The editor-in-chief of a certain publishing house, Jiu Muren, was frustrated by job changes in his middle age. At the same time, his decades-long marriage with his wife was gradually numb because of the loss of passion. Ryoko, the wife of the dignified and virtuous medical professor, couldn't bear her husband's indifference and disagreement, and was also depressed. Loveless family marriages and irresistible emotional temptation drove the two into a whirlpool of extramarital affairs. It sounds very moving and makes sense. But frankly speaking, after reading the whole story, I saw two people walking together because of sex, and then I added a little bit of similarity in their personalities. The large part of the sex description in the book looks beautiful, but frankly speaking, it is not beautiful when it is broken.
In fact, it doesn't matter what the two of them should do. Everyone can see it these days. I'm just wondering how such a book and movie that was said to have been highly rated back then, how to talk about it, then I might as well watch the more vulgar ones. Because my ideal film to explore the relationship between men and women takes implicit and restraint as the highest state.
Once when I was eating at a won stew restaurant, I saw an old version in the newspaper revisiting the introduction, "Brief Encounter", which was translated as "Meeting and Hate Late" or "Encounter". A middle-class housewife was accidentally blown into the sand by the wind while waiting for the train at the train station. A married middle-aged doctor helped him pick out the sand. Because of this accident, they began to know each other. Later on every time I met on the train. They found that each time they expected to see each other more and more, they gradually fell in love. But considering the families, responsibilities and morals of both parties, they have been unable to cross the final line of defense. When they took the time to meet at the train station for the last time, the doctor told the heroine that he was going to Africa and he might not come back again. The heroine wept sadly. At the end of the film, when the heroine returned home, her husband seemed to understand something meaningful and said: "My dear, you are finally back."
To be honest, I was taken aback after reading the introduction. The film's discussion of marriage, love, ethics and morality seems very fashionable, but it was actually filmed in 1945, when the Second World War just ended, people began to think about other things. Another look at the director turned out to be the famous David Lean, the one who filmed the famous "Lawrence of Arabia" and "The Bridge of the River Kwai".
It's a pity that I haven't been able to find this film. In my opinion, this film is good because of the beauty of restraint on both sides. In contrast, "Paradise Lost" appears to be quite equal.
But after all, the two of them in "Brief Encounter" still broke that layer of window paper. In fact, I think the best one is "The Remains Of The Day", which is also translated "Farewell to You Tian", played by the famous Hopkins and Emma Thompson. Hopkins played a chief servant of the Darlington House in England, and Thompson played a housekeeper under him. Over the years of work, they have slowly accumulated mutual goodwill and love. But Hopkins is a typical British butler, serious, restrained, and meticulous. He buried his deep love in his heart, but he showed strict coldness. During the Second World War, the film was interspersed with diplomats from various countries in their boring work, highlighting the historical situation, but the beautiful love of the two little figures was restrained and restrained by Hopkins. Missed in.
In fact, I have never understood why Hopkins suppressed their feelings so much. They are all unmarried and there is no improper reason to be together. But maybe because they work in the same mansion, Hopkins upholds the traditional meticulousness and restraint of the British, and does not want the intervention of love to lose the fairness and strictness in the work?
At the end of the film, 30 years later, Hopkins received a letter from Thompson. The letter still described the current situation and the memories of the work of the year in a plain manner, and never mentioned the good feelings that had happened between the two. When they met again 30 years later, their faces were old, but Hopkins still tried his best to maintain the dignity and gentlemanly demeanor of his youth, and Thompson's faces were still so dignified and serene under the invasion of the years. In the rainy night, Hopkins put Thompson on the bus, and the two waved goodbye in the night. Looking at Thompson's fading face, in the sound of her mellow goodbye, the audience was as sad as Hopkins, leaving only a sigh.
Although not perfect, I think this is the highest state of romance. In fact, it is ridiculous that I put these three films together to compare, because they actually describe the different nature of the emotions of men and women: "Paradise Lost" and "Meet and Hate Late" describe things other than marriage, and In particular, "Paradise Lost" emphasizes the physical relationship, and "Meeting Hate Late" describes the attraction of the soul; but "Farewell to the Loved Heaven" reflects the missed love. Putting them together, I think they reflect the different ways people deal with feelings: some are desperate to quench their thirst, some are sympathetic but unbearable tortured by moral responsibility, and some are completely restrained and restrained for life. Not revealing.
Hopkins' strict and cold words always make me feel familiar. Some people use stern words, while others like to say funny things, which are to cover up their inner feelings. The reason may be because of abiding by the rules of work, or considering the impractical reality, and more should be family and responsibility. reason. Falling in love with others is uncontrollable, but what you do next can be completely constrained by reality and responsibility. "Sleep together and listen to the autumn rain, and Xiaoyan lightly stays cold each other." The words of Zhu Yizun, a poet at the National Tsing Hua University, can express this realm very well. Some people deliberately seek insights and dig out the political meaning inside. In fact, what he described was with a woman he loved deeply but was limited by reality and couldn't express it. The two slept in each place but couldn't fall in love. Tian Han couldn't fall asleep. Suppose that the other party was not asleep either? Just hide your deep love in the most secret place in your heart.
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