Karen's repeated words in the opening film seem to be a kind of thought that settles in the deepest part of the soul, a memory that one can never forget in one's life. Whispers in a dream. We all have memories that feel distant but familiar when we wake up, and deeply intoxicated in our dreams.
For Karen, Africa is the meaning of all her youth, where she is The most sincere love, the most passionate giving, the most ignorant impulse, the most daring investment, the saddest tears...
Their love touched me deeply, accompanied by the music of the same name, as if I also followed karen and Denys roamed the African savannah in a glider together, overlooking the hordes of animals on the ground, and looking up at the sea of clouds above. In front of nature, even the most vigorous love would seem so small, so Karen took Denys's hands- She thanked him for bringing her such a wonderful journey. Dancing to Mozart's music on the African savannah was a display of their romantic love, Denys' attraction to Karen was this, he meant freshness and freedom to her, He is as unrestrained and uninhibited as the African savannah. They can chat together and enjoy nature and romantic love, but they cannot manage a farm together and live the most ordinary life. Although Denys chose to stay with Karen in the end, but his crash made everything in vain, everything that passed away is beautiful, people like to write a sequel to the memory, and the content of the sequel is often difficult to achieve. So I am skeptical about the future (if any) of their love, "Life is precious, love is more expensive, and if it's freedom, both can be thrown away", Denys will not fail to understand this truth.
Karen is brave, and as a woman, such courage is more worthy of admiration. Going to Africa alone, she has to face bad weather and a long journey; suffering from a serious illness, she returns to China alone for treatment, without the encouragement of her husband, she must face the disease alone; love and family in a foreign country. The brokenness didn't break her, she just faced life honestly and put everything into the farm; the fire that the gods gave her left her with nothing, but she still put down her grief and settled for the local indigenous people. Only Denys' death really made her a little dazed, and for a moment grief took over in her life. Fortunately, Karen is such a woman, strong but fragile. She has a strong heart, but also needs the care of love. She can draw nourishment from her memories and overcome the disappointments in life. She's not alone and I think Deynis will always be with her soul, that's what drives her life.
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