But anyone who has read Wilde cannot fail to be attracted to his genius.
Like someone said, who doesn't love Wilde?
Everyone loves Wilde!
Even British Prime Minister Winston Churchill has said that the person who is most willing to confide in the next life is Wilde.
The countless golden sentences and passages he left more than a hundred years ago are still popular in the circle of friends.
For example, "There are two kinds of tragedies in the world: one is not to get what you want, one is to get it", "when I was young, I thought money was the most important thing, and when I was old, I found out that it was true"...
It is not to be relentlessly called the first poisonous tongue of the corrupt country.
As a world-renowned legendary writer, as the spiritual leader of countless homosexuals (yes, he is gay), not only his classic works have been repeatedly adapted, but even his own colorful life has provided excellent material for the film industry.
After waiting for a year, Xiangyu finally waited for his latest biopic -
The Happy Prince
The Happy Prince
As early as 1927, there have been many films with Wilde as the protagonist.
One of the most well-known "fried uncles" Stephen Frey's Wilde summarizes his life.
At the time, 25-year-old Qiu Hua played his "gay man" Posey, and that smile did not know how many people were amazed.
The one I want to talk about today, the appearance value is not generally high:
Rupert Everett + "Uncle Face" Colin Firth.
Rupert Everett
Colin Firth
The two collaborated on "Love in the Same Window" in 1984, and since then they have dragged Xiangyu into the abyss of Yan Dog.
In addition to the two old male gods, there is also a new male god, that is, the "cute god" Colin Morgan who shines in "The Legend of Merlin".
It is worth mentioning that this is the fourth time that Rupert Everett has starred in Wilde.
This time, he not only starred, but also wrote and directed himself.
The Guardian praised him as "simply born for the role of Oscar Wilde".
The film has also been hailed as its pinnacle since the beginning of cinema.
In order to get close to the prototype, Rupert Everett gained a lot of weight
After being screened at the Sundance Film Festival and the UK, they were all rave reviews.
The title of the film, "The Happy Prince", is a fairy tale by Oscar Wilde.
It tells the story of the happy prince without sorrow, who sacrificed himself to soothe the sufferings of the world.
And this film focuses on the unknown tragedy of wilde in the last period of the world.
The story begins with Wilde taking the gay Man Posey's father to court.
Because Posey's father constantly harassed and insulted him, calling him a "sodomite," he followed Posey's (Colin Morgan)'s advice and decided to prosecute him for defamation.
But this will undoubtedly make his private life public in court.
In 1895, Britain was very shameful about homosexuality, and any form of sexual activity between the same sex was considered a crime.
Posey's father countersued Wilde for bad manners and won the case.
Losing the much-fought defamation case, the genius writer of the past was imprisoned and lost all his dignity.
Even on his way to another prison, he had to endure public reproach.
And Posey, who had pushed him into the abyss, did not come to see him once.
After two years of prison life, he could no longer have a name in his home country, so he had to change his name and surname, relying on the financial support of his friends, and emigrated abroad.
Uncle Face plays Wilde's best friend
To get his life back on track, he sent out two letters.
A letter of desperation, sent to his old lover Posey, determined to sever ties with him;
A tender letter to his wife Constance, eager to reconcile with her.
However, Percy was like taking a sip of the opium that was difficult to quit in this life.
In front of his friends, he tore Posey's letter back to pieces without opening it.
But when the friend left, he hurriedly turned over the fragments of the place, and the pieces were collaged intact.
After two years of absence, at the crowded station, Wilde saw Posey's moment and was in tears.
Although the words can be decisively sharp, when he sees Posey, the tenderness of the heart churns from the bottom of his heart.
On this side alone, he overturned his previously conclusive vows: where Posey was going, the ends of the earth followed.
It's just that this life of tenderness and sweetness, wandering skeletons didn't take long, and the money on his body was spent.
To make matters worse, the families of both sides cut off their living expenses because they were still entangled.
The love between them has never been sentient and full, but can only be based on the abundance of material conditions.
Therefore, the departure of the scumbag Posey is also expected.
After the death of his wife, Wilde soon fell ill and died in the company of his best friend...
Xiangyu wanted to sum up the look and feel of this movie in four words: mourning but not hurting.
Like Wilde's fairy tale, it is poignant to read, but it still feels beautiful.
The director runs through the film with his "Happy Prince", which is not without basis.
The happy prince in the fairy tale sympathizes with the suffering of the world, and again and again exchanges his own pain for the smiles of others.
Wilde, like this happy prince, kept giving until he put himself in it.
Everyone is asking for it from him.
The audience asked him for one wonderful performance after another;
Readers ask him for one moving story after another;
Posey asked him for continued love and attention.
And his response has always been simple: as long as he can give, it is all a problem.
But what did these people who asked him have done to him?
Everyone expelled him from aristocratic circles only when he was a disgraced prisoner.
They either spit or betrayed, trampling on his heart.
And those who love him from the bottom of their hearts, like the swallow in the fairy tale, have seen the most glorious moments of this happy prince, and they are not willing to leave at his most depressed time.
Fairy tales and reality intertwine and spread forward, and Xiangyu often forgets whether the eyes reflecting beauty and sorrow are the happy prince's or Wilde's own.
Of course, he pays for love, but also willingly: without love, there is no way to live.
So seeing Wilde break his oath again and again, constantly returning to Posey's side, Xiangyu sniffed out the sad fatalistic smell in it, and saw his indestructible innocence.
For the people he loves, even if the whole world is against them together, he is willing to rebel against the whole world for the sake of this person, even if this love can only survive for a moment.
And Posey was destined to torture him over and over again with the fearlessness of the favored.
To those who love him, he undoubtedly owes.
Infatuated best friend Robbie and wife Constance, they should not have illusions about waiting for no results, and deserve a better future.
However, there is no difference between winning and losing in love.
As Wilde said, Both Posey and Robbie are loving him in ways that the other can't, except that everything is written in advance.
In the last days of Wilde's life, he was not only penniless, but also seriously ill.
These pains should have earned a handful of tears, but the director was unwilling to amplify it, but instead devoted himself to highlighting the romantic character of the writer with some small details.
Even in the saddest of situations, he can still teach you to be high.
Even if you are on the sickbed, no matter how much pain your body is, you must finish the agreed story.
As long as there is still a point of love in the body, then output another point.
No reservations.
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