I haven't read the original, the following is just a rant about the plot.
When Tom came on, I thought he was some kind of cynical, lonely and proud, with an unknown past.
Because in the middle of the night he leaned back against the railing, sat on the floor on the balcony, and drank alone. And the little heroine stood at the door until dawn, he didn't pay any attention, and even had no pity for a child, could it be that she was aloof to the point of indifference?
This scene has never given him a frontal shot, and has a vague and increasingly mysterious sense of mystery. Until the next scene, the heroine stops by his self-portrait. This time it's a positive one. Although it's just a self-portrait, the effect is good. I'm very much looking forward to his appearance.
The housekeeper, who is also the heroine's aunt, also mentioned that he is addicted to gambling...
Then he just waited and waited until more than 20 minutes after the movie opened, and he finally appeared.
The next time he appeared, he was drunk and was sent home from the theater. It was said that he spent all his money...
According to the routine, he must be a person with a story. All the pretense before his frontal appearance seemed to point to this road. His self-portrait even has a skeleton with a dry hand on his shoulder from behind - the man in the portrait is melancholy and temperamental. Naturally, I was looking forward to it, but when he actually appeared, his slightly sturdy figure could not make people associate him with melancholy anyway! ! Lee Miller, who plays his younger brother, is much more temperamental, although his makeup is a little shaky. (I don't remember him in Train Guessing at all, and I never thought that the neurotic American version of Sherlock was so young.)
But at this point, I'm still looking forward to the story that will bring the eldest son Tom back. Sometimes a good character and good acting skills can make people completely ignore the appearance that does not match well, after all, the first impression is a good one.
To make a character three-dimensional and full, the easiest way is naturally that the surface of the good person is bad, and the surface of the bad person is good.
Because a person with the same appearance is the most boring, and creating a successful character is often extremely complicated. So I kept waiting, but halfway through the story, Tom never came back.
Is Edmund the first man? It seems that the heroine seems to like him.
So what is the purpose of Tom's appearance?
So I guessed that the heroine will meet Tom after being forced to leave, and even now, I still don't want to believe that Tom is a soy sauce!
Fanny likes Edmund, Edmund likes Mary, and Mary's brother Henry likes Fanny. Look at this tangled polyamorous love.
and then? Did Edmund finally find out that Fanny was his true love, while Fanny was already in love with Tom or Henry?
... Then Tom fell ill and needed someone to take care of him, so Edmund took the heroine back to the manor.
Later, Fanny found Tom's picture book on the ground. It was full of painful scenes: hanging, people holding swords... His heart was so painful.
At this time, I secretly rejoiced, this is the classic male protagonist!
The romantic Henry started hooking up with Edmund's sister, and later fell in love with Fanny, and washed his hands.
After Fanny returned to the manor, the two seemed to have signs of continued development. How could the screenwriter allow the heroine and the cannon fodder to be together? And the movie is almost over. So, Fanny quickly broke the adultery between Henry and Edmund's sister, and then Edmund actually wanted to kiss her when he was comforting Fanny...
The two cheated on her and eloped, while Henry's sister Mary was in front of her. Everyone's face openly calculated how much benefit Edmund, the second-in-line heir, would get if the eldest son Tom died of illness.
As a result, Edmund was disgusted with her, and finally realized who he really loved in his heart!
So touching! !
There were countless resentments in my heart. Edmund and Fanny were childhood sweethearts from the beginning. Although Edmund fell in love with someone else in the middle, he turned around when he did not cause any irreversible mistakes.
He created so many painful and twisted bridges for Tom, but all TM is an illusion. This guy is a prostitute who is the same on the surface.
Everything is the suspense and false obstacles set up by the screenwriter for the two childhood sweethearts of Fanny and Edmund, who have not been able to get together so smoothly.
In any good story, there must be such a thing as a barrier, but the point is that it has little power and doesn't cause any major reversal.
Even if every obstacle does not have to push the protagonist into an irreversible abyss, at least there must be some different situations! !
The scenery is good, and there are some attractive plots, but as far as the whole story is concerned, it is extremely bland, the degree of twists and turns, and the expansion of the story is not enough.
In the end, the role of Tom is actually a downright soy sauce, resentment!
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