Freedom is precious. After watching the movie "The Duchess", I feel that being single is a kind of happiness.
So busy, I finally have time to watch a movie.
The heroine of the film, George Anna, married William, Duke of Devonshire, 9 years her senior, at the age of 19. William has only two requirements for George Anna, one is to be loyal to him, and the second is to give him a son. After 6 years of marriage, for various reasons, Anna failed to give birth to a son to the Duke. So the Duke cheated on Anna's long-coveted best friend, Beth Foster, which made Anna so angry that she yelled at her husband, "I was taken away by you as a friend of hers!" She innocently Attributing the husband's infidelity to his own reasons, the straight male cancer husband shied the responsibility and directly blocked Anna speechless, "As a husband, I have fulfilled my responsibilities, but as a wife, you have not."
This is completely an excuse. Since his marriage, the Duke of Devonshire has not stopped having an affair. Anna has endured it again and again. She was caught by Anna for fooling around with her best friend Beth. Wrong, such scumbags should cut off their children!
Poor Anna had to seek help from her mother, but her mother's education was to let Anna endure it first and give him an heir as soon as possible. With an heir, she would not fool around with other women outside. This kind of education is a failure, and Anna was raised in this way since she was a child. Originally, an excellent woman like Anna was naturally beautiful and versatile, but He Chou couldn't find the person she liked. But her mother just wanted to marry her to a powerful and rich family, and to raise her so well was to marry her into a wealthy family to show how successful her education was, and to make all the British envy her for having a wealthy family. Such a daughter is married so well to fill her own great vanity.
The role of mother is to blame for the tragedy of Anna's marriage. Anna is used to pleasing others rather than pleasing herself first, which is why she suffers so much. The union with the Duke of Devonshire was also completely arranged by her mother, and she had no opinion at all, which was really sad. Maybe there is also the factor of being too young, and you still don't know who you love, so do what your mother does. The mother always loves you the most, and it is impossible for the mother to harm you. If she could understand who she loves earlier and bravely reject the Duke of Devonshire's request for marriage at the beginning, she would not become a caged bird and lose her freedom completely.
Personally, I am extremely disgusted with this kind of marriage that is well-matched in the upper class and is only based on power and money. You and your other half have never met a few times, and have no feelings at all. They are tied together by the words of the matchmaker. , 8 out of 10 pairs will not be happy, just like the Duke of Devonshire and Anna, Anna has become a child-bearing machine, turned into a marionette, considering the family's face and reputation, can't make any Out of bounds.
I especially hate a macho character like the Duke. I only allow myself to have an affair outside and have a lover, but I cannot tolerate my wife Anna having a lover outside. When Anna was in complete despair over the marriage, Charles Gray's comfort led her to find the love that was missing from her husband, and Anna and Gray fell in love. They went to Bath to spend a wonderful time in the world of the two. After being found out by their husband, the Duke of Devonshire, they took Anna's mother directly to Bath to find Anna's guilt. A blatant threat that if Anna doesn't choose to go back with him, he will return to the future of Anna's lover Gray and that Anna will never see her child again.
This move is really too cruel, the Duke of Devonshire can do it. He is ruthless, ruthless, rude, and controlling, thinking that everything is his, that he is omnipotent, and can destroy everything like death. He can indeed, the Duke of Dignity is a powerful man, killing a person is as easy as pinching an ant. He only cares about the family's face and doesn't care whether he and Anna have real feelings. He treats his two dogs better than Anna. Such a heartless and ruthless man is terrible! There is no one else but himself in his consciousness, but his almost distorted psychology is completely unaware of it. The logic of the Duke of Devonshire is: what I can do is my business, you can't control it, I have the final say in what you can do, you can only choose to obey, and there must be no resistance! This desire for control is something that a person can't bear!
In that society, men have the final say, women have no status at all, women with a little personality will be regarded as out of line, and only women who are docile like sheep will be liked by men. If there was medicine at that time, you should understand that the key to not being able to have a son depends on the man and what it has to do with the woman. The Duke of Devonshire completely turned a talented girl like Anna into a reproductive machine, emotionless, rude and violent. The more this happened, the more disgusted Anna felt and the more she wanted to stay away. In his brain, there are only sons, sons, and sons, and he doesn't care that the person standing in front of him is a woman with flesh and blood, and he also needs a moderate amount of warmth and care.
High society is so fake. Every high society feast is a joke. Is it really interesting for a group of people to get together and show off their wealth, status, beauty and knowledge? The cookie-cutter activities of the upper-class social circles are boring, monotonous, and boring, and people can't breathe. Everyone here is talking polite words on the scene. Women are men's foils in this social circle, and their words and deeds must be in line with their own identity, otherwise they will become the laughing stock of the entire high society. The upper class seems to be flashy, but in fact it is corrupt, dirty, and degenerate. There will never be real friends here. There are some villains who fall into trouble when you are down and flatter when you are proud.
In fact, even the Duke of Devonshire himself did not like such a social feast. From what he said, it can be seen that this smile of hers is also the only rare and meaningful smile in the whole article.
He also envied the carefree and free life of a child, why didn't he grow up from a child to what he is now? It's just that he is helpless. Under the pressure of family glory, he has learned from a young age to hide his emotions in order to live with face, and he will never allow Anna to create any scandals for himself. He is a person who wants to save face. He was also a victim of that era. He had no soul of his own, and the title was hereditary. He was destined for such a boring life from the moment he was born, so he asked those who lived with him to be the same as him.
Anna made the wrong choice from the very beginning and gave her life to the Duke of Devonshire, to tolerate her best friend Beth sharing her husband, to raise other people's children, and to tolerate her husband's violence. Temper, she has too much to tolerate. Marrying the Duke of Devonshire, how can you be happy in a high and powerful position?
She is the sheep in the plate and the pigeon in the plate, which is also the director's genius.
These two paragraphs happen to be at the beginning and end of the film, and the Duke of Devonshire is actually alluding to Anna. At the beginning, saying that the taste of mutton was wrong meant that Anna, a little sheep, was not very obedient and docile, so it made the Duke feel that it was not very tasty, and meant to imply that Anna, you are this sheep, and you have already entered my tiger’s mouth, you should be obedient Just be obedient, don't challenge my authority, just do what I say, don't ask too much, do your duty as a wife, or I can replace you at any time. At the end, he said that the pigeon tasted very good. In fact, it was said that the pigeon was Anna, who had been boiled and eaten, and could no longer fly freely in the sky. went. At this time, Anna no longer resisted, the Duke was very satisfied, his control was very strong, and he was complacent. It seems to be saying, fight with me, it's useless, it's not eaten by me yet, so you'd better be obedient, you can't fight me!
What a pampered duke in the upper class with ulterior motives, he doesn't scold anyone, but his every move is hinting to the weak that you must obey me, otherwise there will be no good fruit to eat. Don't fucking talk about freedom with me. Since you married me, you have to listen to me. I have the final say in your freedom.
Originally, if the Duke could let Anna go and make Anna and Charles Gray married, it is estimated that Anna would be grateful to Dade. Give Anna freedom, and also give yourself freedom. After all, don't you have Beth? Maybe he didn't let Anna go, he still liked Anna, so he tried his best not to give Anna to others.
Anna is indeed not free. After all, she had many children after marrying the Duke of Devonshire, and she just left with her lover. What should I do with the children? She has a lot of constraints, and returning to the family may be the best choice for her. It can not only prevent Gray's great future from being ruined, but also make her family seem more complete on the surface, and the children will not lack maternal love. When Gray came to Anna and asked Anna to go with him, she could only use this excuse to tell him, "I can't abandon my children, think about what you're asking me to do." Actually that's not true, if she didn't Threatened, she had the choice not to stay at the Duke of Devonshire's home and continue to be his wife, but to run to her lover desperately and walk away.
That's why I feel how free it is to be single. No one can force you to make choices you don't like. You won't have many constraints. As long as you want, the whole world can be yours. After marriage, it is different. There are a lot of responsibilities. You no longer live for yourself, but more often for others, so cherish your single time. Being single only lasts for a few years, and you won’t come back after that.
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