After watching it last night, I thought about it all night, and there was a kind of unpleasant thought. The more I think about this story, the sadder it gets.
Probably most of them will be distracted by the "frigidity", pre-marital education or being young is really bad, etc., and so do I. Until finally Florence, who had a complete family, reappeared, my first feeling was absurd, and then I recalled the whole movie more and more carefully, which was also a love story between two young people.
If Florence is really as cold as she says, then there will be no trace of it in the wind and snowy nights ahead. Don't forget that it was the female lead who took the initiative to contact the male lead. It was like an ordinary couple who fell in love with each other. To say something weird, one was that they were kissing on the lawn by the river, but when they heard another boat pass by, Florence, who was attached to Edward, immediately got up and straightened. . Even if Edward sat next to watching the band practice, Florence only said that they were irrelevant people; and they looked normal, but the intimacy always stopped abruptly, and the male protagonist finally said on the beach , she always wouldn't let him touch her. Of course, all this can be understood as the reserved women of the 1960s. But restraint and indifference are two different things. Besides, can restraint really explain everything?
There is no doubt that the families of the two are vastly different. The male protagonist's family is broken and chaotic, but the female protagonist is a lady of a bourgeois family. The whole movie has the scene of Florence going to Edward's house, which is very warm, like an angel descending on the world. But there has never been a plot of the male protagonist and the female protagonist's family getting along, only the younger sister who met face to face, and the father who played tennis, but everyone could see that the father was not dissatisfied with this future son-in-law, but looked down on it at all. However, I learned from my sister how my mother commented on Edward, and my father was very concerned about what Edward's father was doing. Adolescent girls may have inexplicable resistance to the adherence to the traditions of their parents' class. Confront the dry emotions.
The most important thing is that there is an irreconcilable contradiction between the two people from beginning to end, which is determined by their identity and growth background. At the beginning of the acquaintance, Edward was excited and couldn't hold back when he achieved a first-class result, while Florence, who also achieved this result, was very calm. Why? Going to college was Edward's only way out of his hometown, and it was the same everywhere. And Florence going to college is just the normal qualifications that should be possessed. Edward said that the same class that he admired in college was because he beat and bullied the same class, and the academy never cared about him again; Florence always trained Edward to listen to classical music to be edified, arrange Edward went to work in his father's company. The advancement of this relationship has always been the heroine taking the initiative and leading. Edward was stunned by the pie, thinking that God had given him a good relationship, but he would never understand that world: the world of a scholar and a young lady.
Numerous details are presented in retrospect with the embarrassing first night of the hero and heroine. The heroine is not so much afraid as it is resistance. She understands very well that this is the last line of defense. If she is broken, she will really have no way back (well, after all, it is the 1960s. The reason why the woman agreed to the divorce is also: after all, there is no consummation). Therefore, it is not difficult to explain her anxiety before marriage, and she is not even reluctant to tell her classmates that she is getting married, and it is not difficult to explain that she does not want the male protagonist to touch her even when she is in love. She, as a bourgeois lady, gave him, the son of a peasant family, all the love she could give, but she couldn't give herself. It's not selfishness, it's just class instinct. To put it more cruelly, she thought from the bottom of her heart that he was not worthy of her, the difference between dirty and clean.
As a farmer, the male protagonist has a natural desire to look up, and the female protagonist, as a young lady, has a natural desire to look down. Sparks flew between the two of them. But ah, after all, they have to go their own way. The embarrassing first night is not a sin, but a fuse, so that the heroine finally understands that she still cannot cross that gap, whether it is youth rebellion or emotional yearning, she is still the bourgeois eldest lady. Let the male protagonist understand that this fiery affection is obtained by his passive acceptance again and again. He can only touch the hand across the gap, but cannot hold it. He is still a peasant who has nothing behind his back on the loess.
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