I accidentally saw this video again, and I felt a lot in my heart, more than 90 minutes of video, there are not so many gorgeous picture rendering designs in the film, only the ordinary scenes outlined by the intriguing brush and the deep meaning of the language that is clear.
I still remember when this film first came out, many people appreciated the deep meaning of the work, but for a me who was still in school, marriage seemed so far away, and I didn't have so many feelings and thoughts to express marriage and love.
And now, in and out of society, watching my peers rushing on the runway of marriage, my parents and relatives around me cheering them up, leaving me on the runway to watch, messy in the wind.
Perhaps they have their own judgments and opinions on marriage, and they do not have much admiration for married peers, and marriage may only be a "siege city" in their eyes.
Romain Rolland once said: "The only great thing about marriage lies in the only love, the mutual loyalty of two hearts."
In "Ethel and Ernest," I felt that kind of innocent love and long-standing loyalty.
The film tells the story of an ordinary British family in the twenties of the last century, which is the epitome of thousands of families.
At the beginning of the story, the hero Ernest's daily job as a milkman is to deliver canned milk to rich families, he has a funny and humorous personality, likes to talk about current politics, and works seriously and calmly.
The heroine Ethel's job is to be a maid in a rich man's house, cleaning the room, she is industrious and brave, and a look back by the window evokes her thoughts of Ernest, and she falls in love with him from then on, and promises to be with him for life.
Their encounter and love are so ordinary, plain, simple, not so many gorgeous scene renderings, and no affectionate confessions, everything seems to be reasonable, and it seems to be unexpected.
What is marriage? Perhaps in their eyes is companionship and satisfaction, trivial daily life is the whole of life, war, work, children, political parties, international news, turbulent world patterns and other serious topics have been transformed into the condiments of life between them.
They argue but don't quarrel, they are supporters of different ruling parties, they rebel and despise, but they support and love the country.
In their eyes, children are both makers of family joy and joy, but also participants in trouble and anger, they bring children into this world, full of hardships and worries, they witness the rebellion and joy of children, and they also give encouragement and support in their growth.
In their way of getting along, the wife and the husband do not seem to be the same person, whenever the husband is excited to mention his views on current politics, the wife is always not interested in complaining.
But when encountering difficult and sad things, the wife's crying, the two people embracing each other passionately, it seems that no matter how big the difficulties can be resolved in a solid arm, there is no need to say more.
In the world of two people, there is not so much joy and sorrow, nor so many quarrels and complaints, but they all experience the love given by both sides in the subtleties of life, and this love is like a long stream.
Qian Zhongshu once said to his lover Yang Dai: "From now on, we can only die and say goodbye, and we will no longer be born and separated." Even the best love has the same ending.
At the end of the film, the wife suffers from Alzheimer's disease, no longer knows her husband Ernest, and dies shortly after.
Subsequently, Ernest also died of a sudden heart attack, and the story of the two people's lives ended flat.
There is no cool vision in the film, no deliberate creation of romance and emotion, not so many flirtatious bridges, just ordinary bits of life, but with an extraordinary sense of life.
Marx's description of man has such a definition: the essence of man is the sum of all social relations, in other words, the development and change of society will be expressed from the individual, reflecting the true development of society.
Taking time as a clue, measuring by time, experiencing national changes, the development of science and technology, a short storyline, but described just right in detail, from bicycles to cars, from the telephone from scratch, from the radio to the television.
Being able to see life getting better, Ethel and Ernest getting older. But the hearts of the two of them did not change, "the hand of the son and the son with the old", perhaps they met in another world.
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Someone said: "In the past, the carriage and horse were very slow, the letters were far away, and there was only enough to love one person in a lifetime."
Some people also say: "You think that you only love one person in your life, but you actually fall in love with the same person over and over again."
May you one day, finally meet such a person, a strange person who is completely unfamiliar, has no emotional basis, but feels that it is a person who can live well together. So, the exhausted heart was finally willing to stop.