Artwork worth admiring frame by frame

Kay 2022-03-27 09:01:18

Revisiting Tess after more than 30 years, fortunately, today's viewing conditions are ten thousand times better. Because I didn't realize until today that this is a work of art that must be appreciated frame by frame, and even so, it is still so beautiful that people can't breathe naturally and smoothly. But such literary adaptations, no matter how good, will leave the same regrets. Similar to Jane Eyre, Anna Karenina, Joan of Arc, Sophie's World, I eventually found that whoever played Tess owed something. I call this phenomenon the "original sin of video art" - the freezing of the picture constitutes a sin.

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Extended Reading
  • Letha 2022-03-15 09:01:06

    "Life is a mystery"-this is definitely a bleak and low cry from Polanski from the bottom of his dead heart. As Mr. Lu Xun said in "Little Miscellaneous Feelings": A woman's nature consists of only motherhood and daughterhood, not wifehood. Wife sex is forced by (moral codes), it's just a mixture of motherhood and daughter sex. Therefore, "Tess", which gave birth to "motherhood" from misfortunes, is the angel who really rescued this movie genius from the gloomy real world. Just like "Barry Linden", the destiny of the rich is cursed irrevocably by "God". However, in the eyes of the victim (director) born in poverty, the poor also have a destiny that cannot be escaped. Ironically, the protagonist's complex of finding perfect "daughter sex" in women in the film precisely explains why the author later became entangled with the crime and stigma of "sexual assault on girls". However, his adaptation of this edition is really a masterpiece that cannot be more perfect. In these classical romantic oil paintings, we not only see the self-criticism of a mature man, but also insight into the circulation and unity of the duality of subject and object.

  • Morris 2022-03-20 09:02:36

    A faithful screen treatment of Hardy's masterpiece, beautifully visualized, saturated with pessimistic fatalism.

Tess quotes

  • John Durbeyfield: I'm the head of noblest branch of the family and I got my pride to lean on.

    [passes out]

  • Alec d'Urberville: Tell me, do you like strawberries?

    Tess: Yes, when they're in season.

    Alec d'Urberville: Here they already are.