Sing a dirge to yourself

Jazmin 2022-03-27 09:01:23

Either it's very complicated, or it's very pure, I like to watch it.

In the one-sentence introduction of "Elegy", it is vaguely Coetzee's "Shame". "Shame" is actually not simple, what is rare is a consistent and dark style, like an elegy - I want to see how this American "Elegy" is sung.

Unexpectedly, the first half has been simple, to get a breast cancer. It is not wrong to compare the lost, reminiscent, but never going back years with the passing of beauty, but. .

I guessed the beginning, but not the end.

I'd rather be the teacher-student love in "Paris, Paris". Or many of them draw on each other - or the old professor's tricks to seduce female students are nothing but these.

There are not many plays that have nothing to do with the hero and heroine, but there are not many.

The role of the old friend started off very well, closely revolving around the story, and later involved the poet's emotional world, trying to prove it, not without branches.

The long-term lover has a lot of scenes, but the timing of the insertion is a bit late, so it seems too concentrated. If it appears at the beginning, at least before the heroine appears, it will dilute her role in the structure and will not overwhelm the guest.

The part about my son is the weirdest. We know what the director wants to say, but this method is a bit simple. On the contrary, in the second half, the image of the old woman in the building opposite the professor, or the mirror image of her original partner, if the son's role is replaced by the original partner, the result may be more compact.

Speaking of which, this play was originally a play for the elderly. The heroine is a delicate rose in white hair. The more white and gray the scale, the more beautiful the red rose appears.

The old friend's drama focuses on the professor, the long-term lover's drama is slightly diluted (she belongs to gray), the son's drama is all given to the original wife, and the heroine's youth is more enthusiastic and charming. What will the scenery be like?

Music is good. The picture could be more lyrical. There's nothing shameful about being provocative.

When the mood is dark, like this time. Winter Christmas, cold bedroom. lonely and old. Nowhere to go, nowhere to go, no home.

Seeing the name of this "Elegy", it doesn't matter what he said.

I could hear it curling up Nana, as if there was nothing, sometimes slowly and sometimes urgently, filling the air.

Whose dirge is this? Yes, nothing else but ourselves, sing a dirge to ourselves.

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Extended Reading
  • Otto 2022-04-01 09:01:18

    Isabel Coixet, you're giving me an ass...

  • Vinnie 2022-03-26 09:01:15

    I can stand any movie I'm talking about, but I can't stand the love between teachers and students.

Elegy quotes

  • David Kepesh: [interview on the Charlie Rose show] We're not all descended from the Puritans.

    Charlie Rose: No?

    David Kepesh: There was another colony 30 miles from Plymouth, it's not on the maps today. Marymount it was called.

    Charlie Rose: Yeah, alright, you mention in your book...

    David Kepesh: The colony where anything goes, went.

    Charlie Rose: There was booze...

    David Kepesh: here was booze. There was fornication. There was music. There was... they even ah, ah, ah, you name it, you name it. They even danced around the maypole once a month, wearing masks, worshiping god knows what, Whites and Indians together, all going for broke...

    Charlie Rose: Who was responsible for all of this?

    David Kepesh: A character by the name of Thomas Morton.

    Charlie Rose: Aah, the "Hugh Hefner" of the Puritans.

    David Kepesh: You could say that. I'm going to read you a quote of what the Puritans thought of Morton's followers: 'Debauched bacchanalians and atheists, falling into great licentiousness, and leading degenerate lives'. When I heard that, I packed my bags, I left Oxford, and I came straight to America, America the licentious.

    Charlie Rose: So what happened to all of those people?

    David Kepesh: Well, the Puritans shot them down. They sent in Miles Standish leading the militia. He chopped down the maypole, cut down those colored ribbons, banners, everything; party was over

    Charlie Rose: And we became a nation of straight-laced Puritans.

    David Kepesh: Well...

    Charlie Rose: Isn't that your point though? The Puritans won, they stamped out all things sexual... how would you say it?

    David Kepesh: Sexual happiness.

    Charlie Rose: Exactly. Until the 1960s.

    David Kepesh: Until the 1960s when it all exploded again all over the place.

    Charlie Rose: Right, everyone was dancing around the maypole, then, make love not war.

    David Kepesh: If you remember, only a decade earlier, if you wanted to have sex, if you wanted to make love in the 1950s, you had to beg for it, you had to cop a feel.

    Charlie Rose: Or... get married.

    David Kepesh: As I did in the 1960s.

    Charlie Rose: Any regrets?

    David Kepesh: Plenty. Um, but that's our secret. Don't tell anybody.

    [laughter]

    David Kepesh: That's just between you and me.

  • George O'Hearn: Life always keeps back more surprises than we could ever imagine.