has a chapter in her novel "When Everything Goes Dark Around Us" that tells the story of Yang Guo and Guo Xiang.
"The most important climax of the entire "The Condor Heroes" is in the second half. After a long period of confusion, mishaps and waiting, the whole novel presents a comfortable and happy situation. In order to celebrate Guo Xiang On his sixteenth birthday, Yang Guo gave three big gifts. Although it was under the guise of giving gifts, it was actually saving the country. But there is no doubt that the pomp is just like the "Fifty Shades of Grey" of that era. When a domineering hero meets an innocent girl, Do whatever it takes to win his favor.
And among them, there is another impossibility, because Yang Guo already has Xiaolongnv. Xiaolongnv is not like a real person, but like a symbol, a symbol, a kind of fantasy. Therefore, there is no Guo Xiang. It came so cute, so people gave all their sympathy to Guo Xiang, because she can't conquer a fantasy."
Because you can't conquer a fantasy.
The movie "A Man and a Woman" tells such a story. Missing the last train back to Paris, the young widow Anna meets the middle-aged widower Duroc. Anna rides De Roque's ride back to Paris. When saying goodbye, De Roque invites Anna to go to the boarding school next Sunday to pick up their children for the weekend.
I don't need to tell the next story, you can also guess nine times out of ten. Two people from meeting, mutual affection, expressing love, and finally together. This kind of story of love between men and women happens every day in every corner of the earth, which is not uncommon at all.
What fascinated me about the whole movie was the last few minutes. The two people who love each other finally embrace each other. When everything is in order, Anna finds that she can't forget her dead husband for a long time. In the end, the two walked out of the hotel lonely and speechless.
Death has left Anna's husband forever in the most perfect state: upright, charming, passionate about all things in the world, and a great being like God. If he didn't die, he might end up being an old fool, drinking, gambling, playing with women, and even becoming a murderer. He and Anna might be a foolish couple, living a mediocre life. Of course, according to Anna's description, they may also be a happy couple, with Qin Se and Ming Ju's eyebrows on the same level.
But death interrupted all possibilities. He called the curtain at the best time and became a perfect dream in Anna's heart. A fantasy like a little dragon girl who disappeared for 16 years at the most intense moment of love. A fantasy that Diroc will never be able to conquer.
Di Roc, who traveled 3,000 kilometers day and night for a possible love, was defeated by a nihilistic fantasy. On the way he came, he fantasized about how he should appear in front of Anna in what form and identity, fantasizing about Anna showing a shy expression after opening the door and inviting him in for a cup of coffee. He imagined all possibilities, but did not think of the existence of a fantasy.
I have been thinking, if Xiao Longnv did not fall to the bottom of the valley for 16 years, but spent 16 years with Yang Guo. Then, after 16 years of confrontation, will the little dragon girl, who is innocent and indifferent to the world, still be a fantasy to Yang Guo? When he meets the innocent Guo Xiang again, will he perform "American Beauty"?
Oh, time is a wonderful thing. It makes everything grow, and it leaves everything desolate.
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