First, as a fan of McEwan, and I like the concept of the original book and the thinking about modern love. When I read the book, I felt that such a dramatic plot should really be It was made into a movie. Later, I found out that the director thought of it and realized it in 2004, but the result was not satisfactory.
The second reason, I can honestly say, is actually aimed at Xiaoben (the cooperation between Xiaoben and DC in the early years) ). This reason is the real fuse.
Speaking of movies.
1. Plot. Having read the original book, I have no expectations or worries about the plot. What should happen will always happen. He didn't make a point. So let's talk about the topic first. What is Enduring Love? The title of a love story. But for McEwan, who has been playing with love and affection for a long time, it is not only (please refer to his first two short stories), this phrase is more of a problem here, a for The deepest thoughts on love.
The origin of the story is the disaster caused by the hot air balloon, which intertwined the fates of strangers. The hero A meets the hero B. The climax that came at the beginning was calm, and the story changed its tone strangely. B starts at the place where the hero A appears at all times, and keeps saying ambiguous declarations between emotion and religion. I admit that at first I really thought he was a religious liar. When B was fascinated by A, it was almost crazy At that time, A gradually became fascinated by why B's behavioral motives, he continued to investigate, from a psychological point of view, B was determined to be de Clérambault's syndrome, a kind of paranoia. It is assumed that the other party loves him deeply but cannot express it publicly, only through his every move. Suggestion. So the patient will try to get close to each other. The main patient will stalk each other, and sometimes there will be violent acts to make the other party stay with him. The patient's understanding of this love can be heterosexual or homosexual , but more of a spiritual infatuation with religious overtones. This is a big difference between the film and the original. The film does not explain more about the identity and background of the hero B, which makes his infatuation very abrupt ; It is easy to lead the audience into the misunderstanding that the hero B is just an ordinary unrequited love development deformity. In order to increase the box office, the director/screenwriter made the two male protagonists have a very devoted passion scene at the end (although one is to achieve salvation. human purpose), but this trivializes hero B's love, which is insufficient to explain its relevance to the theme.
Then, the relationship between this disease and the theme is another shortcoming of the movie. The film does not give enough plot to the investigation of the psychological disease by the hero A, just a quick Internet search, and the A few shots are not enough to explain the importance of this disease, which makes it impossible to pave the way for the plot and highlight the theme. In the end, this story cannot escape the thinking and psychological analysis of love that McEwan is good at, so it contains There are all kinds of love, between hero and heroine; cheating professor and student; heroine's younger brother and foreign girlfriend, etc. Physical, spiritual... But, back to the title, how many can last forever? How many of them can be kept uninterrupted? Give an average... And most of the de Clérambault's syndrome patients love their objects until the patient's death, which is about seventy or eighty years, and they are very specific. Eternal love ? Probably only this metamorphosis can be realized...
Like all novels, a complete restoration is impossible. It's just that the director's understanding of many important details is not very satisfactory. Again, this is really not telling Same-sex stories, if you are looking at it for this purpose, your classmates will be mistaken... But the director seems to want to move the story closer in this direction, for example, in class, B sings God only knows what I'd The episode of be without you and later shouting I love you on campus is a confession of a crush, not the self-torture of a morbid love-fantasy person and the torture of each other. And the two men There is a big problem with the age setting of the protagonist. In the original book, the male protagonist A is in his 40s and B is in his 20s. There is a father-son attraction between the two, but the movie sets the age of the two to be Similar, it adds the factor of same-sex stories. This also deviates from the meaning of the original.
2. Actors. Aside from the unsatisfactory adaptation, the cast of this film is unexpectedly likable. It has not been DC I don't even like his Bond style, so I'm not a Bond fan. However, his style here is still very good. Although the acting is a little hard, it fits the director's desire for this role. The shape with glasses is also much better than Bond's...
Rhys Ifans in the second male lead has always been such a villainous character! For example, the legendary DJ in Pirate Radio, and the latest Dr. Lizard in Spider-Man. Seriously, he is really suitable for these roles! Not everyone has a natural evil nature! His character should be the one that I think is the most consistent with the setting of the original work
! But there is a scene between him and DC, and students who have seen SKYFALL will probably be as excited as I am. Here he is a student of DC, and DC wears glasses, which is the opposite of the Bond film. How does it feel? The dry chews of the predecessor and the current generation
also include Bill Nighy, the uncle's shape is the same there!! And Andrew Lincoln, who is really the best of the dragon, and then went to the United States to fight zombies... Familiar faces and Helen McCrory, her most famous role is Malfoy's mother in Harry Potter, and this woman also participated in SKYFALL, the very annoying MP who interrogated M... So there are really very few island actors. That's all...
So, it is recommended to read the original book before watching this film, otherwise the story will be confusing for a while and the middle part is a bit boring... But the cast of this film is really inexplicably poking my cute hole , I especially like a lot of films with familiar faces... They are all interesting history!
After all, this is an island country film, with a little background, a little problem, a little thinking, and a little familiar face. .. silently drags you to watch...
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