For me, this movie is the only movie I own VCD, D5 and D9, although I never Think of yourself as a fan of discs. But if there is a higher quality version in the future, I wonder if I will buy it again.
The reason why I like this movie is because it contains too much content. Every time I watch it, there will be new gains and new insights.
The story takes place in Africa. The description of the life between Karen, the owner of the colonial manor and the local blacks, is actually the main content of the original book, and the film spares no effort to show it. For me, the most shining humanistic detail in the film is that before Karen was forced to leave Africa due to bankruptcy, she wanted the indigenous people living on her land to stay in the original place to live, to the new governor couple. Long kneels to get the other party's promise not to move them away. Under the strong attitude of her husband's disregard, the wife of the Governor stood up to help Karen and said to her, "You got my promise." When Karen got up, she told the wife of the Governor that she had a great time here. Happy, and I wish her a happy stay in this land. The governor’s wife replied that she would definitely, but it’s a pity that the people here no longer have Karen. (This English dialogue is simple and meaningful. I am afraid that it will be damaged by mistaken memory. So interested readers can pay attention to it when watching the movie.)
In this beautiful colony of Africa, whites are the rulers and blacks are the rulers. Is a slave. When Karen first arrived in Africa, she asked the black servants to wear white gloves to serve the guests; she shouted to the housekeeper for fear that he would break the porcelain she brought. But when she left, she let the servant take off the white gloves, and she realized that she had been unequal to others. Her housekeeper wanted to go with her, but she refused, and the answer was, just like you always lead the way and light a bonfire in the front, I will lead the way on this trip. The steward said, this time your campfire must be bright and big. What a touching remark. Because at this moment, Karen has sold all the furniture to pay off the debt, and is unable to hire them. At the end of the day, the housekeeper had regarded her as a friend rather than an employer.
Although there is nothing to say about Zhang Yimou’s movie trends, his sentence, a film is often remembered by the audience as a good film, and it cannot be totally denied, although he has departed from making movies with this goal. Original intention. There are many fragments of "Out of Africa" that will come to mind. I don't know if it is the relationship that I watched three times, or there are indeed too many good fragments that make it a classic movie.
Before Karen left Africa, when the club member who only allowed men to join invited her to drink, all the men present stood up to raise a glass for her under the waiter’s expression of consternation; I would never forget Dennis driving. An airplane took Karen into the blue sky, overlooking the magical and rich continent they loved from the sky. As the plane climbed, the whole earth unfolded in front of her eyes, and the music also slumped. At this moment, Karen, who was deeply moved, stretched out her hand to the back of the cockpit, and Dennis also stretched out her hand from the cockpit at this moment. The moment when you hold each other tightly; I will never forget that there are two lions wandering on the top of the wilderness, that is Dennis’s grave, they are in the arms of the African continent together, but Karen with a hoarse voice has gone as a narrator. come out.
Regarding her marriage
Karen didn't want a marriage because of love from the beginning. She married a playboy for the title of countess and a desire to escape from cold Europe. And her husband is for her money. So she had to endure that her husband would leave home to hunt for a few months when she first arrived in Africa, and she could only manage the farm by herself. Fortunately, she is strong enough, she can bear the life she chooses. It's just that she didn't expect that her husband, who was messing with flowers everywhere, got her syphilis, so that she would never be able to have children again. When her farm business failed and she suffered bankruptcy, her husband, who was willing to be her friend, filed for divorce because he found another host, another rich daughter who was greedy for the title of countess.
It can be said that this marriage was doomed to her failure from the beginning. But she knew she was willing to bet to lose, and she did not shed tears about it.
About her love
They met on her first train to Africa. He was transporting ivory, she was protecting the porcelain, and the moment they greeted each other, they were just visitors from an unfamiliar world. But with the whirl of Mozart's music, the same love for Africa, two independent individuals came together. She knows that he loves freedom and does not like to be bound by marriage, but in the face of her failed marriage and career, she can't help but hope that he can rely on her. However, a rhetorical question in the dispute "if i die, will u die?" made her only look at the far away plane, facing loneliness and pain alone. While waiting for him to take her to fly because he knew that she was going to go bankrupt and expressed willingness to change his mind, she only waited for her ex-husband to tell her the news of his death.
The first time I watched this film, I felt she was very miserable. The hard-working coffee garden burned down and her marriage came to an end. Her lover failed to share her pain and could not rely on her, and finally left her. Just admiring her bravery, she led a team across the wilderness to supply supplies for the army; admired her strength, she faced the calm of the burning farm; admired her free and easy, she had a drink with the men of the club when she left And so elegant.
When I looked again, she found that she was also fragile and yearned for marriage. For this, she did not hesitate to lay down her pride to test and quarrel with the one she loved. Is it the character that determines the destiny? Her husband and lover know her strength and independence, so no one thought that she also needed help and care?
As for Dennis, the lover who loves freedom and has lived life, the defense that was once "selfish" in my eyes is confirmed at the end of the film. Maybe he is right, everyone is independent, and even love can't stop the freedom and destination of individual life.
Now it seems that Karen is happy because she has owned, loved and lived.
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