Virginia Badlands

Jimmie 2022-03-23 09:03:30

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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Extended Reading
  • Devante 2022-04-23 07:05:26

    "Orlando" is a literary classic of the future. The movie takes Woolf's novel beautifully. I like movies that have historical details depicted. And no one fits the androgynous role better than Tilda Swinton. Mrs. Orlando's scenes with Pope, Swift, and Dr. Johnson are so eloquently written because the likes of Hardy, Stevenson, Loggins, and Darwin are often in the Woolf family.

  • Iva 2022-04-23 07:05:26

    I didn’t quite understand it at first. I stopped looking for background information many times in the early stage before I slowly read it. Especially when I knew that Tilda was a woman, she was very playful, and she needed to constantly emphasize that she was playing a male role (Xu Xian was the most successful in this regard). , so far have not doubted her gender haha) The theme of this one is female, male identity is just a foreshadowing, because only when she is female does she "have a relationship" with others. Although male identity seems to have a high status and title, it is always taken up by others, such as when encountering love or going abroad for war. People around her can only "see" her when she's a woman, although women's status has always been low and questioned. The works of stream of consciousness are rarely seen, and they are not very good at grasping points. The movie viewing experience is a bit like Apichatpong.

Orlando quotes

  • Archduke Harry: I'm offering you my hand.

    Orlando: Oh! Archduke! That's very kind of you, yes. I cannot accept.

    Archduke Harry: But I... I am England. And you are mine.

    Orlando: I see. On what grounds?

    Archduke Harry: That I adore you.

    Orlando: And this means that I belong to you?

  • Orlando: But you are mine!

    Princess Sasha: But why?

    Orlando: Because... I adore you.