The cover of this disc I bought only has a bust portrait of Marlon Brando, a strong body, and sharp eyes, so he preconceived that the absolute protagonist of this film is him.
But after watching for a long time, he was not seen. Until Stella's husband appeared. Based on the previous foreshadowing, knowing that this is a very important role, so I took a closer look at his appearance. But, is this Malone? The contrast with that godfather is too great! It seems that I have to make up lessons for Western movies.
The film has been very dull, until the heroine bought a Chinese lampshade from the market, I realized that all the desires in the title came from Blanche played by Vivien Leigh. Recalling Stanley's rudeness, I finally understand that this drama is about the collision between Blanche and Stanley, a confrontation between exquisiteness and vulgarity. At the same time, the film "Doing the Head" starring Guan Zhilin popped up in my mind. The more I look down, the more I feel that "Header" is the Shanghai version and the modern version of "A Streetcar Named Desire".
Blanche is a teacher and once owned a manor, and she enthusiastically loves her husband Allen. Alan is a poet, he can do nothing but write poetry. At a ball, she said to Allen in a very unpoetic way: I despise you. The poet couldn't stand the stimulus, and ran into the street on the spot and swallowed his gun. Since then, Blanche's life has become a mess. Perhaps because of loneliness, or to find a sense of security, she kept dating the men around her, and even entangled with her students for a while. In the end, he made himself infamous, unable to gain a foothold in the local area, so he had to defect to his sister in New Orleans.
Unexpectedly, her brother-in-law, Stanley, is a rude and utilitarian gambler and drunkard who hits the table and his wife at every turn. Especially when she was convinced that Blanche had lost all the family property that his wife should have, she was even more grim at Blanche. Blanche disliked Stanley's vulgarity and barbarism, and often said in front of his sister that he was wrong. Exquisiteness and brutality are constantly clashing here. Although there is a mediation by sister Stella, delicate things are always too fragile to withstand the toss of the world. Blanche shivered at Stanley's roar again and again.
Even so, the desire for glitz prevented her from bowing to the world. She takes care of her clothes, takes a steam bath, and is obsessed with small and delicate objects. Although the conditions are simple, she still stubbornly emphasizes her privacy. I can’t find joy in the worldly life, so I weave one dream after another, and get a moment of satisfaction and peace in the illusion. However, time goes by, and the elegance is hard to regain. Looking at that summer afternoon, she was so bored that she actually confided in a postman, and people couldn't help but sigh the desolation of the half-aged milf. Therefore, when Mi Qu sent her a rose, she immediately fell into the arms of the other party, but was unwilling to condescend to be so condescending, so she always wanted to reject Mi Qu, and wanted to welcome and reject it. Even at the last moment, I clearly wanted the other party to marry him, but still scolded each other secretly for incomprehensible style. However, this dunya is so cruel that it would not even offer her the last shelter from the wind. Stanley exposed her former debauchery to Michu, who was very angry, thinking she was not chaste and unworthy of his wife. On the night when Michu refused, she was in a daze, dreaming that a gentleman would invite her on a tanker holiday, but she was raped by Stanley. She was finally sent to a lunatic asylum by others as a lunatic.
Compared with Ai Ni in "Heading", Blanche is indeed a bit too neurotic. However, she was also caught in the quagmire of desire and couldn't extricate herself, and she was also unwilling to bow her head to the world. However, Ai Ni abandoned her wholeheartedness to her husband and underage children, and was so selfish that it was intolerable. And Blanche, obviously the power of the dunya was too cruel, which led to her destruction. Apart from sympathy and helplessness, what kind of emotion can we have?
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