At the end of the play, there was an indescribable silence in the classroom, and no one moved until the teacher said, "This is the end of today's class." Everyone moved, but no one spoke. I saw everyone His face was invariably heavy. In the same way, my friend and I went downstairs without saying a word, and the moment we got out of the elevator, she said, I feel bad. By the way, for the first time, she didn't play with her phone in class. I said, I understand. It was a feeling of panic.
Because we all look forward to idealistic love, but the world is too vast and cold. this is the truth.
Therefore, everyone should have a Siberia in their hearts.
In the late nineteenth century, a beautiful American woman left her homeland alone and got on a train to Moscow. She was Jane. She has a secret on her shoulders, the task of getting the Russian general Radlov to fund Graham's machine called "The Barber of Siberia". Jane met Tolstoy, a young cadet, on the train to Moscow. Perhaps Jane's temperament was very different from that of a Russian girl. Tolstoy was attracted to her, and Jane was also attracted to this simple teenager. They fell together. fell in love. With love there will be sadness and misunderstanding. In Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro" performed by the cadets, Tolstoy played the barber. During a break between scenes, he overhears Jane's conversation with the general, and he feels that love has been insulted and flees in a hurry. Jane hurriedly ran after her and wanted to explain her apology to her beloved, but across a locked door, Jane didn't know he was gone, and Tolstoy didn't know her heart. This heartbreaking misunderstanding eventually became the trigger for their separation. Even at the end of his friends' dissuasion, Tolstoy stood on the stage again. With pride and uncompromising, he picked up the violin bow and jumped from the stage when he saw the general and Jane sitting together chatting and laughing. , and used it to slam the general hard. Therefore, because of love and unyielding, Tolstoy was finally avenged by the general and had to be assigned to serve. That last look is eternity.
Years later, when the "Barber of Siberia" could finally roar through the birch forests of Siberia, Jane could finally set foot on this land with Tolstoy. But there is no long-awaited reunion and weeping of loved ones, and they still missed it after all. After Jane saw the photos in the hut, she drove the carriage away with a series of emotions such as regret, anger, and remorse. There was a secret that Tolstoy would never know again.
Jane thought she was late and time had worn off all the love in his heart, so she left. But where she couldn't see, there was a pair of eyes that were always thinking and infatuated, staring at the back of her leaving as before. Who says Tolstoy doesn't love anymore? The passage of time only makes this love more unforgettable. Tolstoy, who was hunting in the mountains, must have felt Jane, so he ran in Jane's direction like a savage. He walked through the woods, over the stream, and at last he stood on the top of the mountain closest to Jane, lit a cigarette, and watched his old love disappear at the end of the field. The handsome boy in the past was now like a savage. The past will never come back.
This film throws away the camera image, what attracts me is only the love between Tolstoy and Jane, Tolstoy's fidelity and unyielding to love. He sacrificed his future and everything to defend the purity and nobility of this relationship. He could even duel in private with his classmates for this. With his poor swordsmanship, he almost lost his life for it. Tolstoy is such a consistent person that his expression of love is highly unified with his inner spirit and temperament. He unswervingly defends his love like defending his personality. His impulses are destined to be as fragile as crystals, but at the same time, it also makes him always shine in the crowd. The pride and courage contained in this light is a kind of temperament that can make us awe.
In the long river of life, we will be assimilated or submerged by the mainstream worldview and values of the narrow circle we are in, gradually losing our way of thinking, and being packed in an invisible box by the established values. In order to gain the recognition of others, many people cowardly accept the life path designed by the world for them, and walk alone with the cross of life on their backs. We can't completely put down the familiar land under our feet to soar, but we yearn for the feeling of flying into the sky day after day, and we can't even wander far away. Many people will not have bizarre encounters in their entire lives, and the dullness of real life will gradually make people forget to cry and forget to laugh.
Fortunately, however, we will meet love.
But what is love and why should we love?
Some time ago I revisited "Brokeback Mountain" and read the entire script for the first time. Director Ang Lee aims to depict that pure and flawless love that transcends gender. But is that really love? Are Jake and Ennis's more than ten years really because of love? If possible, I prefer to understand that this is a story that derives from lust and loneliness and ends in love. I always felt that the beginning of this relationship was just because of similar experiences, and then it was a matter of course driven by loneliness on such a night and such a place. Humans are solitary social animals, they crave warmth, and a little light and heat are enough to make them desperate for it. The past experience and current situation of Jake and Ennis gave them a huge sense of loneliness, and the other side was the most similar creature on the mountain except for the sheep. They developed trust and sympathy, and they were no longer willing to wander alone and bear it alone. So, on Brokeback Mountain, under the blue sky that is closest to the background of life, they are together.
I think they don't understand love. In the more than ten years after they left Brokeback Mountain, they were connected, but it was because of habit and mutual sympathy. They always believed that each other understood them best, and they could vent their dissatisfaction with the world without covering up when they met. If they say they will love someone, that person is themselves. Jake and Ennis are together to eliminate the pain caused by their loneliness. Perhaps it is precisely this kind of dependence, this indescribable feeling that has quietly deteriorated in the expectation of each other year after year, and finally evolved into a love that transcends ordinary love. Following Jake's death, I found that their love was profound and passionate. They live and die because of love, drawing warmth and hope from each other.
If everyone has a Brokeback Mountain in their hearts, it is a beautiful past that they can never go back to. Then, there should also be a Siberia, which carries all the expectations, all the love, and all the wonderful future you once imagined. Love is never without reason, Jake and Ennis love because they are similar, and Tolstoy and Jane love because they are different. Jane's mysterious temperament, different from the Russian girl's temperament, attracted Tolstoy; Tolstoy's simplicity, purity, and courage attracted Jane. , their love seems so natural.
In the love between Tolstoy and Jane, there is a girl who has to be mentioned, the maid of Tolstoy's family, the young Russian girl. I can't say that she loves Tolstoy more than Jane's, but it's about the same. In the whole movie, her appearance is three or four scenes, but it portrays the image of a brave girl who is desperate for love. When she lent the three dollars for Tolstoy's fan, we could all find that she was deeply in love with Tolstoy, with unreserved trust and loving eyes, but at that time Tolstoy A heart of Lstair had long been tied to Jane's. When Jane came to Tolstoy, the maid followed the woman's intuition to hide the precautions in her eyes, and when she heard the erotic sound from the room, she silently put down the tea set tray, her love was purely unforced, including Blessings and regrets. However, when Tolstoy was exiled, her hoarse voice on the platform told us that she never gave up and still loved Tolstoy. During Jane's visit to Tolstoy's home in Siberia, footage was swept up to the maid and her three children, as well as a wedding photo of the maid and Tolstoy. It was amazing that she loved Tolstoy so much that she could follow in his footsteps to Siberia and have children for him. The pain in it is only experienced by the parties involved. But she should still have hatred in her heart, otherwise why would she hide behind the door and quietly raise the harvest sickle... More than ten years later, Jane is still the threat.
The name of the film is "The Barber of Siberia", firstly because the lumberjack serves as a clue throughout the film; secondly, because Tolstoy played the barber in "The Marriage of Figaro" And he is now in Siberia. Without the machine, Jane would not have met Tolstoy on the train to Moscow; without the machine, there would be no misunderstanding if they met; without the machine, Jane would not have set foot on the land of Siberia, To find her former love.. Even if youth is no longer, this Siberian hairdresser. At that time, the handsome boy who could sing "The Marriage of Figaro" also fell in love with the beloved girl at that time...
In this vast and cold land of Russia, there is an incomparably strong fidelity and deep taste. Love brings power and dies power. No one can stop Tolstoy, and no one can stop the almost inhuman Russia of that era. In the context of the times, their love seems so small, yet so profound. Because these are the qualities that have always existed in the bones of all Russian people, impulse, courage, enthusiasm. It was like a collapse, a collapse of powerlessness, and Jane knew she was late.
At the end, Jane takes pictures of Tolstoy as a young man to the barracks of her son, who was punished for stubbornness. Little Tolstoy's face closely overlapped with Tolstoy's decayed and vicissitudes face in the vast land of Siberia. Little Tolstoy is in love with Jane instead of old Tolstoy!
Love never disappears.
"Sometimes we think life has betrayed us, but it's a long time later that we've betrayed ourselves." Jane seems to have predicted her relationship with Tolstoy a long time ago. There is a lack of trust and confidence between them, but in the end, they both lost their minds and forgot their original intentions.
Love is honey and poison, courage and cowardice. Even if the finale ends, we still have the entire Siberian plain to reassure our hearts that have nowhere to stay.
Dear friends, although you and I are not immune, fortunately, we have our own Siberia in our hearts.
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