Life is like a play

Eduardo 2022-03-23 09:03:33

In Becoming Julia, there are several women who can be Julia.
No one will like her. From her appearance, exaggerated clothes, exaggerated words and deeds, and exaggerated emotions. People like to watch a play, but they don't necessarily like to face a person who is acting all the time every day. There is drama on and off the stage, joy and sorrow, that is the choice of people entering the theater; once out of the gate, the stage of life, everyone is the protagonist, how can they be able to accompany you to cry, cry and laugh. So at the beginning, I decided that the situation was not optimistic. Sure enough, the young lover who had admired her wholeheartedly moved away, and the husband who was like a business partner had other plans. The long-standing confidant of Lan Yan finally drifted away, and finally a fatal stage career was in danger. Real life is always more dramatic than the stage, and you don't even have the chance to complain when you turn around and complain about the misplacement of props. When everyone thought that "fade out" was her last choice, she unexpectedly exited the stage open-mindedly and calmly just to make a more eye-catching appearance in the next scene.
I have to admit, this was a pretty good turnaround. She was born to belong to this stage, and here is her best battlefield. However, this was not a victory, because she finally realized soberly that on the stage of life, she had been playing a one-man show written and acted by herself, and even the audience had already left the stage. This kind of loneliness is so sad, I even began to miss the woman who was so vain and exaggerated at the beginning, at least she could still entertain herself.
Sadly, this is a war that cannot be won forever. Some people say that this is a "women's war". In fact, I would rather believe that this is a confrontation with time and a contest of self. The desolate beauty of the twilight and the sadness of the end of the hero cannot escape the washing of the years. Why cast hostile eyes on young opponents, it is the surge of time that comes one after the other, and it will be overwhelmed and submerged when you are not careful. Beauty, just stay in a beautiful posture, and the graceful back figure that is gone is far better than the dying struggle with blue veins, not to mention this battle that has no chance of winning.
"Becoming Julia", she is no longer Julia. Life is like a play, no one is the protagonist forever; if a play is life, the splendor is just right. When that tear came out of her smiling eyes, all I heard was the singing behind her: I smile and say when a lovely flame dies, Smoke gets in my eyes.


Smoke Gets In My Eyes

They asked me how I knew my true love was true.
Oh I of course replied: "something here inside cannot be denied."
They said someday you'll find all who love are blind.
Oh, when your heart's on fire, you must realize smoke gets in your eyes.
So I chaffed them and I gaily laughed to think they could doubt my love.
Yet today my love has flown away,
I am without my love.
Now laughing friends deride tears I cannot hide.
Oh, so I smile and say when a lovely flame dies,
smoke gets in your eyes!

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Being Julia quotes

  • Julia Lambert: [to Evie] If you're thinking what I think you're thinking, stop thinking!

  • Evie: [to Julia] I wouldn't say this to your face, so I'll say it to your back... I missed you.