When the raging fire burns out... all that's left is love

Rozella 2022-12-18 13:12:12

Originally, because I hated Penelope, I never allowed myself to watch such a movie, even if it was a love movie starring Cage, who I liked very much. Starting from HEAD IN THE CLOUDS, I found that this Spanish woman, who I always felt was earthy and fierce, had a special charm. She was indeed local, but she was strong and persistent. At a special moment, she showed the gentleness of Spanish wildness, making her The man couldn't resist, and gradually understood the reason why the beautiful and noble Nicole lost her husband. The two men who love her in this
movie are the handsome guy BALE and the melancholy guy CAGE, I'm really envious.

Talking about the triangular story brought about by the war feels old-fashioned. Peregia, a Greek woman played by Penelope, has a thin body with the simplicity and toughness of that country, wants to be a doctor, wants to have a vigorous love affair, and her eyes hide expectations that she may not have understood at first. . The day after the handsome fiancé Mendros put the engagement ring on her hand, she was heading to the battlefield. The long misses are slowly peeling off the cocoons in the letters, the seemingly beautiful implication, but in the end, the truth of love is revealed - love can't wait too long, especially when the other end of the concern does not have any respond. Peregia's enthusiasm also slowly burns out like a fire.

Moreover, the change of heart seems to be something that others cannot predict. Even if the fiancé is a handsome guy like BALE and a fighting hero, the Italian-speaking Mantorin still attracts Peregia from the first meeting. He led his brothers to pay tribute to her beauty when they marched. , when he returned to her house drunkenly in the middle of the night - the place where he lived, he did not forget to bring a flower for her. From habitually rejecting an occupying army at first, to being moved by the sound of his piano, because he did not invite him at the ball and danced the most gorgeous dance steps that night to burn his eyes, to trying his best to save his life , and then willingly let him go because of his guilt... in love, that's all. And Peregia's words when saying goodbye are her silent and firm watch all the time: when everything is over, you have to come back to me.

Dad with a cute goatee is always a wise character, and his subtle lines show the old man's understanding of love and marriage. Peregia reported to Dad that Mendros came to propose to him, and Dad said:

"Don't ask me, I'm not marrying him. Why marry, everyone gets married too early. And I won't give a dowry, you should marry for love."
"But I love Mandros."
"You guys . Not a type of person, Mandros can't stand his woman being better than him, he's a man after all. I always thought you
should marry a foreign elephant..."
"Dentist from Norway."

Some time ago there was someone else Quoted, just excerpt it:

Love is a short-lived crazy phenomenon
, like an earthquake, it subsides after the earthquake
subsides, after subsidence, you have to make a judgment
to determine whether you two are connected
. Not open
because . . . That is love

Love is not excitement, not impulsive, not the next day's sex,
not tossing and turning every night, longing for him to kiss you all over your body
That 's love, not love. .. the rest, that is love! PS Pity my favorite BALE starred in the fiancé Mandros, who became a fighting hero, but his wife was robbed by the enemy. He even saved his life by fighting his rival and enemy in the dead, and sent him back to China when the situation was critical. Alas, if a good person does this, they still can't bring back the heart of beauty, there is really no way.







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Captain Corelli's Mandolin quotes

  • Corelli: [upon first seeing Pelagia] Bella bambina at two o'clock!

  • Iannis: [writing to Corelli] Antonio, I do not know if this letter will reach you, or even if you are alive. Perhaps someone else sent your record, and that is why we found no note. I would like to say that Pelagia is happy, but she is full of tears she will not let fall, and of a grief no doctor can mend. She blames herself for the pain we have suffered, and perhaps the same is true for you. You know I am not a religious man, but I believe this: if there is a wound, we must try to heal it. If there is someone whose pain we can cure, we must search till we find them. If the gods have chosen that we should survive, it will be for a reason.

    [the great earthquake strikes]