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When I was a kid, I had a tape of storytelling, and there was a story in it It's "Garden of Giants". The story is very nice. It was either Ju Ping's sister or Dong Hao's uncle who read the story. I thought it was their story. As a child, I still can't understand the power of the author.
When I was in high school, I always thought Wilde was French. Because his tomb was in France, the magazine said, there were countless kisses on that tombstone. Like a ritual, his admirers come to Paris from all over the world to put on lipstick and give them a kiss. Magazines with rich pictures and texts can always give people unlimited imagination, but I have no idea why so many people worship him.
Wilde is still a fairy tale in my mind. I borrowed a copy of Wilde's Fairy Tales when I was in college. It is estimated that it was the power of Chinese translation, and it became a hypnotic reading.
I just watched the movie Wilde. According to the law that the second male is for the audience to love, I like Robie very much. While it's not wrong that he seduced Wilde, he's the only one here who truly lives according to his heart.
Wilde is too obsessed with a kind of love and beauty that is both divine and formative. He hopes that under the "hypocrisy" of his constant attack on British society, people can become as "ideal" as he; he hopes that his Bosie has not been hurt, To be able to laugh as heartily as he is recklessly mad - young laughter. Robie is more similar to his wife, they are both "quiet" and they don't need his "reform".
Bosie might actually be a little schizophrenic that she doesn't dare to face her feelings. And when Wilde was in prison one day and he needed to take this feeling seriously, it became less pure for him and became a responsibility - it was his willfulness that led Wilde to prison. His feelings require his "dare to face", which is a passion and a challenge for him. Robie is a formal rival in love to him. In his heart, he may not take Robie too seriously. He knows that Wilde loves him. But the presence of Robie is also necessary, and Bosie needs a "rival" to adjust his feelings for Wilde.
Robie converted to Catholicism when Wilde had another lover. It's a bit of self-imposed confinement, as if it had foreseen Wilde's uninhibited future and the tragic fate he would endure. When it all came true little by little, Robie's guilt grew, and he always felt that he was the one who killed Wilde. In the entanglement of love and self-blame, he chose to be indifferent to life and keep silent about his feelings. He could take off his hat and salute Wilde in the midst of the scolding of the crowd, he could help Wilde collect letters and photos, and he could recite Wilde's poems, but he never expressed his feelings positively.
Robie is like another wilde, more earthly and peaceful, with a lover's heart.
I couldn't help but google it, he was the one who accompanied Wilde to the end. Wilde converted to Catholicism in the last year of his life. Maybe he didn't really believe in some myths like God in heaven, but he must be 200,000 lucky to have Robie with him. Believing what he believed, along with his beliefs, was probably the only thing he could do for Robie.
Of course, there are adaptations in the movie, but the script and actors' performance of Robie's role is enough to let me know the most kind part of this person, and the best supporting actor must be awarded to him. The final subtitle of the movie says that Robie was buried in Wilde's tomb after his death. I don't know if it was the one from Lachaise Cemetery. Could the "lady" who donated the tomb be him?
The countless kisses on Wilde's tombstone should be dedicated to the person who loved him all his life.
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