In the past few days, I have brushed a news about Sichuan female doctors and old professors,
An old professor coerced a female doctor into an improper relationship for three years and obstructed her application for a doctoral dissertation.
The occurrence of such an incident is really a tragedy in the field of education, this is not love, this is buying and selling, and if the interests of both parties are not achieved, the face is torn.
It's really against ethics, against the morality of the teacher...
The anecdote about love between old and young reminds me of an interesting translation from the Internet:
Eighteen bride Yajuro, pale hair to red makeup.
Mandarin ducks are doubled into nights, and a tree of pear flowers presses begonias.
The envy and ridicule in this is actually not so elegant in the literal sense!
And if an old man likes a little girl, he must be old from the bottom of his heart, which also makes Lolita active for a long time.
And continuing this active film, it is adapted from Philip Roth's epic novel "Dying Flesh".
In addition to the novel's mockery of the flesh and male power, the film also includes director Isabel Cosette's sigh of love.
Today, I will slowly talk about this long-awaited film for all the handsome guys and beauties.
"Elegy"
Ben Kingsley plays the twilight professor David, a cultural critic and university part-timer. An old man like David has charming eyes, an elegant figure, and is very knowledgeable.
His weapons are the marks of his years and his physical and mental polishing, and he is proficient in all eighteen martial arts of seducing women - good at classical poetry, painting, parsing and playing the piano, and is gentle with women.
The whole film unfolds from David's point of view, telling the story of a love game between him and female student Consula (Penelope) that crosses the age gap.
In a literary criticism class, Consvira and David meet for the first time.
Because being late for fear of affecting others, Consvera tried to avoid making a sound and sat down carefully.
David, who was gushing on the podium, still noticed this beautiful girl.
Unlike the other students, Consvera wears a white shirt and a black hip wrap skirt, in David's words:
She resembles a female clerk working in a law firm, with a restrained and ascetic beauty.
In New York, David is half a celebrity, a professor at a prestigious university, and a prestigious cultural commentator.
He has a place in almost all the columns of various related publications, and he can often be seen on TV.
Therefore, David paid great attention to managing his image and reputation, as well as the protection of his private life.
Except for a 20-year solid pao friend, his life can be said to be quite simple.
It wasn't until Consvira broke into his life and lived in his heart that the old man realized the horror.
The two became acquainted with each other, and it was already later.
It was at the graduation party that David, who was a teacher, took the initiative to approach the female student Consvira and randomly provoked a topic.
The charm of mature men is here, especially learned literary and artistic old youth, a few words can capture a young girl who loves art.
David played Kafka, piano, and drama for Consvira.
He also picked up a picture book in his collection, turned to the page of a beautiful Spanish girl, and complimented the other party in a casual tone.
He covered the lower half of the face of the girl in the painting, pointed to her eyes, and approached Consvera's ear, and said softly:
Your eyes are very similar and beautiful.
The two did not progress quickly, eating, watching plays, visiting museums, and talking about literature and art.
Age and class aside, like Adam and Eve who tasted the forbidden fruit for the first time, David and Consvira were extremely careful and groped forward.
Finally, one night, David sent an invitation to Consvilla.
It seems that everything falls into place, but in fact, the moment love begins, jealousy and paranoia follow.
In David's eyes, Consvera possessed a flawless body, young, full of vitality and seduction.
However, the more he tasted the sweetness of Consvira, the more David couldn't help himself.
It is not that he fell into love and could not extricate himself, but he jumped into the grave of fear that he dug with his own hands, and he fell deeper and deeper.
He would be jealous of the boys Consvira had dated before, comparing him to them.
Even if he once had more than 50 Pao friends, and the other party only had 5 boyfriends.
Afraid that Consvera was fooling around with other men, he secretly followed her to a nightclub.
I obviously care very much in my heart, but my face is always light.
The old bed mate found evidence of his cheating and debunked it on the spot, not only did he not admit it, but also blamed his friends.
While not wanting to give up Pao's friend, who had a tacit understanding, he hurt the young girl's heart.
The film is always narrated from David's perspective, his infatuation, insecurity, fear, and anxiety.
Because of his age, he is afraid to talk to Consvira about the future, and always avoids problems when encountered.
In the end, he didn't believe that the girl in front of him really loved him, especially the old body that made him carry mustard.
In several conversations with poet friends, it is not difficult to find that David is a typical insecurity.
Whether it was due to age pressure or pessimism that did not believe in love, this man spent his whole life on the brink of marriage.
He doesn't have the slightest confidence in maintaining a long-term fixed relationship.
So, when Consvera invites him to his own graduation family dance, he escapes...
In the love competition between the two, David is always in the position of active dabbling, he uses charm to open Consula's body, and Consula surrenders under the attack of the old man.
It can be said that by the middle of the film, Penelope only exists as a symbol of carnal desire, and her inner feelings and feelings have nothing to do with it.
However, when Consula left the scene of David, she confided her love and despair for David on the phone.
In an instant, she took absolute dominance, and the relationship between the two was instantly subverted. When Consula appeared, her demands led to a fresh start in the relationship.
David was an American who experienced liberation in the 60s, and his distrust and disloyalty to marriage caused the family to fall apart, and his son broke it off.
Instead, they were reconciled by Consula's illness.
It's worth playing that David had an old lover before Consula.
Two women of different ages are worlds apart in the texture and firmness of their skin, in the enchantment of their body curves, and in the charm of their facial features.
But young women are always static seduction, and the camera captures the beauty of her limbs; On the contrary, it allows the old and decaying one to swing his body in front of the camera and discharge his body. The irony is immediate.
Ben Kingsley plays David, a mature and attractive old man, with ease, and it is no exaggeration to say that it is himself.
Outside of glamour, he is inferior and selfish at heart, and is committed to wrestling with women.
Penelope is a far cry from the traditional Lolita image, and her fleshy sense attracts men's attention more than Lolita's thinness.
She shows her beautiful breasts and slender legs without shy in the film, and the fine hairs and small wrinkles on the side of her mouth are more sexy and unique.
Her performance after returning from illness has a feeling of being reborn, from a completely symbolic image to a woman with active awareness and behavior who needs love and fights against illness.
Elegy, or dying flesh, means that a woman in love will eventually die from the world due to illness, and a living man will eventually grow older because of the death of his lover.
Obviously, the director believes in love, so he asked David to find Consula on the sick bed.
I can hear her sigh at the end of the film, for the dying of the flesh and for the eternity of love.
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"Elegy"
Plot: |112 minutes| United States | 2008
Director: Isabel Coset
Screenwriters: Nicholas Meyer / Philip Roth
Starring: Penelope Cruz