Love in Hiroshima is a screenplay written by Margaret Duras for the film of the same name, described in three timelines that intertwine and give the reader a new way of reading fragments.
The author of this book, Margaret Duras, is a well-known contemporary French novelist, playwright and film artist. Representative works include The Against the Pacific, Lover, Pain and so on.
"Hiroshima Love" is set in Hiroshima, Japan after the war, when a French woman who died of love came to Hiroshima by chance to shoot a film about the theme of peace. At the end of the shoot, she met a Japanese architect and began a relationship that was not recognized by the world. The two constantly entangled and pulled between sensibility and reason, composing a beautiful exotic love song.
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The story takes place in Hiroshima in the summer of 1957.
In the film, how they met is not clear. Because there are things everywhere in the world that meet each other. What matters is what happens after these common encounters.
After Riva's affair with a Japanese man, she did not shy away from talking about World War II. She hated war and felt deep sympathy for the bombed Hiroshima and the homeless refugees.
The Japanese man who lived through World War II was deeply attracted to Riva, and the war invisibly bound the two of them firmly.
He said to her: You seem to have a thousand women in one...
She replied: For you, a thousand women are in one.
Everything seemed so beautiful and romantic, but they both knew that they couldn't be together.
The architect and Riva already have their own families and are happily married. If the union of a married man and a married woman were known to the world, it would be met with a thousand scoldings.
For them, Hiroshima is like a forbidden garden for self-liberation, a place they share, where they can love each other without hesitation, but in the face of the world, their love is vulnerable.
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He was her first Japanese lover, and he reminded her of a sad past, a war-related tragedy— a tragedy that had agonized her for 14 years.
During World War II 14 years ago, in her hometown of Neville, at the age of 18, she fell in love with a 23-year-old German soldier.
He is the enemy of the motherland, and Riva's violation of morality and betrayal of the motherland can never be tolerated in the face of a firm war stance.
Their love is destined to be tragic. On the eve of the end of the war, when the German soldier was shot dead, she watched in despair as he slowly died on the embankment, staying by his corpse for a whole day and night, and that night Neville was liberated.
The whole nation was celebrating liberation, singing the ode to freedom, the Marseillaise, and she was alone in enduring endless pain as if she were dead.
Because of her love for the people of the enemy country, Riva became the public enemy of her compatriots in the motherland. They shaved her hair and paraded her through the streets. Her family also saw Riva as a disgrace because of her presence with German soldiers.
Later, due to delirium, she was locked up in the basement. In the enclosed space around her, she, with the love of a dead lover, dug the stones in the wall in despair until it was covered in blood.
Two years later, released from the basement, she decided to leave Neville and leave for Paris alone.
What happened in Neville was like a nightmare that lingered in Riva's mind for more than a decade, her lover buried in her hometown, and her love, her hope, dissipated at the moment of their death.
The death of her first love leaves Riva with everything to lose, leaving only the body of the walking dead living alone in this world.
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On the eve of parting, the Japanese man repeatedly begged Riva to stay.
But Riva knew that this forbidden love could not bear fruit, and in the eyes of the world, the convention of "secular order" still existed, and they were not capable of countering the normal order of the world.
Before Leaving Hiroshima, Riva said affectionately to the architect: Hiroshima, this is your name.
The architect said: Yes, that's my name.
The author Duras gives the reader a lamentable open-ended ending at the end: Did Riva stay in Hiroshima in the end?
But none of that matters.
Maybe they won't see each other again in this life, but they've loved each other desperately, and that's enough.
END.