It's great to see a film like this in such a cultural environment where strangulation of romanticism is mainstream. Because his love for her is impeccable. I know, you would say, that he fell in love with his own imagination. But, my dear, love is falling in love with your own imagination. This has been the case since ancient times, cris is the muse of the phantom. Only a true artist, the love and pursuit of his inner goddess of art will be eternal, and can be hot forever, until death. With his perfect appearance, musical talent and innocence, cris deserves to be the perfect incarnation in the heart of this extremely picky man. So he can love her so much and love her forever. In Phantom's heart, she has been completely museized. That's why I said that his love for her is eternal, and it is also a love that can be eternal both emotionally and rationally.
Cris should love him too. I mean it should. Because after carefully checking a lot of behind-the-scenes footage and the director's elaboration, I think the original intention of the creator is to make her love him too. It's just that Amy was too young back then, and her acting skills and experience could not support this heavy and tangled relationship, and many key turning points were not in place. On the contrary, her relationship with the Viscount childhood sweetheart is so natural that many people will mistakenly think that the Phantom is being selfish, and some people will say that it is not how much you give that you will get love. This is actually the director's failure. However, to pick a 16-year-old girl, she must be beautiful and pure, and she must be able to sing opera. Often times like this, her youthfulness in acting seems to be no longer the point.
Fortunately, the flaws do not hide the beauty. Because Gerard is really radiant, the darkness contained in the character itself is reflected by his radiance. Even if the mask is taken off, his beauty is still striking, the ugly right face, the beautiful left face, extremely beautiful Ugly and extremely beautiful, echoing the two sides of this world. And the most amazing thing is that Gerard's beauty does not see a trace of femininity at all. He really achieves the ultimate beauty in masculinity. It is illogical that such a male protagonist with ghostly charm can't be fascinated by the heroine. .
Then it comes to reality, part of the reason why Phantom seeks Cris is also reality, and the ultimate reason why Cris leaves Phantom is also reality. A genius who came to the world with an ugly right face, was abandoned by his mother, was bullied since childhood, and hid himself all year round. When he saw the little girl praying in the twilight grow into a beautiful girl in white, his feelings for her must have changed. The genius who was abandoned by the world should really want to return to the world and experience the days when someone accompanies someone and cares about him.
For a girl who grew up in reality, the day she longed for should be leaning on her lover's arms in the sun and watching cute children play on the lawn. This is not a fairy tale "Beauty and the Beast". Cris is an ordinary girl in a period of confusion. Although she is kind, she is not much kinder than ordinary girls. And the Phantom scared her from the very beginning. His tragic fate distorted a part of his soul. To be realistic, which woman would spend her life accompanying a man who was irritable and eccentric and could not see the light? It will polish her love. However, I still appreciate the darkness in Phantom, his sensitivity and irritability, his bloodthirsty cruelty, his destructive power, because it is this, together with his lightness, that makes his immortal art.
In the days when they were separated forever, when the fear and anxiety in Cris's heart had settled, her thoughts about the phantom would be overwhelming. Because this angel who combines light and darkness has long since been integrated into her soul in countless past days, and her betrayal of him - when she realized this when she said goodbye to the confusion period - will only be in the comfortable days , making her miss him even more tormenting her soul.
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