happiness was my calamity,
my repentance and my maggots,
my life is so vast that it
will not be dedicated to strength and beauty alone.
This is the beautiful poem of Rimbaud, a famous French poet in the 19th century. His short life is comparable to Wilde, full of wild variables and legendary experiences. As early as the age of sixteen to nineteen, Rimbaud's poetry level has reached a level that no other poet can reach. Rimbaud's post-realist poetry had a huge impact on later generations, and he has become one of the poets that modern people know well.
However, it was his contemporary writer Verlaine, his long-term lover, who made his works famous for the ages.
In 1871, because of a song "Drunken Boat", Verlaine abandoned his wife and son to follow Rimbaud. Their unbridled lives gave them inspiration for their creations. Rimbaud's best poems were written when the two lived together. It's just that the two have many conflicts and frictions. Verlaine shot and wounded Rimbaud in 1873, and Rimbaud denounced Verlaine in a fit of rage. Verlaine is jailed, and their love affair is over. After the breakup, Rimbaud quickly wrote the symbolist poem "A Season of Hell" that really made him famous. However, after the age of 20, Rimbaud gave up writing and was displaced. Later, he was amputated due to synovitis. Unfortunately, his condition worsened. Cancer, died in Africa at the age of 37.
In the few years that Rimbaud and Verlaine were in love, Rimbaud was like a spring, and his works were exquisite. His most brilliant works were born during this period. During this period, Rimbaud was also reckless and unruly, and wherever he went with Verlaine, he was destroyed. It can be said that Verlaine had a great influence on Rimbaud. He not only gave Rimbaud the inspiration for his creation, but also published Rimbaud's works to the world after Rimbaud's death and interpreted them, so that the world could truly realize such a a talented poet. Regardless of whether the two cherish each other, or escape and escape, without Verlaine, there would not be the brilliant Rimbaud we see now.
The film is based on Rimbaud and Verlaine's uninhibited feelings as the main line, telling Rimbaud's short but legendary life.
Overall, the film's performance is mediocre, but the script itself is extremely controversial and fascinating, and there are not many bright spots in the shooting technique. The real charm of the film is that Leonardo DiCaprio was chosen to play the role of Rimbaud.
Most of the audience recognized and affirmed Leonardo's performance. Indeed, his image in the film is very similar to Rimbaud himself, delicate and youthful. Rimbaud is a "dirty boy" and "little hooligan" in character. He is cynical. He is addicted to alcohol and drugs, and he scoffs at Paris Wenqing. The amazing thing is that Leonardo had such an unruly undercurrent in his bones at that time. In 1995, Leonardo had not yet starred in "Titanic" that really made him world famous, but he had starred in "Growing Pains" and a series of films, and received rave reviews, winning an Oscar in 1994. Nominated, he was only 19 years old at the time. It can be said that the 20-year-old Leonardo is young and young. Like Rimbaud, he is full of talents and despised everything. However, the traces of his performance in the film are still relatively heavy, especially when Rimbaud was displaced from his home at the age of 20 and died of illness at the age of 37. It is obvious that Leonardo lacked energy for the performance of Rimbaud's life.
In addition, Rimbaud, as a French poet, speaks English throughout the film, and Leonardo's foul English of the young American did make me more or less conflicted. No matter how bad Rimbaud is, it will not be so vulgar that Leonardo's performance is so vulgar. In contrast, the taste of the movie "Wilde" is relatively pure. All the castings are British, from Jude Law to Orlando Bloom, The British style is irresistible. The casting of this film has a kind of artificial meaning, which is quite different from the literary style of Paris at that time.
At that time, Verlaine was already famous and had a huge influence in the poetry world, and Verlaine in the movie was really unlovable. David Thewlis played the less than 30-year-old Verlaine, who violently kicked and became pregnant for Rimbaud. wife, and brutally burned her hair with fire, and pretended to reunite to deceive her feelings. In my opinion, whether it is historical fact or fiction, it is too much. The introduction of these fragments can only make people feel disgusted with the feelings of Verlaine and Rimbaud. And Verlaine's bald and ugly image was even more vulgar in front of Rimbaud. Zweig said in his biography: Verlaine was ugly as a monkey in his youth. A very important reason why Wilde hated Verlaine was that the famous poet was so ugly. In the movie, Verlaine covets Rimbaud's young body, is weak and wretched, and vents the pain of not being able to Rimbaud on his wife in a violent way. Verlaine like this can only be annoying. Although he has always loved Rimbaud, although he really discovered Rimbaud's infinite talents.
Now our Leonardo has a big belly, and he is no longer the elegant and beautiful boy he once was. In addition to sighing and feeling, he still marvels at the time he used to make him appear on the big screen, and his style is outstanding. It's just that Rimbaud is still Rimbaud, he will still stab his lover's palm ruthlessly, and he will still chase the sun with endless enthusiasm. In my eyes, he was not condemned to hell by the rainbow in the sky, but he was a splendid rainbow that descended into the world and danced lightly, turning all living beings upside down. So I still have to thank this movie, because it allows us to see Leonardo's momentary youth again, and can also be excited about Rimbaud's juvenile love affair, so I should be satisfied. At the end, I still remember the sweet memory of the kiss between the palms at the end of the film. At that time, Verlaine was old and sick, and his eyes dazedly recalled that day a few years ago. Rimbaud asked softly:
Do you love me?
Yes.
That put your hand on the table.
What?
Put your hands on the table,
palms up...
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