The film is undoubtedly ambitious, giving me a sense of renaissance. The director seems to be saying: "You have to know your own instincts before you can be yourself." The person between the restraint and reason that human beings should be, is the maid played by Winslet. She is addicted to the erotic novels written by the earl. She imagines herself as the character in the book over and over again, but she can also be righteous He said firmly: "Some things can be written, but they can't be realized!" I was really surprised when I saw her break free from the duke's temptation. I originally thought that this character would indulge in instinct under the temptation of erotic novels. But she did it wisely. In a sense, the maid Marty has more noble human qualities than the mad writer earl and the pious priest, or she is more like a truly healthy person. The extremely romantic and rebellious Earl must eventually face the tragedy of autocracy, and the priest's last madness and brutality are also blamed on his excessive restraint to a certain extent. Marty, on the other hand, is able to look directly at her instinctual ugliness and be a good woman by heart ("If I can't play a bad character in a good book, I dare say I can't be a good woman in real life"), good and evil , beauty and ugliness, both are human nature, are unavoidable propositions. She can walk between danger and safety, between instinct and restraint. She admired the dangerous mad count hopelessly, but at the same time she could tell the difference between temptation and true love, and she knew that the person she loved was a priest. She vented her instincts in reading, so she was redeemed, while the earl's madness could not be vented through writing, which may be the difference between the reader and the author: the reader can be satisfied from the book, and the author is in the writing. The catharsis of the author is only temporary, the loneliness, loneliness, and evil in the author's bones are magnified in the works, leaving him nowhere to escape, so he approaches madness.
And another girl in the film, the doctor's wife, Simon. Her role should not be difficult to understand. After reading the Earl's novel, her instinct was summoned and she bravely eloped with the young architect. Earl's novel is against that conservative era, it can make people see their own instincts, and at the same time, it also makes sin sink even more. Those patients who couldn't control themselves, under the agitation of the novel, finally couldn't help turning the novel into reality. "Some things can be written, but not reality", this sentence echoed in my ears again.
Perhaps this is the charm of a work of art, its influence cannot be grasped by the artist, whose sins and virtues cannot cancel each other out.
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