The advantage of this opening is that it whets the audience's appetite, making people continue to watch with curiosity, and many possibilities of stories change in their minds for a while, but there is still no answer, so you have to follow his camera, slowly Move forward.
I guess many people will say what a beautiful love this is, what a pure love Florentino gave in his life, and even the purity and sacredness of this love will remind people of Jin Yuelin back then. I don't know Jin Yuelin, so I can't comment, but through "Love in the Time of Cholera", from the director's lens and music, I gradually got to know Florentino.
Florentino, a shadow without self, a soul without self.
Florentino's love for Fremina is not real love, it is just a body without ego trying to find in another person the perfect quality (imaginary perfection) that it does not have, and then merge with it to get a sense of wholeness of strong desire.
True love is a complex emotion intertwined with sensibility and reason.
Sensibility means appreciation, love, passion, warmth, unconditional acceptance and dedication;
rationality means working hard for the firewood, rice, oil and salt, respect, equality, and loving yourself while loving each other.
This is the true meaning of love.
As for Florentino, there is only passion, not even appreciation and love, let alone a feeling of warmth.
He lives madly in the love he imagined, he doesn't know the woman he loves, what she likes to eat, what she likes, what she hates, he hardly ever talks to the woman he loves face to face about life, that's all love her. I kept asking him silently in my heart: "What do you love about Fremina? Her thoughts? Her character? Her beauty? Or something else?"
I think if Florentino is really in front of me, he will tell me confidently: "Love is love, no reason!", then I will reply to him at this time: "Really? Isn't love ultimately for being together? Live and create the future together? Let life continue?"
If so, then you have to choose a life partner, but you think it's a beautiful thing even if you don't know him at all?
Florentino has no heart, no ego, no sense of responsibility, so he falls into the illusory so-called torrent of love and cannot extricate himself, and loses the spirituality and strength that a life should have.
With Florentino having such a personality, there are probably two possibilities.
One is genetic inheritance—his father is such a person, and the director has hinted at this in many ways. Mainly his uncle's description. Said that his father regretted that he did not die for love when he was dying, but the latter sentence was: "But when he was alive, he showed mercy everywhere." In another, Florentino was working in an office with a woman, when his uncle pushed in the door and said, "You even pose like your father." That's why Florentino loves to the death, while playing with his life and ruining his own body. It seems that his life is nothing but women and love.
Florentino let himself go, the legitimate reason is "no love", so it is necessary to rely on abundant sex to make up for the emptiness in the heart (hehe, what a noble reason), then, let's look at it another way: what if Florentino was replaced by a woman ? Will we still praise her for a love like this?
To indulge yourself for the reason of love is actually irresponsible and disrespectful to yourself. After all, Florentino, he has never loved himself.
We can also imagine that if the young Florentino really married Fremina as he wished, when the ordinary life gradually smoothed out the passion, and Florentino walked around the bodies of various women without the slightest shame and self-blame moral laissez-faire, he would not Will it still go down this road of no return?
It's really hard to say.
Another possibility is that his mother put too much affection on her son because of her disappointment with her husband, so much that she doted on him too much—after her son’s breakup, she would find a widow to comfort him. This indulgent behavior made Florentino lack enough respect and love for women that he wrote indelible words on the second woman he loved, causing her to lose her own life—in fact, it was already How could Florentino, a middle-aged man, not have thought about what kind of disaster the words he wrote might bring?
So when his mother went mad when she was old (I guess if he had been a son who worked hard and lived a good life and spent more time with his mother, his mother would not have gone mad), he did not show any sadness, As if the old woman in the messy dress had nothing to do with him, he put his mother on his shoulders with a blank face, and said without emotion: "Mom, you confuse cholera with love".
He is still looking for women everywhere and living a chaotic life.
Until one day he came home late at night and found that his mother was dead.
So Fremina once commented on Florentino twice, the first time she said: "He is not a man, he is a shadow", and the second time, she said: "He is not a man, he is a ghost".
Florentino, a man without self, he is just a shadow, a ghost.
A person without an ego can easily project himself onto others and show an unusual dependence on another person. Few people can afford this dependence. Such love is too heavy. So Fremina didn't marry Florentino, she was fragile when she was young (in stark contrast to how strong she was when she was angry and kicked her daughter out of the house, it was the result of life's trials, if she and Florentino, who was fragile and only a shell) Living together, it is impossible to hone such a strong personality).
But in real life, many women enjoy the feelings of a man, they usually think it is love, and enjoy a man's dependence on themselves.
After a period of intense correspondence with Florentino, Fremina's enthusiasm finally subsided, she matured, and began to realize the illusion of love with only endless passion. She accepted the proposal from the doctor's husband and lived her life peacefully.
They would quarrel, sarcastic, cry, quarrel... She and her husband had lived the most ordinary and vulgar life together, and she even once asserted that they had never been in love, but the middle-aged husband had an affair. At that time, she was so sad and so jealous. And the last words her husband said on his deathbed were expressing love to Fremina.
This is the essence of love. After experiencing the initial passion, what gradually settles down is a stable, long-term, peaceful, ordinary life, and a warm life.
Finally, the cinematography of this film is amazing, especially the lighting is so well done!
I guess the director is trying to cater to the audience's taste, and the gossip arranged for Fremina to accept Girls' Generation's first love when she was in her seventies, and lie down with the body of the woman who had slept with more than 600 people. It feels weird.
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