During the Chinese New Year, I watched Polanski's film "Tess" more than 40 years ago at home. It was nearly three hours long and took two days to watch it off and on. Although I haven't read Hardy's original work, I can feel that Polanski has made a great interpretation. Through the portrayal of the girl Tess, the whole film presents a template for the tragedy of the British Victorian characters, and the pure heart degenerates step by step. , in the end can only accept the fate arranged by the times. At the beginning of the film, a group of young girls in white clothes came from a distance to attend the Tanaka dance, and the scene of Tess played by Natasha Kinski flashed by. At this time, she was still a pure and flawless girl. In the next scene, the new priest tells Tess's father that their family is actually descended from the old D'Urbervilles. Like the slander of the Serpent in the Garden of Eden, the pastor's news was like a curse, opening the seal for the turning of the family's fortunes. Tess's mother encouraged the beautiful Tess to go to the D'Urbervilles to meet her relatives. The pure Tess disagreed, but in the next shot, Tess was ready to leave, and there was a meaningful blank (a few places later). Important plot, Polanski also used blank or omission), what happened to make Tess change her mind? It may be the pressure of the parents, the pity for the younger siblings, or the hidden vanity in Tess's heart. Tess, who arrives at Derby's Manor, meets her cousin Alex. As an "old fritter" in love, Alex is attracted by Tess's beauty. In the famous "feeding the strawberries" scene, he pushes the half-hearted Moss. Silk completed the initial seduction, and then the carriage molested, whistled, and rode into the woods, and Tess, who was a little more troubled, fell into the abyss of sin step by step. After another blank, Tess decided to leave Alex and go home. She did not tell Alex that she was pregnant, but chose to face the indifference of her fellow villagers alone. In the end, the child also suffered from difficult living conditions. And died. When Tess goes to the priest and asks concernedly whether the baptism of her child counts, we discover that this is a devout and faithful girl who, despite her sins of lust, has managed to escape and return through a resolute escape. Completed self-redemption. After the death of the child, Tess went to work in a milk factory in a foreign country, and met and fell in love with the young Anji. It was the happiest time of Tess's life, but when Angie proposed to her, the shadows of the past came over Tess again. After several hesitations, she finally did not confess to Angie before marriage. And the confession on the wedding night must have seemed more like an exchange to Angie, and Angie, as we expected, failed to accept Tess. "You are not the woman I love anymore, you are just another woman in her shape." And, Angie also switched from Tess to her family, "I thought you were a child of nature, but you were the last in a line of degenerate aristocrats.
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