"Love in a Country", Edward and Mrs. Simpson, is not a fairy tale in which a prince and a princess live happily forever, but I have always been willing to regard it as the most romantic love legend of the last century. I used to be very puzzled. In the country where I live, there have been so many emperors for thousands of years. Although there are many heroes and talents, those who prefer the mortal life of the talented and beautiful are not extinct, but after all, no one is willing to fulfill the "don't love the country". Love Beauty" romance.
When I write these words, I have seen the movie twice. It is not a romantic and heart-pounding story, but I am moved by the same plot time and time again. A lot of people in the critics called the film superficial, confusing, boring, all kinds of things, and I think if the director wasn't Madonna, maybe these guys who kill with pens would be a lot more polite. Time and space are intertwined. Wallis and Wally, both women, enjoy or suffer their own joys and pains on the sometimes parallel track of time and destiny. The contemporary-born Wally is fascinated by Wallis's story, looking for her gestures in her old things time and time again. Wally struggles to escape the invisible shackles as she gets lost in her all-encompassing married life, and Wallis becomes the unquenched flame of her fragile spirit.
Wallis, Mrs. Simpson, is not beautiful, but she has achieved a century of romance that belongs to the world. I have always admired Madonna's wisdom for using WE as the title of the film. Wallis, Edward, who fell in love with each other became an inseparable "we". Because she fell in love with the prince, some people called her an American slut, and they used the most vicious words to criticize this unarmed woman, but she could only bear it. "There is nothing difficult in life, as long as you are willing to be resigned." I never imagined how much worldly cynicism that arrogant and cunning woman would have to go through before she was willing to bow her head and be resigned, and she was unwilling to join her accusers to speculate that she was coveting the crown of the city. deep evil woman. She's just Wallis, the Duchess of Windsor born for love.
Of course, love is obviously not the whole of the movie. Madonna strives to change the world's perspective. Everyone saw that Edward gave up the throne for Wallis, but no one thought about what Wallis paid for this so-called greatest love of the century. Her freedom, her privacy, and even her final dignity. The high society who once flattered her spurned her, and the close friends who once surrounded her betrayed her, and all of this was just because she didn't fall in love with someone else, but in the future when she took over the throne, but she was like a puppet and could not express a representative. The prince of position speech. Is she worth it? Just like the lyrics in the ending song, you never know how hard it takes to fall in love with a masterpiece. Cold and warm, self-aware.
It's just that the movie is more pessimistic to me, I'm afraid. When Wally, who was blurred in time and space, tried to persuade Wallis who was crying desperately on the bed, Wallis slapped her in the face mercilessly, "Wake up, this is not a fairy tale." Wallis who became a duchess and a former king Banned from the royal family, barred from returning to England, and becoming the most famous idler in the world, Wallis finally exclaimed, "You don't know what it's like to live in a century of great love stories. I must be with him forever." , forever..." At the end of the movie, Wallis is no longer as glamorous as before, Edward is in a long sickbed, and they are like an ordinary old couple. Wallis asked Edward if he wanted to listen to her read, Edward said, give me a dance, I want to see you dance my favorite dance, Wallis smiled, skinny body, stiff movements, no more youthful charm Kind of shock. No matter how many accusations they have experienced in the years after they choose to be together, and how many disputes they have, I think at that moment, they should be happy with each other. Dance, how many love legends can accompany its owners for a lifetime?
Edward and Wallis were married for more than 30 years and were buried together after their deaths, known as the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. Life is different, bed and death are the same, for a love legend, this is all.
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