Let’s start when I read Dorian Gray’s novel six or seven years ago

I first read the English abbreviated version, and I was very young. After reading it, I just smelled the ambiguous relationship between Basil, Henry, and Dorian... and the weird and twisted beauty that permeated the whole story. One year later, I bought the original at a foreign bookstore, and about half a year later, my eldest sister Dada gave me another one. The second sister Marilyn once said that Oscar Wilde best proved that our cousins ​​have the same blood in their bodies: How else could it be possible that three people fell in love with the same man? (In fact, speaking of it, there is also Leonardo da Vinci, but my fascination with the latter is actually influenced by them. When I was young, they took me to see Da Vinci's picture album and I still remember it, but it's a pity that everything is back. Not going)

Basil is the superego, Henry is the ego, and Dorian is the id. (Wilde: Basil Hallward is what I think I am: Lord Henry what the world thinks me: Dorian what I would like to be--in other ages, perhaps.) Dorian Gray is completely different from the person in Dorian Gray, because it is indeed closer to Wilde (especially the hairstyle).

But other changes are not very acceptable...

i. I don't like that portrait... I remember it as hideous, old and bloody, but has nothing to do with disgusting... I I think the whole process is over...

ii. I admit that it takes courage to see Dorian Gray, because it is not a very pleasant process to witness a beautiful and dazzling flawless soul slowly decay... Besides, this soul is still in harmony with the "ben "I" are closely linked...but I never thought that I need courage to watch this movie because it intends to go the path of horror--|||

iii. I think the relationship between Dorian and Sybil has been dealt with thinly... at least I hope more (Emily made up later uses a lot of pen and ink...). Because in the struggle of this relationship, Dorian completed the first betrayal of the soul. There are too few repetitions, wanderings, hesitations, and pain in the middle of the movie. I think...

iv. I don’t like this ending... One of the very important factors that attracted me to Dorian Gray’s novel at first is its ending: carrying The sinful Dorian said that he hoped to come back again and be a good person. He did a few good things and hoped that his portrait could be better, but found that his hands were still bloody, very scary and dazzling... until the end Fall into despair, stab the devil with hatred, and die with it. I think it's heartbreaking...it means too much. As a result, in the movie--|||Of course, it also contains the meaning of dying rather than letting the lover see his ugly soul... But in essence, it becomes an alliance with Emily Mountain and happily die...( Why do you need this Emily? Anyway, her appearance simplifies the return of Dorian's conscience...)

The relationship between v.Basil, Dorian, and Henry is not strong enough, so that the superego, the self and the ego The connection between them has also faded...

anyway... can still be seen, the lines and pictures, there are still some flavors in the book
waiting for me to be free, and I

can’t bear to read the novel again seriously at the end. There is a passage that I remember every time I think of Wilde, from his prison book:

"God gave me almost everything. I have genius, fame, social status, talent, and the courage to challenge knowledge. I made art a philosophy, and philosophy a art. I changed people's hearts. And the color of things. My words and deeds make people feel suspicious. I have made drama, the most objective art form, become a personal expression method like lyric poetry or sonnet, and at the same time expand It has expanded the scope of the drama and enriched the characterization in the drama. In addition, I also have some unique things. I indulge myself in the sense of meaninglessness and sense of ease. I enjoy doing nothing, like To be a fashionable playboy. I am surrounded by careful people. I want to waste my talents, and squandering my youth brings me a strange joy. I am tired of climbing, deliberately stepping into the abyss, looking for new feelings. In the end, desire becomes a state of illness or madness, or both."

View more about Dorian Gray reviews