I don't know Virginia Woolf, except for a "Spot on the Wall" in the textbook. What kind of woman was she to be able to write, publish, start a genre with one hand, and write the fabulous "Orlando" in that era? It is said that the original is even more vast than the film, and the great flood of 1900 swept the whole of London. In the film, there is the Great Freeze in Europe in 1800, when the teenager Orlando crosses the cracked ice and cannot find his Russian lover.
The movie is amazing, it's vast and ethereal, like a woman's empty heart. It spans centuries, continents, and the trivial life of immortality. Its logic is a dream, the pictures are extremely gorgeous, and the soundtrack is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Orlando gave up again and again: he was disappointed in love, in poetry, in politics, until he was reborn as a woman. The weak sex gave her strength instead, and she took off her loose petticoats layer by layer. Through the misty wilderness, Virginia Woolf sees the future.
Tilda Swinton acts like what, acting as a clumsy and reckless teenager, becoming a woman and suddenly gentle like a Virgin. The story seems a bit anticlimactic, maybe the original tells it better. Virginia Woolf had an amazing brain, and I will always remember her, walking into the wasteland in the Osé with her pockets full of stones.
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