Tennessee's setting for Blanche is very interesting. On the one hand, she is gorgeously dressed, with gloves, skirts, necklaces, and down around the neck. There is no shortage of everything, and she can wear them all. On the other hand, she is older and has wrinkles. Face, fading in color, and a nightmarish past.
It is conceivable that Blanche is confident and inferior when the charm remains and the age fades away. She is a very lustful woman. She wants to live a luxurious and rich life, and she also wants a man, a good-looking man, an excellent man, a decent man, she wants all of them, sometimes even as long as they are more attractive. , she can accept.
So, in her hometown, she was as famous as the President of the United States, and she was not welcome in the kind of welcome that no one respected. He also lost his teaching job for seducing a 17-year-old student. After selling her ancestral home and wearing gorgeous clothing and jewelry, she went to seek refuge with her sister in New Orleans. Another desire carrier of the story emerges.
Stanley is Blanche's brother-in-law. In the 1951 film of the same name, Stanley, played by Marlon Brando, is such an image - young and strong, handsome and scumbag, wearing a close-fitting vest, wet with sweat, his strong figure is unobstructed, full of wild. Stanley is also a man of desire, he exudes a tyrannical temperament, he is the tyrant of the family, to control everything. Blanche's appearance collided with his rule.
The desires of the two began to collide -
Blanche teased Stanley intentionally or unintentionally, but Stanley was not moved by the tenderness.
Stanley fights back, forcing Blanche to hand over the papers for the sale of the ancestral home.
Blanche instigates his sister.
Stanley committed domestic violence.
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Blanche was nervous, always on the edge, the edge of the abyss. When someone praises her for being beautiful, she is at ease, otherwise, she is crazy. But she is very keen, and she knows that if she doesn't get it right, her conflict with this man will lead to destruction. She is afraid of destruction. When she saw people buying Minghua on the street, she was scared to death. She couldn't see the light, and all her wrinkles would come out under the light, so she covered the light bulb with a lantern.
At the same time, she seeks out men. All men, she has desires. Therefore, she flirted with almost all men, complained, pretended to be innocent, and lied a lot. She caught a man named Mitch, a blue-collar man like Stanley, who was quite honest. Mickey was played around by her, and he was engaged in a marriage contract after half push and half push.
Stanley kept thinking about fighting back. He went to investigate Blanche and dug up everything, including Blanche's gay boyfriend who had committed suicide. He spreads the truth, pointing out that Blanche is the most lovable bitch who ruined her engagement. He berated her, scolded her, exposed her, condemned her, and finally raped her.
The straw that broke the camel's back was added.
Blanche was completely insane.
Blanche is an almost rotten person, she's crazy, not surprising, as long as the last straw is added. She murmured to herself, "Desire is the opposite of death." She fears destruction, she doesn't want to die, so she throws herself into unending desire. After desire, it is to fall into darkness, sink into depravity.
It's not hard to tell from Blanche's nervous swaying that she's photophobic and photophobic. Hiding in the dark is destruction, she can't bear it, she can only do everything possible to move towards the light. But the light was too hot for her decay, and finally burned her to ashes.
It was desperate and lonely. After the first love, Blanche's heart has nowhere to rest. Before, she was a rich lady, and she was an elegant and noble "orphan". However, it was also said that she was an orphan, the world had changed, and her elegance was at a loss, especially when her lover died, what she encountered was Stanley's vulgarity and rudeness, saturated with naked desire. Her despair and loneliness made her survive only on the "compassion of strangers". Strangers are strangers after all, and mercy is also used for charity.
Helpless, more and more spawned desire.
Just like the light and dark tones of the adapted movie, flickering and flickering alternately, the chaotic and restless heart, through desire, has derived vanity, lies, and fantasy, no matter how much perfume is sprayed, no matter how beautiful clothes are worn, it cannot be recovered.
The heart is broken.
Reprinted from the WeChat public account "Departure Manufacturing"
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