Amidst the prosperity of singing and dancing, the helplessness of social class differences

Davon 2021-12-07 08:01:40

In general, I personally think it is still a good film. I appreciate the singing in it, including "wouldn't it be loverly" and the chorus when watching a horse race, which belong to the melodious and beautiful opera music.
The life of the upper class is indeed very good, but once you compare it with other classes, it is inevitable that you will not see the vanity, hypocrisy, and glitz of those so-called "upper people."
The most memorable part is the horse racing. Ladies and celebrities always look at others with their clothes and manners, and go to great lengths to dress up and dress up. The entire racecourse has become a gathering of contending beauties. Eliza is not an insider at all, struggling to advance and retreat on many topics related to weather and health.
Let's also suppose that if she knows that she is a vulgar flower girl, will the noble youth come down to her window and stare every day and sing for her? Maybe it's too late to avoid it.
The reality is so cruel.
And when Sigens finally turned the "dirty, messy" flower girl into an elegant lady of the upper class, he realized that she had nowhere to go-the working people at the bottom dared not get in close contact with such a "lady" In a hierarchical society, they are all doing their jobs honestly, relying on a small amount of income to make ends meet. And those aristocrats who have no worries about food and clothing, and do nothing, probably do not accept such an "anarchy, no identity and no background" woman, although her demeanor and temperament far exceed those authentic hereditary aristocratic ladies and wives.
There is no way in the sky, no way to the earth, this lady shaped by society and experimenters can only sigh helplessly.

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My Fair Lady quotes

  • Professor Henry Higgins: Eliza, you are to stay here for the next six months, learning to speak beautifully, like a lady in a florist's shop. If you work hard and do as you're told, you shall sleep in a proper bedroom, have lots to eat, and money to buy chocolates and go for rides in taxis. But if you are naughty and idle, you shall sleep in the back kitchen amongst the black beetles, and be walloped by Mrs. Pearce with a broomstick. At the end of six months you will be taken to Buckingham Palace, in a carriage, beautifully dressed. If the king finds out you are not a lady, you will be taken to the Tower of London, where your head will be cut off as a warning to other presumptuous flower girls! But if you are not found out, you shall have a present... of, ah... seven and six to start life with as a lady in a shop. If you refuse this offer, you will be the most ungrateful, wicked girl, and the angels will weep for you.

  • Eliza Doolittle: [singing] Lots of chocolate for me to eat! / Lots of coal makin' lots of heat / Warm face, warm hands, warm feet / Oh, wouldn't it be loverly?