Love meets until separation

Caitlyn 2021-12-13 08:01:10

The overturning of a city completes the white tassels.

A chaotic cholera made Walt and Kitty.

Or stubborn, or proud. Wearing a veil and refusing to examine, this love is unprovoked and short-lived.

But this is just the drama in the movie. There is no disaster or impermanence in the peaceful and heyday.

People wearing the veil still can't see their inner expressions.



In this world, some men are loyal, and a cinnabar is imprinted in their hearts.

There are also romantic, everywhere, why take it too seriously.

Some women are smart, they know how to strive for happiness.

Some of them are obsessed with Jinghuashuiyue, thinking that they are special and deserve to have a heart-stirring love.

So the dull are inevitably deceived and injured. It is not God's fault. It's just that people who are not sober should be this newspaper.



And this is a movie, there will be some miracles that will move you and me.

So Kitty is lucky, spoiled and self-willed since she was little, and even dealt with matters of marriage hastily.

But I just met a Walter who loves her so much and insists on getting married, thinking that there will be love over time.

But in fact, love is not so great, it also needs time and place, and people and people will have an appropriate ending.

His effort to please her was dull in her eyes.

What each other is trying to find is what the other party lacks, and no one sees those real existences.

So she easily fell into the arms of others, thinking it was a great love.

But ended in embarrassment at the end. Only the man who loves himself so much is still waiting.

He used a suicidal trip to punish this hopeless relationship.

Punish the self who loves too much and the opponent who loves not enough.



Don't communicate, don't look at each other. The indifferent cruelty and the Jedi of the world left her at a loss.

She ate uncooked vegetables with anger. Is she trying to punish him, or get attention?

And Walt also silently ate the vegetables, hurting each other, but they were helpless.

In the end, the strange plague land saved the two people.

People are like this, they are easy to be afraid in a strange environment, and instinctively want to get close to familiar people.

It is precisely in this way that Kitty, who has been wearing a veil, is willing to observe and understand.

I realized that the old-fashioned and dull husband was so ethical and admirable.

And Walter, who was suffering, also found in that familiar piano piece that the strong hatred was only due to a deeper love.

So the old past is gradually dying in this unfamiliar place, and new hope arises with love.



If they have gone through this cholera and returned to the civilized world, will the love that this particular environment gave birth to die quickly?

If they hadn't left this Mei Tan Mansion, would they still be together,

but living in harmony with each other, like most people do?

Unfortunately, the story has no ifs.

Walter got cholera and died quickly at the end of the film. The good possibility is too late at the beginning.

But it is precisely because of this shortcoming that the hard-won love can last forever.

When the movie ended, the phrase in Yueren's song, "I only meet until I separate," kept reverberating in my mind.

He sighed, but wanted to ask: What is love?

And who really knows?

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Extended Reading
  • Angel 2021-12-13 08:01:10

    The moment she took off her skirt, he stepped forward and kissed her. I burst into tears again.

  • Kacie 2022-03-27 09:01:08

    If you have to say that women's independence means no longer having unrealistic romantic thoughts about men and love, then it's not really interesting to be independent.

The Painted Veil quotes

  • [Walter and Kitty are out at the Chinese Opera with Charlie and Dorothy Townsend]

    Charlie Townsend: Are you enjoying it?

    Kitty Fane: I've never seen anything like it.

    Charlie Townsend: Every gesture has a meaning. See how she covers her face with the cloth? She is mourning her misfortune.

    Kitty Fane: What happened to her?

    Charlie Townsend: She was sold into slavery. Condemned to a life of drudgery and despair in a strange land far from home. See the chains? They represent the heavy bondage of her poor, trapped soul from which there is no escape, and so she weeps. She weeps for the lively, vivacious girl she once was, the lonely woman she has become... and most of all... she weeps for the love she'll never feel, for the love she'll never give.

    Kitty Fane: Is that really what she's saying?

    Charlie Townsend: Actually I haven't a clue what she's on about. I don't speak Chinese.

    [Charlie and Kitty laugh]

  • [Waddington walks in to the Fanes' new house]

    Waddington: You must be the doctor's wife. I've just met your husband and invited myself to dinner. I've kept the Watsons' cook for you - she's not bad. She'll have to do for your amah as well. We're a little short-handed here.

    [Remembering he hasn't introduced himself yet]

    Waddington: Sorry, my name is Waddington.