If it hadn’t been for other people’s film reviews that this film was based on "The novel adaptation of the novel of the same name published by the emerging American writer Michael Cunningham in 1998", I would insist on criticizing the film’s complete postmodernity to the novel of "Mrs Dalloway" Deviate. I remember that "Thunderstorm" was adapted into a TV series five or six years ago. It happened to be an elective course of "Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature" in the Chinese Department. The famous female professor mentioned that after watching the TV series, she called CCTV for more than an hour. , Strongly accused the gang of profanity in filming TV. No way, since Baz Luhmann can change the classic Shakespeare tragedy into a post-modern "Romeo+Juliet", the characters in the play dress more avant-garde than the modern people, and "Thunderstorm" adds a little more romance to kitsch, and it's nothing. .
Since the film is not adapted from "Mrs. Dalloway", but another novel called "The Hours", the spearhead will naturally be directed at this "new writer". What makes me puzzled is that if you write a story, write a story, if you write about AIDS, write about AIDS, and if you write about homosexuality, write about homosexuality. No matter how noble, more humane, and more modern the theme of your novel is, do it. Why should I be involved in "Mrs. Dalloway", not only does it give people the illusion that the movie "The Moments" is derived from "Mrs. Dalloway" (a book called "Mrs. Dalloway" was published in China. A crappy writer put together several Chinese versions of "Mrs. Dalloway", very nasty), and also arranged the names of the main characters in "Mrs. Dalloway" and even the names of Woolf and her husband in the "Time and Time". "Engraved", not only played "Mrs. Dalloway", but also a kind of slander to Woolf. ——Wolf is so crazy in the movie. Is Woolf that crazy? Can a neurotic patient write so much literary criticism with reason? Can you use stream of consciousness techniques to innovate traditional literature? Can you infiltrate social and philosophical issues into your work?
Therefore, whether Michael Cunningham is "new" or "new" is still a question to be discussed. Isn't he just picking up a bit of "Dadaism", absurd drama, and montage from the postmodern world, and put Emily Dickenson’s death-filled poetics has been dug out from the grave of literature and carried forward, so that the background of the whole movie is gloomy and heavy, and the atmosphere of death is everywhere. The frequent switching of montage pictures will affect the 1920s, 1950s and 1950s. The beginning of the 21st century is linked together, as if time is interspersed and flowing, but unfortunately, this is not the true feature of the representative work of the stream of consciousness novel "Mrs. Dalloway". It does not care about the flow of the characters' hearts and consciousness at all, except for death. In "Mrs. Dalloway", the dual counterpoints of life and death, nobility and poor, peace and war, secularity and poetics cannot find a trace, let alone the poetic and musical beauty of the original text.
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