Text/Lu Yi
Whether you're unmarried, married, or divorced, have you ever had an unforgettable love?
Aligned with pure souls, you share common interests and have spiritual resonance.
What is the final result of this unforgettable love?
Looking back now, how do you feel?
It seems that everyone has a pain in their hearts, and the reason why "The Dream of the Covered Bridge" can become an enduring movie is precisely because it pokes at the pain points in everyone's heart.
The Dream of the Covered Bridge is a self-directed romance and family ethics film by American director Clint, based on Robert James Waller's debut novel of the same name. Waller completed the first draft in just 11 days, first circulating it among friends and family, and later publishing it on the advice of others.
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In 1992, the novel "The Dream of the Covered Bridge" was published and translated into many languages. It was brought to the screen in 1995.
"The Dream of the Covered Bridge" tells the story of National Geographic photographer Robert who fell in love with Francesca, a housewife, when he came to the American countryside to shoot the Mandisson Bridge.
They spent only four short days together, but they burned out a lifetime of enthusiasm, and finally, after many considerations, Francesca gave up the idea of leaving the town with Robert and continued to live in that seemingly happy family until death, while Robert never married.
The two of them, one entrusting his heart to the distance, wandering with the photojournalist, and the other buried his heart at the Mandisson Bridge, staring at the beloved woman.
After the film's release, there was a divorce frenzy in the United States, and it is said that after the introduction to China, the divorce rate also increased by several percentage points in the same year.
"The Dream of the Covered Bridge" is a story of marital infidelity?
That's the deep meaning behind it that you don't understand.
The fundamental reason why this film can become a classic is that it reveals the cruel truth of love and marriage.
If you only look at the direction of the story, its essence is indeed marital infidelity, a double infidelity of body and spirit, in a short time, Francesca met Robert, and since then she has given her heart to him, she no longer loves her husband.
For a family, this is undoubtedly a tragedy.
When Francesca chose to stay in the marriage, it was undoubtedly a tragedy for her personally.
A reality full of calm and reason, and love accompanied by romance and passion, it seems that it can never exist at the same time.
When you meet a person, he makes your backwater life ripple, let you recall your former pursuit and yearning, find your youth self, as if you live again, then will you find that what you once looked forward to has always been such a lover, such a life.
You can't help but sigh that there really is such a suitable lover in the world, he understands your taste, and the verses he knows well come from the poets you like.
That's what Francesca and Robert do, they can talk and laugh in the cramped kitchen, have dinner by candlelight, dance to music... This suitable lover, who is perfectly in line with the assumption, appears in life by chance, full of respect and understanding, similar interests, everything to talk about, it can be said that this is a gift from Heaven.
Heaven has the best gift before us, but we may not be able to accept it at this time.
"Returning jun mingzhu's tears, hating not meeting and not marrying."
The person you fit best with may not be present at the right time, he may not have come when you enter marriage, and when he comes, it will be too late.
There are also some people who meet the beloved person tomorrow morning, but for various reasons, they finally fail to come together.
Therefore, the result of this love in the movie has also poked the hearts of countless people and the pain points hidden in their hearts.
It was precisely because of duty and love that they were separated in the heavy rain.
For countless days and nights, Robert was filled with longing, imagining that Francesca might be basking in the garden, or sitting on a swing stand, or in the kitchen. After leaving, he never had any affection for other women.
The heart remained on the bridge, but the body wandered, but he never complained, because at least, they had met and loved each other in the vast sea of people, leaving a light in their memories.
Bracelets and cameras, necklaces and notes, a bridge, many photographs, four days became each other's life, short but long.
This film does not celebrate extramarital affairs under the guise of beautiful love, but on the contrary, it shows the tragedy and joy of human nature in the fierce conflict between maintaining a bland marriage and pursuing true love.
Both sober and sane.
Whether it is the potential pressure of the surrounding environment or the ambivalence of the protagonist, it makes this love imprisoned by reality more tragic.
Passionate love itself deserves praise, not infidelity itself.
At the end of the story, Robert never married, the ashes were scattered under the bridge, Francesca learned of it and made a will, setting a precedent in the town that was accustomed to burial customs, she was cremated, and the ashes were also scattered under the bridge, with the people she loved.
Many people have such people in their hearts, and such farewells and nostalgia also evoke the past in the hearts of countless people.
In such a story, we all see ourselves.
The self who once loved at all costs, and finally endured the pain of parting and caring for his life.
As the movie line says: "Each of us lives in our own past, people will spend a minute to know a person, an hour to like a person, a day to fall in love with a person, and in the end, it will take a lifetime to forget a person." 」 ”
Love is sweet, it is passion, and it is also an indelible heartache, because even if it is used for a lifetime, it is impossible to forget that person.
Even if you have entered a dull middle age.
Because "such an exact love is only once in a lifetime".
Who do you give that exact love to, after watching "The Dream of the Bridge", you will think of who.
Years later, you may recall: "There was once a sincere love in front of me, I cherished it well, so after saying goodbye, I did not regret it, but walked the world with this love, and never felt the taste of loneliness again." 」 ”
However, in the dead of night, I still feel heartache when I think back to this "once in a lifetime" love.
Because the person we love madly, the person who enters into marriage with us, will never be the same person.
At the end of the film, the heroine chooses the family and banishes her love.
But her extraordinary love also touched one of her own children, making them re-examine their relationship with their partners, began to value the family, they began to change, cherish everything they had, and when they had the ability to fight, to pursue everything they wanted.
Love has always been pure, and therefore incomparably beautiful.
But which of us doesn't hide the pain in our hearts and try to get through every day in reality?
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In "The Dream of the Covered Bridge", it is this heavy love and responsibility that breaks through the hard shell in the heart, pokes at our pain points, allows us to see ourselves in it, and makes it an enduring classic.
Because love, always classic.