gardenia, or oleander

Oceane 2022-03-23 09:03:17

Do you like Rene Liu? I like it, and I like it a lot.

When watching "Marriage Notice", the Chinese teacher of the elementary school who was a little bald commented on Rene Liu: "Clean!" I smiled knowingly, which was exactly the same as my usual feeling for Rene Liu. Clean is the best thing I can say about a girl. A friend's online name is "May Gardenia", and my first reaction was to think of a song by Rene Liu: "Gardenia, white petals, fall on my pleated skirt..." That is also a clean girl.

Liu Ruoying, who has come all the way from "Girl's Little Fishing", has not become cloudy because of her age, but has become more and more pure. She and Maggie Cheung are somewhat similar, but completely different. Maggie Cheung's brilliance is not dimmed because of age, but brighter. I often say that Maggie Cheung married an old foreigner as if she had been reborn, like a phoenix. Rene Liu is like a piece of crystal.

Gardenia should be a shrub with lush foliage. The first time I saw gardenias was in Lianyungang. There were many gardenias in that city. It was early summer, when the gardenias were in full bloom. Meilun is beautiful and magical, much like a statue of jade. It also feels very clean. If Rene Liu is likened to a flower, the most appropriate one is a gardenia.
I watched a movie last night, "White Oleander". In my impression, oleander is also a very beautiful flower. Most of the flowers I have seen are red and yellow, so it has an enchanting feeling. I also know that oleander is called a sanitation tree because she has strong resistance to harmful gases such as carbon dioxide and sulfur dioxide. So I think 15-year-old Astrid should be able to resist the various erosions of society after her mother was imprisoned, and she should be able to get out of the mud and not be stained. As a result, she has grown from a clean half-baked girl to a gaudy woman. When she entered the first family that adopted her, I was really worried that I would see a plot like "Lolita", but fortunately not, the director must not have the heart to let this clean child be sullied. But in the end, she was thrown into the big dye vat of society. Seeing that Astrid in heavy make-up broke my heart and felt the urge to cry. I'm actually afraid to meet the girls I once loved, afraid that the years will change them from gardenias to oleanders.

In order to understand the origin of another translation of "White Oleander", "Poison Beauty Flower", I checked the information on the Internet, and it turned out that the juice of oleander is highly poisonous. It's not surprising at all, there will inevitably be highly toxic bodily fluids under the enchanting appearance, so I am on guard against everything that looks enchanting.

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Extended Reading

White Oleander quotes

  • Astrid: How long were you gone?

    Ingrid: About a year, give or take a few months.

    Astrid: My God.

    Ingrid: You're not asking the right question. Don't ask me why I left. Ask me why I came back.

    Astrid: You should have been sterilized.

    Ingrid: I could have left you there, but I didn't. Don't you understand? For once, I did the right thing! When I came back, you knew me. You were sitting by the door, and you looked up, and you reached for me. It was as if you had been waiting for me all along.

    Astrid: I was always waiting for you, mother. That's the constant in my life. Waiting for you. Will you come back? Will you forget that you tied me in front of a store or left me on a bus?

    Ingrid: Are you still waiting?

    Astrid: No. I stopped when Claire showed me what it felt like to be loved. What did you think, that I would amuse you? That's what babies are like, mother. What'd you think? We'd exchange thoughts on Joseph Brodsky?

    Ingrid: I thought Klaus and I would live happily ever after. That's what I thought, Adam and Eve in a vine-covered shack. I must have been out of my mind.

    Astrid: You were in love with him.

    Ingrid: YES, I was in love with him. ALRIGHT? I was in love with him, and baby makes three, and all that crap!

    Astrid: Then why did you leave him? Why did you leave him?

    Ingrid: I didn't leave him! He left me. You wanna know about your father? He left us when you were six months old for another woman, and I never saw him again until he showed up looking for you when you were eight years old.

    Astrid: He came to see me?

    Ingrid: Yes, he came to see you but it was a little late, wasn't it? Why should I let him see you after what he did to me?

    Astrid: Because it wasn't about you! It was about me, and I wanted to see him! My whole life, I've wanted to see him. That decision was MINE, not yours. Everything's always been about you, never about me. I knew you were gonna kill Barry, but you didn't even care. You didn't give a damn about what that would do to me. I'll say whatever Susan wants me to say, but I gotta get outta here.

    Ingrid: No! No, no, no. You don't just walk away from me. I made you, I'm in your blood. You don't go anywhere until I let you go!

    Astrid: Then let me go. You look at me and you don't like what you see, but this is the price, mother. The price of belonging to you.

    Ingrid: If I could, I'd take it all back. I would.

    Astrid: Then tell me you don't want me to testify. Tell me you don't want me like this. Tell me you would sacrifice the rest of your life to have me back the way I was.

  • [last lines]

    Astrid: No matter how much she damaged me... no matter how flawed she is... I know my mother loves me.