【Breaking thoughts at the beginning】
There is only one protagonist, the desert queen Gertrude Bell. Simply put, this film is her biography, recording several important aspects of her legendary life.
Ancient and modern, all over the world, there are too many ordinary nameless people in this world, and why should we look at legends? For me, it's because it's fun and instructive. Everyone likes to listen to stories, and in the time of listening to stories, we are not bored by the passage of time, and get some fun and enlightenment at the same time. It's just that this enlightenment may or may not be, sooner or later. A movie watched many years ago may suddenly find some value in it after countless forgotten times.
The heroine of the film, Gertrude Bell, is hereafter referred to as "Bell" for the sake of simplicity.
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【From childhood】
A young girl born in a modern, British, aristocratic family, she was educated as a noble lady in dresses with large ankle-length skirts and intricate lace.
But she's not ladylike by nature, she has a degree in history and yearns for horseback riding and the outside world.
Facing the blind date arranged by her parents, she said frankly that she didn't like him, and he knew that he didn't like her. She doesn't like men who are content to marry on a blind date, and she is not the woman who should be in an IKEA room that the other party expects.
She traveled to Iran for reasons not stated in the film. Maybe there are times in our lives when we want to do something, but there is no specific reason. There are reasons, but they cannot be expressed, or they are not practical and universal and cannot be understood. But in this idea, there is the real longing that we were born to be human.
I am glad to see that under the circumstances at that time, Bell got what he wanted and went as far as he wanted.
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【First Love Henry】
In Iran, Bell Encounters is sent to guide her about Henry, the local embassy secretary, a unicorn-meets-unicorn's beautiful but tragic love affair. His father disagreed with their marriage, Henry died for love, and Bell was "broken".
Sincerely love history and poetry, and are elegant and quiet by nature, such people are destined to be completely different from most ordinary and secular people in their way of thinking and living habits, so they are not gregarious and lonely. Henry is like that.
In fact, Bell may also be, but because of her noble background and beautiful appearance, she will not be neglected and alienated.
But Henry, who was in poor family, became an invisible barrier that separated him from the people around him.
Therefore, they knew each other, so after Henry learned that Bell's father did not agree with them being together, with the disappointment and sadness of being rejected, parted, and unsustainably ended his bleak life.
After this sad episode ended, Bell's heart was quiet, not as lively as he used to like horseback riding, but he still retained his educated intelligence, so he gradually turned into a traveler who pursued cultural adventures.
The deserts of the Middle East, starting from the edge, went deeper and deeper, and at one point entered the jealous danger that everyone she knew advised her not to go, and the mysterious center of the desert, Heil.
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【Brave and Wisdom】
A place where everyone you know strongly discourages you from going, and there is no objective reason for you to go, but you want to go, will you insist on your pursuit?
I can not. Don't say someone stopped me, just because there is no objective reason is enough to persuade me. Because of my poor economic conditions, I am not allowed to pursue a personal hobby that consumes a little more. I can only combine work and rest within a limited limit, such as watching movies and eating hot pot. When I was a child, I was naive, thinking about traveling around the world when I grew up. When I grew up, I realized that traveling around the world is still desirable, but I have no funds.
What if conditions allow, but everyone else is against it?
I will be persuaded to quit. As an obedient and good child, I always attach great importance to the opinions of others, and my own does not seem to be very important. But Bell doesn't.
Although thousands of people go to me.
It took a lot of effort to reach Heil, but he was placed under house arrest for more than three weeks before finally meeting Heil's "leader". The other party wanted to bring her into the harem. She borrowed the Islamic proverb of the other party's belief that married women could not touch them, and she was able to escape completely.
In this matter, Bell's charisma does not lie in quoting Allah's words and retorting the other's wit, but after being placed under house arrest for three weeks, when he sees his leader, he can still argue with reason, and he is not afraid of being imprisoned or imprisoned for it. Courage to kill.
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【Desert Queen】
Where did the name Desert Queen come from?
It is an invisible crown crowned by countless people who sincerely admire Belle for her wisdom and bravery.
She is not the king who rules any inch of land, she is just the queen of the desert who is unmatched and respected by no one in the desert.
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【postscript】
Good education, love of culture, curiosity about the unknown, and fearlessness of danger, this is Bell, and it can also be us.
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