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Mr. James Sell Kawaii is actually quite cute in real life [. Of course, this has nothing to do with this film review, so let's not express it for the time being. The reason he was brought up in the first place was that this Scottish charismatic guy from Scotland was said to look a lot like the real Tom Lefroy. And the film, by means of historical gaps and all sorts of coincidences, casts him as Jane Austen's young lovers--there is no doubt that they had been in love, as Miss Austen's correspondence with her sister tells us--and then A story that brought many women to tears.
Tom was a very good man, smart and handsome, almost "perfect" except that he was not rich. He is a very attractive person. Young Jane and him are attracted to each other at the ball - the film seems to place their "first impressions" on a similar position to Miss Elizabeth and Mr Darcy in order to highlight how Jane's own story relates to Pride and Prejudice —Jane thought happily about her sister explaining their flirtation at the ball, even as Jane Austen, who would later be famous, still looked like a cheerful and innocent teenage girl. She made a statement in the letter slightly rashly: "I intend to limit my future to Mr. Tom Lefroy." Although she deliberately added some words to weaken the dialogue, all the girls Words that come up involuntarily in happy love, no one has the right to criticize them for not being reserved or being too straightforward, because they can all be taken seriously.
I'm afraid Jane at that moment was really looking forward to it.
In the movie, they are in love, Tom says in the moonlight with his sincere eyes and trembling voice: "Jane, I'm yours. God! I'm yours!" He wants to work for their future together, so he takes her I went to see my uncle and hoped that he would like this girl who made him bend his lips involuntarily. But Uncle Benjamin, who is in charge of a family's financial power, does not despise a worthless Jane. Jane naturally disliked this "Mr. Collins" type of character, so they broke up. Tom becomes the man in the middle, the dilemma.
As for the real Tom, who lived in the 18th century, there is no exact record to prove that he took Jane to meet his uncle. Jane did stay with her brother Edward and on the street where Tom and his uncle Benjamin lived. But according to the wording analysis of Jane's letter to her sister, there is a high possibility that they were living together at that time. And although Jane herself is "worthless", her family is not as humble as other comments say. Her family has a lot of connections with local wealthy and famous families. It seems that Uncle Benjamin should be based on these conditions and Jane herself. Ignoring the fact that she was actually "worthless", Jane also thought the meeting was successful and enjoyable.
Here we need to insert something about Tom's family. Tom is the sixth child in the family, but the eldest son in the family. That is to say, in the ten years before Tom was born in 1776, Tom's parents had a really hard life because of the lack of support from the big parent in the family-Uncle Benjamin. Tom's father, Anthony, has been looking forward to the arrival of a boy every day since he married a poor girl, and he kept the marriage from his uncle Benjamin while he was looking forward to it. Tom's birth can be said to be a life-saver for Anthony, he was the first male of their generation, so it can be objectively said that Uncle Benjamin "doted" on Tom, sponsored his tuition, and took him with him himself. Anthony kept the family property by going to London to study law, and they had six more children after Tom. So we can understand Tom's "give up" in the film. Unlike Anthony, Tom has ten siblings, and as the eldest son, even the only talented person in the entire family, he has high expectations. In those days, whether he was able to stand out meant a lot, and he had a lot of responsibilities on his shoulders that he didn't need to carry - especially for his sister. If Jane really doesn't appeal to Uncle Benjamin's heart, their love will indeed ruin everything. Not only the future of Jane and Tom, but also the Lefroy family and the Austin family.
In the winter of 1796, the second year after their meeting, Jane began writing her book that would make her famous in the future—Pride and Prejudice, then called First Impressions. Jane was in love at the time, so there is no doubt that this work has a close relationship with Tom Lefroy, and even the surname "Bennet" comes from Tom's favorite novel "Tom Jones" "middle. But contrary to what critics usually suspect, the man with Miss Elizabeth's wit, energy and charm seems more like Tom Lefroy than Jane Austen herself; Mr. Darcy, stiff and arrogant, is more in line with Jane Austen's character. We can boldly guess that this work, which she later called "My Child", revealed the joy of a girl in love. This was a gift she gave to Tom, who was studying law, and was also waiting for Tom. She missed Tom completely, completely, back in the days when Steventon won her after finishing her law studies.
In 1798, Tom came to Ashshire, but he did not visit Jane in Steventon.
Jane knew what that meant.
In fact, Tom had returned to Ireland in late 1797, and was engaged to the sister of an alumnus. No elopement, no hand-in-hand over the bushes in the early morning, no him staring at you with blue eyes, lips twitching, and finally telling you "Run...Run with me."...they just got separated after that.
It's easy to think that Uncle Benjamin did it. But who can prove it? It's just that even hundreds of years later, it can still be guessed that if Tom resolutely married Jane, then it would be the greatest disregard for his family.
The last scene of the film is that the accomplished Jane meets the equally accomplished Tom, and the years have polished them both into gentle people. Tom's eldest daughter kept expressing her admiration to Miss Austin, but at this moment Tom scolded her in a low voice: "Jane!" He clearly saw the waves in Jane's eyes, as if the man who said many years ago said The self who said "I intend to limit my future to Mr. Tom Lefroy" is back. She took Tom's daughter to read aloud, and her voice moved slowly across the hall.
She closed the book with plain fingers. He pursed his lips, nodded slightly, and seemed to settle for a few seconds before realizing he was applauding, using his ringed hand.
This scene is really killing... I really cried when I saw it for the first time... I hope it is true, even if it is fake, it is actually enough to match the characters of the two.
Finally, I must refute the so-called 'THOMAS LEFROY' that has been widely circulated in film reviews and may not have loved JANE at all. When he was old, a son asked about the rumors about him and JANE, and he simply said 'IT WAS SUCH A YOUNG LOVE'" argument! First, it was asked by one of his nephews. Secondly, Tom was already in his 80s and 90s at the time (he was lucky enough to die at the age of 93), regardless of whether the answer to that "boyish love" was that Jane was making a statement to him The shy "off-topic" words later said in order to weaken the confession and disguise one's own essence serve the same purpose, and the question "whether Tom Lefroy loved Jane Austen" existed in Tom's family For more than 70 years, this incident itself has been able to explain a lot.
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