The film uses two independent parallel time and space to tell the story of two women, one is Mrs. Wallis Simpson, the protagonist of the fairy tale "I love the country but not the beauty", and the other is Wally, a young woman who has suffered from domestic violence and has no support. Connecting them is the recurring museum about Edward VIII and Mrs Simpson in the story. Wally lingers in this exhibition hall many times, where, through pieces of old Edwards, the United Kingdom in the 1930s and the United States in the 90s are connected.
The film begins with two separate scenes, two lonely women, one is in the bathtub after waiting for her first husband for six hours, but is pulled out and beaten by the brutal husband who has just returned. In front of the bathtub, there was a pool of blood on the ground, and Mrs. Simpson lost her fertility forever after the first marriage. Another modern woman, Wally, was waiting for her husband to come back for dinner in a splendid and deserted home, but she received a phone call that could not come back for dinner.
Two women who were unlucky to begin with.
By chance, Wally listened to the story of Edward VIII and his wife Mrs Simpson on the radio. The prince gave up the throne and exiled his motherland for this twice-divorced American woman. It is such a story that Wally, a young housewife who can't get the heart of her husband who can't go home all day and night, has sustenance, and she begins her crazy love for the couple in the fairy tale.
That is to say, in her repeated trips to the exhibition hall about the Edward couple, the film shows the good memories of Mrs. Simpson and the prince's first encounter and love through the fragments.
This part is also the most touching and softest part. The prince appears as a reckless youth with a cigarette butt in his mouth. In the first dance with a married woman, Mrs. Simpson, he seems to bow down to her pomegranate skirt. He loves her tune martinee, he marveled at her astonishing political alignment with him, he asked her to call him by his nickname David...until at a banquet he pulled her skirt and she shouted "David, you Stepping on my skirt" only made their relationship clear.
Her second husband, a kind-hearted and forbearing man, voluntarily withdrew from the relationship.
Those were their most carefree days, frolicking on the beach, the promise of the cross, she danced for him, he dragged her through the layers of reporters and flashes in Italy.
Such a high profile will inevitably disturb the British royal family, and he is faced with a choice: she is still the country
. Next, as history has said, the affectionate king, the king who has been on the throne for less than a year, announced his abdication for the sake of her beloved woman,
"please you all. Be sure to take my word for it, although I hope I can continue to shoulder the heavy responsibility of the king and fulfill the duties of the king, none of this will be possible without the support and help of the woman I love."
Hear this passage The words were very heavy and moved. The love of this man was unimaginable.
Seeing this, I also thought that this movie is like this, telling the prince to give up everything for the woman he loves, and finally the prince and princess live happily together.
But Madonna, tells us otherwise.
Are the prince and princess happy? ? ?
He will never be able to return to the land of England for eternity. The duke calls his younger brother time and time again, hoping to return to the United Kingdom. Time and time again, the answer is "The king is busy".
At this time, the movie has gone through an hour and a half, from the lonely housewife who can't wait for her husband to return home, to the failure of her serious attempt to save her husband, and then to being beaten by her ruthless husband once, completely heartbroken After feeling cold, the security guard whom the exhibition hall met many times walked into Wally's life, and Wally regained her love. The love of the Edwards who supported Wally's passing was still the biggest sustenance in her heart. When she learned that Mrs. Simpson still had many important letters in the hands of an old man who was far away in Paris, she immediately flew to Paris. With permission, she opened the dusty black box. Inside are correspondence between Mrs. Simpson and her aunt after marriage.
"Aunt Bessie ,I feel shamed to admit that I suffocated by his constant attention"
“Like a child, he continues to bemoan his lack of usefulness. Yet, how can I change that which I caused?”
“He used me to escape his prison only to incacerate me in my own”
“But I've so tired of it. What have I done to deserve this treatment?"
"I've never had a word said in my defense, or a kind word in the press"
"I feel I've disappointed him."
"I feel like an animal in a trap, and there are two buzzards working over me."
"You have no idea how hard it is to live out the greatest romancy of the century```and now ,I have to be with him always````And always and always." As Mrs. Simpson
herself said, why
do people only focus on what he gave up? What about what I gave up? Emotions are just right
Can you bear the love given to you in exchange for this? Will
you always feel that under such a shadow, you are the one who can't deal with him, that you harmed him, and you can't even go back home? To love him or not to love him now, you must be obliged to love him, or you will be cast aside by more people.
You have to be with him always ```and always and always.
At the end of the film, in 1972, the dying Prince Edward lies on the bed and whispers
dance for me again
. We see the aging Mrs. Simpson in his hospital bed When I danced before, it was really beautiful.
It seemed
that he was still a prince many years ago, the real prince. He said dance for me, she came on stage, and her sexy figure ignited the atmosphere of the audience.
At the end, the heroine Wally, after reading those dusty letters, finally understands that fairy tales also have a realistic side, which may not be the same as what she thought when she was suffering in the abyss, anyway, now she has found happiness, her lover Waiting for her at home, she was on the phone and disappeared happily on the screen
. The last screen is a series of subtitles
. In 1972, he died, and after many years, he finally returned to his home, England, where she slept.
In 1986, she died in France, The body was transported back to England and buried next to him.
WE= Wallis and Edward=We
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