Nicole Kidman has a face as pale and beautiful as "cold mountain" sounds. In the snowy winter in the southern United States, wrapped in a black blanket and leaned against the window to watch the snowflakes fall from the window, the long sound of bagpipes and her faint chanting, this picture is enough to make everyone who has hometown feelings. People remember this movie.
As a movie with the theme of the Civil War, is "Cold Mountain" an epic work? Should we try to figure out every scene with a compassionate feeling? Actually, these questions don't have much meaning to think about. . This is a cliché story, and there are always similar stories in the war ballads of every nation. The defeated soldiers went all the way over mountains and mountains, from summer to winter, just to return to their hometown to take a look at their beloved girl. The beloved girl guards the hometown, and also guards the oath of the two. A kiss before parting is reminiscent of many years, a black and white military uniform photo has been read many times, the hands that only play the piano began to feed the chickens, ducks, weeds and milking, and the clear white face was rubbed red by the wind and frost, she said that she Waiting.
The girl finally waited for her sweetheart to return from all the way, and walked towards her step by step from the other end of the snow. She held up the gun, then slowly lowered it. With full cheeks and ragged clothes, there is the smell of bullets rubbing against it, and the traces of blood splashing. He walked on the way back to her, but there were only unspeakable tears.
A hurried farewell, a quiet reunion. He thought that everything was a reunion, but after a short reunion, it was an even bigger doom. The male protagonist still fell on the way home, leaving behind the blood, the snow on the mountains and the girl's mournful remarks.
White is the main color of "Cold Mountain", and the hero and heroine, except for the title and ending, are almost separated in two places in the nearly three-hour film, one is on the road, the other is growing, if the reunion is just an opportunity , the changes in the world in the eyes of the two little people are what really fills the film. Ju De Law is still in his prime. After a one-person trek, what he experienced was the war to remove the more darkness hidden behind the battlefield. He pushed away the women, twisted by the fear of war to nothing but desire, and watched the lowly beings being shot teasingly. In the rainy night, he met the young woman who took him in and the newborn baby, and while sleeping together in the candle-lit hut, he talked about his distant lover.
One of the episodes left a deep impression on me. The young woman Sarah and her child were threatened by three or five enemy troops. The cruel officer stripped the child naked and put them on the cold snow, but a soldier who looked like a teenager wanted to cover the child. cotton. The young woman was dragged into the house by the officers and molested, but the soldiers outside the door coaxed the child. Inman and the young woman Sarah worked together to kill the cruel officer. When he held the gun like a young soldier, Inman hesitated. He thought of letting him go. Sarah finally pulled the trigger with red and angry eyes, and the teenager fell in a pool of blood, with no more footage of him.
Inman probably saw himself in the eyes of the teenagers. They didn't understand the true meaning of war. The trace of compassion and conscience that remained in the fight was turned into nothingness in front of the enemy of life and death.
The rhetorical question about the war is always running through the film. As a southern soldier in the Civil War, the male protagonist Inman is a supporter of slavery in the historical sense. Their defeat is a historical necessity, and the victory of the North seems to be the way of justice. The background of "Gone with the Wind" seems to be somewhat similar. The young people in the south cheered for their blood to go to the battlefield but did not think about the destruction brought about by the war. They used to love fighting, but they did not know that what awaited them was not as simple as winning or losing. result. If there was any meaning before the war, then all actions during the war became instincts—the instincts of life and death. To survive, you must kill, to protect, you must destroy. The women and children who stayed in their homeland, such as the heroine Ada, had to endure the depression and family fragmentation brought about by the war, and at the same time, they also had to resist the unstoppable soldiers. With the only waiting, support day after day.
If from Inman's perspective, all we see is the dark side of war, then Ada's perspective is a ray of light that is desperately torn from the darkness. She grew up from a weak girl who knew nothing to a tough woman. She used to only read Latin novels by the window and play the classical piano, and finally she truly integrated into the land. She and the simple and capable country girl Ruby supported and helped each other through the difficult years, and this relationship became something stronger than love at first sight - to rely on.
Cold mountains are cold, but there is still something warm. It was Christmas with a bonfire, the old woman who lost her husband and child, the old Hughes who ran away and the little fat man and the little band of the handsome boy, the beautiful Ada and Ruby, laughing and weeping in the song in the snowy night Celebrating the holiday. They all have people they miss, or the return date is unknown in the distance, or they have requited their souls away from the world. All the sadness and despair need to be healed by singing, and then continue to the future.
"Your return date is not yet due, Bashan night rains and autumn ponds rise." It is the other side of the ocean in the 19th century, Ada from Lengshan Town in the southern United States is thinking of her lover Inman on the front line. The woman misses her husband from afar. All the thoughts are the same. It is the snow on the fence that covers the wheat this winter, and the night rain in Bashan has risen.
In the end, Yingman came back from the snow all the way, and died in the arms of Lengshan in the mountains and forests filled with crows. As he himself said, he was already dead and soulless. His only belief is the lover who had a kiss, and the whispers between her stationery:
"If you`re fighting, stop fighting.
If you`re marching, stop marching.
Come back to me.
Come back to me is my request"
come back, come back. Come back, as all the songs sing. Ada, wrapped in a black blanket, leaned against the window to watch the snowflakes fall from the window, the long sound of bagpipes and her faint chanting.
When winter is over, the spring grass will still grow. Years later, in the absence of north and south, their children galloped across the vast farm in Lengshan Township, full of colorful wildflowers, snow-white sheep and ducklings lining up. Come back, love, in the sky.
"What we have lost will never be returned to us. The land will not heal - too much blood. All we can do is learn from the past and make peace with it."
Those who have lost their relatives each have families who have become relatives to each other, Under the shadow of the trees in the spring of Lengshan Town, facing the blue sky and white clouds, smile to the reborn life.
"What we've lost will never come back to us. This land will never be healed - because of too much blood debt. All we can do is learn from the past and take it to make peace."
"Cold Mountain" It's a good film, if you look closely, you can always see the taste.
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