One of the mysteries, does this "Queen" know that she sings out of tune?
This is not actually a mystery, she obviously knows it. She just pretended not to know.
In the first half an hour of the movie, the message conveyed tells us that in the second half of the queen's performance, the audience has been selected for every show. Not high-class enough, not self-cultivation enough, not elegant enough, all are out. Moreover, a considerable part of these audiences came from the music club founded by her and her second husband, Mr. Saint Clair. A soprano who has full confidence in her singing skills does not need to do this at all. She knew very well in her heart that her out-of-tune was hopeless, and only her "fixed fans" would buy it.
So why did she pick up a piece of "New York Post" from the trash can and see a report criticizing her for her poor singing skills, so she collapsed instantly, and even became sick?
Because she has been living in a kind of "hypnotic state". She herself, her husband, and the musicians and friends she met all flattered her, telling her against her will that your voice is as fresh as the morning dew, and your temperament is more elegant than the princess. A lie repeated three times becomes the truth, let alone a lie repeated so many times? Having lived in such a "super scam" for a long time, she seems to believe that she is a top soprano with outstanding singing skills. At this time, someone punctured the soap bubble. Doesn't she have to kill her?
So, what comes next is the second mystery, about the man behind her, her husband.
Mr. St. Claire, played by Hugh Grant, is a descendant of a British nobleman, but he is not the eldest son, so he could not inherit the title. Instead, he traveled across the ocean to the United States and became an unsuccessful actor. His attitude towards the queen played by Aunt Mei is really meticulous, all kinds of sweet words, all kinds of considerate care, and even at all costs, let life "become" what she imagined.
Yes, he has a young lover outside. But that's because the queen played by Aunt Mei had contracted syphilis when she was young, was unable to have children, and could not even have a relationship with Mr. Saint Clair. I am not going to justify Mr. St. Claire’s infidelity, but, first, he really loves the queen; second, for the sake of the queen’s reputation, he does not hesitate to work with a group of young people in the bar to make the young lover Catherine thoroughly Chill, leave him; third, let a man live a "sexually" life for more than 20 years. This image of ascetic monk and saint is placed in front of today's audience. It is estimated that the screenwriter wrote like this. Everyone will not believe it. Therefore, I prefer to regard the fact that he has a lover as a human weakness.
Does the queen played by Aunt Mei know that her husband has a lover outside?
She may not know who it is, but she must know it. She can't do anything in the house and can't give birth. This is the eternal pain of her life. Perhaps because the poor husband guarded the loneliness of a wife like her, she acquiesced to her husband's affair. When she saw the messy food and wine stains in the other house of her husband, she would not feel at all in her heart. However, she tolerated all this and allowed her husband to round out the lie. Life is so difficult, so why bother to expose it?
What Mr. St. Claire did for the Queen of Heaven can be one year, two years, but twenty years are like a day. This cannot be explained by the words "play on the spot". To be able to do all of this must be true love to the queen.
But why is it true love?
They met in 1919. The Queen was fifty-one. She was neither beautiful nor slim (as can be seen from the real photos of the characters at the end of the film), and she sang and lost her voice. Of course, maybe she is gentle, maybe she is kind, maybe she has an upper-class social circle, maybe she is rich, maybe she has a humorous, strong and optimistic personality... She is a good friend aside from singing. However, there can be several good friends. Why do you want to marry "this one" into your house and become your wife?
It is understandable if Mr. Saint Clair is really doing it for money. After all, he is an unsuccessful actor and it is inevitable that he will encounter financial crisis. But from the ending subtitles, we find that although the house of the Queen of Heaven is luxuriously decorated, Mr. St. Claire "lives frugally." Moreover, the motive of being greedy for money cannot maintain such a long marriage, nor can it allow Mr. Saint Clare to do everything previously described in one day for twenty years.
Could it be like the master to his wife in "Downton Abbey", who started to marry for money and developed true love in the process of getting along?
This is just a possibility.
Another possibility is that Mr. St. Clair is fascinated by the upper-class social circle that the queen enters and exits. He came from aristocratic family and is undoubtedly a social animal. He very much hopes that he can also have a group and elegant friends in the United States. But accepting a sexless marriage for the sake of a social circle is indeed a bit expensive.
This is another possibility, but it is very unlikely.
The last possibility is the most romantic. That is, no reason, no wealth, no beauty or ugliness, no out of tune in singing, no out of tune, love is in love, this is God's will, not common sense can explain.
Which of these three possibilities is reliable?
The screenwriter didn't say, we can only guess by ourselves. However, the original poster thought that if everyone could believe in the last one, how simple and beautiful this world would become~
Mystery 3, before Mr. Saint Clair helped her "realize her dream" (or a lie), this queen had already It's a famous soprano. Without a bunch of people "carrying the sedan chair", how did she survive the ridicule and ridicule along the way?
Maybe it's really because she has a deep love for music. This is currently the only reasonable explanation.
After all, when she was dying, she said, "People may say that I can't sing, but they can't say that I haven't sung." If
a person persists in a wrong dream for more than fifty years, the mistake becomes respectable.
The failure to solve the above-mentioned "unsolved mystery" may be for the purpose of white space and aftertaste, but the failure to dig deeper into the hearts of the characters cannot but be said to be a pity for this movie.
So, the last question.
What is the point of making such a movie in which the protagonist is "sound crazy"?
I can answer this question.
To borrow a sentence from Towon, "Happy families are similar, and unfortunate families have their own misfortunes." A
perfect life may be just a single model, and an imperfect life is colorful.
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