"Poor and indeterminate riverside bones, still like a person in a spring boudoir's dream", the long-lasting thoughts only add to the cruelty of reality. Through the seemingly magical well of Sally's house, the water waves change, and Ada sees Inman, who has been fascinated by her dreams, walking towards her. This is the introduction and the ending.
There are fewer and fewer wars in the United States. A Civil War has become an inexhaustible matrix of literature, film and television. The background of "Cold Mountain" makes it easy to compare it with the classic film "Gone with the Wind". Ada and Hao Sijia are also pampered and pampered southern ladies who do not touch the dust with their fingers. In the face of war, they are different from the rough and sharp The courage shown in the struggle for life is the same, but apart from this, the two films have no more similarities. Anthony W. of The English Patient. Minghella, who always chooses a very background of wars, still loves love, and then it is about human nature, about morality and so on. "Gone with the Wind" is more like a feminist film. The baptism of war made Hao Sijia stronger, and Bai Ruide's love made her understand the true meaning of life, but if there was no war and no love, Hao Sijia would still be Hao Sijia. Attachment is the black soil under my feet. And Ada, without the support of love, is not a complete Ada. In the desolate rear, Ada, who has experienced the loss of her father, bankruptcy, and can hardly survive, the only belief that supports her is to wait, waiting for the man to return safely from the battlefield and return to her side. So every day she writes letters that her lover may never receive, reads the same book over and over again, and uses the only photo to reminisce about the happy times in the past... "Cold Mountain" is actually more of a love story 's video.
From the Oscar-winning hit to the loss of The Lord of the Rings III, the reviews for Cold Mountain have been buzzing for months, but my interest has been limited to a few minutes of trailers. Everyone said that the beautiful and moving Nicole. I don't think Kidman is suitable for playing an innocent girl. Her domineering temperament can't match the shy expression of a girl who is just beginning to love. The farm girl Ruby stole a lot of the limelight.
The emotional expression in the nineteenth century is not straightforward. At the beginning of the film, they are separated, but the feelings are in the process of thinking. The lovers were not very clear at the beginning. They only met a few times, said a few words, and only had time to give a quick kiss when they parted, but in the difficult years that followed, they looked forward to it and made peace with their hearts. The body practices the fidelity to love. Such romantic and traditional love is a bit inconceivable to modern people. Perhaps it was the Civil War that prompted them, and it was the war that sublimated a virtual waiting for a certain hope into a For the beautiful persistence, it is the memories again and again that make the hazy feelings more sweet and heartwarming. Or, from another aesthetic point of view, it is the war that sublimates the ordinary love that may have been buried in the firewood, rice, oil and salt, making it shine brightly before facing the severe test of separation and death.
In fact, in many works, war is only used as an ad hoc background, because its sudden appearance and accompanying killings, deaths, and separations make all mundane and material conditions incomprehensible, because life is fleeting. Extraordinary nostalgia for all the good things that can be captured. In that war with heavy casualties, when the surviving Inman was in a coma, under the call of a letter from home, he strongly missed her who had been separated for four years without any news. At this time, she was not only a simple The object of love is a sign of homesickness.
On one side is Ada's waiting and rebuilding her home in the rear, and on the other side is Inman's arduous journey back home. The two clues are intertwined and parallel. "Cold Mountain" continues the shooting techniques in "The English Patient", and the reality and memory are constantly intertwined. The free switching of different time and space, the bloody battlefield full of bones and the beautiful landscape manor in the southern United States, the lens language full of contrasts allows us to see the destruction of the homeland and the distortion of human nature by the war, and it is also extremely natural in the longing for a beautiful peace. conveyed anti-war sentiment. Any war, no matter how just and inspiring its motives, and no matter how positive and historically consistent its results are, the process must be cruel and inhumane, and it will be an outright disaster for either side. Especially a protracted war.
After all, the theme of "Cold Mountain" is still the "trust and waiting" of love. The cruel war to set off the best human emotions has long been the usual way of expression in movies. If these extremes can be perfectly combined, then What comes out is often a magnificent and moving epic. Compared with "The English Patient", I don't think "Cold Mountain" is such a magnificent epic. It actually only tells the emotional journey of a pair of ordinary men and women in troubled times. It depicts individuals more than grasps the atmosphere of the times. , there is no ups and downs of fate, no storyline with big openings and closings, love is just pure love, and does not involve any questioning of social moral values, war is only as a sudden historical event that interferes with personal life, thus the fate of the individual Being ruthlessly exiled, including feelings, was also the test of life and death. Although the film is filled with desolate and chilling cool tones from beginning to end, the romance and warmth flowing in it, like the beautiful and quiet cold mountain scenery shown from time to time, make us temporarily forget the war in the distance, although we clearly remember the "Blue Bridge of Soul Broken". "The ruthless destruction and mockery of love and life by war. And here, just from a personal point of view, the love between Ada and Inman can even be called perfect, they trust each other from beginning to end, there is no accident, no waves, no third party, just the increasing constancy , pure and romantic, and some are only destined to be unsatisfactory between them because of the war, so let the short-lived beauty become an eternity. In the end, after a lot of hardships, Inman and Ada finally reunited after a brief sweetness. Unexpectedly, Yin and Yang are forever separated. I always feel that this kind of plot arrangement is too dramatic. It seems that the director did it deliberately to sublimate the theme, and the monotony almost falls into the cliché.
Thinking about it, it doesn't seem that simple. After the war, Lengshan is still beautiful and full of life. On some sunny afternoons, Ada will drink tea with the surviving villagers. Her calm expression is like a quiet and clear sky, and life is still beautiful. I'm thinking, is it just the love that lives in her heart and the unforgettable spring night moment that supports her to live? Is it just her daughter, little Inman? As the saying goes, like flowers and family members are like fleeting years. Facing the years is like facing death. Everyone seems so powerless, so sometimes what exists is more eternal than what has disappeared. The cold mountain, which has been rendered many times in the film, is not only a symbol of homeland, but also represents a kind of hope and a kind of belief, pursuing beauty, getting rid of war, and abandoning hatred. So it seems that the pure and unrealistic love in the film is actually to confirm such a hope and belief, and the short return that makes us sigh is actually a perfect interpretation of Ada's ideal. It's love, hope and the courage to continue living.
Who will prove the love and life of those who do not have tombstones? Perhaps no proof is needed at all. In my opinion, "Cold Mountain" is still a very humanized film, not just war and love. Hope may be something more ethereal, but sometimes the weak and boneless can occupy us more than the indestructible. heart, never go, you say? Thinking of a sentence in the Book of Songs, "Death and life are bound together, and you are happy with your son, and you hold your hand, and you grow old with your son." When it comes to life, sometimes we are just such a small wish. In peaceful times, it should be easier to achieve.
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