The end of many fairy tale love stories is that the princess and the prince are married and live a happy life in the castle. No one should tell the children that after the princess and the prince get married, they will quarrel, change their hearts, have different dreams in the same bed, and trigger disputes such as the Trojan War. If it is a poor couple, the friction of money, rice, oil and salt is enough to grind the marriage into a thick and hard quilt, but under normal circumstances, even if they are uncomfortable, men and women still go to bed under the covers and go to bed.
Life is a wonderful hand, it often destroys fantasy, but sometimes it can also forge eternity. Men and women who have been misplaced and betrayed may also go through all kinds of hardships, merge into one track, and germinate sincere and deep love.
When I saw those delicate mountains, quiet bamboo forests, clear rivers, and small but neat rice fields, I sighed quietly: Heh, Guilin. The ancient eaves, the low stone arch bridge, the gurgling water brought by the waterwheel... In the movie, the beautiful ancient town of Guangxi welcomes a tormented British couple and a thrilling cholera.
Kitty, smart and beautiful, plays a good piano, but is selfish and pampered, emotionally impulsive; she is free and naive, unwilling to be restrained, loves funny and romantic men, and is willing to participate in lively and bustling parties. (Hehe, like most of our women)
What about the hero, Doctor Water. The slender body, thin lips are always tightly pressed, and the meticulous hair is not messy all day long, just like his too neat and orderly spiritual world. He fell in love with Kitty at first sight, he loved her smart and cute, and said to Kitty tenderly: I will do my best to make you happy. This sentence was wonderful, and it touched Kitty, who originally wanted to escape family pressure. He is talented, knowledgeable, dedicated to work, heal the wounded, and his demeanor is a gentleman. But he is dull, lacking in taste, and even clumsy in some respects. He is always not good at expressing himself. So he is not the type she likes. When he took her to visit Venice, he talked about water conservancy projects, and when she wanted to go to the dance party, he took her to the gallery...
Kitty said: "Women don't fall in love with a man because he is noble." She needs a lover who is passionate, considerate, smart and funny. Thus, in the loss of leaving home and marrying not what she really liked, Kitty had a romantic relationship with a diplomat in Shanghai. She thought that the other party loved her, but later found out that she was just a mere flower in the other party's back garden.
Water is not a saint, he is a normal man. After discovering his wife's derailment, he was outraged. He loves her, so he hates her extraordinarily. He voluntarily applied to go to the area where cholera was rampant to be a therapist, and forced her to go with the scandal of his wife's adultery as a threat.
This is a journey of punishment and self-abuse. From the beginning, he made a plan not to look back.
They lived in a small building where the former doctor who had died of cholera lived in separate rooms. He went to check on the condition every day, and devoted himself to researching methods to control the epidemic, and put her on hold, leaving her in the lonely and deserted air, almost isolated from the world. She tried to talk to him, but was rudely rejected.
An invitation from the nun allowed Kitty to visit the orphanage in the town. She is also kind and sincerely willing to help the helpless orphans with the nuns. Gradually she got happiness again. Kitty changed the baby's diapers, crafted cute paper windmills, and played a cheerful rhythm on the broken piano. In troubled times, there is precious and short-lived warmth in the orphanage. Walt encountered these scenes, and he looked at her emotionally. In fact, he still loves him.
She missed her diplomat lover in Shanghai for a while, but when she found out that she was just a "second-rate woman" to her lover, she was desperate. Yes, this is a reasonable plot. After desperate for unrealistic love fantasy, our heroine can let go of her demons and start a new life, and can truly begin to feel the noble personality charm of her husband. In this cruel land of cholera, poverty and death dispel impetuous desires, the lead blooms are gone, and the noble gold shines. They know each other again, from confrontation, to mutual understanding, to each other.
She truly fell in love with her, and he truly forgiven her.
They are lingering, far sweeter than the wedding night.
Then there is the eternity brought about by death.
I have a "famous saying": If people in love stay with each other forever, love will die (turning into family affection is actually a kind of death of love); if love is not to die, the only way to do it is to cost life. This fallacy is embodied in all kinds of damn confusing stories, such as "Blessings of Love", such as "The Peacock Flies Southeast", such as "Titanic"... There is also this movie that changed from Maugham's novel-" veil".
Dr. Walter eventually died in the service like Comrade Bethune and was buried in a foreign country. This was the expected result of his self-abuse. But what he and she didn't expect was that they could have the opportunity to break the ice, lift the veil between each other, and harvest a love that was perfect because of death.
Why do we always have to pay such a high price before we can communicate with each other? I think of the American couple who had a marriage crisis and reached a new understanding due to the shooting incident in "Tong Tian Pagoda". I think of Bai Liusu and Liu Yuan who have achieved a sincere marriage due to the war in Zhang Ailing's "Allure"... I think of Xu even more. Many other couples, who are struggling with daily routines and dispelled their enthusiasm and imagination, wear thicker and thicker veils with each other, day after day, year after year.
And, who can say that if Walter and Kitty can survive cholera together safely and return to live in a peaceful British city, will they be able to maintain that thorough love and forgiveness?
Love is not that great, and it also has the right time and place, so that people and people will have an appropriate ending. Marriage is not the end, because the conditions of life will always change. Only death allows the hand of fate to end at the most beautiful moment, thus creating eternity.
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