Towards destruction, a landscape without truth

Layla 2022-03-22 09:01:48

A film full of life, love, society, contradictions and "truth", from loss to being spurned, from a swamp of self-blame to seeing hope in the East, and finally to being abandoned, the playwright Williams is always showing a theme: how society forces the sensitive and unwilling to conform to the rules.

Blanche eventually went to destruction and was quietly taken away by strangers. Sister Stella endured a huge torment, ran upstairs with her newborn child, and left a few words to Stanley, who she loved.' You never want to touch me'. It seems that this is the only truth that this film is trying to express. After each fight, Stanley just shed tears of remorse and shouted 'Stella...' upstairs, this time, Stella didn't look back, didn't rush ran downstairs and forgave her husband. We cannot speculate on future developments.

Maybe Stella really saw the whole thing and saw the loneliness emptiness and helplessness of 'sister', a weak vain and miserable woman who eventually went mad, fantasizing about an admirer she never had, inviting her Travel to sea. She was tortured by fate and society and lost everything, even her own heart. 'Perhaps she also saw her husband's snobby, rude and unsympathetic, bullying the weak, and cruelly shattering Blanche's hopes. In the end he let Blanche her damn empty file, and Stella was utterly disappointed in him. Or maybe not.

Tragedy is a tragedy for all people, and all tragedy happened to Blanche, a woman who was expelled from a small town because she was considered morally corrupt, a pauper who always thought she was rich at heart, remember Blanche Chi's classic dialogue with Mitch "Blanche: Straight, what is straight, a line or a street may be straight, but so is the human heart? Oh no, it's curved like a mountain road. Mitch: You're right I'm panicking Blanche! Blanche: Don't say that. Mitch: Lies, inside and out, all lies. Blanche, not inside, my heart never lies." Yes, Such a woman who only has a heart, always lives in the dark, every day before six o'clock in the afternoon, she doesn't see anyone, wears all kinds of cheap jewelry, wears all kinds of beautiful clothes, drinks whisky, and sees people to touch fans , using more lies to gain people's admiration and praise for her.

I have always hated such a woman, but here, I can no longer dislike and laugh at it. Whenever Blanche scratches his head and prepares lies, I can only show sympathy and understanding, when our beautiful nature When she was twisted, what kind of pain and blow it was at that time, I can't imagine, she was burdened with self-blame for her husband's suicide, as well as the rejection and demonization of the residents of the small town, where people always made up some things and crimes and showing her moral turpitude. She is innocent, loves poetry and art, loves her husband, and still deeply blames herself in the end. When she sees the dawn of life, she pays with sincerity. Although she has a conflict with Stanley, it is her The manifestation of a bunch of shortcomings, but, this is only because of emptiness, because of being abandoned by others for a long time, and the little vanity to be satisfied is all because of her cowardice, her deception, her rumors, and her revenge are all direct , just a stupid resistance.

The root of all this seems to have a distinct epitome, that is--Stanley, a vulgar and rude outside handsome man, he is a man who loves his family on the surface, but he is actually a villain, without sympathy, Oppression of Stella who has no power at all, machismo of ego, vanity, denial of being Polish, snobbery, keeps Stella for land or money, and selfishly gives her a gift when she finds out she has nothing. A one-way ticket to get her back to the small town. In revenge for Blanche's persuading his wife to leave him, he spreads Blanche's anecdotes. shattered her last hope. As a selfish villain who stands on the side of the law and social morality, it truly reflects the misery of the real society.

Love is divided into two types, one is superficial love, the other is the most true love in the heart, And these two kinds of love are also wrapped in 'deceived' and 'deceived', 'doubt' and 'suspicious', true and false, false and true, on the winding spiritual mountain road, everything is like A ridiculously retarded joke. Love is nothing more than pulp fiction, humble and scabies-covered.

At the beginning of the film, Blanche came to the strange city of her sister and asked the stranger on the street how to get there. Soon she found the goal

and ended. She took the stranger's hand and walked out of this place in a trance. Will it be a new starting point, where to go? destroy!

"I always trust strangers," she muttered.

But strangers are also reality. It seems that she will never understand...

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  • Tiara 2021-12-08 08:01:38

    Actually just watch this film now. Blanche is vain, greedy, on the verge of collapse and even self-destructed because of love, but I still can't hate such a woman. Movies similar to stage plays, Vivien Leigh's dramatic performances and Marlon Brando's natural performances appear in this movie at the same time, and there are many rival plays, but they are not abrupt at all, the peak of their respective performance styles.

  • Kristoffer 2022-03-27 09:01:06

    A woman who is trapped in the shadow of early love and cannot face reality firmly, and who is reluctant to grow up and easily believes in the kindness of strangers, will eventually be abandoned by reality. Despite the tragedy of Blanche, Stella finally decided to run away and saw the director and screenwriter's silent praise for this kind of personality spirit. Marlon Brando was a complete mess when he was young.

A Streetcar Named Desire quotes

  • Mitch: Oh I don't mind you being older than what I thought. But all the rest of it. That pitch about your ideals being so old-fashioned and all the malarkey that you've been dishin' out all summer. Oh, I knew you weren't sixteen anymore. But I was fool enough to believe you was straight."

  • Blanche: Straight? What's 'straight'? A line can be straight, or a street. But the heart of a human being?