I really got to Florence

Madisyn 2022-03-24 09:02:44

When I saw this film six years ago, I never thought I would go to Florence. Today I looked through my old diary and saw the film review of that year. Florence has been to the room without a view, and the scenery is outside the window. It's just that I don't have the luck to meet a young man who will put a question mark plate across from you for dinner.
Below is the diary from that time.

A room with view, a British film from 1986, became the theme of the weekend.
Adapted from EM Forster's novel of the same name, the French lieutenant's woman preaches a similar theme, pursuing individual liberation and sneering at old etiquette. The plot is obvious, meeting, attracting each other, tacit, emotional breakthrough, revisiting old places, there is no description. But the British style, the Florentine singing, and the beautiful watercolor scenery make people feel beautiful and beautiful.
There is no clear concept of what British style should look like. It's just that the heroine's bright eyes, with a deer-like spirit and care, fluffy and brilliant long hair, and the beauty of lace, make people think that the old-fashioned British ladies should be like that. He is obsessed with the piano, but uses the piano to play Beethoven's passion, and the arrogance cultivated by his strict tutor is repeatedly attracted by the hero. The conflict of classical drama is bright and gratifying. The British way of telling stories is always flowing.
Let's talk about the scenery. I remembered "there is true meaning here, but if you want to distinguish it, you have forgotten the words." The scenery seen from the "room with a view", the sky is light and cloudy, and the people in the city are far away, but the lens is too stingy. The heroine walks in the square, the camera becomes a wide-angle overhead shot, the ups and downs of pigeons in twos and threes, people stroll leisurely, the spires and buildings in the square are indifferent, and the ancient Roman sculptures that used to be alive and fragrant, everything is integrated in the afternoon. Point in the warm sunshine. What more can I ask for! But the director still has to sigh: Traveling through the forest trails in Italy, it is fresh and green; the male protagonist Xiao Qiao is standing in the long grass mixed with poppies, looking at the valley, the female protagonist Ami is slowly approaching, standing far away from him. Not far away, a distance that can be close or far away, waiting for him to turn back. Xiao Qiao fanned the air with his hat, then turned back, and walked quickly towards Ami, the beautiful scenery, the beauty, the singing, and the two lovely people kissed together.
That should be the realm of the unity of nature and man, and I watched it with passion on a boring Friday night.
Short of words for a while. The soundtrack in the film comes from Puccini, a romantic musician. In the alleys of Florence, in the bustling squares, and at the moment when the lovers meet, he is on the scene, or chatting quietly, or passionately. To overflow, or to sing beautifully, to write all the beautiful things in this world into the music, not enough to write, not enough to sing, not enough to say, to paint, look at the poster of this movie. (

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Extended Reading
  • Queenie 2022-03-25 09:01:14

    It's really not even a bit of a movie from 1985, except that a few big stars in the movie are old now, which can remind us. . . . I will continue to be attracted by the costumes in the play. Now it seems that there are no fierce conflicts, no artificial hypocrisy, no old routines, and the background of World War II. It turns out that this kind of love can be really pure and soft like beautiful. "call me by your name" really has a similar tone, but the free-spirited, shy and frank mood of each protagonist makes the old aunt show a kind smile

  • Arne 2022-01-07 15:53:09

    The story itself is not new, and the artistic execution is quite interesting. It can be called the light comedy sister film of "The Age of Innocence".

A Room with a View quotes

  • [last lines]

    George Emerson: Kiss me, dear. Again.

    Lucy Honeychurch: I'm reading.

    George Emerson: What are you reading?

    Lucy Honeychurch: It's from Freddy.

    George Emerson: What does he say?

    Lucy Honeychurch: Silly boy. He thinks he's being dignified. I mean, everybody knew we were going away in the spring.

  • [Cecil reads off Eleanor Lavish's Novel]

    Cecil Vyse: A far off the towers of Florence and she wandered as though in a dream through the wavering golden sea of barley touched with crimson stains of poppies. All unobserved he came to her. Isn't it immortal? There came from his lips no wordy protestations such as formal lovers use, no eloquence was his, nor did he suffer from the lack of it. He simply unfolded her in his manly arms