Have you ever eaten strawberries?
When you see this sentence, you will definitely smile contemptuously, and you will answer that of course I have eaten it. This is a red fruit, moist and full, with a sweet and sour bite, and it is also very sweet when placed in a basket. temptation.
When Tess eats the strawberries her first lover Alek feeds her, it silently announces the beginning of her tragic fate.
Throughout the whole "Tess", after reading it, she can fully summarize her central idea. You can take the title of this kind of knowledge: What is it like to be a beautiful woman from a poor family?
I thought this title summed up exactly how I felt after watching the movie.
Starring the famous actress Natasha Kinski , the film "Tess" directed by Roman Polanski, who has directed many classic films such as "The Pianist", was produced in 1979 and is the most recent film I have seen. The most sentimental and deepest movie in the movie, I was immersed in this sad emotion for a long time after watching it, and it settled for a long time.
"Tess" is based on the novel "Tess of the D'Urbervilles". The original work is a novel written by the well-known British writer Hardy, which has been adapted to the screen countless times. And this version of the movie is hailed as the best version ever adapted. It vividly reproduces the 19th century in which Hardy lived, the status quo of the English countryside, and the tragic fate of the people of the middle and lower classes.
When the camera shows the beautiful English countryside scenery like an oil painting, the story slowly begins.
The protagonist of the story, Tess, is a very poor girl from humble and poor background. But one thing that sets her apart from other girls is her amazing beauty.
One day, the father of his poor peasant class heard the priest inadvertently say that when his family was originally a descendant of the local famous Derbowell family, he returned home excitedly and urged Tess to recognize his kinship with Tess's mother, in order to change the situation. The current situation at home.
For the survival of the family, Tess had to agree to this request.
The helpless Tess could only bite the bullet and visit the Durberville family. When she saw Alek, the eldest young master of the Durberville family, the eldest master was attracted by the beautiful Tess. The frivolous and arrogant Alek seduced the innocent, innocent and inexperienced her with bad intentions, so that Tess became pregnant for him out of wedlock, and the child died in a short period of time.
Next, Tess's fate was like a roller coaster. In a simple and conservative place, a woman who gave birth without marriage and the father of the baby was not known was unchaste. Tess went to various farms to make a living. , or working in a dairy factory, and then she met Angel, the son of a priest who liked her. Angel, who came from a scholarly family, was a gentle, shy and infatuated boy. This boy was also attracted by Tess's beauty and docile personality. Silk also desperately needs love. The two quickly got together.
After marriage, the kind and pure Tess confessed to her husband the fact that she had been pregnant out of wedlock. Angel was shocked and could not accept it. He abandoned Tess on the grounds of going to Brazil to start a business. The sad Tess was met by Alec of the Deborahville family again. Alec expressed his willingness to bear Tess's life. At this time, Tess, who had a spirit of resistance, refused Alec's alms and wanted to be independent. It is a pity that the family members of her family who need to be raised by her have become her biggest burden. When desperate, in order to make a living, she was forced to obey Alek, and the two lived together again.
Tess's husband, Angel, who had experienced a tough life in Brazil, realized how cruel it was for him to abandon his wife. He returned to England and wanted to reconnect with Tess, but Tess said that he had committed himself to Alek and had no choice.
But under Angel's fierce pursuit, Tess's desire for love is revived. She was full of resentment against Alec who took away her virginity. In order to be with Angel, she killed Alec in a hurry, became a murderer, and was finally executed.
Throughout the whole plot, this is a movie with a gloomy tone, and what the original novel wants to show is this sense of helplessness that life is impermanent, wealth is like a floating cloud, and Tess's cowardice and lack of opinion make her life in the early days. He suffered a lot in the middle, and in the end he could only be overwhelmed by the torrent of life.
After watching this movie, I thought about it for a long time, and there was a question that kept circling in my mind and lingering.
That is: what is it like to be a beautiful poor woman?
Roman Polanski's film arguably provides one of those answers.
The answer is also very simple: if there is no strong ego personality and strong character, a weak and beautiful woman, born in a poor family, is like a person who has nothing and suddenly becomes rich, or like a rabbit living in a beast. In a group of forests, people who have not experienced the hardships of life will quickly waste their property, while unsuspecting rabbits will be eaten by wild beasts.
Tess is undoubtedly suffering, and she also has her own dreams, but she has no opinion, she follows the trend, her family background limits her vision, she has no way to access knowledge and wealth, and she runs around for survival all day long.
And lack of social experience has become her biggest weakness in the world, and her lack of defense against men makes her fooled by scumbags and seduced by Alek. In such a capitalist society where the poor peasants are struggling to survive and the rich and powerful are intoxicated, Tess, who is beautiful but has no brains, and has a cowardly character, is undoubtedly the coveted prey of many men, even if she has given birth to children, in the definition of traditional society at that time, it was an inconvenience. A chaste woman will not stop men from pursuing her.
But the cruelty of fate made Tess's spiritual world collapse after all this, and her poor life completely collapsed.
This further deepened Tess's inferiority complex. Her life was completely lost due to the destruction of the scumbag. The financial independence and mental suffering aggravated Tess's depression, which also contributed to her later actions. Found a reason.
Tess's fate is undoubtedly tragic, and the men who murdered her cannot escape the moral judgment. Her first man, Alec, was a complete scumbag (although he also expressed his willingness to bear the poor Tess's life later on), and in terms of popular words on the Internet, he was just greedy for Tess's body. And the sanctimonious Angel is actually a domineering man, allowing himself to make mistakes but not allowing Tess to make mistakes. This inequality in the social status of men and women has exacerbated the decline of Tess's fate, and has gradually become the last to overwhelm Tess. straw.
Taken together, the most important thing is to have a complete spiritual world, to be good at learning and thinking, and not to be attached to them. A man survives, so, looking at Tess from a modern perspective, it can be said that her character made her life, and her life made her destiny.
And the saddest thing is: in such an era, what conditions does Tess have to learn knowledge and arm her mind? Thinking about it now, the inferences I made before can only be reasonable assumptions based on the status quo of modern society, and these thoughts of mine cannot be established in the British society at that time.
Even if she has the spirit of resistance, it will be extinguished because of the oppression of women in the old society. This reflects the hardship and helplessness of the environment where Tess lived at that time.
Watching a Roman Polanski movie is an unforgettable experience. He likes to use various long shots to express the cold and melancholy atmosphere of the original story, and Natasha Kinski 's performance is calm and restrained, and the drama with several male actors also shows Tess's pain very well the spiritual world.
The music in the movie is also full of expressiveness. Each scene is matched with the corresponding music, ranging from high tunes to low-pitched melodious music. The beginning that impressed me the most is Tess and a group of rural girls innocently and happily dressed in white. The picture of the skirt dancing on the grass is also the picture of Tess and the love of her life, Angel, meeting for the first time: the blue sky and the green lawn, the girl in the white dress, everything looks so pure and crystal clear.
The whole movie has too many imagery shots, such as the strawberry that Alek seduces Tess to eat at the beginning, and the misty handling of the camera when Alek insults Tess, and at the end Tess kills Alek At that time, Tess's bloody skirt corner, which was implicitly shown in the camera, showed the director's skill.
The director uses these undiscovered details to promote the development of the entire storyline, showing the cruelty and impermanence of Tess's personal fate from the side. Compared with the direct expression, Roman Polanski's handling gives a lot of retention. White, fascinating.
The total length of the whole film "Tess" is about three hours, but the transition and scheduling of each shot are very calm and powerful. It can be seen that the director has read Hardy's original work before filming, while Jin Skye's beautiful dress with classical temperament plays the beautiful but tragic girl Tess alive.
In the scenery like an oil painting, we can see Tess's pure face, melancholy eyes, and the different personalities of her two men, Alec and Angel. Alec is frivolous, but he knows he is responsible for Tess. The actor's performance shows the heart of this domineering young master who is obsessed with the relationship between men and women. He is obsessed with having fun all day long, which is what Alek's life is all about.
Angel is sane, cowardly and hypocritical. He looks reasonable, but he is strict with his wife. Even if he finally wakes up, he cannot save Tess, whose heart has been broken. Here, the actor plays the heart of this incompetent man. In the world, he has a morbid spiritual obsession with women's chastity, and he repeatedly finds reasons to forgive himself for his profligate life. He even uses morality as a shackle to kidnap Tess, but he is free to his own emotional life. .
Now think about it, the so-called Tess's favorite boy, Angel, is not a person who is pointing at Tess from the so-called moral heights?
Perhaps Strawberry represents a silent symbol in the director's lens language: she can be a representative of lust; a representative of love; a representative of money, power and desire; or a prosperous life that Tess has never seen before representative.
The ignorant Tess, who ate this tempting strawberry, did not resolutely resist Alek's temptation, and sank all the way. When she wanted to resist and fight back, it was too late.
Do you still eat strawberries?
After knowing that strawberries are the epitome of temptation?
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