Entering Jane Austen's world again, I recently watched this half-autobiography, half-fabricated film "Becoming Jane Austen" about the female writer's first love and life. After watching, I have to say that this is a woman who has stuck to her perfect love utopia all her life. Then I realized that the original "Pride and Prejudice" was her perfectionism, a romantic impact on the extremely realistic but cruel marriage system of that era.
Jane in the movie is beautiful but not refined. Although in her bones and in the eyes of future readers, she is indeed talented and unique. But the simplicity of her own house, the rust spots on the mirror in the bedroom, and the helplessness of going into the pigsty with an apron on, all hit her dreams all the time. In addition to writing, her dream also has a yearning for perfect love, which is unique to young girls who are like flowers.
But the teasing of fate is always so unexpected. The two people Jane has met in her life, combined, are the most perfect Mr. Darcy. Of the two people who love her, one can't give her the love she wants, and the other can't give her the minimum stable life she wants. Jane's vision of a perfect marriage, once there is no basis in reality, she can only let go. After all - Jane Austen has always been a perfectionist who doesn't break away from realism. This is true both for my own work and for my emotional principles.
So, the most moving part of the movie happened towards the end, when Jane's sister lost her favorite fiancé, Jane sat at the table and continued to finish her "Pride and Prejudice". Her sister asked her, "What are you writing about?" She said, "Write a story about two sisters. It was bad at first..."
"And then?" "It got worse." The
two smiled at each other . . Then my sister asked, "What about the final outcome?"
She smiled, with longing in her eyes: "In the end, they both got the happiest love."
Two women who could never fall in love in reality, in Jane's novel world, got the best compensation, although some mirages and some castles in the air. But Jane Austen did use the best imagination and the best faith to bring countless women who were married to marriage and property at that time but could not marry love, the most intimate consolation.
Perhaps, Jane's perseverance is not only dedicated to Tom, who later married and had children, and became famous. More, she is dedicated to an ideal, an ideal for true love - marriage without love, she is not rare.
"I live by my...pen." A soft but powerful voice, from that era to today.
Regardless of the truth, I am now, indeed, in love with Jane in this movie.
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