The story of the Purple Rose of Cairo is fascinating: Cecelia, a woman whose life is not going well, finds solace only in the movies; Tom Baxtor, the handsome hero of the film, falls in love with her, walks off the screen for her, and lives with her At the same time, Tom's actor also met and fell in love with Cecelia in order to find Tom. Cecelia chose reality and decided to go to New York with the actor, so Tom returned to the screen and left the world. But the next day, the actor abandoned Cecelia in this small town and returned to New York alone.
Cecelia is like every real life hero. We think we have made the best choices at every turning point in our lives, only to discover in the end that the best choices lead to the worst outcomes.
Every time I see the end of this movie, I feel inexplicably sad. Not sympathy for what happened to Cecelia, but saddened by the thought that immortal love exists only in the imagination of man.
In those naive days, I also believed that people will not change, like all those great novels and good movies, everything that everyone does is based on his consistent values. Jane Eyre is so pure in love with Rochester, Romeo is so romantic with her lover's death, Carton loves Lucie so much that she is willing to die for the one she loves, everyone lives in their own way steadfastly, every day. Individuals have the courage to do what their values demand. Tom is an adventurous romantic who has fallen in love with Cecelia, so he has to jump off the screen to pursue her, he has to duel her scum husband, he has to stop when his opponent is down. In that world, as if it was an inescapable fate, everything just happened. Tom said, it's written in my character to do it, so I do it.
Unfortunately, novels and movies exist precisely because of the unrealistic nature of love, the imperfection of reality, and the impossibility of perfection. People spare no effort to praise people with eternal values and eternal love, precisely because that is the other side that human beings cannot reach, and can only occasionally be reflected in a vague aspect in some people. People are complex, indeterminate, and contradictory, just like Tom's actor. In our eyes, love can be weighed on the scale of interests - a promising actor who is developing a career, should he give up his hard-earned reputation for a married, unemployed waitress in a small town? ?
Stories of romance, courage and steadfastness are always intoxicating, but we are always experiencing different stories from moment to moment. In some stories we are warriors, in others cowards; in some stories we are devastated by the loss of love, in others we continue a new life with new people; in some stories we see money as dung, in others we are preoccupied with addiction Wealth is like life. For profit, we hop between different values and gradually become a vague person with no principles. We are even more intoxicated with each of our own stories, because our personalities in the stories are flamboyant and distinct, our qualities in each story and our love seems to be eternal, although it will change in the next story, but the people in the story How to know? Sheperd ditched Cecelia to move on to the next story, how did Tom think about it?
But I silently envy those simple lives in my heart. A lifetime is only for one word, and a lifetime is for only one person.
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