On weekend nights, cuddle yourself on the couch with a box of sunflower seeds, forgetting the whole world immersed in the snow in North Carolina, immersed in the beauty of Jude Law and Nicole Kidman In the melancholy eyes, it is a kind of extreme enjoyment. Because I watched "Bing on the City" first, it seriously affected my appreciation of this film. In the first half of the film, Jude Law's lethal eyes always made me feel the sharpness and ruthlessness of a sniper. It wasn't until he bitterly said, "I kill every day, a lot of people. ... My soul has been destroyed. It's gone." The despair and sadness in his eyes began to merge with the character.
Anthony Minghella is also a master of color matching. He can perfectly integrate cold and warm tones, interspersed time and space with color, and play montage techniques to the point of perfection. Bleed to death. This is very similar to the former Soviet film "The Dawn Is Quiet Here". From the point of view of war and love, soldiers and beauties, and the montage of the film, the two films are almost identical. It's just that Rostowski used youth and love to set off the ruthlessness and cruelty of war, while Anthony Minghella was the opposite.
In the film, Cold Mountain is an allegory. The hero Aemon said this in poetic language: "Why does a name, just a place name, make me so sad? Because of her. Because of her waiting for me. And I don't know her very well. "Here, Minghella showed his first love motto: Love has nothing to do with understanding, where there is love is heaven. This description also reminds me of the song called "Scarborough Fair" in "The Graduate": Are you going to Scarborough Fair? Coriander, sage, rosemary and thyme. Please give my regards to a girl there, who was my former love.
Aemon was seriously injured and was rescued by an old man raising sheep on the mountain. The old man is very concerned about his love with Ada. The old man said something like this: "Everything has been arranged. The bird eats a seed, pulls it out of the dung, and plants the seed. The bird has something to do, the dung has something to do, the seed has something to do, and the mud has something to do. It's done." Minghella's second love motto is thrown here: For love, you don't have to do anything, God has arranged it for you. The truth is, who can arrange love?
Aemon went through all kinds of hardships and finally returned to Ada. Compared with the years-long separation, the brief and hazy acquaintance suddenly lost its strength. Although there are hundreds of letters that each other is insisting on writing, although there are thousands of thoughts in my heart, I still can't eliminate the restraint when meeting each other. At this time, Ada said a key sentence: "Those short times are like a bag of small diamonds." Mingla used the reserved Ada to say his third love motto: Love is like a diamond, with eternal life Fade-free light. This is far more positive than comparing love to fireworks. At the end of the film, Ada lives happily with her daughter alone, which further interprets this theory. Over the long years, that bag of tiny diamonds shone brightly.
Another allegory of Cold Mountain is Sally's Well. Sally's house has a well that looks into the future. Ada looked at it for the first time and saw Aemon walking in the snow. At the end of the film, Ada says, "I looked down Sally's well again and saw nothing. Only the clouds. The clouds dissipated and the sun came out." How long is the road to love? It walked through the valley of death, through war, disease, disaster, and finally came to the side of the lover. Lovers die, but love is eternal, like the sun in the sky, shining forever. When I see this, I not only think, the diamond and the sun are many times stronger than the vitality of two butterflies. Optimism and pessimism can also be seen here.
Anthony Minghella and Jude Law had another collaboration after Cold Mountain, the infamous "Genius Ripley". I've seen it, but I'm not impressed with Jude Law. I searched out last night to find the reason, only to find out that the male protagonist is Matt Damon, the protagonist of "Bourne Bourne". His style far surpassed Jude Law. The film "Genius Ripley" also surpassed "Cold Mountain".
The world is like that. Not the most handsome, only more handsome. There is no best, only better. Only love, as long as love, is the best.
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