I really didn't expect this film to have more than 20,000 ratings. What about the bad niche film?
I read on Weibo that someone bought the official set. To be honest, I feel that the effect of the film is a bit OOC compared to the set. From the point of view of the movie, I want to rationalize the story.
Mr. Xia Pei is a declining nobleman with a castle at home. We all know that there will be no marriage between the declining nobles and the declining nobles. No matter how many ancestral oil paintings hang in your castle, and all kinds of old furniture covered with gold and silver are displayed, everyone looks at each other and smiles, knowing that the other party has not added new clothes for ten years, and there are not a few spoons of tea in the tea pot.
The only people who would be willing to marry their daughters to the so-called nobles are those who are rich but have low status.
As Mrs Sharpe. Mrs. Xia Pei is a typical nun-style strict education. She can play the piano and love to collect books. Maybe she married with the dream of being a noble lady. It's just that I encountered a scarlet mountain that is desolate and uninhabited, with only bitter fruit and thorns. There is no social interaction in the upper class, and there is no land rent to support expenses. Some are just a grumpy, spendthrift husband who travels (probably) all year round. With the rise of the Age of Great Navigation and the emergence of industrial technology, the social class in Britain began to reshuffle. The traditional aristocratic life has long since declined, and Mrs. Sharpe was the one who took the stage when the curtain ended.
She was repressed, so her temper became more and more cold, and she played the piano in the castle all day. She was budding, so in the locked drawer, there were some shady silhouette books.
She has a pair of children, and such a lonely woman does not share the joy of family with her children, but locks them up and plays the piano all day long in the living room. Either she is a lover, or she is depressed. But no matter what kind, at least the heavy, depressing and even a little perverted atmosphere in the castle affects his children.
From the beginning, Lucia should have longed for her mother. She is familiar with the little secret that her mother hid in the drawer. Before the crime was committed at the age of 14, she had already had an affair with her unknowing brother. She once cared for her mother diligently when her legs were broken, fed and bathed her, and took the trouble (this also shows that before she was 14 years old, the family had no money to hire a servant). After growing up, Lucia is very similar to the mother in the oil painting, with tight black clothes, a serious and glamorous expression, and a look of reluctance to talk. She is also good at playing the piano, even if she dies, the ghost will always play the piano in the castle. If the prosperity of the British aristocracy in the old days had never passed away, the noble and dignified mother and daughter of Xia Pei must have been well-respected models of aristocratic women.
Edith is the second generation of rich Americans who are completely different from them. It really doesn't look as neurotic as in the trailer or clip, but she's actually a person who knows what she's going to do. It's hard to believe that such a girl would like Thomas, a poor nobleman, who refuses to attend boring banquets and enjoys writing time alone, and treats others calmly and appropriately. Later, I thought about it carefully. When it comes to prom and writing, she is still a little polite and distant from Thomas. She is really interested in Thomas when she sees Thomas fighting for his own invention in front of his father. This made her unable to help defend Thomas in private. Because of the ups and downs of her own novel publishing career, she can't see the ups and downs of other people's dreams. Although on the surface, Thomas has the fictional temperament that Edith likes, in fact, Edith's real affection for him is "unmarried", which is the sentence in his letter: "When I have Capable enough, I'll come to you." This gave Edith hope for the future.
Edith is willing to fight with her lover. She calmly accepted the dilapidated living conditions of the scarlet mountain peak. She also asked the eldest sister-in-law for the key the first time she entered the door, and she took care of the castle with the aura of a mistress of the house. Bright and warm. She fully supported her husband's invention, and Thomas said, "You are so different... from everyone."
This everyone contains not only his sister Lucia, but also his three ex-wives, who came from areas such as London, Edinburgh, and Milan, which are specialized in European aristocracy. They have nothing but wealth, and they end up being pitiful at the Scarlet Mountain. women. Edith was different from them, Thomas said. When Thomas was commissioned to insult Edith, he said that the emotions she described were all from other writers, blindly thinking about redeeming pure souls, not understanding the pain of love and the real heart. This sentence is wonderful. The first level of meaning is indeed to criticize a young lady who loves to write in a greenhouse. The second meaning is that Thomas secretly confessed his heart, as if he was experiencing the pain of love. Edith, who is sensitive to words, must be able to taste a different affection in this sentence after reading his letter. The third meaning is that looking at the overall situation, Thomas is indeed the pure soul waiting for redemption, while Edith is different from several other ex-wives, she is a foolish white sweet in the greenhouse. After all, Edith grew up in a prosperous America, and was deeply influenced by her father, an industrialist and a little bamboo horse. The greenhouse only temporarily hindered her cognition, not her mind, so that she could successfully save herself on the scarlet mountain. .
On the tape recorder, a certain ex-wife asks Thomas to say he loves her. Unlike those vulgar and shallow ex-wives, Edith never made such a request. She didn't really get carried away with love, and she also adhered to the tradition of filial piety when she was newly married. When she sensitively found out that something was wrong, she began to pay attention to obtaining evidence, and competed with Lucia, she could be called calm and rational.
Edith supported Thomas' creation, and Lucia also supported it, otherwise he wouldn't be willing to give him expensive coal to experiment in the cold winter. Different things, Lucia is a motherly doting, as long as Thomas is happy. Edith was serious about knowing, caring about what Thomas was doing and believing he would be successful. For many years, Thomas lived with the frustration of being "useless", but he insisted on inventing it out of the goodness of nature. Edith gave him hope of seeing a new life, like a beam of fresh sunshine in this dark and cold castle. The word "freedom" was written into his heart from then on.
Lucia said Thomas was the perfect person as a child. Actually he is now. Despite the downfall, he still has a perfect appearance, good communication skills, outstanding talent, and perseverance to give everything for his career, which is enough to make him successfully transform into an industrialist. The best ending should be Thomas's successful invention, smooth mining of minerals, and a well-off life for his family. Or Lucia held back Edith until the winter passed, and the equipment was put into production before starting. In a sense, this story was still a happy ending. Lucia was reluctant, Lucia tried every means to accelerate Edith's death, forcing Edith to jump off the wall.
Lucia cuts Edith's hair, saying it's because of love. It seems that all the crimes that Lucia has committed in her life are for the love of Thomas. From killing the mother who served with his own hands at the beginning, to the small unbearable chaos, it was all because of the fear of losing Thomas. But Thomas's beauty is destined to belong to the new world. Living in that secluded castle, Thomas couldn't feed her; walking out the door, exposed to the sunlight of normal life, Thomas couldn't fall in love with her. Although under the control of his sister, Thomas was never able to develop the correct three views, but when their child died, Thomas must have quietly changed. (The child died at the time of the third wife, and Thomas had a problem with the fourth.)
It is a normal person who chooses bread between bread and love. But Lucia chose to die. Maybe since she was 14 years old, she never thought about this as a multiple choice question, she wanted it all, so she saved a drawer of pigtails (every time she killed a person, she would cut a pinch of the other person's hair and braid it) collection). This drawer braid became her medal of love. However career gave Thomas the wisdom, courage and ability to resist her, but she had no other choice but to kill Thomas. I can't help but wonder, after all, Lucia is also a person who will do anything to survive. What kind of belief does Lucia have to regard love as such a supreme thing that killing Thomas for this is accompanied by self-destruction?
In the end, Lucia's ghost insisted on playing the piano, reminded me of Madame Bovary.
Once upon a time, it was the most elegant for a European noble girl to play gracefully in front of the piano. They do nothing but work in elegant music, compiling wonderful dreams one by one. Later, the upper class in the United States was also resplendent. The girls formed a circle to watch the run-down aristocrats from Europe dance the waltz. They are no different. Lucia was destroyed by her own love and her brother, and there will be such American girls who are destroyed by their love in the future. The castle is their home and their grave.
Now there are also girls like me, who leave the thesis without writing the title or do it, worrying about a love story. If I don't work hard and work hard for the industry, marriage is also my grave
If you want to live to the end of a love story, love cannot be the whole of life. Just to Lucia, encourage yourself.
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1. I'm sorry if my brother grows up to be like Thomas, I can't help it. You can't help but see Thor. Thank God for my healthy life, so that there is only one Thompson in this world.
2. The storyline progresses very quickly, although the narrative is straightforward and there are no wasted scenes. The scriptwriter's lines are also well written. If this film was made in China, it would have at least a 7.5 points. I don't know where it is higher than the Chinatown detectives.
3. If the ghost was deleted, it might be even more terrifying.
4. Even if Dou Sen is old and ugly and has no acting skills, and shows pp in the movie, I still love him. Only love on screen. 如果现实里让我跟大眼睛湿漉漉，漂亮得要破碎掉的男生谈恋爱，我会忍不住揍他。
5. I like the usual TOM in my life, very, very much. The kind of love that wants to be like him. He's not a star man, just a good Tom Hiddleston.
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