Orlando, you are a mixture of everything in the world, you are four hundred years of history.
You are a man and a woman.
You are naive, sexy, desperate self-seeking. It's the only luck.
After breakfast in a foreign country, I had a short free time to watch this film alone. I thought I was vulgar like me, and my low artistic attainments would not be able to empathize with old films. But in fact, he was completely indulged in this short time of more than an hour. I want to read Woolf's original book immediately to fill in the gaps in details outside the movie screen.
Watching Orlando himself grow and awaken for four hundred years was accompanied by an emotional shift. A person who does not have any cultural background or professional background to write a film review can only discuss his love from the feelings and emotional experience of ordinary people. But fortunately, I began to be willing to use poor words to try to express the sum of my thoughts, although the words are always so incomprehensible, they always seem long-winded.
"die"
The out-of-place melancholy and the self-confidence eager to break through the age barrier are the first images shown to the audience under the camera. The queen took a fancy to his youthful appearance and hid him by her side, asking him to "don't fade, don't be haggard, don't get old". I fell in love with this young man immediately, and nervously brought myself into this role, feeling all his emotions, and when I was deprived of emotional experience, in words and images, absorbing spiritual opium.
"love"
I blame him for living in a dynasty where survival is difficult and having an excellent fate to become a noble, worrying about love, existence, and happiness. Just like our predecessors blamed us for not cherishing when there was no famine and war. When I reflect on myself watching a movie, I will also subconsciously stand in the God's perspective of a bystander to make moral judgments on the characters in the play.
"Poetry"
In this chapter my feelings for him are still negative, the nonsense of an unreliable poetry teacher, the writing of a student who is not very accomplished. But looking back, the pursuit of art is a hidden commonality of human beings, whether it is deep or shallow, how can there be any distinction between good and bad.
"politics"
Orlando, who is involved in politics, remains innocent and idealistic. When the whitewashed false friendship and life with beauty are finally broken by the close gunfire and the brutality of the power struggle, Orlando wakes up and becomes a woman. “Same person, no difference at all, just different sex.”
"social" "sex"
By the time I got to this scene, I finally had a deep sympathy for this movie from more than 20 years ago. Orlando, who became a woman, has truly completed the part of her ideological experience that is still incomplete under her many years of life experience. When she wears heavy Victorian clothes, when she is judged as an accessory by men, when she is forced to court and threaten, when she is desperate to escape, when she recklessly jumps into the intimacy of love at first sight. In , when she enjoys sex, when she gives up all fame, fortune, and wealth, she becomes a complete Orlando.
"newborn"
Not daring to explore the weirdness of my daughter's age, I would rather lose logic and believe that this lucky person has gained a self and a new life after four hundred years of hardships, and has completed all self-pursuit and self-realization. The philosophy class I watched recently was discussing what exactly is a good life? A four-hundred-year-old life history provides an answer metaphorically.
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