It's been a few days since Parade's End premiered Friday. It's time for a rant. Like Frankenstein, this is my first impression after seeing it only once and not reading any other reviews. When I read it a second time, I often have more ideas, and I will write another article at that time.
Watched the episode at the London Hilton on Friday night for a friend's weekend wedding. I always feel that their TV is not big enough and not high-definition enough, and watching it is not enjoyable enough. Also, I didn't understand a lot of the words and phrases (such as the scene on the road, a lot of Shawon quotes), although I understand the general meaning. I was very annoyed, so I simply bought the original book to read. Now that I have read most of the first part, I can't help but spit it out. So this review is the first impression plus the first reading.
Well, I admit I've never heard of Parade's End, and if it wasn't for Benedict, I probably wouldn't watch it. Very shallow starting point. . . But I did put aside the "nostalgia" that I lacked temporarily, and watched the play from an artistic perspective. [
First of all, of course, Christopher. The missing face and cheeks melted like a guinea pig stuffed with stolen food but acting as if nothing had happened. It was really cute. The book describes him as a big fast, a typical Yorkshire man. (I jumped directly to the York accent in my mind, and suddenly felt that the lack of standard English sounded wrong.)
[Spoiler alert]: A civil servant from the "National Bureau of Statistics" (this is the first few days of talent missing?) . This character is so sad. The wife had an open affair, and the night before the wedding, she had sex with her married lover and married her son. Everyone knew that the son was not his. The joke of the whole of London, his head is really green. In this case, he is also unwilling to divorce (abandoning his wife) because of ethical issues. Later, I met the young and clean little beauty Valentine, who was consensual but had to stick to the promise of marriage, even if it was only one-sided.
I watched it for half an hour and felt so angry that I almost shook the TV, and this impulse had nothing to do with my cheating wife. The role of Christopher, when I chatted with a colleague on Tuesday, used a vivid word to describe it, which is constipation. My colleague is getting old, and he actually sprayed the screen with a sip of tea.
It sounds good, it can be said that he is forbearing, and the bad thing is the feeling that the stool can't come out. For the first half of the episode, he was silently arguing with his wife and mother-in-law, seemingly unmoved, but Benedict's fifty-layered gray-blue eyes brought his persecution to the fullest. It's like a first-class expert in the rivers and lakes fell into Pingyang and was bullied by two pampered tigresses. Out of loyalty, he had to knock down his teeth and swallow his blood.
In the second half of the episode, the second female protagonist danced and made a scene without using Fendai. Later, the two spent a night alone, during which there were countless moving scenes. This is a good time for the right place and the right people. . If this person wants to be in the Celestial Dynasty, it is Yiliuxiahui. I remember yelling at the TV: WOULD YOU JUST KISS HER ALREADY!!! I guess if it wasn't for me missing on the TV, I'd have to turn it off to save my mind.
My colleague says he has a lot of sympathy for Christopher, but I find him pathetic and self-inflicted. The character is doomed (well, the author is doomed), and he's a total masochist asking for his own troubles. This can be better contrasted if the "bad wife" is described in detail.
Speaking of the cheating wife Sylvia. I do like her very much. First of all, in terms of shape, she is very in line with the image of the original book, thin, red hair, brown eyes, and brilliant. The image of a lady who turns into a slut in one second is really deep in my heart~~~ It's strange that I watched Rebecca Hall and a beautiful James McAvoy before, why didn't I think she was so beautiful. This Edwardian look suits her tall. Along with her slightly hoarse voice, it fits my Sylvia very well.
Why do you like her? Of course, Rebecca is a very good actor, and he portrays the role to the core. But I actually really appreciate the character of Sylvia. Her IQ and knowledge are obviously not on the same level as Christopher, but she is free and unrestrained, dares to love and hate, and ran away with people to torture her husband, in fact, she cares about his every little reaction (but this man didn't respond). This style, to be honest, although contemptible, has the shadow of modern women (so Christopher is indeed old-fashioned, conservative).
She hated her husband. The mother had forced him to marry him at the beginning. At that time, young girls had a married child in their womb, and being able to marry Christopher, who was willing to take responsibility, was really burning incense. He revises the encyclopedia over breakfast, turning a deaf ear to her sarcasm and blatant provocation, and she smashes dishes to get him to look up. She said he was an emotionless piece of wood, but deliberately ignored his deeply hurt eyes.
This is a couple who torture each other. What she did was not because she fell in love with anyone, but to torture him, to make him suffer, to bring him down, just to provoke him into anger and even the slightest reaction from him. He endured silently. So she intensified. Abandoned her husband, abandoned her son, and ran away with her lover for four months. The trouble was known throughout London. Finally, she got tired of it. She wrote a letter to her husband, not saying that she regretted apologizing, but said that she could not live without her maid and called her Wait outside the door for her to enter. Although cruel, it gave me an almost perverted pleasure. That's what it's like to be a woman. 【Hey. . . lower limit. . .
The reason why she hates her, in her own words, is to say a few words on any topic of small talk, and he can talk about it at once, and calmly prove his point with his profound knowledge, and she will speak a word. Can't get in. Over time, this rebellious mentality reaches and becomes a situation of mutual torture. However, the depth of love, the responsibility of the cut. Hating people is tiring. Not to love deeply, nor to hate so thoroughly. But the expression is wrong.
Sylvia is like Carmen, uninhibited, lazy, frivolous, daring, flirtatious. She is the courtesan of the stars and the moon, and she alone can't get the warm love of the person beside her, so she made a riot, and the husband and wife turned against her and ignored it. She does this and that because she is bored. There is a passage in the book where she lies on the sofa, her hands resting on her knees, her eyes are air-proof, she stares at the ceiling panel, and murmurs: Bored, bored, bored! Maybe Socialite is more suitable.
Let's talk about Valentine. She is the first woman Christopher met in the book of his level. Young, smart, insightful, ambitious, advocating suffrage, idealist. But I don't know if it's because She seems to be young in the play, and it always makes me feel a strange feeling of "bad millet kidnapping and selling a little sister". She is so pure, just like a piece of white paper, with a pink face, a flat and tall figure, and the feeling of noodles in clear soup Reminds me of the period of the Republic of China, wearing school uniforms with long sleeves and knee-length skirts, with short ears, marching around and putting up slogans. At present, in the first episode, I still like Sylvia's boldness. Spicy, because she is full of women.
Parade's End, a common translation in the Chinese dynasty is "The End of the Queue", which means lining up to fight. After reading the book, I think the title actually refers to the beginning of World War I. , since things are right and wrong, and the peaceful era has become a dream shadow. Some of the meanings of the end of an era. It is like a person who has experienced a major blow and found that the previous small love, small love, small grievance and small temper are nothing compared to it. It feels like the weather is cool and it's autumn. I think it's more appropriate to call it "Open to Tumi", or "The End of Prosperity". The
above is the first experience after watching the first episode. As the plot unfolds, my opinion It will definitely be updated constantly. So if you think of anything, you just want to write it down and make a comparison later.
Let's talk a little bit more about this movie. Overall, it's really beautiful. The idyllic scenery of the United Kingdom (Belgium location) was photographed in a vast and beautiful manner. Obviously the crew has put in a lot of effort, probably HBO has more money than BBC, the costumes and props are ingenious, and the Edwardian romance comes through every little detail. Every shot, especially the part where Christopher and Valentine are driving through the fog, is simply mesmerizing. And the scene where Christopher coaxed the child to sleep was very tear-jerking and heart-warming. Looking at the trailer, the war scenes are no different from the big productions. Thinking of this, I can't help but look forward to the second episode this Friday.
above. Going to see other people's movie reviews tomorrow~
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