Beauvoir said, "I'm tired of living a chaste and depressed life, but I don't have the courage to live a depraved life." That's probably how most people are.
But a hundred years ago, or in certain passages of history, there were always people who transcended time and era, surpassed the crowd and became a unique and avant-garde person, who swayed casualness into a kind of symbol and legend.
Colette, without a doubt, is such a person.
I watched this movie that I was looking forward to but then forgot. "Colette"
British classics always have a taste, even if the story is not good, it is good to review the breath after a long time.
Not to mention Knightley.
It is indeed a strong British style, and the story is originally French. It doesn't matter, the British are also British in making Russian historical films.
For this reason, the location in the film, Paris is not the Paris of the 19th century.
Colette is the legendary story of the famous French writer in the golden age of Europe.
At the turn of the century (1895-1905), electric lights and automobiles gradually entered people's lives. In France, where literature and art were prosperous, novels, stage plays and movies also led the fashion. In open France, in Paris. Then there was a female writer like Colette.
Writing, bisexuality, acting on stage, leading fashion cosmetics, open marriage.
Gide praised her writing. Beauvoir, the godmother of feminism, made her a goddess.
Some writers also said that she lived as she would be a hundred years later.
The movie only selects one part of her life. About writing the beginning and first marriage.
Legendary characters are wonderful enough just to write about their own lives. In the film, she not only writes about her previous life, but also writes novels while creating a novel life in order to have fresher writing materials. To this end share a lover with her husband. Therefore, their marriage is open ended.
When she first found out that her husband was cheating, her husband's rebuttal was very subtle. He said with plausibility, "Men are like this, we are weak, not as strong as you women, we are slaves of desire. In this city, We are acquiesced in this behavior.” Can such remarks be used as a general teaching material today?
And Colette responded very cutely, "Your heart is like the first line of an eye chart." (Very clear)
After that, they live in peace with each other, and they can take their lover together on vacation in the countryside.
However, whether it is open-ended or long-lasting, companionship is a must-have option that cannot be discarded. There is a place to go back to. (Wired flying is called a kite)
Colette has been married three times in her life, and in her third marriage she thought she had found the best person, called a "companion".
Before that, she had many lovers and countless sexual encounters, and at the same time, she wrote dozens of works, and is a famous female writer who enjoys a state funeral in France.
Her storied life and her works also contain world topics such as female independence, gender equality, and same-sex breakout.
Such a legend is probably a life that can magnify life several times.
In the life of a legend, courage is not the main thing, it's just casual.
And the fall of mediocre people requires courage, because there are natural things to overcome.
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