when you see your soul

Sigrid 2022-04-20 09:02:00

About 10 years ago, I read the original English book, but at that time I just stayed at the stage of reading stories and learning English. Wilde is a legendary figure in the history of English literature, and an English genius equal to Bernard Shaw. But my knowledge of him is limited to this novel and the famous "Prisoner".

This movie is somewhat different from the original, with a little more horror and suspense, a little gothic, but it's still worth watching. The stories written by Wilde have a beautiful and sinful color, a rotten and dirty soul under a beautiful appearance.

When you have time, find the original book and read it carefully. Sometimes, a book requires experience to understand. I wouldn't really understand Wilde 10 years ago, but today, I really understand the meaning of this sentence - "The real perfection of a man is not in what he has, but in what he is."

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  • Filomena 2022-03-24 09:02:29

    The movie itself gives Samsung another star to compare it with the original and minus one star

  • Crawford 2022-03-28 09:01:06

    I haven't read the original and thought the adaptation was a bit nonsense. Could it be that Wilde told a story just to show a sex machine?

Dorian Gray quotes

  • Lord Henry Wotton: What are you?

    Dorian Gray: I am what *you* made me! I lived the life that you preached... but never dared practice. I am everything, that you were too afraid to be.

  • Emily Wotton: I hope I'm not interrupting your reminiscence?

    Lord Henry Wotton: One charm of the past, is that it's the past.

    Emily Wotton: Hmm... I hope you're not also a dreary old cynic?

    Dorian Gray: What is there to believe in?

    Emily Wotton: Our developments.

    Dorian Gray: All I see is decay.

    Emily Wotton: For the religion!

    Dorian Gray: Fashionable substitute for belief.

    Emily Wotton: Art?

    Dorian Gray: A malady.

    Emily Wotton: Love?

    Dorian Gray: An illusion.

    Lord Henry Wotton: Bravo!

    Emily Wotton: Well... you both cut the world to pieces, don't you? Thank you for the cigarette!

    Dorian Gray: Unusual woman.

    Lord Henry Wotton: She ought to be... she's my daughter.