Author: Green Wind
Recommended by my friends, I recently watched a Korean movie with heavy tastes, "Frost Flower Shop", which has a Douban score that is not low and has always had a place in the hearts of old movie fans.
The film is about a love triangle, because the tension of emotional conflict is increased by the implantation of the ancient royal background and the homosexual love of two men and their emotional entanglement with a woman. One of the male protagonists is the king of the Goryeo kingdom during the Yuan Dynasty, who began to cultivate his own guard from the time he was a prince, and the members were carefully selected and strong in martial arts. Captain Hong Lin joined the guard from an early age, was deeply loved and carefully cultivated by Wang, and grew into a heroic and handsome man, while Wang loved men, they were a pair of homosexuals.
Wang's love for Lin was single-minded, and although there were many harem beauties and a Princess of the Yuan Dynasty as queen, he never had any heirs, because he never slept with the queen. But the throne needs an heir, otherwise it faces the danger of being usurped by the king's power. Thinking about it, he thought of letting Lin have a relationship with the queen, trying to conceive an heir and preserve his throne. The queen and Lin were forced by the will of the king's power to agree to this plan against their will.
However, the king miscalculated, and the queen and Lin had sex several times, and both fell in love. At this point, the love triangle is staged, and the king destroys his love little by little.
The story is framed in ancient Goryeo, where the king's sexual orientation and single-minded view of love, coupled with the question of the succession of royal power, are entangled in this love tragedy that makes the viewer embarrassed.
The storyline is not complicated, and everyone is making their favorite and wishful choices. But in the end, it was destruction.
The queen is the simplest, as a woman, she is very passive in love and marriage, she needs children, as she stated at the beginning, she married from the Yuan Dynasty to Goryeo, there is no one else, only the king can rely on, for the safety of life and status, she also needs children. But the king had only respect for her, no love. But she is a person, and she needs children in terms of life, in terms of feelings, she needs a lover, and from a physical point of view, she needs to be soothed. When she and Lin were ordered to have sex, it initially embarrassed and saddened her, but with many contacts, she gradually fell in love with Lin and fell in love with this handsome man. And once a woman falls in love, she becomes irrational, she forgets that Lin is also the king's lover, and what consequences will there be if her horizontal knife grabs love.
Lin is the most contradictory, he grew up with the king since he was a child, deeply favored by the king, for the king, he can sacrifice his life, can be his lover. But when he fell in love with the queen, he was completely caught in a dilemma. Love makes him lost, let him take risks, in order to date the queen, he can only choose to lie, betray the king's trust and love. The lethality of love is here, love is a double-edged sword, it can save people, it can also kill people.
Wang is an obsessive lover, and he is sincere and true love for Lin, and he gives him anything good, and the king wants not only Lin's people, but also his heart and his love. The lover's heart is sensitive, and Lin's lying makes wang aware, but he prefers to believe Lin. Watching his lover slip away little by little, getting farther and farther away from himself, all he could use was power, use his royal power to bind his lover, and even use force to punish and hurt his lover, but everything was in vain. If the heart is far away, what is the use of trapping people?
The scene of the last duel is very enjoyable, and the feud between men is really painful to settle by force. They defend their choice and dignity in a primitive and fair way. At this time, their swords were merciless, the table where they had drunk together was split, the bed they shared was pierced, the picture scroll of riding and shooting together was also split, and all the symbols of their beautiful past were destroyed one by one, and finally the body and heart were left. Killing the red eyes, no one was soft, and the king's sword stabbed into Lin's body, asking him if he had ever loved himself, even once. Lin's answer, I have some doubts, he said no, do not love, is this really the case?
His answer completely ruined the king, and I believe that this answer is more deadly than the sword that Lin stabbed into. The king died, Lin was dying, the queen ran with tears on her face, although it was too late, fortunately, Lin knew that the queen was not dead, he looked at the king, and understood that he had wrongly blamed the king and failed the king, but the tragedy had been cast and could not be recovered.
The film discusses the dangers of love, the more wonderful the more dangerous love, the stronger the desire, the more difficult it is to control. In fact, long-lasting things are those that are warm, even weak, not the most extreme and powerful.
Love, indeed, kills. How many beautiful lives have been destroyed by love and love. In the face of the disappearance of love, is it reluctant to possess or dashing to let go?
In fact, the idea of giving up belonging can still have a normal heart, love is originally beautiful, but if you add possession, envy, and unwillingness, it becomes poison and is destined to bring harm. And to completely tie the meaning of life to the relationship of love, it has to be said that life is also narrowed.
In reality, there are also cases where the parties have handled the love triangle very well. Next, introduce the love story of Turgenev and Qu Qiubai.
In the autumn of 1843, Turgenev, a civil servant in the Ministry of the Interior, was invited by his good friend, the opera conductor Louis Viado, to enjoy opera at the St. Petersburg Opera House. The first time I met the soprano Pollina Viardo, Pollina was a musical talent who was proficient in Spanish, French, German, Italian and English Chinese. Turgenev, overwhelmed by her inner charm, fell madly in love with the woman.
However, Pollina was married, and her husband was none other than Louis Viado, who introduced her to Turgenev. Viado was the Bole who guided her on the opera stage. So, Pollina refused Turgenev's courtship.
In the spring of 1845, Pollina ended her tour of Russia with the opera troupe, leaving for Paris and then to Spain. Turgenev resigned from his position as a civil servant of the tenth rank, left home and went to the country, and followed him.
From then on, he lived in Paris for most of his life, and from 1871 to 1883, he lived next to the Pollina family, visiting day and day, maintaining a close Platonic love. Pollina's husband was 20 years older than her, and for a long time he was at peace with Turgenev, who lived with them. Pollina and Viado always supported Turgenev's literary career, and their children were genuinely loved by Turgenev, who never married.
In 1883, at the age of 65, Turgenev died of illness in Paris. During his serious illness, Pollina and the children remained by his side.
The protagonist of another love triangle is also a person we are very familiar with, the great revolutionary pioneer Qu Qiubai.
In 1923, Qu Qiubai taught at Shanghai University and met a close friend of his deceased wife, Wang Jianhong, Yang Zhihua, who was studying in the Sociology Department at the time, and they fell in love because of their common pursuit. However, at the age of 20, Yang Zhihua married Shen Jianlong, the son of Shen Xuanlu, a famous enlightened gentry in Zhejiang, and had a daughter (that is, Qu Duyi, the stepdaughter of Qu Qiubai). After deliberation, Qu Qiubai chose to face Yang Zhihua's husband Shen Jianlong directly.
Unexpectedly, Shen Jianlong saw Qu Qiubai as he was, and admired his talent and character very much, and the three of them talked for a long night. A consensus of mutual fulfillment was reached.
Later, on January 27, 1924, in the Shanghai "Republic of China Daily", three revelations were published:
First, Yang Zhihua Shen Jianlong notice: Since November 18, 1924, we have officially broken away from the relationship.
Second, Qu Qiu Poplar's Hua Notice: Since November 18, 1924, we have officially bonded in love.
Third, Shen Jianlong Qu Qiubai Notice: Since November 18, 1924, we have officially combined the relationship of friends.
These three notices were published for three consecutive days, causing a sensation throughout Shanghai Beach. On the day of Qu Qiubai and Yang Zhihua's wedding, Shen Jianlong also came to the scene to congratulate and send blessings.
These two love triangles can be said to have a happy ending and each has its own place. At least they handled this feeling and relationship very well, and achieved the most valuable understanding and tolerance between people.
Many people may have watched the story of Turgenev and Qu Qiubai and felt strange, because everyone is more willing to adopt a dead-and-die attitude to face the gains and losses of love, especially when it comes to dignity and face, and generally follow a kind of "I can't get it, you don't want to get it" psychology, do not steam steamed steamed buns, because they are not willing, but are willing to give up everything, and even pay the price of life, so that the failure of a relationship determines the failure of the entire life, and it is really regrettable to think about it carefully.
Although love is beautiful, it is not the most important factor relative to the whole life and should be treated rationally. Any lover who is forced to stay behind will become a chicken rib, so why bother? So wouldn't it be better to learn to let go and be perfect?
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