When it comes to classic love films, what comes to mind? "Titanic", "Love Letter", "Casablanca", "Covered Bridge Dream" and so on are all classic love films, but there is another film that has to be mentioned, that is, the film of the same name based on the novel "Pride and Prejudice" by British female writer Jane Austen.
Directed by Joe White and starring Kayla Knightley (Elizabeth) and Matthew McFaedden (Darcy), the 05 version of Pride and Prejudice is regarded as a classic by many. The love in the film, after several twists and turns, finally achieved an intoxicating and beautiful love marriage, which is pleasing to the eye every time it seems.
The heroine Elizabeth is beautiful and generous, smart and lively, and the male protagonist Darcy is handsome and dashing, with a noble status and a wealthy family. The two of them have their own arrogant temperament, one is easy to prejudice, look at us to catch the hurry, when this misunderstanding can be solved, when can usher in the highlight moment of the two. The hearts of the audience, especially the little girls, were locked to death by the two of them, and there was very little room left for others in their hearts.
Most of the girls want to be like Elizabeth, one day to meet their own Darcy, rich and beautiful and idle. After watching it many times, I am still immersed in the beautiful love between Elizabeth and Darcy, and I fantasize that I can have it myself.
However, with the passage of time, spring and autumn came, the face grew old, and I did not really meet my own Darcy, let alone like in the movie, after several twists and turns, I finally became a family.
After that, revisiting this film many times, you will find that the number of heartbeats is getting less and less, and you will find that when you watched the movie before, you saw all romance, but now you have found reality, just like Charlotte said to Elizabeth in the film: Not every one of us can have romance.
Slowly, you will find that apart from the aura of the film and television drama and the protagonist, reality will always be an iron reality, and it will basically not reproduce the story of Elizabeth and Darcy, even if this story is still touching and yearning.
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" >1 revisit Pride and Prejudice: What you saw before was romance, and what you see now is reality</h1>
In addition to Elizabeth's romantic love and happy marriage with Darcy, there are three other marriages: Elizabeth's sister Jane and Bentley, Elizabeth's good friend Charlotte and priest Koslin, and Elizabeth's sister Lydia and Wickham.
Each pair has its own characteristics, but this one alone is neither heartwarming nor infuriating, calm enough to be forgotten, not as noticeable as the other three pairs.
But now it seems that this pair is the most real and the most lifelike.
They were Charlotte and priest Koslin, and it could be said that they were married for the sake of marriage, each taking what they needed to live together.
As for Charlotte's choice, Elizabeth was particularly incomprehensible at first.
When Charlotte personally told Elizabeth the news that she was going to marry Coslin, a hypocritical and empty priest, she could see at a glance the contempt for her in Elizabeth's heart.
Charlotte, who looks thin and small, suddenly bursts out into an inner cry in the face of such a view from her friends:
"I have been given a comfortable and safe home and there are already so many things that I need to be grateful for. I'm 27 years old, I don't have the money and I don't have a vision. For my parents, I was already a burden. And, I was scared. So please don't judge me, Elizabeth, don't judge me. ”
Imagine how much pressure Charlotte faced as an elderly unmarried woman at the time. In our reality today, there are also very old unmarried women, but the difference is that now women can support themselves through work, and they can completely rely on themselves, but in the British countryside more than 200 years ago, this was impossible, women can only rely on their husbands to live, even female writers write novels and books, can not sign, or sign male names.
Even today, public opinion is not friendly to older unmarried women, "women do not marry and do not have children, life is incomplete" and "women work well is not as good as marrying well" and other remarks.
So, when Coslin, a boring but "exquisite" layman with a stable job, proposed to her, she quickly agreed.
I didn't understand what she was doing before, but now I look at it again, and I can understand it all too well.
There are still many women facing the same situation as Gens charlotte, and some like her, choose to marry, instead of continuing to wait for love, waiting for their own Darcy, can no longer continue to be the burden of parents, form a family of their own, and live.
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" >2, Pride and Prejudice: No one wants to get married for the sake of getting married, but they have to face reality</h1>
Jane Austen, author of Pride and Prejudice, wrote about four pairs of love and marriage, and the positive and negative orientation is obvious.
The pair of Elizabeth and Darcy has achieved the ideal love and marriage in the author's mind, not only to have the two loves at the level of love, but also to have enough bread to have a solid material foundation, only such love and marriage can be truly happy and long-lasting.
Such love and marriage are naturally excellent, but in reality, there is no perfection, fish and bear paws can not have both, choose the practical, so that you can continue to live, has become the most urgent need.
Like Charlotte, like countless women who have been forced into marriage today, they have struggled and hesitated, but as they get older, time can change everything, including a person's initial ideals and persistence, and choose to compromise with reality.
Everyone has the right to dream, and there is a stage of fantasy. But after waking up, there is still a need to face the reality of not being very friendly, some people choose to compromise, some people choose not to compromise. In the film Pride and Prejudice, Charlotte chooses to compromise with reality, while Jane Austen, the original author of the film, chooses not to marry for life and loves her own fiction creation for life.
Everyone has their own choices, as long as they can bear the results of their own choices, they can't hinder others from doing anything. Jane Austen's Charlotte represents a certain kind of person, a certain kind of choice. Now I like and appreciate Charlotte in the film, she is a transparent person, think clearly, can be responsible for herself, and make rational choices.
Of course, I don't think Jane Austen wants to criticize this novel, but only tells the story of the various real situations in life at that time, the real reasons, and the real choices to make.
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