"her husband is the only one in London not in love with his wife"
- a phrase that expresses the bleakness behind her gorgeousness, and the reason why she keeps struggling. She gambles, drinks alcohol, is a party queen, and wears colorful clothes Dressing herself up with hats, she can only hold on to those things that make her feel grounded and herself. She complained to Mama "he never talks to me" because he brought her back for only two purposes - give him a son and be loyal. And she just turned around with a smile, won the love of the whole county, and left her husband's advice behind.
I don't know if the director was thinking about Princess Diana when he was shooting this film - this peerless beauty, with her graceful smile, won the world's love, but it's a pity that her husband was alone - Prince Charles ignored her , took the old and ugly Camilla's hand. This tragedy is constantly being staged on the women of the court.
——I have done something too late and the others too early
To be honest, when she said this while holding Gray by the lake, I didn't understand the reference to "some" and "other" at first. At the long breakfast table the next day, G confessed to the duke that he was going to make a deal, (insert a sentence, I understand more and more why "Citizen Kane" is famous. Here, the long table in the extended family is reproduced to represent even the intimate There is also an insurmountable distance between husbands and wives). Because of her husband's intransigence, she demands her own balance. I'll be unfair to Gray, I don't know if that is the love that G is looking for, so I can only use balance to describe the role that Gray brings. G insisted on living an independent and free life, so she tolerated the transaction between her husband and Bess, she deliberately despised the Duke and chose Gray, and even chose to give up her dignity and future for Gray. I thought that such a decisive gesture would allow myself to break free from that closed birdcage.
In the end, all things are bigger than mother's love, and the bound family still allows her to fly into the manor that is big enough and beautiful enough but also suffocating, and once again becomes a caged bird.
At the end of the film, when the Duke stood by the window and watched his children play and play freely in the garden, he could not help but blurt out: how wonderful to be that free.
And looking at the women in this beautiful manor and the late Princess Diana , I just want to say: I want you freedom like a bird.
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