The movie "Soul Break Blue Bridge" was released in 1940, starring famous actors Vivien Leigh, Robert Taylor and so on, I believe that people who have watched this movie will be sad about the tragic ending in the film. Today we will take a look at this classic love movie and analyze why seemingly beautiful love becomes a tragedy.
The film focuses on ballet dancer Mara and officer Roy meeting on a zipline bridge, but due to the ruthlessness of the war, when the two decide to marry, Roy should recruit back the troops to participate in the war. In order to see her lover for the last time, Mara missed a ballet performance and lost her job. Soon after, Roy is mistakenly put on the list of dead, and Mara, who has lost her job, crumbles and becomes a prostitute. When she meets Roy again, Mara has hope for life, but in the face of the honor of the Roy family and the trust of her family, the kind Mara does not want to continue to deceive him, so she quietly leaves the day before the wedding and ends her life on the Waterloo Bridge where the two first met.
The poignant love ending of "Soul Breaking Blue Bridge" has touched many viewers, so far, 80 years have passed since this movie and still attracts many people. Regarding the end of the heroine's suicide on the Waterloo Bridge where she and the male protagonist first met, I think there are mainly the following reasons:
First, the background of the two people hindered the two from being together. The male protagonist, Roy, is an officer and has a strong family background, while the female protagonist, Mara, is a ballet dancer, and dancers were a despised profession in those days. The gap in origins makes Mara feel inferior and feels that she is not worthy of Roy and cannot marry him. After Roy returns from the front, Mara is tormented, on the one hand, she is extremely happy to see roy not sacrificing herself on the battlefield to return safely, on the other hand, she has become a prostitute for a living, and when Roy and his family are warm to Mara and prepare for their wedding, Mara's background is deeply hindered by her. When Roy's uncle talked to Mara, he told Mara that the military family attached great importance to honor, Mara was hurt by these words, and she could not bear to hide the truth to bring bad influence to Roy, so she chose to leave. If Roy hadn't been born into a military family, if Mara hadn't sacrificed herself to become a prostitute because of Roy, the story would have ended beautifully.
Mara's character doomed her and Roy to a tragic love affair. From the beginning of the film, Roy takes Mara to get married, and it can be seen that Mara is a person who pursues perfection and is afraid of failure. It is this character that creates tragedy. Mara gave Roy the pendant she had been wearing, a symbol of good luck, and Mara was out of luck. Mara is kind and innocent and full of fantasies about life. So she would rather be late than go to the station to send Roy off, which led to her being expelled from the dance troupe and having no source of income, so she spent all her savings to buy clothes to marry Roy, resulting in unemployment and no money to support herself, so she saw the news of Roy's death in the newspaper and could not bear to tell Roy's mother that she misunderstood herself and caused her to cause future tragedies. It is because of Marla's own personality that Roy's mother chose to forgive her and accept her after learning that she had been a prostitute, but she still could not get through this barrier in her heart, and she was always afraid to tell Roy this fact, so she chose to commit suicide at the Waterloo Bridge where she and Roy first met. In fact, even if everyone knows the truth, they will choose to forgive her and accept her, let alone Roy, who loves her deeply. Years later, Roy, whose hair was gray, stood on the Waterloo Bridge holding the necklace pendant that Mara had given him, and we knew that he still loved Mara and missed Mara, for her life she never married. This makes us even more moved, and we can't help but sigh this love tragedy.
Third, the inevitability of the times has created tragedy. Roy and Mara met and fell in love at Waterloo Bridge during the war, and finally experienced a dead farewell, and if it weren't for the war they might not have met, then there would be no follow-up. If it weren't for the war, Roy and Mara would have been married long ago: if it weren't for the war, Mara wouldn't have been a prostitute after being fired from the dance troupe and wouldn't have been a prostitute for the sake of living: if it hadn't been for the war, Mara wouldn't have been discouraged and lost hope in life because she saw the news of Roy's death in the newspaper. So the war brought them together, and it also led to the tragedy of their love.
The movie name of "Soul Breaking Blue Bridge" makes people feel heartbroken when they hear it, and I have to say that this movie name is good. Friends who have not yet seen this classic love tragedy movie have the opportunity to watch it, and I promise that I will not disappoint you.