming Jane Austen" on National Day. This seemingly innocuous movie makes people deeply aftertaste after watching the movie. Love, ideals, life, reputation, and all kinds of words that are closely related to people keep spinning in my mind.
The original English countryside castle, beautiful country lanes, and elegant country dances outline a peaceful rural life. Simple is living here, she is beautiful and smart, independent in thought, fluent in writing, we can read her arrogant soul and free spirit in her eyes. Never bow to love because of money, and give up everything for love.
Because of love, she rejected the proposal of a wealthy gentleman, and because of love, she eloped with her beloved Tom, and even gave up writing, which she loves. Her love is persistent, brave, desperate, heart-wrenching, warm, and hearty.
And material and worldly pressures extinguish all good things. As Jane's mother said: Love is indeed desirable and sweet as honey, but material things are essential! When love and the world and the material conflict, what should we choose?
Love in the city is always so complicated, some people get married, not because of love, some people leave, not because they don't love, some people can't love each other, not because they don't love. The material for survival, the ubiquitous morality, the unavoidable responsibility, the unavoidable worldliness and the huge pressure of survival always stifle one beautiful love after another! Should we resist? Then what to do in life, can poverty and poverty maintain love? Should we elope? Then how to face the future, self-blame, guilt will eventually be indifferent to love! We have no way of knowing, in short, in the end, Jane did not wait with Tom all her life.
At the end of the film, Jane and Tom meet again, 20 years later. Tom appeared at the opera scene with his 17-year-old daughter. Faces are getting old, are they still them? When Jane made an exception to read an article for Tom's daughter, and when Tom named her eldest daughter Jane, we saw that they all sealed their lost love in their own way. Between the eyebrows, the distant sorrow is so sad and beautiful at this moment.
I think, sometimes love is not fragile, just a little powerless or helpless in the face of reality. Not being able to stay together for a lifetime is not the disappearance of love, but a silent preservation in another way...
In dreams, people can be truly free, and in love, people can be truly happy.

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Becoming Jane quotes

  • Tom Lefroy: Was I deficient in rapture?

    Jane Austen: Inconsciousness!

    Tom Lefroy: It was... It was accomplished.

    Jane Austen: It was ironic.

  • Jane Austen: This, by the way, is called a country dance, after the French, contredanse. Not because it is exhibited at an uncouth rural assembly with glutinous pies, execrable Madeira, and truly anarchic dancing.

    Tom Lefroy: You judge the company severely, madam.

    Jane Austen: I was describing what you'd be thinking.

    Tom Lefroy: Allow me to think for myself.

    Jane Austen: Gives me leave to do the same, sir, and come to a different conclusion.