"It turns out that loving you is the fate of my life. ."
Like all famous love stories, this deep-rooted love also unfolded from that moment of love at first sight. From the moment he confirmed his love for Fermina, the man whose face on the screen has never been free from madness has always been crazy for this woman and this love. Perhaps it was due to the madness inherited from his family; perhaps to make up for the biggest regret of his father's unloved life; perhaps his hobby of writing poetry, the poet's feelings were a better explanation - in any case, he Using his whole life to shape this slightly deformed love.
The Florentina on the screen may not be handsome, but at the moment when the young couple met, he did not lose the restlessness and tenderness of youth; He played the violin in the courtyard, and looked at his goddess with lustful eyes. A young boy's love infatuation has been vividly shown by him, not because he is facing Fermina's fiery passion, but because of his sorrow at home. This is probably enough to impress an equally upright and youthful girl. So the girls began to write letters secretly in the classroom, secretly put away the stationery that was pressed somewhere during the mass, and sent the letter to another person in private with the maid-their feelings seemed to be in love More and more letters are added. Until the end, the girl promised Florentina on the balcony that she would marry him. If all this flows like this, this is not a love story that was put on the screen, and it is not from the hands of everyone who is Marquez, a "literary bullfighter".
The story has a twist, Fermina's father's opposition and the family's relocation are just an introduction. In the time whitewashed by the exchange of letters between the two people, a turning storm of the story is secretly brewing.
After Fermina returned to the city, the pair of young people who had been separated for a long time met on the street. However, Fermina at this time seemed to be no longer the girl in the time of love that fascinated him. She only Leaving a sentence for him is enough to shatter the beauty that he has embraced for a long time - "everything before is just an illusion". She so inexplicably denied her previous feelings, and then began to avoid him, even labeling him "the shadow that cannot be escaped". The whole upheaval in it seems to have not explained why Fermina suddenly gave up the love she still looked forward to in the days of her cousin's house - it can't be just because of an accidental relationship with Fermina. Face to face, a conclusion, or a decision, can be drawn after the eyes are fixed on a face that is no longer familiar.
If Fermina's words weren't enough to shatter Florentina's vision of love, Urbino's presence begins to crush his subsequent hopes as well. He was a perfect man, or at least a perfect husband—with handsome looks, high status, good morals, and the wealth of wealth that all the in-laws at the time wanted. So they got married, had children, grew old together... All of this was originally what Florentina wanted to do, and this man named Urbino took his place. What's more painful is that this woman he loves so much, bathed in that man's light and love, seems so happy, and her marriage is so happy... This makes him even look for someone who can make fun of her for men. There is no chance for the wrong choice, so that he can't find the possibility of seeing the deformed comfort brought by his lover's unfortunate marriage. All he could do was look at the man's light, and the happy face of the woman he loved bathed in it.
Their marriage, just like Urbino's concept of marriage, "the most important thing in marriage is not happiness, but stability", which is stable and does not see the slightest gap. This made Florentina just keep this plan in his heart, waiting for the death of this man who was more perfect than him would bring him a new chance with Fermina. This is a passive struggle. After discovering that he cannot have a positive battle with a man who can only admit that he is so much better than himself, the heart that cannot give up this feeling can only be turned into this deformed waiting-let God be for him Eliminate this man who is blocking his love.
But his waiting, his waiting for this love, is not as sacred as his oath - for Fermina to keep his virginity. During one of his layman's voyages, a woman who did not leave a name took away what he had been protecting. It was sudden and easy, only after a short breath.
For Fermina's inability to get the corresponding love waiting, what he can only return to him is the emptiness that is constantly eroding his heart. Matching his weak face is the same heart that is not tough, which makes him at a loss for this emptiness, suffering and despair. Pain always tends to make people fall, especially after he has tasted the sweetness of sensuality, he is undoubtedly addicted to it. In Florentina, we can find a common cause of the fallen people - the pain of the soul is so incapable of eliminating, and only the pleasure of the flesh can cover the pain. So they fall into the lower levels of physical gratification that comes with carnal gratification, and indulge in this seemingly substitute for spiritual gratification.
How long will this life last? When he reported the number of women he had to his only friend, the three-digit number surprised his friend, but it was taken for granted to bystanders. This man whose heart has long been distorted by the first love that he has been unable to let go of, with the epilepsy of the poet, the emptiness in it is so deep - when he chooses to fill this emptiness with flesh, it is conceivable And know how huge this number is.
However, in this period of disappearing in the lustful years, the expectation of this love has not disappeared in the slightest - at the beginning of the film, it is also the sound of the bell that reappears at the end of the film (this echo before and after, the retrospect of memory The story that arrived later is now like a kind of awakening like a dream), after thinking for a while, that man is dead! The excitement and joy that rushed to his forehead distorted his face, which had been distorted by old age, and made him drag this old body out in a hurry. He finally got the response he had been waiting for for fifty-one years, nine months and three days, an opportunity that he thought could open the door to the love he had been cherishing so far. Is it due to his epileptic psychology, or his sincere love?
"From love, and at last love."
He finally lay beside her beside his lover, he said, this moment will be eternal - just like this last scene, the evening vista of the great river, peaceful and calm, beautiful lasting. Florentina, with almost his entire life, is answering a question: How long can love be waited for?
Obviously, there is no need for an exaggerated "10,000 years", but it is a lifetime.
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