Author: Green Wind
A woman's love is an echo from the soul.
The recently released film "Ammonite" in the United Kingdom and the United States, only see these introductions: love, starring Kate Winslet and Silsa Ronan, director Francis Lee, it is estimated that many people will be interested, but if you know that it is a film that shows same-sex love, I don't know how many people will be hindered by the enthusiasm for watching movies?
Same-sex love, although excluded from the list of diseases, can still be considered taboo in many countries and regions.
However, Ang Lee said when filming "Brokeback Mountain": Everyone has a Brokeback Mountain in their hearts.
Love shouldn't be gender-limited, and it's time to tear off the taboo label.
In the last shot of the film, Mary Anning, played by Kate Winslet, stares at her lover for a long time with her deep eyes, and I think she is also looking at us through the screen, her gaze seems to have traveled through nearly two centuries of time and space, and she is still asking, has the woman got everything she wants?
Those eyes kept shining stubbornly in front of my eyes.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" >1, Mary and Charlotte</h1>
Francis Lee is quite skilled, and the film is very British. With the gray and dark main color to create a deep and idyllic emotional space, the rhythm is gentle, the dialogue is concise, the characters are plump, the frame of images, the effect of playing music is hard to play, the whole film is like a deep movement slowly flowing, in the light and shade, near and far, fast and slow transformation of the protagonist's work, life and emotions, let us unconsciously step into the nineteenth century British town.
The old, dreary English seaside town of Lyme Regis, where people live in order, beneath the choppy surface, it seems that nothing will happen or surprise.
Mary Anning was a fossil researcher and paleontologist (historically known) who was well known in the scientific and collecting circles, but her life was still difficult. She and her mother rely on each other, running a small shop that sells tourist souvenirs, she goes to the beach every day to collect usable shells to go home to make handicrafts, and silently excavates and processes fossils and researches them. She was silent, her face was cold, and her long outdoor work made her body strong and strong.
Kate's performance seems to be dull, but in fact, it is pure fire, and the portrayal without traces is even restrained to capture. Therefore, the character of Mary needs to be analyzed with heart. She always treated everything with joylessness and sorrow, she was introverted, tenacious, unsmiling, flat-faced, and her rough, cracked, cocooned hands told us how much she was engaged in her work and how hard her life was.
Mary's life should probably go on like this, only the sea, the fossils, the carving knife, the shell, her communication with her mother is very little, the life of a single woman can only be like this, she has no lover, no children, no extravagance, no surprises, day after day, until she is old and turns into dust.
However, here comes Charlotte Murchison, a young noblewoman whose husband is a scientist, who has come to town to ask Mary for advice on fossil identification techniques. Later, he went abroad to study, leaving Charlotte in Mary's care.
Charlotte and Mary are completely different. As soon as she appeared, she was dressed in black, pale, depressed, and lifeless, in stark contrast to Mary's stout, hard, and rough.
They are completely two worlds.
But they are all intelligent and sensitive, and in this cold and hard world, they see another state of life and possibility in each other.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" >2, love does not know what to do</h1>
Love, do not know what to do, but always deep. In fact, no relationship is empty.
People living in two worlds, when they first approached, could only speculate about each other with their own mindsets. Communication is difficult and mutually reinforcing. When Charlotte was alone after a fever, Mary had to take on the responsibility of taking care of her. With meticulous care day and night, Charlotte gradually regained her health, and she could not help but be grateful to Mary and feel the warmth from within her beneath her cold exterior.
Weak, thin, helpless, lonely Charlotte touched the most tender part of Mary's heart. Her deeply buried warmth was awakened. While secretly sketching Charlotte and applying ointment to her, Mary's hard-wrapped heart gradually recovered and became soft.
Human love is the best medicine and nutrition, and Charlotte, who suffers from mild depression, becomes cheerful and rosy. When Charlotte walked up to Mary in a beautiful green dress, her bright face, her vivid breath, like a ray of sunshine, lit up Mary's eyes, and of course, her sleeping heart.
They went to the doctor's invitation together, and at the doctor's door, Mary gently took Charlotte's hand, and her heart overflowed with warmth and beautiful expectations. At that moment, the excitement in her heart had already broken the peace of many years.
However, the unsociable Mary, at the concert scene, saw Charlotte at ease, talking and laughing, and for the first time felt the gap between their personality and class, she chose to run away. When she got home, she wrote a poem sadly: "Am I just alone?" However, in my dream, the illusion was also thinking of me, loving me, and I began to respond, but the illusion disappeared, and I continued to cry, still alone. Falling from the clouds of hope, the sad emotions are clear at a glance. The sensitive Charlotte had been watching Mary's whereabouts, and she soon returned to Mary, and at her insistence she read the poem and saw Mary's heart, saying, "You are the most charming person tonight, and the most beautiful person in my heart." ”
Isn't that just a love story? In fact, true admiration does not have to be expressed by the word "love".
Hearts are connected, feelings are piling up. When they work together to carry home a valuable fossil, it symbolizes that their love has come to fruition, and the fossil that Charlotte found and carefully processed by Mary can be said to be the crystallization of their love.
In the depths of love, someone always has to unveil the veil. To my surprise, the window paper was actually broken by Charlotte on her own initiative, which is also normal when you think about it. Charlotte, a young and wealthy man from London, is more confident, brave and unscrupulous. Besides, Charlotte in her bones is so smart, enthusiastic, and has her stubbornness and persistence.
The unity of body and mind is the most important ritual of love. The burst of passion is a natural thing for those who love each other. The scale of the bed play is indeed relatively large, but isn't this what love should be? Should just be shy and restrained just because she is a woman? That's probably a stereotype of women.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" >3, the origin of love</h1>
Many years ago, there was a popular song that sang: Inexplicably, I like you, there is no reason and no reason.
But Mary and Charlotte's love for a reason.
Charlotte is rich, but life is boring, and it is conceivable that she does not have to work except for socializing, is trapped in the family, and finds it difficult to find a sense of personal value. Mary's ability and achievements fulfilled her desire for independence. In the face of bargaining with the buyer, Charlotte said what she knew and affirmed about Mary, and that large paragraph was full of her praise for Mary.
"In my humble opinion, Miss Anning has put a lot of effort into finding such a specimen... In order to show all the beauty of this specimen, she spent hours of painstaking effort on this specimen, and apart from these difficulties, Miss Anning has been in her work for many years, showing her proficiency in knowledge and skills, if it were not for her, for the untrained or ordinary eyes, these would be just unlearned large stones and rocks, otherwise why do you think the scientific community would take this work so seriously, Miss Anning is showing us not only the past, but also our present, how would you price it considering this? ”
Her words sounded to Mary, and I think every word was a heart-warming love word. Just think, there is no one who does not need to be understood, appreciated and loved.
Where did Mary's love for Charlotte come from? In fact, it is just one word - "beauty". Charlotte was pretty, weak, lonely. She is mary's inner self. Presented to the world, Mary is as hard as ammonite and indifferent as the sea breeze, but in her heart, there is a warmth that women will never fade. It's just that in the pressure of life and the environment that no one understands, her warmth is suppressed and hidden. And Charlotte's arrival allowed her to find that long-lost softness.
The occurrence of love is more often an induction. I believe that there is some kind of secret message hidden in everyone, and when we meet the right person, the password is taken and deciphered. This moment of tacit understanding is not for outsiders, a look, a stay of gaze, an ordinary dialogue, if there is nothing, but the protagonist of the matter, naturally understands the mind, the so-called chemical reaction, more or less.
Many times, some people interpret love as the product of loneliness and loneliness. But in fact, love is the consolation of the soul and the confirmation of self-worth.
Being seen, being understood, being accepted, being recognized, being loved and loved is everyone's emotional need. But not everyone can get it, nor can it be obtained everywhere, in anyone, and because of this, when they get it, they feel precious. The realization of this emotional need can transcend class, age, gender, and of course, social norms.
The two people in the movie are ignored by life, and Charlotte is ignored by her husband, and she is like a delicate caged bird. Mary worked day after day, looking for fossils, but the "Ichthyosaur" fossils on display at the British Museum did not bear the name of the discoverer " Mary Anning " .
They love each other because they see each other and confirm each other's value, which is a human need and cannot be avoided.
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" >4, meaningful ending</h1>
The meeting was short, and with Charlotte's return to London, they were separated from each other and could only rely on letters to convey their thoughts.
Later, at Charlotte's invitation, Mary came to London. At the first meeting, Charlotte made no secret of her longing, and she embraced Mary warmly and eagerly showed her everything that had been prepared for Mary, the room, the clothes, the desk, and she envisioned the life of the two of them day and night.
But Mary refused Charlotte's offer on the spot. Her job at the seaside was to discover the fossils. In addition, the comfortable and affluent environment made her uncomfortable, and the feeling of being "captive" embarrassed her, she stubbornly stayed in a cheap hotel and claimed that she had wasted money on the ferry ticket. So far they had their worst conflict.
This conflict is a real conflict, a conflict of class, status, and pursuit, not a conflict of feelings. Love can always be kept in mind, but in life, the two are destined to be separated.
Looking at each other in front of the museum's display case is the realistic end of this love.
It doesn't matter whether it is perfect or not, for them, loving, loving, is enough.
Separation does not mean that love is over, their bodies have long been remembered, a moment of bloom, enough to brilliantly warm a lifetime.
The power of love is like this, as long as there is a time, as long as you really have it once, you no longer feel that life is difficult.
Love can happen between anyone, as long as there is one person who deciphers the call of the depths of your soul, then love has come.
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