Ten years ago, when I read the introduction, I couldn't understand it. In my opinion, Marlon Brando really set a benchmark for being handsome when he was young - it's really hard for people to accept that beautiful things are ugly, a sexy man like him, rape? I always felt that this scenario was unacceptable.
Ten years later, when I read a Tennessee Williams novel, I came across his most famous play. After watching the first half hour, I couldn't recognize Vivien Leigh. Later, I glanced at the cast list, but I still couldn't accept it. Is that beautiful Miss South Manor really the middle-aged woman in this movie? I have always been self-hypnotic because of the success of makeup, but after reading the background introduction, I had to accept that the later Vivien Leigh might be Blanche.
After "A Streetcar Named Desire", Vivien Leigh was admitted to a psychiatric hospital for treatment and rarely appeared. This is almost the final work of her career. She died at a young age, in her fifties. It is said that she suffered from bipolar disorder and was unable to work normally.
Her face should not have been broken at this age, but, you have to understand, she is a patient.
This movie shocked me so much that it required me to spend several nights pondering it, and I kept sighing: life is really cruel.
If tragedy is to tear up beauty for you to see, then cruelty is that when the beauty of the skin is revealed, what you see is the ugliness of human nature, as beautiful as it is, and as ugly as it is. Corroded, beauty tainted by ugliness, beauty broken.
"A Streetcar Named Desire" is so cruel, it shows you all the cruelty of life. Then, what can you say? I thought there were a lot of feelings to send, but in the end, I just sat silently.
We are so naive and brainwashed by the handsome guys in Korean dramas. I always think that handsome guys are domineering presidents. The real life is that a handsome guy may be a beast. The impact of this reversal is so great that many women are unwilling to accept it. Even if Stanley is a devil, in the end, he still can't hate it because of Yan's face? Therefore, such actors are courageous, and Vivien Leigh, who takes her life to act, is not only worthy of respect but also has a sense of awe.
Do you know how much of the actor's effort is involved in her hysteria and various "productions" in the movie? When facing her husband's scandal target, she also sinks into the plot of her husband being gay and committing suicide, what kind of mood does she have? Therefore, I have to admire the actors of the 1950s. No matter how much pain the movie gives, the real life is bloody peeled off for you to see.
So, "A Streetcar Named Desire" left a trace in the history of film.
Watching this movie ten years ago, I would have felt the same way as I did an hour ago. This Blanche is too good, how can you do whatever you want as a guest? As a sister, how can you point fingers at her sister's marriage? I saw a lot of comments, and they were also discussing Blanche, who was unpleasant and annoying.
I think we are on the wrong side. Blanche is a patient, and she cannot be classified as a normal person to discuss. Just like Stanley, he used the attitude towards a normal person, so Blanche not only hates but also loves to lie, not only has a disorderly manner, but also tries to take advantage of his own friends, his animalism towards her, in Stanley's opinion Maybe it's doing things for heaven and punishing bad guys.
But Blanche was a sick man. How can a man punish a sick man for his sickness? After all, patients are not willing to get sick themselves. Deliberate insults are unforgivable, so no matter how handsome you are, scum is scum, and harm is harm.
The reason I feel this strange is because Blanche is so similar to someone I know. First of all, I declare that contact with her is a kind of torture for ordinary people. I have no intention of torturing myself. When I found out that this person was particularly fond of pointing fingers at others and thought that she did not know how to respect others, I deliberately stayed away. She came all the way from the south to this northern city, and the person she married alone ended up divorced. After getting divorced, I soon met "true love" again, and true love continued one after another. She seems to be full of unrealistic fantasies, especially asking others to praise her, but as a normal person, the requirements of a person who only knows you well will make you laugh and laugh. For a period of time, she stayed in the office and did not go home. Later, everyone found that she did not seem to sleep at night, and some colleagues even suspected her of taking drugs; there was a period of time when she wore silk skirts and sandals in the winter, and there was a period of strange makeup. , Sometimes she doesn't dare to take a second look at one glance, but of course she still thinks she is beautiful. She once sent me an article on her official account, and I saw a split image in her article. She thinks that people in this world don't understand her literature and art because they are all vulgar; she thinks that she has a rich soul and is better off The lay people chattering around her; she thinks she's more than capable, and the reason for everything is that the area is backward. In fact, she couldn't do any work for a long time, even if it was the simplest meeting, she was in all kinds of situations. She doesn't think about other people's situation, and always hopes that others will treat her as a princess and serve her.
What I described is only part of it, you should feel how annoying such people are? But I gradually discovered that she was really sick.
After watching Lin Yihan's interview video, she once said;
We, these normal people, mentally healthy people, may never understand. The girl I mentioned above, at one point I wondered if she really couldn't do anything? Maybe it was true, maybe she was sick. This disease made her think she was excellent, that she was the most beautiful in the world, that she was immersed in true love. The world they see is different from what we see. Maybe she's not lying, or pretending to be a canary, I'm just saying maybe, because ordinary people like me can't do it anyway. Give a certificate of diagnosis to someone you just know.
A woman like Blanche still looks normal. It's just vanity, self-righteousness, and yearning for an idyllic life. It can also be said that she used to be a noble lady in the south. Everything makes sense. When normal people look at such a person, of course they will think that she is lying and contrived in all kinds of ways, but maybe, maybe Her spirit has been split, and she's just struggling to hold on.
Relying on the emotions of strangers is a prescription she prescribed for herself, but obviously, drinking poison to quench her thirst.
The world is very big, what kind of people and what kind of things are actually nothing special. I think when you meet people like Blanche in real life, you may not like them, but at least don't hurt them. A patient should not be punished, isolated and beaten because of his illness. He may make people around him miserable, but believe me, the people who suffer the most are always themselves. Like Lam Yihan said, she walked through Auschwitz.
I can't even imagine it, but at least I'm trying to understand. As far as the people around me are concerned, the relatives around her must be suffering because of her behavior. The best way is to go to a professional doctor for early treatment and early diagnosis, rather than wearing a literary hat and letting it develop. .
Perhaps, the mental hospital is still a good home for Blanche.
And I was thinking, how on earth can a younger sister with such memories live with this handsome messed up beast?
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