It's a Vanity Fair. A fashionable girl in fur, an elegant gentleman holding a rose, accompanied by a rich and rich red wine, the air is filled with unique perfume and tobacco smell, the color is strong and the picture is sharp, this is full of the life of the European upper class in the old era, exquisite , flashy and elegant, gentlemen must be born for this.
Gustavo was a pompous gentleman. Dress meticulously, do things in good order, be knowledgeable, love women, respect the truth, keep promises, insist on justice, and some small humor and great wisdom. The Grand Budapest Hotel gave Gustavo a hotbed for gentlemanly style, where he felt like a duck to water and found the direction of his life. He had a great time at the hotel and felt loved, respected and admired. Even in prison, he still did not forget to use his language talents, and delivered speeches on responsibility and style to the doormen and waiters through the mouth of Mustafa. Gustavo was wrongfully imprisoned, escaped, then at the Grand Budapest Hotel, where he co-existed, which, once again, became his redemption and shelter.
Mustafa reminisced about this wonderful hotel trip. As a concierge, he followed Gustavo, and felt the style of an old-fashioned gentleman between humor and banter. He was unhurried and charming in his gestures. He is very flirtatious, lives in silence from time to time, and maintains a weak confidence in human nature.
Gentlemen have old age, even lost, actively or passively lost. In addition to Yinggeyanwu, Budapest is accompanied by the uncivilized and inhuman nature of the civilized world. A hilarious storyline cannot hide the growth and spread of injustice. Gentlemen and evil have always been natural enemies. Gentlemen rely on humor and fists to achieve poor justice. Occasionally he succeeded, he encountered a slightly "elegant" evil, but in the end he failed. In the civilized world filled with terror, a few guns obscured the faint light of humanity. The gentleman left this world disheveled, leaving only thoughts and memories.
Mustafa misses the Grand Budapest Hotel, misses Agatha who met him, misses Gustavo, and misses Gustavo's gentlemanly style, aristocratic temperament and the light of humanity. Guns annihilate humanity, and war crushes civilization. What tanks and troops destroy are not just high-rise buildings and cities, but the living atmosphere, thinking habits, and civilization and humanity accumulated from an era or even several eras. "The Grand Budapest Hotel" just uses black humor to try to dispel the grief of civilization brought about by war, but behind the humor and banter is the endless pain of civilization. Gustavo was sent by a few bullets to meet Jesus in Mustafa's dictation. Perhaps, the gentleman's obsessive-compulsive disorder will make Gustavo feel that this method is dignified, but at least he does not need to do it in the subsequent history. Experienced, such as concentration camps with black smoke billowing from furnaces and meat grinders littered with corpses.
"The Grand Budapest Hotel" pays tribute to Stephen Zweig, the genius of European literature and a gentleman who preserves the light of humanity. Gustavo and Zweig's appearance and experience are so similar, even his speech Zweig's writing is whimsical but his words are precise and beautiful. Stefan Zweig paid tribute to the world of yesterday. Between the afternoon of February 22, 1942 and 4 o'clock in the afternoon, in the small town of Pietro Paulis on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Stephen Zweig and his wife took an overdose of barbital and lay down together. Zweig was wearing Shirt, trousers, tie, and Mrs. Lottie wears a kimono-style printed dressing gown after bathing. At that time, Zweig's spiritual homeland, Europe, had self-destructed and sunk. If you want to start a new life again, you need special energy. In the life on this shore, Zweig's energy was exhausted in the ups and downs. , he impatiently went to the other side of the world to find the dawn. Zweig committed suicide in loneliness and disillusionment, but until his death he insisted that "spiritual labor is the purest happiness, and personal freedom is the most precious wealth in the world". The wind and rain are dark, but still insist on the light of freedom and humanity, how Gustavo, how Stephen Zweig.
In the last years of his life, Stephen Zweig recounted and reviewed the people and events of his time and his own feelings about that turbulent time.
This book is "Yesterday's World", a tribute to yesterday, just like "The Grand Budapest Hotel", the yesterday that passed away.
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